All good things come to an end. After a captivating 11 game winning streak, the Georgetown Hoyas lost in Morgantown 74-62 to West Virginia. The Hoyas played very good defense, but turnovers and a lack of three point shooting were the downfall today. Truck Bryant and Kevin Jones were very impressive, combining for 47 points and proving that they are arguably the best one-two punch in the Big East. For the Hoyas, Hollis Thompson was the star, scoring 20 points on 13 field goals, but also missing 5 crucial free throws. For a guy with one of the prettiest shooting strokes I've ever seen, that can't happen again.
The Hoyas have very little time to lick their wounds, as a tough Cincinnati squad comes to the Verizon Center Monday night at full strength after half their team was suspended for throwing various haymakers in their game against Xavier.
After The Jump, more thoughts.
Before we go into meltdown mode, let's have some perspective on the first 15 games of the season. This Georgetown team, comprised of 10 freshmen and sophomores, did not receive a single Top 25 vote and was picked to finish 10th in the Big East. All they've done since is win 13 of 15 games, including wins at Louisville and Alabama and thrilling victories over Marquette and Memphis (2x). In addition, the Hoyas are 3-1 to start Big East play when even the most delusional of us would have been happy with 2-2.
Today was just not Georgetown's day. West Virginia, since Bob Huggins has been the coach, has given us fits. They have beaten us in all four years since these seniors stepped on campus. For whatever reason, we never shoot well in that gym, and they always force a ton of turnovers. That said, it is important that we stop relying on magical comebacks and put forth a solid 40 minutes of effort going forward. The last minute comebacks are thrilling, but also a really good way to lose a bunch of games quickly in the Big East grinder if effort isn't 100% throughout the game.
For those of you who are now predicting a "collapse", please find another forum to voice those frustrations. College basketball is built on parity, and no one in their right minds would have expected us to win out all the way through April. In addition, WE DIDN'T COLLAPSE LAST YEAR, we lost our best player and heart of the team to a broken hand. We have had one collapse in John Thompson's tenure at Georgetown - being knocked out as a #3 seed in the NCAA Tournament is not a collapse, it's a bad game. This year's team has shown time and again that it has great character, and I expect a victory on Monday night. Even if we don't win Monday night, it's still not a damn collapse, so go sit on some rusty nails.
I am not giving up my luxury seat on the DELUSION TRAIN, I hope the rest of you will continue to join me.
Cincinnati is next.
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CasualHoya - January 7, 2012
The WVU fans really seem to appreciate their Turkish Sasquatch player.
They would definitely respect his Islamic Turkish heritage if he didn’t play basketball for them.
WallaceAtTheLineShooting2 - January 7, 2012
Good perspective, JGD
aja32 - January 7, 2012
Fanned.. co-sign
yaboynyp - January 7, 2012
I am actually looking forward to the Cincinnati game
Time to avenge Chris Wright’s broken hand. Also time for Jabril to make another dude bleed from his head.
Great Vengeance and Furious Anger - January 7, 2012
I like your handle
And the latter part of this post.
J-Wall's Mom's Broom - January 7, 2012
Thank you
Can anyone remember which player/asshole specifically broke his hand? I’ve been looking for the man in red shoes as if I was Harrison Ford looking for the man with one arm.
Great Vengeance and Furious Anger - January 7, 2012
cashmere wright
CasualHoya - January 7, 2012
Awesome
Thank you
Great Vengeance and Furious Anger - January 7, 2012
agreed
very good thoughts about cincy.
thunderbus - January 7, 2012
Hope the fellas can chill out on the bus, get a day of rest tomorrow
And then give Cincy a merciless beating on Monday night. Something tells me Broad Street Brilly is seething and ready to bring it against Cronin et al.
TouomouIsMyHomie - January 7, 2012
Defensive scouting report on Cinci:
Taunt Gates until he punches you in the face and gets tossed. I believe in Brilly.
WallaceAtTheLineShooting2 - January 7, 2012
Ouch talk about taking one for the team..
yaboynyp - January 7, 2012
CW coming to the Rutgers game..
SELF_MADEest89 Hoya Fans holla at me if u see me at the game!! Miss yall, even tho yall use to get on me erry now n then!! lol grrrr
yaboynyp - January 7, 2012
and also
SELF_MADEest89 @JCDeuceUNO Keep YOUR team together, yall still gonna win the bigeast #iBelieve
eatthatbox09 - January 7, 2012
All good things...
Cuse Swallows - January 7, 2012
Hopping off the delusion train? No way!
I would rather we lose today and stay grounded, than keep winning and get carried away with ourselves come tournament time.
DownTheHallFromHollis - January 7, 2012
Aye aye
More like Awesome Freeman - January 7, 2012 via iPhone app
READY
To see Cincy get trounced. You don’t fuck with our Chris and go unpunished.
HOYA SAXA
Thundersnow - January 7, 2012 via iPhone app
amen
thunderbus - January 7, 2012
Lol Truth!
“Douchey coach faces. In order: 1) Martin from KSU, 2) Huggin WVU 3) coach K, 4) Crean from Indiana 5) Huggins again…"
yaboynyp - January 7, 2012
Only thing good about the loss is we can start playing hungry again..
I feel like once we got to top 10 status we lost that edge a bit, played on our heels a bit.
Hopefully we get that back now…
Stay hungry Hoyas!
yaboynyp - January 7, 2012
...must come to an end.
Cuse Swallows - January 7, 2012
Think Imma go play some hoops at the gym today..
Planning on Violently flagrant fouling anybody who has yellow or blue on.. book it
yaboynyp - January 7, 2012
You gotta crawl before you ball
…learn from it and moveon to the next. Short turnaround means can put this L behind us quickly. Dominate the bearcats!
HuskerHoya - January 7, 2012 via Android app
Well done to be a voice of reason so quickly after the game ended...
Considering you must be (at least in the short-term) as displeased with the outcome as everybody else
Hoya Saxual - January 7, 2012
Tough one
But good lessons for young team.
Love Henrys confidence. future is bright
Hire Esherick - January 7, 2012 via Android app
Nati laying a egg right now against the Johnnies.. down 9.. 13min left
yaboynyp - January 7, 2012
1-19 in the 2nd half.. and we thought we played bad today
yaboynyp - January 7, 2012
Gotta love Chris Wright's tweets today
I don’t usually follow Twitter, but when I do… I follow Casual Hoya’s Twitter Feed.
STAY THIRSTY, MY HOYAS
CAHoya07 - January 7, 2012
WVU just has our number
Credit to their bball team for playing exactly the kind of game they needed to in order to win. I’m not sure how much you can learn from an atrocious shooting performance, but hopefully the Hoyas will bring it angry to Cincy on Monday.
WarmupEwing - January 7, 2012
You have to
support the players through wins and losses. WVU held a clinic on how to hold onto and expand a lead down the stretch.
Console yourselves with the thought that a Hoya gets the royalties from that fucking song.
PerryMcDonald'sRightCross - January 7, 2012
#Danoff
hoya07 - January 7, 2012
please refer to the 0:19 mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBN3PSNCr1Q
hoya07 - January 7, 2012
Heads up Hoyas game on Monday "regroup" & "refocus"
http://glidehoyas.blogspot.com/2012/01/hoyas-drop-first-conference-game-on.html
Kent Adrian - January 7, 2012
Grudging respect for Boeheim
Melo just got a flagrant and they got a slow mo clip of Boeheim responding to Melo’s excuse by saying “You elbowed him in the face…yes.”
HoyaJoker07 - January 7, 2012
Good for Marquette for fighting back from an 18 point deficit
We are all rooting for them
Great Vengeance and Furious Anger - January 7, 2012
Now if only they could find a slow mo clip
of Boeheim responding to Fine’s excuse by saying “You molested children…yes.” Still no respect.
J-Wall's Mom's Broom - January 7, 2012
At the Providence/Seton Hall game tonight
Bearing first-hand witness to the back of Coach Cooley’s head makes one realize that there are worse things in life than absorbing an L in Morgantown.
TouomouIsMyHomie - January 7, 2012 via mobile
Thanks for the compliments guys.
I have all the respect in the world for your team. You’ll be fine going forward. Young team, hostile environment, WVU team amped up to host a top 10 team…those losses happen. I’m proud of my boys today because they beat a quality opponent. Best of luck to you all the rest of the way.
Country Roads - January 7, 2012
fun back and forth with you this week
see you in the BET
Hire Esherick - January 7, 2012
Thanks. I have tons of respect for W. Virginia's gritty defense. It is consistently good
You guys played a great game. They have good defense and made several clutch shots when it got close. I never like a loss but there are far worse places to lose. This conference is a murder house and it should be expected at some point. You can get knocked out by any team.
Note: I still retain the right to mock the stereotypical W. Virginia fan and those stupid enough to take the bait.
Great Vengeance and Furious Anger - January 8, 2012
wise words indeed
MyFairHoya - January 7, 2012
We are en route to 6-12 in the Big East
Book it
tjm62 - January 7, 2012
Not sure if serious...
yaboynyp - January 7, 2012
NW the Knicks vs Pistons
Greg is playing well averaging 16 and 9 early in the season..
Proud of him and his development looks like he is going to be a 20 10 guy in the league for some years to come
yaboynyp - January 7, 2012
Roy had a great & efficient game.
20 points on 16 shots, 8 reb, 3 blocks, no TOs, as the Pacers easily handle an inferior bobcats team. As they should. They’ll have home-court in a playoff series this year.
WallaceAtTheLineShooting2 - January 7, 2012
Hop off the Delusion Train?
We need to get more mileage out of that animated delusion train on the gamethread.
And thank you, JGD, for this:
“WE DIDN’T COLLAPSE LAST YEAR, we lost our best player and heart of the team to a broken hand. We have had one collapse in John Thompson’s tenure at Georgetown – being knocked out as a #3 seed in the NCAA Tournament is not a collapse, it’s a bad game.”
DHB Enterprises - January 7, 2012
and down go the Connvicts
Rutgers no easy out this year
SirHoya - January 7, 2012
The BE Is Tooooooooooughhhh!!
Eli Carter is balling right now.. Not looking forward to facing him over the next four years..
yaboynyp - January 7, 2012
A topsy turvy day in the big east, to say the least
chrisharvey'sfacialhair - January 7, 2012
There were a ton of upsets this week..
Virtually everybody behind us lost this week as well except Indiana and Mich State… Amazing if we would have handled West Va we would probably be 6th in the nation with Uconn Duke and Mizzou all going down.. O_o Not sure that would be the best thing for a young team honestly, but hard to say why I feel that way..
yaboynyp - January 8, 2012
Care more about big east right now. Two one loss conference teams go at it Monday night. Big game for hoyas
Hire Esherick - January 8, 2012 via Android app
agree
bring on Cincinnati
onceahoya - January 8, 2012
Just watched the game from my Hawaiian paradise.
Very depressed. We looked horrible and the Louisville loss doesnt help anything.
RileysDressLikeAHoyaJersey - January 8, 2012 via mobile
We'll be fine
10+ game winning streaks are fairly rare for a reason, particularly for young teams.
PerryMcDonald'sRightCross - January 8, 2012
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