And sorry, classless of us not to put bench in at all.
We blew it long before final minutes.
Are we worried about the metrics for this season?
 

That was a real plus for the program. What a way to end a good season! Was it worth it for free airfare, room and board? I think not. Hopefully Caputo can recruit some guys that can make free throws and 3's. He certainly didn't have them this season. 

moneybox wrote:

Where was Hansen--not that it would have mattered!

Per Poog he was on vacation with his family.

Like LSF said, none of the portalers made me worried about losing them. I was hoping Darren would want to have good tape out there, but outside of 1 or 2 drives he was the same old Darren we’ve seen this season. Jacoi was a shell of his already declined self. Nessah I’m surprised even traveled with the team.

Tbh, I’m glad Caputo and co can now get to work on building an A10 caliber roster for next season. Weather is getting nice and I’m looking forward to hearing about players coming to visit.

Spank you and goodnight.

Tricky, Slim and CJ sat for much/all of the last several minutes of the game while the Jun, Hutch, Dayan and Moss stayed in. So it’s not like they sat in order to put in the walk on’s (Keegan, Amir, etc). Can we read into this that it means Tricky/Slim/CJ are committed to staying and thus CC didn’t want to risk injury for any of them on a game that was so far gone? I’d sure like to read it that way!

Free Quebec wrote:

Unfortunately I had to miss this game because of a work thing (maybe fortunately) so no comments on what happened.

Except to say this disaster tanked our KenPom to 128. Big fall for our final rating.

Plenty to improve next year.

Which of those 127 teams ahead of GW is worse than GW? 128 seems about right, middle of the pack in the A10 and (barely) upper half of DI.

GW Alum Abroad wrote:

Free Quebec wrote:

Unfortunately I had to miss this game because of a work thing (maybe fortunately) so no comments on what happened.

Except to say this disaster tanked our KenPom to 128. Big fall for our final rating.

Plenty to improve next year.

Which of those 127 teams ahead of GW is worse than GW? 128 seems about right, middle of the pack in the A10 and (barely) upper half of DI.

Huh? There are 360+ D1 teams. I'm not a math major but that is close to top 1/3.

 

jf wrote:

GWRising wrote:

jf wrote:

And sorry, classless of us not to put bench in at all.
We blew it long before final minutes.
Are we worried about the metrics for this season?
 

Why was it classless? He played every healthy and available scholarship player. There is no obligation to play walk-ons. They understand the deal and it is explained to them very clearly - do not expect to play. I explain it this way to any HS players considering a d1 walk-on spot - putting on the jersey on gameday is like Halloween except you don't expect to get any candy. Sure CC could have played them if he wanted but it was not classless to decline to. Maybe he wanted to have guys experience the results of their sloppy play as a learning experience. Why make the walk-ons experience your mess?

 
I'll live with it being classless. Why play those portaling or graduating near the very end down by 30 or approaching that?
At the very bitter end,there was nothing to salvage for this year.
These guys go to practice every day and travel.Harvey isn't even a walkon. They might try too hard to shine in their minute or two.
But they'd play hard,not act whipped,shellshocked,or like there was no point anymore. Almost impossible to do more damage than we were allowing.
Putting them in would send a message to the team also. And it's hardly uncommon in blowouts.
CC prob was so depressed it may not have been on his part.
But one of the 4 assistant coaches could have whispered in his ear.

 Not sure Harvey was even there. Did not see him on bench. Hansen was also missing. If there was nothing to salvage for year with many in portal what message were you sending?

The walk-ons are part of the team, even with the understanding that their playing time is going to be almost non-existant.   They have GW on their uniforms, show up for practice and do what is asked of them to make the team better.    It would have been nice to let them experience post season play, on national TV, for even 1-2 minutes.  Small reward for the sacrifices they have made during the course of the season.  Unless you bet GW giving 30, what difference would it have made?

Who was that idiot in the stands screaming whenever we took a foul shot? The arena was so empty that it sounded like an echo chamber. Some sick people out there.

On another note you have see the local Nashville papers front pages talking about Tennessee's horrible showing against Houston. Sounds like us but no one notices us. "Estes: What's it going to take for Vols to reach a Final Four?", "Stranded on the Doorstep", "Houston brings out worst in Tennessee" If you can't shoot or rebound you lose. 0-14 from 3 to start game.
Our problem is turnovers and no desire to rebound. Too soft. Wish we had an assistant who could teach basic rebounding like boxing out. And a John Chaney type coach that benches players that commit more than 3 turnovers in a game. This team had no problem turning the ball over and not being penalized for it. So they kept doing it over and over again. We lost a lot of games this year because of turnovers. 

LSF, you just needed a B average to transfer to Duke. But that was the day when you had Zero grade inflation. A's were rarely given. However, you had to maintain a 2.0 to stay out of Vietnam. If your GPA went below 2.0 the local draft board would be notified. Strange time when we got rid of grade scores one time and had things like P for Pass, HP for High Pass and H for Honors. 1970-72 was a strange time at GW.