What a great game for Dean against UMASS.

GW among the many A10 candidates has two pretty good ones for Most Improved Player award.

Dean shot 31.5% from Free throws in 2020-21, 57.8% last year  and 80% this year

He's 76.3% from the field, remains on the A10 blocks and rebound % leaderboards, has spent most of the year one of the 5 best FG% in the nation.

Brendan Adams is the other GW  candidate.

Someone like Adams is more likely to win the award but Dean's hard work has paid off across the board.  Free Throw % improvement like that comes from one thing: HARD work.  Credit to the Coaching staff as well for helping foster his overall improvement.

Bravo To the White House Counselor

Last edited by The Dude (1/09/2023 10:47 pm)

How about Hunter Dean tonight !?!

Dean had a really great game, but I thought he got a bit tired at the end. I’m sure Caputo wanted to ride the hot hand, but he could have used a break with about 5 minutes to go.

Not sure if I should be surprised or not. Showed some real flashes this season and was going to play a TON of minutes. 

Caputo has his work cut out for him. As I've said earlier he'll need to bring in 3-4 bigs 

He could possibly want to be closer to home. Anyways, this is a huge loss and lets hope there isn't much movement on the assistant coaching end so we can focus on hammering down these recruits. Caputo and Co have their work cit out for them to replace the entire front court

It's a blow, but also an opportunity.  The frontcourt is now as wide open as it gets.  Would love to bring in a combination of incoming freshmen and experienced tansfers.  Let's also not forget about Luke Cronin being on this team.  I believe he is a preferred walkon but am hopeful that he will become a pleasant surprise.  His brother is a preferred walkon at UMASS and I hear he is a great young man from a solid family (from Great Neck, NY).

As for Hunter, I of course wish him well.  I recall Jamion talking about his unique athleticism which I did not at all see initially but man was he correct about that.  Hunter was fun to watch and certainly qualified as a more than serviceable A10 center.  

I assume you're referring to James Bishop and Max Edwards as there is no one else. 

Was really counting on him for next year.  CC really has his hands full filling out this roster.

Good luck Hunter (you can always come back) and good luck Coach!

Gwmayhem wrote:

It's a blow, but also an opportunity.  The frontcourt is now as wide open as it gets.  Would love to bring in a combination of incoming freshmen and experienced tansfers.  Let's also not forget about Luke Cronin being on this team.  I believe he is a preferred walkon but am hopeful that he will become a pleasant surprise.  His brother is a preferred walkon at UMASS and I hear he is a great young man from a solid family (from Great Neck, NY).

As for Hunter, I of course wish him well.  I recall Jamion talking about his unique athleticism which I did not at all see initially but man was he correct about that.  Hunter was fun to watch and certainly qualified as a more than serviceable A10 center.  

I agree that Hunter was "more than a serviceable A10 Center who was fun to watch.    He was a decent rebounder who could block the occasional shot, but he was hardly an all conference candidate.  He was a very limited player who was as much as a liability as an asset.  On defense, he was too slow to guard anyone athletic, was hardly a rim protector and was a foul machine.  His offensive game  was the dunk and layup.  I think he would have made an excellent backup on a good team, but what I am really hoping is that maybe this is CC raising the bar on the quality of player that comes to GW.  Of course I would feel a whole lot better once those players are at GW in a higher number.  Furthermore, just because Hunter entered the portal doesn't necessarily mean that he is gone but assuming that he is, this hardly a major loss.     
 

Last edited by Long Suffering Fan (3/27/2023 5:20 pm)

GW69 wrote:

.If neither of these are
true then I fear that the team has some kind of dysfunction we are not aware of.  
 

Tell me you don’t understand modern college basketball without telling me you don’t understand modern college basketball.

Almost every player transfers. Doesn’t mean it indicates dysfunction.  Could be an NiL thing, could be anything.