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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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.

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.

Salvaging  some A10 honor,but depressing.
We blew another rare shot at them.
Like last year, many players trying to do too much individually.
Newcomers wanting to establish themselves.
Like last year,we need to play more team basketball.
And start doing so early.

I have a third theory. We are playing at home in a game that feels like one that should count with a larger than normal home crowd. There is a lot of hype on campus for this game. We have not shot well in either game (30% from 3 and 42% from FT in 2026 and 28% from 3 and 60% from FT in 2025) and turned it over a fair bit against not a ton of pressure (13 TO's in 2026 and 17 TO's in 2025). We might be a little too antsy given the hype and crowd and that usually shows up offensively in those statistics. GW makes this game out to be much larger than Georgetown does when in reality it is just an exhibition game that means nothing in the big picture whether we win or lose. Probably St. Joe's could care less about all that. Sometimes you can be too amped up. We seem to play like it.

Agreed with most of what is being said.   On the other hand, losing to a team that a fellow conference winner beat just doesn’t sit right with me.