Armel Potter is what a real GW player looks like, that's the kind of talent we need at GW.

Armel is going to fight to the last second out there , has carried the team all year in the good moments of the season, even through most of the bad ones. 

We've watched Toro struggle for 4 years 18 inches from the rim, and has zero range, in a world of stretching the courts, and Marfo had even less range than that.  getting rebounds at the #311 KenPom is little surprise. 

We need more guys like Potter, Battle, Jameer JR, Chase Paar.  JC will get it done. 

 The last years of Lonergan, once the Core 4 graduated/transfered out of GW,  before he was fired for abusing the players,  was not supplying the next rounds of requisite talent. Because, as a then otherwise BIG ML fan, I tried to raise the issue of weaker recruitng classes in 2015 and 2016,  I was attacked by the same phony set of fake names, all with different names, no re-cast with new ones. As were the 6 7 8 9 people this drove off the site.   Is that we want the new site to be BGF?

Well, its on display one last time today in the form of Juice and Toro, TBH.  Watching Collin Goss get a few minutes off the bench for a CAA Delaware team, a 24 year old 5th year senior, who like Cimino was having hard time finding a court even as Senior in the CAA

Steve, 14 fake names doesn't change facts, nor is it fooling anyone.  You can have a phony echo chamber of "suffering like minded fake name made up persoans" but it will just drive away the last 2 or 3 humans you haven't yet.  

JC will get it done, if he had 4 Armels, instead of 1, we'd be in good shape right now.

 

Last edited by The Dude (3/11/2020 4:13 pm)

The Dude wrote:

Armel Potter is what a real GW player looks like, that's the kind of talent we need at GW.

Steve, 14 fake names doesn't change facts, nor is it fooling anyone.  You can have a phony echo chamber of "suffering like minded fake name made up persoans" but it will just drive away the last 2 or 3 humans you haven't yet.  

I am sorry I responded to you Dude.  I will go back to my policy of ignoring those not worthy of a response, even grey haired, pony tailed adolescents.

 

Last edited by Long Suffering Fan (3/11/2020 4:20 pm)

72-52,  Lose to Fordham 3 times. AND a slam dunk to end it.  Something to remember.

GOD DAMN!! Sorry guys, but that type of language is needed with the way GW season just ended, curse words are probably needed too!! LOL  The future looked bright after GW won at Duquesne on February 19th, which brought them to 6-7 in the conference and a 7th or 8th place finish seemed realistic. Now the season ends with 6 straight losses, 3 losses to last place Fordham and a 20-POINT LOSS TO FORDHAM in the play-in round!! I guess you can say the future is bright because of the 4 freshman, Amir Harris, Maceo Jack, the signed newcomers and possible transfers playing next year, but this was just a horrendous end to the season for GW. The one positive I can see is that with the season being over this soon is, we can now focus on the incoming and outgoing transfers. 

Last edited by Thomas (3/11/2020 4:32 pm)

Tennessee, one of your previous posts mentions a new women's coach. Is Rizzotti leaving?

porter71 wrote:

Remember, in Hobb's first year the team lost 10 games in a row toward the end of the year.  3 years later they were an NCAA tournament team.  ML's team list 10 of its last 12 in his first year.  They went to the tournament 2 years later. 

This is the only thing I'm hanging on to
 

MoJo inherited enough talent to win 20 games during his first season.  The reverse can be said of JC who inherited next to nothing from MoJo.  Excluding Adam and Luke, the two Lonergan holdovers, Toro and Juice, were injured throughout much of the year.  Toro was an A10 talent when healthy.  It became clear that the lingering effects of his injury impacted him while at the same time, JC's call to move on from him for the most part undoubtedly shook his confidence. Juice was a bit of an afterthought (I believe he signed in April) band while he made the most of his limited abilities here, he was never intended to be a major part of any coach's game plan.    They are both great young men and will be missed.

The MoJo holdovers include Maceo who to be fair, would likely not have been recruited to GW had Lonergan remained as coach, Javier who like Juice was an afterthought as well as a risk coming in,  Mezie who does not look to be a serviceable A10 player after two seasons, and Armel who was not without his flaws but who grew to become an instrumental part of this team's limited success.

Almost everyone seemed to be in agreement at the start of this season that JC deserved a pass in Year 1.  I agree with this from a long term perspective. We need to see what he can accomplish with more of his own recruits.  However, from a short term perspective, I do feel that criticism is warranted.  Playing today without JNJ was a big deal, not due to what contributions he may have provided but because it naturally causes everything else to fall out of sync.  Teammates get used to him making a big shot or fighting for rebounds or generating steals.  Being non-competitive today though has to start with coaching.  How can a team that literally can not beat anybody else in the conference be so masterful against us?  Do they have more talent?  No matter what you may think about GW's talent level right now, this answer is no.  Did their defense force all of those turnovers or cause so many shots to miss? Of course not.

Put another way, what did JC do differently today that may have produced a better result?  It was so clear that Fordham was ready for Armel defensively.  They shut down the passing lanes which left Armel to shoot, get fouled, charge, or throw the ball away.  Very rarely was he able to throw it back out.  

For all the 3's this team shot, they make very little effort to free up shooters with screens.  Had this been done early in the game, giving Jamison and Maceo better looks, maybe their shots would have fallen which may have changed their confidence level throughout the game.  

Execution of course plays a huge role, but so does a lack of a real game plan.  This team was 0-2 against Fordham.  Game 2 was just a week ago.  What did we try to do differently today?  

Just goes to show how fragile a season can be.  I said in another post that JC has chosen to play a high-risk, high-reward style.  A style that allows a team like GW to upset Davidson, Duquesne and UMASS.  But, it's also a style that allows for losing to anyone when the shots are not falling and there is no alternative plan to fall back on.

Talent, recruits, playing style on both ends (no zone defense ever???).  Let the offseason begin.
 

What a crappy stretch to end the season.  One of the worst I can ever remember.  97 grad and have been a fan of the team since 1993.  I have 9 and 7 year old boys and we are a GW and Seton Hall household.  Guess which conference and team they became fans of this year?  :-(