Sucess next season, how

I keep reading you guys mention A. Mason and Omar Calhoun. Am I missing something here, dod they show interest in St Johns or is this some pick some player out of the blue and recruit him thing? Isnt Mason a Sr next year ? Would Calhoun really come home to the Johnnies ? I doubt both.
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Mason would be a graduate transfer who could play immediately.
 
Not thinking that Sampson was going to leave, I said that if Obekpa or Jordan leave then they`ll be a 17-19 win team.
Well I gotta say the same with Sampson leaving.

Sampson was a starter, and no one is going to replace him.
Now hearing Hooper and Green rumored to transfer? Hope they change their minds like CO did.
 
not to dwell on facts, but we shot 68%, not 70% in both those games, which isn't good. but i understand your point.
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Okay, but 1 more free thrown made against Creighton brings the percentage to 75%. Still wouldn't have produced a win.

Against Nova one more is 74%, again not enough to win.

Now if they shot 90% in both those games they might have won them.
 
on second thought, two of our biggest culprits with poor free throw shooting were jakarr and gift. They are gone.


I replace my #3 with Harrison shooting better than 38% form the field for us to be successful.
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Unfortunately Harrison's FG% will likely go down next season because without Sampson's offensive production (12 PPG) he will need to carry more of the load.
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Or the possibility is that Harrison and Jakarr were competing for the same offensive space; that Jakarr's limited shooting range never made his defender follow him out of the key and as a result there was always an extra defender around to help out against D'Lo drives and mid-range game.
 
The only games lost because of FT shooting were the Penn State game, the Prov BET game.
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Basketball stats are very deceiving. Yes, this team had many bad FT shooters, but this team lost big games because they were a bad team. Yes, they were good enough to stay with almost any opponent. But come crunch time, they didn't come up with the big play, the big stop, make the big shot nearly enough. When you look at their complete body of work, you realize that had they made a free throw or two in big spots, their better opponents, given a chance to respond, always seemed to come up bigger in big moments.

So yes, there are important areas that we would like to see improvement that good teams do, but most importantly, good teams execute when the game is on the line. We essentially had one 9 game run out of a 30 game season (ten games if you include Dartmouth). Eight of those wins did not come down to the wire, whereas many of our losses were decided in the last few minutes of the game.

So yea, FTs matter a lot, an awful lot. But executing in key moments of a game define very good teams. Using that as a barometer, this year's edition was a poor team.
 
Is there any chance that Pointer can step up and be an impact player this year??

It’s amazing when you look back on that initial recruiting class and see where he stood. Here is where they ranked on the ESPN 100, in order from highest to lowest:

Pointer -#25
Sampson -#32
Harkless -#39
Harrison -#64
Garrett -#99
 
Is there any chance that Pointer can step up and be an impact player this year??
It’s amazing when you look back on that initial recruiting class and see where he stood. Here is where they ranked on the ESPN 100, in order from highest to lowest:

Pointer -#25
Sampson -#32
Harkless -#39
Harrison -#64
Garrett -#99
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I don't see it happening. He's an incredible athlete, but he's just not a basketball player and doesn't have a feel for the game.
 
Is there any chance that Pointer can step up and be an impact player this year??
It’s amazing when you look back on that initial recruiting class and see where he stood. Here is where they ranked on the ESPN 100, in order from highest to lowest:

Pointer -#25
Sampson -#32
Harkless -#39
Harrison -#64
Garrett -#99
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Was Branch in that ESPN 100?
 
Is there any chance that Pointer can step up and be an impact player this year??
It’s amazing when you look back on that initial recruiting class and see where he stood. Here is where they ranked on the ESPN 100, in order from highest to lowest:

Pointer -#25
Sampson -#32
Harkless -#39
Harrison -#64
Garrett -#99
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Was Branch in that ESPN 100?
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Yes- Branch was #51.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/playerrankings/_/class/2011/order/true
 
The only games lost because of FT shooting were the Penn State game, the Prov BET game.
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Basketball stats are very deceiving. Yes, this team had many bad FT shooters, but this team lost big games because they were a bad team. Yes, they were good enough to stay with almost any opponent. But come crunch time, they didn't come up with the big play, the big stop, make the big shot nearly enough. When you look at their complete body of work, you realize that had they made a free throw or two in big spots, their better opponents, given a chance to respond, always seemed to come up bigger in big moments.

So yes, there are important areas that we would like to see improvement that good teams do, but most importantly, good teams execute when the game is on the line. We essentially had one 9 game run out of a 30 game season (ten games if you include Dartmouth). Eight of those wins did not come down to the wire, whereas many of our losses were decided in the last few minutes of the game.

So yea, FTs matter a lot, an awful lot. But executing in key moments of a game define very good teams. Using that as a barometer, this year's edition was a poor team.
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Agreed.
 
Is there any chance that Pointer can step up and be an impact player this year??
It’s amazing when you look back on that initial recruiting class and see where he stood. Here is where they ranked on the ESPN 100, in order from highest to lowest:

Pointer -#25
Sampson -#32
Harkless -#39
Harrison -#64
Garrett -#99
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Was Branch in that ESPN 100?
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Yes- Branch was #51.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/playerrankings/_/class/2011/order/true
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And Norvel was #77.

But no one else had Dom as a top 25 player. In RSCI he, Mo, Jakarr, Novel and Dlo were all in the 35-51 range.
 
I am positive that Doms freshman season against ConnU he went for 14 points and 8 boards and was the player of the game for SJU.
I believe his coach that year was a certain Mike Dunlap. I still believe that with the right coaching the kid could be a beast like he was in the Connu game.
Too bad for him and too bad for the fans.
I am the anti - Marillac when it comes to Dom.
 
I am positive that Doms freshman season against ConnU he went for 14 points and 8 boards and was the player of the game for SJU.
I believe his coach that year was a certain Mike Dunlap. I still believe that with the right coaching the kid could be a beast like he was in the Connu game.
Too bad for him and too bad for the fans.
I am the anti - Marillac when it comes to Dom.
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I'm more than willing to trade him to Dunlap for the kid who just decommitted for LMU. Maybe a change of scenery is what's best if Lavin isn't going anywhere.
 
I think another year maturing and some better coaching that Pointer will be a key contributor next season. Let's get an asst coach who will challenge him.
 
With all due respect, Dom Pointer, at this stage, is at whatever level he will ever attain.. Red Auerbach, John Wooden and all the King's men, will not get DOM to another level. Right now, his stock is as low as Macy's basement.
 
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