Three sixteen ounce beers for $7.50 each and now back at the office covered in shame in front of my coworkers.

Heading to the Hive to see the CP3-less Hornets host the Clippers.

So much hoops in one damn day.

16 turnovers.

7 assists.

Puke

As I noted in triumphant appearance on the Talking Hoyas podcast, the Tulane students began serenading the Hoyas with an ‘over-rated’ chant with 8 minutes left in the first half and Georgetown leading by 8.

espn.com recap:

This was the 4 p.m. game in ESPN’s 24-hour Tip-Off Marathon, but it was more suited for the 6 a.m. should’ve-stayed-in-bed snoozer.

The halftime score was 19-13, with Georgetown leading by default. Here are more ugly facts from one of the worst halves of basketball ever seen at the Verizon Center:

There were more combined fouls (14) and turnovers (13) than made baskets (12).

Both teams shot 1-for-10 from 3-point range.

Ryan Brooks, who scored 23 points in Temple’s season-opening win over Delaware, was 0-for-6 with two turnovers. He finished the game 2-for-14. Monroe, the Big East rookie of the year last season, was 1-for-5 with three turnovers in the half.

Temple shot 19 percent (5-for-26), Georgetown a relatively robust 30 percent (7-for-23). During one painful stretch, the teams combined to miss 11 straight shots.

may have set the game of basketball back a few decades. I thought for a second that we had Chaney patrolling the sidelines for us again.

Regardless, “good” win today. Do all of us Temple fans a favor and stomp the hell out of Villanova. Good luck the rest of the way.

Good things:

- We won the game. There is no doubt that we lose that game last year. To win a close, ugly one early in the season SHOULD help going forward.
- Greg Monroe showed up for the two most important plays of the game. Though he was mostly silent, he took control for the GW layup and then came up with the big block on the other end.
- Austin looked solid for the 2nd straight game. He will be our most consistent player in the 2nd half.
- Chris was very strong in the 1st half. Still needs better decision making down the stretch, but was the only one awake in the 1st half.
- Julian and Hollis seem to be decent role players. Neither is going to take over a game or be the difference maker, but they will get better and should continue to do the little things to help the team win. I liked that Hollis got some crunchtime minutes and played well in that time.
- Defense. Temple is not a good offensive team, but Georgetown played (mostly) lockdown D on them all afternoon.

Bad things:

- Greg still needs to be way more assertive on the offensive end. When he couldn’t get it going last night, the offense was stuck in the mud. He needs 18 and 11 every night for this team to be on track offensively.
- Henry Sims simply cannot be relied upon. He has shown flashes of growth and talent, but last night he showed neither of those things. He looked plain awful.
- Still way too many 25-seconds-left-on-the-shot-clock three pointers or as they are better known: ‘DaJuan Summers Specials.’ If the first couple of those don’t fall, we have to stop shooting them.
- Only see three reliable scorers at this point, one of whom is often reluctant to take over. Jason Clark could get there to be the 4th, but there just is not much scoring depth on this team. That isn’t good.
- Obvious things like turnovers and poor shooting, both of which should improve as the team gets more playing time together in real games. Rebounding is still an issue, but at least yesterday it wasn’t as much about hustle as it has been in recent years. Greg and Julian were busting it after every shot (as were the guards), but they just weren’t holding on to the ball or the other guys happened to be in better position. I think this will improve.

All in all, I’ll take the win. We didn’t shoot well, which should not continue to be the case (at least not as poorly as we shot yesterday) and there are a myriad of things to be concerned about and improved. But we got the win, which is something that was important early in the season. I think it is fairly obvious that they can only get better from here and hopefully this will give them confidence in close games.

and at the end of the day when ESPN shows its good wins / bad wins – this will show up in the good wins column and no one will care it was such an ugly game.

that being said – this team needs a lot of work. the combination of height and no strength is embarrassing – monroe/vaughn have been outplayed down low by pretty much every big man they have faced, even when we beat uconn last year, adrien had a great game.

assuming that this is the norm and not an aberration, and we will be continually outplayed in the paint, guards need to step it up. freeman cannot go 0-4 from beyond the arc, especially when the majority of the shots were open looks.

we have 4 games before a brutal week where we play two top fifteen teams in a 5-day span, at neutral sites on opposite sides of the country. unfortunately, i think american will be the best game to judge if the team has improved – and that is two and a half weeks away

I will be at the game against American and will not be permitted to buy a beer with less than 15 minutes to go in the 2nd half.