Best backcourt in Big East?

Quote from: redstorm212 on August 16, 2012, 12:47:43 PM

It's funny hearing people talk about our team that obviously have no idea what they are talking about. He probably watched 1-2 STJ games last year. And by that 1-2 games, D'Lo is overrated and our backcourt sucks.

I would respect your opinion more if you actually sounded like you'd seen STJ games last year. But, no one in the right mind would call D'Angelo Harrison overrated had they seen STJ play last year.

 Missing the point.. He said what his opinion was based on and what he saw. He knew no one on here would like it, but of course, everyone needed to hear him say some negative stuff so they could then let him know how dumb he is and smart they are.. 

 Harrison is a high volume scorer...

I'm not saying I agree with his assessment, but what did you expect?  I'm not really interested on what his motives for coming on here were anyway.  I just never got the impression, that he comes here to troll.  I usually find his posts interesting and from a different perspective.

 Some of our guys tend to attack him, all the time though. It makes us look bad, not him.  Just my impression. Don't care if anyone agrees or not..

  His initial post was to talk about his teams back court,fair enough, no?  He then mentioned 2 others he thought were the best in the league...the title of this thread, interestingly enough. He also mentioned only one team that didn't have a good to above average point guard and it wasn't St. John's.

 I just don't think his opinion was that off base.  There are plenty of people out there, especially fans of other teams that aren't fans of Harrison. If he was on Gtown, we would hate him and poke holes in his game all day long.  Branch is an unknown. Phil Green is a decent 3rd guard off the bench.

 Point is, he didn't come here and put down St. John's players. He responded to the thread , while defending his guys.  You egged him on for his opinion, and then let the "inmates have at him"... then he got told he knows nothing about St.John's ( no kidding) and knows nothing about basketball ( jury is still out).

 I  don't have half the knowledge some of you guys do about other teams around the big east, but I know St. Johns.  If I was a passive poster on another teams board ( I wouldn't be, but whatever) and I thought the posters needed a St. John's education on our team I would do what he did.  He answered the question posed and defended his guys.

 No big deal. I just felt like defending him. You can all hate me now.     I definitely feel that there are regular posters on here that do far worse to instigate nonsense.

  His initial post was to talk about his teams back court,fair enough, no?  He then mentioned 2 others he thought were the best in the league...the title of this thread, interestingly enough. He also mentioned only one team that didn't have a good to above average point guard and it wasn't St. John's.

 I just don't think his opinion was that off base.  There are plenty of people out there, especially fans of other teams that aren't fans of Harrison. If he was on Gtown, we would hate him and poke holes in his game all day long.  Branch is an unknown. Phil Green is a decent 3rd guard off the bench.

 Point is, he didn't come here and put down St. John's players. He responded to the thread , while defending his guys.  You egged him on for his opinion, and then let the "inmates have at him"... then he got told he knows nothing about St.John's ( no kidding) and knows nothing about basketball ( jury is still out).

 I  don't have half the knowledge some of you guys do about other teams around the big east, but I know St. Johns.  If I was a passive poster on another teams board ( I wouldn't be, but whatever) and I thought the posters needed a St. John's education on our team I would do what he did.  He answered the question posed and defended his guys.

 No big deal. I just felt like defending him. You can all hate me now.     I definitely feel that there are regular posters on here that do far worse to instigate nonsense.

I don't think it's unfair to rank our backcourt middle to bottom of the BE, because it is so unproven. When you have freshman, you hope they work hard over the summer and improve. Branch isn't a freshman, but he has zero conference play experience. There is no upperclassman in this backcourt because Nurideen Lindsey doesn't like being yelled at.

We're counting on:

- Harrison tightening up his defense.
- Greene working on his jump shooting, and passing.
- Branch stepping in and running the offense like a natural point guard. He missed most of last season, however, he did have the benefit of practicing     
  with the team for most of the season.
- Balamou is a mystery to me. He'll see time immediately, because we're thin until Branch arrives.

Hoyahooligan is a welcomed poster here. He's been a member here for a LONG time now.

Side note I really don't like Hoyas backcourt what so ever. On the flip side I love Otto Porter.

Hoyahooligan is a welcomed poster here. He's been a member here for a LONG time now.

Side note I really don't like Hoyas backcourt what so ever. On the flip side I love Otto Porter.

Hoyahooligan is a welcomed poster here. He's been a member here for a LONG time now.

Side note I really don't like Hoyas backcourt what so ever. On the flip side I love Otto Porter.

Good programs, ones that dance every year, have a way of pulling sophs and juniors off the bench after the upperclassmen have left, and turning them into stars. I fully expect Gtown to do just that.

Quote from: Poison on August 15, 2012, 04:49:49 PM

I don't think it's unfair to rank our backcourt middle to bottom of the BE, because it is so unproven. When you have freshman, you hope they work hard over the summer and improve. Branch isn't a freshman, but he has zero conference play experience. There is no upperclassman in this backcourt because Nurideen Lindsey doesn't like being yelled at.

We're counting on:

- Harrison tightening up his defense.
- Greene working on his jump shooting, and passing.
- Branch stepping in and running the offense like a natural point guard. He missed most of last season, however, he did have the benefit of practicing     
  with the team for most of the season.
- Balamou is a mystery to me. He'll see time immediately, because we're thin until Branch arrives.

Harrison averaged 1.6spg and probably led the team in charges drawn. I think his defense is already pretty tight but I'm all for tightening.

Quote from: Dave on August 16, 2012, 10:21:48 PM

Hoyahooligan is a welcomed poster here. He's been a member here for a LONG time now.

Side note I really don't like Hoyas backcourt what so ever. On the flip side I love Otto Porter.

Some of his teams have underachieved but he did go to a Final Four.
I love when other teams posters come on board. I hate Gtown altogether and think they have the worst coach in conference, the guy is a talent killer