The All-Inclisive Hop U-Dub Watch - Happy for Him or Still Mad He Gone Thread

[kingtidge]

Will The Flock be happy that JB's protege was bounced by UNC, or will they be defensive that UNC once again toyed with a JB-variant of the 2-3 zone?

Interesting tap dance to come...

I'm more interested when UVA loses again and we get the "UVA lost. The Game Has Past Tony Bennet By" thread.

It will be riveting.

 

[AlpharettaCuse]

In case you weren’t watching Chris Webber basically called out Hopkins by saying that.

Yup. Heard him say it. Stupid. Wouldn’t have mattered, obviously.

 

[Oakland]

How can you be mad at Hop - he only left because JB wouldn't.

 

[two3zone]

Happy for Hop.

 

[OrangeDW]

The bottom line is the coach has to play pressure man to man and go nuts. Get the boys pumped up, run all over the floor and pressure and steal the ball, and don’t give up any 3’s by playing right in the good shooters’ shorts, and fastbreak and dunk and move and pass and cut and hit 3’s and win by 30 and recruit all the best players.

That’s what I would do. That’s all there is to it.

 

[djorange1989]

I really hope we make a clean break from JB and don't feel like we "owe" it to Hopkins to offer him.

Yeah who would want a two time conference coach of the year who is charismatic and can recruit like a mofo

 

[Trueblue25]

Id take Hop back for recruiting and culture alone.

College basketball’s more about recruiting and talent at this point.

 

[OrangeDW]

Id take Hop back for recruiting and culture alone.

College basketball’s more about recruiting and talent at this point.

Mostly agreed. Though Hopkins’s predecessor at UW got a lot of talent and struggled to win at the end of his tenure.

 

[MikeSU02]

Kudos to Hop for a good year. Has a good recruiting class coming in.

 

[NKR1978]

Happy for Hop’s great season and what looks to be future success at UW, i’m pretty sure that nearly all SU fans feel the same way.

 

[Dawg]

Don’t have the dudes that can create.

Next year it will change. David Crisp is gone thank god. Quade Green, Isaiah Stewart, and hopefully Jaylen stays and Jaden comes. This team could be amazing next year.

 

[syrBossHogg]

I didn't even remember he was a transfer. Just looked it up:
The Cameron Johnson transfer saga shows where the real power is in college sports

What part of this do you object to? He's a grad transfer, with a great academic record pre-Carolina.

For some reason I forgot he was a grad transfer. Guess I'm just bitter that they were able to get him while Miami blocked us from getting Gus Edwards in football a couple years ago.

 

[Cusefan0307]

I really hope we make a clean break from JB and don't feel like we "owe" it to Hopkins to offer him.

Yeah terrible idea to offer an alum, one of the best recruiters in the country, and a guy who turned around one of the worst programs in the country immediately one year.

Thank god you’re not Wildhack.

 

[Trueblue25]

Mostly agreed. Though Hopkins’s predecessor at UW got a lot of talent and struggled to win at the end of his tenure.

Hop’s a natural leader and it shows. The culture part’s important imo

 

[Cusefan0307]

The bottom line is the coach has to play pressure man to man and go nuts. Get the boys pumped up, run all over the floor and pressure and steal the ball, and don’t give up any 3’s by playing right in the good shooters’ shorts, and fastbreak and dunk and move and pass and cut and hit 3’s and win by 30 and recruit all the best players.

That’s what I would do. That’s all there is to it.

So people want Dan Hurley minus the good offense and winning part.

 

[Cuse'91]

The cost of 2003 Natty continues to be paid to Ole Roy...

 

[PhatOrange]

Got his azz whooped

 

[two3zone]

Got his azz whooped

Not bad for a team that won 8 games two seasons ago.

 

[Dawg]

Biggest takeaway: Jamal Bey finally has found some confidence will be a key bench scorer next year.

 

[PhatOrange]

Not bad for a team that won 8 games two seasons ago.

LoL moral victories. They lost by 20

 

[two3zone]

LoL moral victories. They lost by 20

Games passed Hop by

 

[justgold315]

He knows more than Chuck Barkley.

I heard Barkley talk about last year's Gonzaga team yesterday as "... Last year they had the college kid and that big guy... I can't remember the names..."

TruTV story...

I heard it too and did my best not to swallow my tongue

 

[Shark58]

didn't read the thread...


honest question(s), which UW kids would be orange if Hop stayed?

what would our rosters have looked like this year, last and next??

 

[samspann1]

Hop should have switched to man. Would really have confused UNC.

Probably couldn't have been any worse...

 

[HOFCeluck]

So I just saw the final and I’m assuming we’re all evaluating Hopkins worth as a replacement based on this one game.