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Other Games Thread
As the season nears, the thread for non GW games.
Here's a look at the 10 best early matchups of the season:
including a rematch of the national championship game:
UCONN vs Michigan
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In an exhibition tilt, Luke Hunger poured in 22 points on 5 made 3's in the first half against those pesky Engineers of MIT. Please bring on the regular season
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Forgot he went to Boston College
Of all the transfers that one perhaps stung the most, we saw when Castro was injured you could run the offense through Hunger and how well he played when featured.
Maybe Lovro will be as good or better
One week away let the real games begin!
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Agree losing Hunger hurt. Liked him a lot. Interested to see how he does against us. Poorly, I hope.
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The Dude wrote:
Forgot he went to Boston College
Of all the transfers that one perhaps stung the most, we saw when Castro was injured you could run the offense through Hunger and how well he played when featured.
Maybe Lovro will be as good or better
One week away let the real games begin!
In his postgame comments, Caputo compared Vukovic to Hunger as someone who can shoot and pass as a big (but said he didn’t show it vs Georgetown because he’d barely practiced due to injury).
Lovro, based on what we already saw, will be better. But Vukovic as the backup center is the more apples to apples comparison and I’m hopeful he’ll be better.
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Hunger had a 5 game stretch in the meat of the A10 schedule where he scored 17, 21, 31, 24 and 20
35 for 58 from the field, 8 for 13 from 3, 46 boards.
31 points 10 boards and 3 for 3 from 3 in a 72-53 win over George Mason.
I think we saw Hunger was capable of being much more than just a back up Center and would have played a big role on this year's squad.
Hope you're right that both end up being better but that remains to be seen.
Lovro certainly looked like he might be in one scrimmage and Vukovic played well for Oklahoma State last year off the bench.
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Well, the season hasn't officially started so by definition, everything remains to be seen.
One difference I am anticipating from last season to this season is that our offense will no longer be playing through the center position. While Hunger did have a different skill set than Slim, the common denominator was that Slim, or Luke when Slim was hurt, almost always touched the ball each possession. That's not to undermine the importance of Dylan, Lovro, or Andrija but with the upgrade that appears to have made among the guards and wings, I would not have expected Luke to be an all-conference performer had he remained with this GW team.
The hope offensively is to have a minimum of 4 if not 5 scoring threats on the floor at all times. This team has the potential to play lots of players (meaningful minutes) while demonstrating great balance. In 4 years at6 GW, CC has always had either James Bishop or Slim Castro on his team. Those guys required much attention defensively. This year, it will be interesting to see opposing defenses that in all likelihood would be foolish to key on stopping one or even two players.