Youth

Quote from: simplyred on March 15, 2013, 03:55:51 PM

My point is that sometimes during games, the opposition starts to assert itself and there is no seasoned leader to calm them down and right the ship.  They look like deer in the headlights and go down in flames.  (Enough metaphors for you?  )

Go back and look at the thread I started early in the year entitled LEADER.  I made that same exact point.   (Marillac moment)

I knew that such an intelligent thought had to come from somewhere else.

My point is that sometimes during games, the opposition starts to assert itself and there is no seasoned leader to calm them down and right the ship.  They look like deer in the headlights and go down in flames.  (Enough metaphors for you?  )

Great point...analogy to baseball...we had no stopper...no one who could regularly break the opposition's run by getting an easy basket or get the raise the energy level on D to get a much needed stop

Hmmmmm

https://twitter.com/Peter_R_Casey/status/312229757741838337

62% of Georgetown's minutes were played this year by freshmen and sophomores. Second time in five years Hoyas have no seniors.

This is why I said it's not a youth problem. I think it's a recruiting problem. Lots of swiss army knife athletes, no basketball players.

I predicted at the beginning of the season that we would hear the refrain "youngest team" ad nauseam. I'm afraid I was right.

It was designed to give the team a tag that served as a media identity. At the same time it was a perfect cover for failure and made whatever success the team achieved an even more remarkable accomplishment.

This was a clever stratagem on the part of a man who is a virtuoso when it comes to public relations.

It does become grating however when you still hear it with monotonous regularity at the end of a disappointing season.

Of course if we made the tournament we would probably regard it as a stroke of genius. 

  Lavin recruited the best available kids he could get after taking over for Norm in 2010. While they were top 100 in many circles, the group as a whole was considered
2nd or 3rd to Kentucky as I recall?

 One of the problems was getting Harkless who exploded to a 1st round pick and, then waiting for Sampson who may be a NBA pick too. Hopefully not this year. Ideally, you would like to get kids like this for 2 or more years or, else it disrupts your whole scheme in team development.

 Calipari, and I'm not comparing him to Lavin, is that he traditionally only recruits the 1 and done or, sometimes the 2 and done. If you do that you probably need to get top 25 talent every year. Hard for us to do..

 I think it's difficult to get the highly gifted player if you're only getting them for 1 season, to build a team around. In other words maybe you're better off getting kids who will play 3-4 years and have them develop as they play.

 It would have been interesting to see Harkless and Sampson together but, it didn't happen. Even for 1 year.

G'town will likely lose Porter to the NBA but, they have a pretty stellar crew coming back too..

 

Calipari, and I'm not comparing him to Lavin, is that he traditionally only recruits the 1 and done or, sometimes the 2 and done. If you do that you probably need to get top 25 talent every year. Hard for us to do..

I am a little confused here. .  are you suggesting that Coach Cal recruits one or two 1 & done kids every year..?

  Lavin recruited the best available kids he could get after taking over for Norm in 2010. While they were top 100 in many circles, the group as a whole was considered
2nd or 3rd to Kentucky as I recall?

 One of the problems was getting Harkless who exploded to a 1st round pick and, then waiting for Sampson who may be a NBA pick too. Hopefully not this year. Ideally, you would like to get kids like this for 2 or more years or, else it disrupts your whole scheme in team development.

 Calipari, and I'm not comparing him to Lavin, is that he traditionally only recruits the 1 and done or, sometimes the 2 and done. If you do that you probably need to get top 25 talent every year. Hard for us to do..

 I think it's difficult to get the highly gifted player if you're only getting them for 1 season, to build a team around. In other words maybe you're better off getting kids who will play 3-4 years and have them develop as they play.

 It would have been interesting to see Harkless and Sampson together but, it didn't happen. Even for 1 year.

G'town will likely lose Porter to the NBA but, they have a pretty stellar crew coming back too..

Although Cal recruits the 1 and done player, he still has top 100 kids on his roster now and their in the NIT. Once these four year players become upper classmen, and you add the one and done players to that mix of players...you'll get a final four type team.