Bahamas Tourney

So after that loss, how many of you down there woke up with a terrible hangover and your hair braided?

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carmineabbatiello said:
So then my question remains. Does the team fly around in a massive private jet with a red St. Johns underbelly or is it a doctored photo?
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All of the major, and minor, air commercial carriers fly trips non-commercial essentially a "charter" flight for one customer. It leaves and returns at the time the customer wants (not a pre-determined schedule) and the public cannot access the flight, but it generally leaves from the same airline terminal as the public flights.

I guess you can think of it as a massive private jet but it isn't anything like a beautiful private jet like a Gulfstream, Falcon, Boeing Business Jet (BBJ), those are luxe complete with couches, deluxe carpeting, captains chairs, brass and mahogany, beautifully appointed.

St. John's is traveling on a plain old airliner.
 
BrookJersey Redmen said:
All of the major, and minor, air commercial carriers fly trips non-commercial essentially a "charter" flight for one customer. It leaves and returns at the time the customer wants (not a pre-determined schedule) and the public cannot access the flight, but it generally leaves from the same airline terminal as the public flights.

I guess you can think of it as a massive private jet but it isn't anything like a beautiful private jet like a Gulfstream, Falcon, Boeing Business Jet (BBJ), those are luxe complete with couches, deluxe carpeting, captains chairs, brass and mahogany, beautifully appointed.

St. John's is traveling on a plain old airliner.
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And our team charter usually left out of Farmingdale Airport or JFK charter area. Many times the same plane that just dropped off UConn at Newark to play Seton Hall would deadhead to Farmingdale to pick us up and bring us to some Midwest location. Then pick up say DePaul and fly them to Nova. I always asked the flight attendant which team they were picking up and leave notes for their trainer.
 
Johnnies gained nothing from this trip. Lost to a highly over rated Baylor team and a mediocre Georgia team. OOC record already an issue, makes conference record that much more important.
 
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Silly Donovan said:
Johnnies gained nothing from this trip. Lost to a highly over rated Baylor team and a mediocre Georgia team. OOC record already an issue, makes conference record that much more important.
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and now only 3 games in the next 22 days (Harvard, K State, Bryant), must win all 3.

Then DePaul, and @ PC in conference, gotta start the B.E 2-0. Then Delaware.

Basically must win for these games.
 
Most of us cautioned against early season exuberance, saying we really wouldn't know anything about this team's 24-25 outlook till after this trip. If we left it at the two game tournament, the outlook would still be positive. A qustionable buzzer beating 3 after the uncharitable charity stripe failure against a supposed top team. A blowout bounceback against UVA. OK, we can deal.

Adding GA turned out to be the most revealing barometer, not because we lost, but because how badly we played against a mediocre team. Compound that by saying Georgia's best player, a possible lottery pick, was neutralized by Zuby, who helped foul him out with 13 free throws. If you had a crystal ball and only knew that you'd guess we'd win this one going away.

We caused 24 turnovers and committed 11 (Zuby had 5). But Georgia shot 48% from the field to our 31%. If the entire game looked like a mess gor us, it was because we followed a 7-23 (30.5%) first half with a 12-38 (31.6%) second half.

Lots of blame being heaped on Khadary but the reality is after zuby (5-8) and rj (6-13) the rest of the team shot 20% (8-40) for the game. That's right - 20%.

Now that players are being paid, the reason NIL backers went deep on Khadary is so we would have a reliable scorer, a guy you could pencil in for 15 pts, a guy who would lead in crunch time, etc etc etc. So far if you had to guess, you would say his final college year will be his biggest payday in his life and our ROI not very good. So as much as anyone, Richmond must steo it up and lead.

What about everyone else? Scott went 5-14. Remove that and the rest (sans zuby and Luis) went 3-26, yup about 11% from the field.

Big wakeup call for Johnnies.

Time for Zach's next article to say how maybe a 22 ranking caused the players to over inflate just how good they are or aren't.

As Looie would say, "Time to go back to the lab (gym), and figure this out (practice practice practice)"

Being Thanksgiving, Frank Perdue would say, "It takes a tough bird to make a tender chicken." Our tough bird is a HOF coach. Get. It. Done.
 
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