Alan Major - Georgetown Pre-Game Meeting

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Coach Major, thanks for stopping by. Let’s start breaking down this plan for the game Saturday at Georgetown:

  1. Starting Lineup: Dorn, Woods, Henry, Thorne, Blakely (We call him Hydra here for reference). Let’s at least make a stab of coming out of the gate with some intensity and energy.

  2. Hydra needs 10 minutes minimum, preferably some floor time in the 2nd half

  3. Limit shots by PH and TWill to a reasonable percentage and distribute more of those possessions to our higher percentage shooters. TWill and PH should be used to drive the ball and dish to the open shooter.

  4. Continue hitting the offensive glass

  5. Keep Willie out of foul trouble. We are going to eventually need his size at some point in this game.

My fellow board members will add other relevant game plan details below.

Good luck this weekend!

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Georgetown turns the ball over a lot, and a lot of those are steels. 13 of Appalachian State’s turnovers were steals, force them into bad passes and get the ball to Torin Dorn on the break.

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Clayton is the clear starter. Blakely should definitely be used more often though.

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Georgetown pressed Towson some in the BB&T game I was at. Mainly it was just a full court man, and at times tried to trap in the corners once Towson crossed midcourt. Also on defense, they guarded far out on the perimeter making passes go side to side rather than into the post and corners. It didn’t help that Towson’s bigs weren’t threats offensively. Thorne CAN be that, but he will also be trying to post up a 350 lbs (that might be conservative) center, which isn’t exactly easy.

The best way to beat their defense is quick buckets, don’t let them set up their press and half court D. If they do, I believe we have good enough players to take them off the dribble. If they defend us the same way, it isolates their defenders and there isn’t much help in this instance. Also, while their wings are decent shot blockers from the help side, this D doesn’t allow that, and Josh Smith (the fatty center) isn’t a shot blocker.

Offensively, against Towson, they were pretty lights out from the perimeter. They’re long and rangy athletes. They have numerous guys who can drive/slash, and a couple who can hit the 3 on kick outs. They’ll run and fill the gaps on a break and crash pretty effectively. Again, this was Towson, but it’s what they did, and they were damn good at doing it. The fatty center has a good touch, but he wears down easily (big surprise). If you make him work, you can take him out of the game. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised to see Willie guard him more since he’s only about 6’-8" to 6’-9" and has about a negative 4" vertical, but he carves out space well. Willie’s muscle will probably be better versus Thorne’s apathy and height on D.

All and all they’re a good team. There was a dick on their team at the end of the Towson game, as time ran down and they appeared to be just running the clock out (shot clock was off) and they were up 30+, he cut to the rim and dunked it before the buzzer. Pretty bush league shit right there.

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Very concerned about another slow start Sat - Starting line-up isn’t working so far. Can’t spot the Hoya’s by double-digits early. I was hoping AM would have tried a different starting line-up against App to see what would happen. Since he didn’t, I’m not sure he will change anything on the road.

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[quote=“CharSFNiners, post:4, topic:29263”]Georgetown pressed Towson some in the BB&T game I was at. Mainly it was just a full court man, and at times tried to trap in the corners once Towson crossed midcourt. Also on defense, they guarded far out on the perimeter making passes go side to side rather than into the post and corners. It didn’t help that Towson’s bigs weren’t threats offensively. Thorne CAN be that, but he will also be trying to post up a 350 lbs (that might be conservative) center, which isn’t exactly easy.

The best way to beat their defense is quick buckets, don’t let them set up their press and half court D. If they do, I believe we have good enough players to take them off the dribble. If they defend us the same way, it isolates their defenders and there isn’t much help in this instance. Also, while their wings are decent shot blockers from the help side, this D doesn’t allow that, and Josh Smith (the fatty center) isn’t a shot blocker.

Offensively, against Towson, they were pretty lights out from the perimeter. They’re long and rangy athletes. They have numerous guys who can drive/slash, and a couple who can hit the 3 on kick outs. They’ll run and fill the gaps on a break and crash pretty effectively. Again, this was Towson, but it’s what they did, and they were damn good at doing it. The fatty center has a good touch, but he wears down easily (big surprise). If you make him work, you can take him out of the game. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised to see Willie guard him more since he’s only about 6’-8" to 6’-9" and has about a negative 4" vertical, but he carves out space well. Willie’s muscle will probably be better versus Thorne’s apathy and height on D.

All and all they’re a good team. There was a dick on their team at the end of the Towson game, as time ran down and they appeared to be just running the clock out (shot clock was off) and they were up 30+, he cut to the rim and dunked it before the buzzer. Pretty bush league s*** right there.[/quote]

Thanks for the preview. It’s hard to gauge against Towson, because they’re not the team they were last year (which was a pretty good team by the end of the year).

I am a little concerned about the relative rest of the players (Georgetown’s last game was a week ago against Radford). I’m hoping this will make them rusty more than rested.

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Anybody watching game at Belfast? NWA?

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:frowning: we won’t get this one. probably 8-20 point difference at the end. between 78-86 and 68-88. :frowning:

BTW: game is on Fox Sports, Charlotte TWC channel 40.

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[quote=“49er1, post:8, topic:29263”]:frowning: we won’t get this one. probably 8-20 point difference at the end. between 78-86 and 68-88. :frowning:

BTW: game is on Fox Sports, Charlotte TWC channel 40.[/quote]

I hope that’s not part of the pregame speech :slight_smile:
In all seriousness I do not have a problem with the starting line up. I don’t have the answer but it’s not soley lineup. Enthusiasm, motivation, sense of ergency… Those r things that need to b addressed

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I would double check that… i had by twc dvr set to channel 318 which is fox sports carolinas.

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I’m sure Charlotte TWC channel 40 is carrying it. So is 318.

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I’m sure Charlotte TWC channel 40 is carrying it. So is 318.[/quote] Twc 40 had an ad on for the game today, so yes they are carrying it.

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Line opened with Georgetown -13.5

I predict we will not cover.

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Under normal conditions…and on the road…we lose this one by 20.

With this being the 3rd game in 5 days…I say it’s a win if we get out of town without being utterly embarrassed by 30+.

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I also found it on MASN.

I’m not predicting a victory, but I hope to see us compete and play a good game.

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clt will watch the game and pull for the local team.

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In theory, it should help that we just played in this arena a couple of weeks ago.

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I saw we lose by 50.

We are trying to see who can come up with the worst prediction, right?

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[quote=“NLP49, post:18, topic:29263”]I saw we lose by 50.

We are trying to see who can come up with the worst prediction, right?[/quote]

Oh great. Now we have posters jumping into the future to predict the outcome of our games. :slight_smile:

I predict an upset win for us. We are on a roll with our victories over powerhouses Charleston and Tweetsie.