Are you basing all of these observations on just watching Chris Wright’s body language during the Rutgers game??

so if i.m going to believe that part of this is based on the 3 on 1 where a pass should not have been made because of the angle and the spacing im calling bs to the whole theory proposed. If anything is wrong a certain player seems to go 3 and 4 trips down the court with out getting any touches at all. In favor of forcing it to one who is beggining to lead the team in turnovers. They could all learn to grow up a little.

too much drama like coaching a bunch of girls. yes jahidi what kind of handle did he get on this last year. none. This is where coaches earn their stripes if indeed there really is something serious about this. i’m still hoping that its more a little frustration with losing like they did and some things get said. happens all the time with both good and bad teams. might actually be the best thing that could happen to them. Up to Thompson to get em all on the same page again. im not sure he is up to the task.

any chance of sharing the other side of the friction?

the better everyone looks. More than other teams, we play TEAM ball. No one excels if everyone isn’t pulling their weight. Maybe once this guy figures that part out, he’ll realize that he should hope that Clark and Free do well because it’ll mean he’s been doing his job well too. One looks good, they all look good. One goes to shit, it all goes to shit.

i’ve been trying to figure out this team all season and todays post’s may be a big piece of the puzzle. This has never felt like last year where the team became selfish, gave up on each other and then gave up on themselves. They couldn’t turn it on at the end of the season even when they wanted.

This year they can turn it on when it matters, big high profile games, and they deliver in those games. They beat UConn in the second half by playing selflessly and with aggression. They did the same in the second half against Nova and almost beat them there. They stormed off to a 14 point lead in syracuse before letting down and losing. And let’s not forget the pasting they gave duke and nova at home. Complete and comprehensive ass kicking. They did that because they knew the only way they could win was to play together. I think they looked across the bench and saw better athletes than they know they are and teams that would and could beat them if they didn’t play together.

So why do they lose to odu, usf, rutgers etc. It seems that when they know they don’t need their best effort, a team effort, they start thinking about their own game. It’s not just chris wright, but given his central role in running the team it’s the most impactful. Remember, the cw three pointer was not the only illadvised 3 pointer taken in the rutgers game. I seem to remember a post…great shot jerelle now never do that again.

So why is the sky, potentially not falling? In the big games, the team knows they have to play as a team. whatever cw’s body language was in nj, by and large he has shown up, and shown up big, in the big games. And as we go forward, almost every game is a big game.

We need no extra incentive to thrash syracuse. When we get into the BE tournament, they are all big games. And in the NCAA’s it’s win or go home. These are all big games and there is ample evidence this team knows what to do in those games.

So maybe things are going to be ok. What i fear most is that we are going to blow it against belmont college in the first round and i’ll be banished to the chicken little, i mean hoya talk, site for unjustified optimism.

…let this go on AGAIN? He is the head coach—his no.1 job is to get the team to play together. Chris Wright is a punk, but he is young and immature. JTIII is paid extremely well to handle situations EXACTLY LIKE THIS. If we collapse again 100% of this is on JTIII

does your source have any info on Greg’s intentions beyond this year?? Greg Monroe returning next season will be the one chance this school has to win a National Title in our lifetimes. We won’t see another No.1 overall recruit at G’town again anytime soon. Judging from the classes we have been putting together lately we may never even see another 5 star recruit…

No one disagrees with your points, but you are speaking from a rational standpoint. Selfish bball players with hot heads are not rational. Try explaining to a crying toddler after you take their lollipop away that sugar is not good for your teeth and see how far that gets you. We can only hope Chris realizes what his selfish actions can do to the team and decides to turn it around rather than react selfishly. I agree he has all the tools. He just needs to be mature and get hsi head in the game. Unfortunately he may be a year away from that level of maturity.

Sorry but at this point in the season I’m not buying this until there is actually some proof on the court, and as of now there has been absolutly none. Honestly I think every single person that believes any of this until there is some proof of selfishness or chemistry issues on the court is doing a complete disservice to the team and should be embarrassed to call themselves a hoya fan. There has been an overwhelming about of evidence of Chris being perfectly fine with other guys picking up his slack, the interview from yesterday licked above being exhibit A, as well as NOTHING to back it up. If the three on one with Austin being at a horrible angle, and jason being a foot behind him as evidence, well, suffice to say I think you need much more.
Chemistry issues aren’t created in a few days, atleast not the kind that can derail a perfectly good season this last into the season.
Did you hear this from the same source that said Jeff was staying for another year? Or maybe the one who claimed Hollis, Chris and Greg were all transferring last year? Apparently those all came from players on team too.

Well from some of the other things you have said, compared to what I have actually seen and whats has actually happened, I’m not putting too much trust in that source.
Not only that but what your saying doesn’t even logically make sense. Chemistry and jealousy issues don’t just pop up near the end of a (so far) successfull season. They simply don’t. And anyone who says they have been there the whole season is flatout lying. This isn’t even the first time this season where Chris has been out shown by Austin and Jason for a stretch of games, and that turned out perfectly fine. If you watched any of the interviews from yesterday about the Cuse game, you would see no issues that seem to be boiling under the surface. Chris seemed perfectly content to let others do the scoring.
Even if there is “in team fighting” its not the end of the world disaster you’re making it out to be. If there were major chemistry issues last year, that is not why we sucked sorry to say. Teams can overcome things like that without it leading to disaster and blaming chemistry issues for total collapses like last year and what you seem to be predicting now are just lame cope outs for poor play and execution. Can we be the best we can be with in team fighting? No. But that doesn’t mean we throw our season out the window because players are bickering, which there is no evidence to back up anyway.

No obviously I don’t expect him to say that, but I don’t expect him to get as giddy as school girl when talking about jason clarks 26 point game either if it really bothers him. Unless of course he is a sociopath, in which case they team has a lot more problems than wins and losses. And no, tommorow is not the tell tale sign. the tell tale sign is that there have been absolutly zero signs of selfishness from any player. Obviously if he goes out there and doesn’t pass to anyone and only looks for his shots it would be a problem but there is ZERO reason to except that.
And, things didn’t pop in the middle/end of last season. To imply so is laughable. Things headed south in the begginning of January. And hate to break it to you, we weren’t all that good the first two months either. We were inconsistent and could be great when we shot well(a la Uconn Maryland and Cuse), but stunk when we didn’t(every game we lost really). We lose confidence last year which was the real problem. We could have over come any supposed chemistry issues if we were any good to begin with, but we really weren’t.

there’s been evidence of guys being selfish is not really debatable. Whether it’s a symptom of larger problems is debatable. What’s not debatable is winning fixes all of that shit. Keep winning and we’ll all shut the fuck up. Austin gets more open looks because he’s a better shooter and because he’s a better shooter, gets found for open shots. Greg finds him, Jason finds him and Chris finds him a whole lot. Austin is as good as he is this year partly because Chris and Jason and Greg are better than they were last year at moving the ball, creating space and locking down their guys. Same for every guy on the team. So let’s shut the fuck up, play team ball and smoke Cuse like they deserve to be smoked. And, regardless of any criticism, the whole team Rautins thing is creepy as hell. Classy or not, that’s fukkin gay.

Theres a difference between “laying the story out” and creating irrational panic and blaming one player for a total collapse that has yet to come.