JT III

[Bayside44]

Heard him on the morning drive, the first couple of questions were about Syracuse. He acccused the Syracuse scorekeeper of having an itchy trigger finger, blowing the horn too early in their game with us which did not allow Hollis Thompson to sub in at the end.

 

[690West]

Apple doesn't fall far. Bad family

 

[Marsh01]

(n)

 

[SkanSU]

Not that it would have made a difference. Obviously he feels that Thompson would have saved the game ... doubtful but maybe yes, maybe no. Ultimately it was the refs' decision not the scorekeeper ... so that was just dumb! The refs could have overruled the scorekeeper. We know that the refs this year have been absolutely exemplary in their officiating ... ask SU, ask, LVille, ask WVU ... as a matter of fact ask any Big East team. So and live with it ... It is what it is when you play in the Big east

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Heard him on the morning drive, the first couple of questions were about Syracuse. He acccused the Syracuse scorekeeper of having an itchy trigger finger, blowing the horn too early in their game with us which did not allow Hollis Thompson to sub in at the end.

I accuse him of being too slow to Understand the game situation and not smart enough to know the rule. : - )

 

[Noexcuse]

Heard him on the morning drive, the first couple of questions were about Syracuse. He acccused the Syracuse scorekeeper of having an itchy trigger finger, blowing the horn too early in their game with us which did not allow Hollis Thompson to sub in at the end.

Surprised ESPN hasn't picked up on this yet.

 

[Cheriehoop]

Sure and it had nothing to do with his extremely late decision to even put him into the game that some analysts accused him of. Sounds like some Georgetown fans saw what happened, questioned him on it and he's deflecting the heat..

 

[pfister1]

I think he should have been allowed to make the substitution. It seemed to me like it was being made early enough out of the TO that it wasn't holding up the game any (notwithstanding a strict interpretation of the rule). I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the rule, where it keeps you from changing personnel coming out of a TO, when the substitution isn't holding up the game.

I don't think he thinks it would have saved the game, but I'm sure he would have preferred to end the game with the personnel he wanted on the floor out there and he probably feels they would have had a better chance with the extra shooter out there.

 

[sutomcat]

Heard him on the morning drive, the first couple of questions were about Syracuse. He acccused the Syracuse scorekeeper of having an itchy trigger finger, blowing the horn too early in their game with us which did not allow Hollis Thompson to sub in at the end.

He waited too long to get his player into the game.

This has nothing to do with the scorekeeper or the refs and everything to do with accepting responsiblility for your mistakes. Pretty sure he is going to try and stop Syracuse from playing Georgetown as well. We will be playing Maryland in the DC area all the time so this won't hurt us but it will hurt ticket sales and fan interest in the Georgetown program, something he can ill afford to do.

Good coach but he has his shortcomings.

 

[longtimefan]

Heard him on the morning drive, the first couple of questions were about Syracuse. He acccused the Syracuse scorekeeper of having an itchy trigger finger, blowing the horn too early in their game with us which did not allow Hollis Thompson to sub in at the end.

Ironic that a Thompson would have a problem with a substitution rule.

Remember back to the time when his father would use substitution gamesmanship to disturb the opponent's foul shooter. Just as the shooter would step to the line, he would rush a sub to the table, sometimes more than once with the same shooter. They finally had to change the rule, so that a sub cannot enter before the first of two foul shots. The Thompson Rule.

 

[All4SU]

Ironic that a Thompson would have a problem with a substitution rule.

Remember back to the time when his father would use substitution gamesmanship to disturb the opponent's foul shooter. Just as the shooter would step to the line, he would rush a sub to the table, sometimes more than once with the same shooter. They finally had to change the rule, so that a sub cannot enter before the first of two foul shots. The Thompson Rule.

Yup. Another thing that used to bug the $#!+ out of me with those JTII teams was when their guy guarding the inbound pass on a press would jump around, literally out of bounds with the guy trying to inbound, and the refs would almost never make an effort to back them up.

 

[Toga]

Home team gets the last line change.

 

[Bill Orange]

Is JTIII wants to blame anyone, he should blame ESPN. Here's how it works: Coming back into play after a TO, there are two horns. The ESPN producer in the production truck instructs the Time Out Coordinator --who sits between the Scorekeeper, who keeps the official book and the Scoreboard Operator, who is on the horn--to tell the Scoreboard Operator to blow the first horn. After the first horn blows, a player cannot check into the game. The Scorekeeper was just enforcing the rule.

 

[Guinness]

 

[billsin01]

JTIII is grasping at straws, but I do have to say he's grown on me as a coach this season. I really thought and predicted G'town would have an extremely rough year post-Wright and Freeman ,and that perhaps it would be the beginning of a down era considering their recruiting wasn't exactly lighting the world on fire.

But somehow the dude turned Henry Sims into a guy averaging 11.5 ppg/5.5 rpg/3.5 asssists per game (huh?) and 1.5 blocks per game. Pretty good production for 26.5 mpg from a player who had contributed virtually nothing for three years.

He's also gotten more from Clark and Porter than I ever would have guessed and even Lubick has contributed some. He's gotten a lot out of this group of misfits.

 

[rrlbees]

So what I am hearing is that so far, we really didn't beat Gtown, Lville or WVU. Nor Toledo in football.

 

[Upstate]

 

[KaiserUEO]

So what I am hearing is that so far, we really didn't beat Gtown, Lville or WVU. Nor Toledo in football.

or kstate in the Pinstripe.

 

[rrlbees]

or kstate in the Pinstripe.

forgot that one. don't know how but i did.

 

[reedny]

He waited too long to get his player into the game.

This has nothing to do with the scorekeeper or the refs and everything to do with accepting responsiblility for your mistakes. Pretty sure he is going to try and stop Syracuse from playing Georgetown as well. We will be playing Maryland in the DC area all the time so this won't hurt us but it will hurt ticket sales and fan interest in the Georgetown program, something he can ill afford to do.

Good coach but he has his shortcomings.

I also like him as a coach and his team played a helluva game against us. But ticket sales are the last thing he or the GT administration is concerned about. They're searching for an exit strategy.

Compare JT3's pre and post-game comments. Before the game, JT3 was all about the history of the rivalry - firing up his players and hyping the contest during multiple media interviews. After GT lost, he showed no interest in future games, saying (basically), 'they're going to another league'.

Then yesterday, he started blaming the Dome scorekeeper.

Coming on the heals of the embarrassing "grey-out" (intentional exclusion of SU fans), it looks like GT just doesn't have the stomach for more losses.

 

[BleedsOrange44]

Hollis Thompson didn't sub in at the end because JTIII took WAY too long to call for the sub. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[jordoo]

He waited too long to get his player into the game.

This has nothing to do with the scorekeeper or the refs and everything to do with accepting responsiblility for your mistakes. Pretty sure he is going to try and stop Syracuse from playing Georgetown as well. We will be playing Maryland in the DC area all the time so this won't hurt us but it will hurt ticket sales and fan interest in the Georgetown program, something he can ill afford to do.

Good coach but he has his shortcomings.

Certainly sounded like he was diplomatically saying he wouldn't play SU OOC in his presser. I agree it will hurt Gtown a lot especially as the BE folds in on iself in a few years. I wonder if someone in their athletic department can see the bigger picture and take it out of his hands.

 

[dasher]

Hollis Thompson didn't sub in at the end because JTIII took WAY too long to call for the sub. Nothing more, nothing less.

exactly. Is he saying that the score keeper knew he would want to put Thompson in the game and sounded the horn early to keep him out. That is so foolish. He made a mistake. Own up to it.