Panic Setting In: Georgetown Drops 2nd Straight Game, Loses 68-64 To Cincinnati

As a UC fan, I can tell you the Xavier comment is meaningless, we don’t use the same offense we did before the fight.
The turnovers were partly carelessness, but also our guys getting deflections. Cronin keeps track of deflections and keeps 40 as a goal. Sometimes you get lucky with those, which I think you did in the first half, some times you don’t. I was mad to see our guys losing track of people on defense, and the start of the game where we were missing long shots.

I think Cronin picked out mismatches, rather one mismatch, the freshman.
JTIII, didn’t seem to have a response. This, in addition to the ND win is nice.
I wish we hadn’t shot so awful against St. Johns. We’d be 4-0.
I gotta be honest, I really thought a Georgetown team would want revenge for last year and Gates would have a big game. He didn’t make his bunnies until way late in the game. Helps when he shoots well from the line.

That ridiculous shot Thompson made to close the first half, left me feeling sick. Glad UC pulled it out.

We’ll be a streaky team like we’ve been in the past. This team has the potential to beat good teams. We’ve also showed limitless potential to lose to average teams – whether at home or on the road. We just won’t do either consistently.

Guessing we have a few good streaks left in us, and a few more gutwrenching abominations like tonight too.

Take a deep breath before each game. Cynicism and delusion – as always – on a collision course all season long!

but damnit son make your free throws.

These past few games have been incredibly frustrating and eerily reminiscent of the prior year. We have repeated our same struggles: 1. We revert to jump shooting bitches with not enough movement. 2. We become too enamored with cutesy passes and end up forcing too many, resulting in foolish momentum- killing turnovers. 3. We failed to address the defensive mismatches – our length was torched by the speed of their guards. 4. I don’t even want to discuss inbound plays and the lazy passes.

JT3 needs to ratchet up the intensity and we need to get our killer instinct and mojo going in these next several winnable games. I am afraid that we are who we thought we were.

What the hell happened? We took (I think) two timeouts and Cinci took one as well, and we couldn’t execute out of the timeouts at all. We certainly had plenty of time to plan. We saw this problem a lot last year – really has to get fixed and soon.

At least it wasn’t a shutout.

there is a lot of expectations or otto, and most of us has heard a snippet of his story (if not see link below) the kid has played hard in the earlier games and has been off the past two, but as his story goes, if he is really the kid that look at things with such significance, he will learn from what he did today or maybe what he will do/not do in a couple more awry games (well i hope not), but color me corny and optimistic but i believe in the kid too much due to how i perceived his story, we all know that we’d rather have him be a little off now than late in feb/march.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/954798-georgetown-hoyas-otto-porter-was-born-to-be-a-star

Last night to me they looked like a team that was afraid to lose. In their best games they’ve played as if they had nothing to lose.

And so, so many turnovers.

And I officially hate all refs. ALL OF THEM.

1) Lets stop forcing the back door cut, I believe it has been scouted. It will work but please lets stop forcing it.
2) Lubick will have to shot the mid range, this also has been scouted. He’s open on the perimeter only because the defense knows he’s a passer and this creates turnovers when he tries to pass into the post.
3) Why are we not cutting to the rim more? Our guards need to penetrate in order to break the defense down.
4) Where is Porter???
5) Where was Trawick???
6) What up with Aaron??
7) What up with the FT’s???

Sims is playing!! He has matched or out played his opponents and we need this all year long from him. Keep it up Hank!!!

… but I forgot all about it after that lazy inbounds pass.