The Casual Awards: Valentine's Day Massacre
by CasualHoya on Feb 15, 2010 1:20 PM EST
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PrintI don't blame the Hoyas for that lackluster performance yesterday. With the Nordic Combine and the NBA All-Star CrapFest right after the game's conclusion, why wouldn't they be looking past Rutgers? It's tough to hand out Awards after that display of garbage, but we're here (on President's Day no less) doing our damn jobs. It's just too bad the players didn't do theirs yesterday. Onto the Awards.
This would normally go to MASN for showing the ended up the Iona-Loyola Maryland game instead of the Rutgers-Georgetown game, but they actually did the right thing. The former game was a lot more competitive and fun to watch than the latter. Kudos to MASN for having an awful feed which froze every 2 minutes, I am sure what I missed during the technical difficulties would have made me even more miserable than I am now.
The Brooklyn Decker Award for Most Entertaining Game-Thread Post:
StPetersburg Hoya wins his first award with the following gem:
Leave CW at Chesapeake house
by StPetersburgHoya on Feb 14, 2010 6:01 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
(Casual Hint: Any reference to pit stops along I-95 always wins.)
The It's My Birthday and I'll Cry If I Want to Award:
Jeff Green's Dad. I turned 24 today and Casual Hoya gave me my own birthday present - I get to run with the awards from here. I also got to ring in the celebration watching the Rutgers game from the 5th row. Happy birthday to me.
More Awards after The Jump:
The Hell on Earth Award:
The Louis Brown Athletic Center. Probably the worst place I have ever watched a basketball game at. Between the blood red seats and Jersey trash, I will never, ever, ever step foot back in that stadium again. I'm pretty sure the RAC was the 5th circle of hell in Dante's Inferno.
The Ringo Starr Award for Making a Mediocre Performer Look Good:
Georgetown's big men for making Hamady Ndiaye look like a first round draft pick. Rutgers fans were muttering that usually all they expect from him is a few random dunks, but he looked like a young Shawn Kemp against the fleet of foot Julian Vaughn. It is hilarious to think about just how bad Demarcus Cousins would crap on our big men. I'm not a betting man anymore, but I'd set the over/under of combined points and rebounds at 45.
The Luke Wilson Award for Really Letting Himself Go:
We've all seen the brutal AT&T commercials with Luke Wilson looking like he ate himself. The same goes for Patrick Ewing Jr. I saw him at the game yesterday, looked like he threw on a casual 40 pounds since college. And it wasn't muscle.
The Truman Show Award:
Patrick Ewing Jr. At one point he got up to go to the bathroom. I needed to relieve myself about 10 minutes later. When I got near the bathroom he was still outside of it, taking pictures, shaking hands, and having to entertain every moron who wanted to talk to him. At one point while he was washing his hands some 75-year-old came up to him and said "Well I thought you were Roy but now I know you are Patrick. Do you remember that Syracuse game a few years ago when you guys hit that shot?" It was the only time I ever thought to myself, "Wow some parts of his life suck."
Shaquille O'Neal Award for Crappy Free Throw Shooting:
Chris Wright and Austin Freeman. If you two want to be the "closers" for us, you both need to hit free throws in tight games with less than 4 minutes remaining. The two juniors combined to be 0-3 late in the game. You know how many we lost by? 3 points.
Craig Esherick Award for Horrible Coaching:
John Thompson III. It was very apparent that Rutgers was getting a lot of second chance points off rebounds to us in the stands. Apparently it wasn't to our coach. With a minute and a half left my friend said "We need to put Julian back in because they are killing us on tip ins." What happened when we were up one with under a minute to go? Hollis Thompson's man got a tip in lay up while our 6'9" center sat on the bench.
The Anti-UCLA Award:
Rutgers. If you walk into UCLA's Pauley Pavillion you will see banners for 11 national titles. If you walk into the RAC you will see banners celebrating NIT appearances, not kidding. Oh yeah, we lost to them yesterday.
The NBA All Star Game Award for Lack of Defense:
The Georgetown Hoyas zone defense. We've said it before, we'll say it again. We suck at zone defense. Like really suck. Every single time we go into a zone it ends in a layup or an open three. Please stop playing zone.
The Definition of Insanity Award:
Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. Georgetown's overconfidence and lack of respect for its opponents will be the death of this season. It is unclear to us why a team that went 16-15 last year would ever overlook an opponent, yet these clowns continue to do it on a weekly basis. After watching yesterday we see no way that they can string together enough games to make a run in either the Big East Tournament or the NCAA Tournament.
The DaJuan Summers Award for Believing He is Better Than He Actually is:
Chris Wright. We addressed this in Casual Communication when asked who we hope would take the last shot in a game, but Wright has a lot of DaJuan in him. He was sulking throughout the entire game yesterday, seemingly more focused on his personal stats than how his team was doing. And then with 10 seconds left down one point, with Greg Monroe unstoppable in the post, he shoots a 3 and misses badly. I hope that JT3 privately ripped him a new one for taking that shot. No matter what happens, the ball has to be in Monroe's hands in that scenario. Rutgers could not stop him, yet Wright, just like Summers a year ago, thinks he should be the hero.
The Three Musketeers That Should Be The Dynamic Duo Award:
Chris Wright, Austin Freeman and Greg Monroe. This team has two surefire studs - Freeman and Monroe - and one guy who thinks he should be included in the conversation - Wright. The offense ran great when Jason Clark was penetrating, kicking it to Freeman, and getting the ball into Monroe. Wright doesn't create for others, and still seems like a bit of a cancer to this team. Every possession should be Freeman driving, Monroe driving, Freeman shooting, or Monroe passing for easy looks. Run the offense through the two of them every single possession. Bench Wright if you have to send a message. I don't care. I'm just sick of his punkass ruining this season because he thinks he is better than he actually is.
Allen Iverson Seeing It in Person is Believing Award:
Greg Monroe's passing ability. I hadn't been that close to the court in a long time, so I didn't have a full appreciation for how incredibly skilled his passing is. He has an ability to see a play unfold three steps ahead of everyone else. It is uncanny. He must have had 7 passes yesterday where I thought "that was one of the best passes I've ever seen." Do enjoy him while he's in a Georgetown uniform, because passing like that is once-in-every 10 years kind of good.
Greg Oden's Male Member Award for an Image I Want Seered from My Memory:
Mike Rosario dancing on the scorer's table in front of the student section after Rutgers won. I was in the Rutgers student section. He was dancing like 5 feet away from me. I can't get it out of my head. Please make it go away. I hated yesterday so much.
The Georgetown Hoyas are still a nationally ranked powerhouse.
Syracuse is NeXt.
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Just to be fair
“Hollis Thompson’s man got a tip in lay up while our 6’9” center sat on the bench."
I don’t know who was the problem on that play, but Hollis was the only person successfully blocking someone out. The tip-in wasn’t his fault.
by Bill Shapland's 3rd Hot Dog on Feb 15, 2010 1:33 PM EST reply actions
Didnt
Hollis get a tip in of his own???
WE ARE GEORGETOWN NOW AND FOREVER
by AIR CRAWFORD on Feb 15, 2010 1:34 PM EST up reply actions
that's right
hollis had to slide because monroe let his man go and hollis blocked him out. from the replay it actually looked like wright was guarding him and just let him go preferring the view from the foul line.
You are
Right on with this one, I have to stay off of the Hoya Talk board, they want JTIII fired, non sense. I’m just as baffeled as everyone else, we just cant get up for lesser teams, I dont understand it. I think we can forget about that #2 seed, and yes CW is a problem no doubt. That one play on the fast break, he should of just passed the ball for an easy two. But no, he goes to the free throw line and misses both shots. ONce again I dont understand it, is Markel here yet? Damn, I mean I could see if this was early on in the season type of stuff, but it is late, I mean 2 weeks before March Madness late, unacceptable, point blank PERIOD
WE ARE GEORGETOWN NOW AND FOREVER
I hate to say it
But this is the kind of losses that hurt recruiting, it just does. We continually play down to our competition, when we should just be blowing them out. I remember back in Pops days losing to the likes of Providence, and Seton Hall was unheard of. BUt here we are losing to USF, Rutgers, ODU, I mean seriously come on
WE ARE GEORGETOWN NOW AND FOREVER
christ that game drove me to watching the olympics
until we string three good games in a row – hard to see us not flaming out in the tourney. TOs and giving up offensive rebounds. Not even an achilles heel anymore, more like an achilles leg. Is Hollis really that much better of a defender than Vaughn? Very disapointing not to see julian in the game more.
btw – Pat JRs award should be changed to the Kevin Smith I am so fat I got kicked off a Southwest Flight Award
THE GOOD NEWS
With the 2 seed now out the window, the Hoyas won’t get geographical protection in the Dance (if they make it).
This keeps open the possibility that they will be sent to New Orleans, and the dream of new and improved Mardi Gras style Casual headbands becomes closer to reality.
Dare to dream.
Casually.
Chris Wright...
…continues to be a problem when he isn’t playing well. He is, by nature, a scoring guard who is being asked to give that up — to some extent — for the good of the team. He is unable or unwilling to do it (but is MUCH better this year than last). IMO when it becomes clear that he isn’t going to have a good scoring night, he should sit and Clark should run the team. This may piss him off, but what will happen next year when he’s a senior and the best PG on the team is a freshman? It’s completely unacceptable for him to sulk and pout on the court when his team is in a knockdown dragout fight on the road in a conference game….but then again, he did at home against South Florida so why not on the road? I hope that Coach Thompson has a heart to heart with him and tells him that if he can’t summon the integrity to place the team before himself, then he doesn’t belong at this school.
More on Wright
My husband has been sick of me screaming at Wright since he came off the ankle sprain. After the Duke game, I promised not to yell at any Hoyas, no matter what happened, for the rest of the year. He said, “Even Wright?” I said, “Even Wright.” (Husband is a Hoya by marriage only, but he’s much more loyal. One time he told me to take off my Georgetown stuff because I was a bad fan. I said that I was a Hoya before these kids were even glints in their mothers’ eyes. I got my ring back, not because of my cool speech, but because it won’t fit him; he still has my hat.)
Anyway, the promise went to hell last night as I screamed at CW: “Selfish!” “Overrated!” Selfish!" “Baby!” “Idiot!” (I couldn’t use my favorite words because my kids were in the room. So, we lost to filthy, happy-to-get-into-the-NIT (as you pointed out) RUTGERS on Valentine’s Day, I broke my promise about not yellling at Wright, I even murmured a little about Coach (something that really bothers my husband and that always makes me ashamed of myself). But, why oh why, can he not see the problem? (I told him about Hibbert for years too, but he never listened. Maybe it’s because he can’t hear me through the t.v. very well.)
There we were after the game, each sulking over the loss, each alone in our misery, separated by Chris Wright (maybe JJ Reddick could compose a poem on the occasion, like the poet laureate of basketball—thanks for posting his nasty opus). Casual Hoya, what a relief to log in today and hear you call it like it is; LOVED the awards. (A couple minutes ago I told my husband I was sending him a link and made him promise to read what he found at the link from top to bottom. Maybe now he will see that the emperor has no clothes or rather that one Hoya badly needs the bench.)
we're as close to 3rd place as we are 7th
still cant believe we lost to rutgers, proudly standing at 15th in the big east
Good talk.
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