Lockett and Jackson leaving program

[CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY]

I wouldnt be shocked to see them both end up at the same school if they could work it out.

I wouldn't be shocked if they take a gay boat cruise with one another, opening themselves up to one another this summer before opening up their recruitments again.

 

[GSII]

What a pressure cooker for DP and staff. The sooner we show promise the more likely good recruits will commit. Cleaning this mess up requires a glue guy, a shooter and a beast down low. We have the beast for one season. DP is going to become our Gregory im afraid. As the Hewitt stench lingers for years and years. We dont have a George Evans to build around this time.

 

[Pablo]

Lamar Butler @Butler2two · 1h1 hour ago
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Lamar Butler @Butler2two · 1h1 hour ago
Ok soooo who's NOT transferring...raise your hand?

 

[gmujim92]

What a pressure cooker for DP and staff. The sooner we show promise the more likely good recruits will commit. Cleaning this mess up requires a glue guy, a shooter and a beast down low. We have the beast for one season. DP is going to become our Gregory im afraid. As the Hewitt stench lingers for years and years. We dont have a George Evans to build around this time.

GT kept Hewitt for 11 years. AC and Triple B fired his a** after 4, so it won't take us nearly as long to get rid of the stench.

Also, rebuilding in the A-10 isn't as difficult (impossible???) as it in a loaded ACC where you can have a very good season and still finish 9th.

As we've seen, things can turn around quickly (for the better and the worse) in college basketball. We have a terrific HC and that's the first step.

 

[dr. gunnie]

I wouldn't be shocked if they take a gay boat cruise with one another, opening themselves up to one another this summer before opening up their recruitments again.

I would. Cruises are a lot of money - and these are college students we are talking about. I say there is no way this happens.

 

[Patriot Lawdog]

Short-term pain for long term gain is OK with me....You're going from a coach that ran a very "loose" system to one with a very structured system. They aren't going to be drawn to the same kind of player. Patience will be key, folks.

 

[Walter]

We all knew it was likely that DP would lose a few players and recruits. DP's system is just so different than Hewitt's "system."

vcu brought in a guy who will run the same system and their recruits and players bailed.

Expectations will be low for the next two years. At this point I will be happy with a team that plays hard and a coaching staff that doesn't do stupid sh*t.

 

[p8triotfan4liferightnow]

We all knew it was likely that DP would lose a few players and recruits. DP's system is just so different than Hewitt's "system."

Yeah I'm not really concerned that some players are bailing once 'real' practices are being held.

 

[Pablo]

I was really looking forward to Isaiah Jackson & Eric Lockett playing their entire career at Mason. I don't know why they're leaving. But, there is no doubt in my mind that they were dedicated to the program while they were here: Jackson played with a foot injury and Lockett continued to practice with the team after knee surgery.

Best of luck to both of them!

 

[p8triotfan4liferightnow]

I was really looking forward to Isaiah Jackson & Eric Lockett playing their entire career at Mason.

Curious as to why you were so high on either of them?

 

[Pablo]

Curious as to why you were so high on either of them?

Surely, you don't believe that I'm the only one?

Bill Rohland @BillRohland · 20h20 hours ago
Lockett and Jackson both getting their release is a big blow to Mason if they decide to leave. Jackson is going to be a STUD.

 

[JimP]

Curious as to why you were so high on either of them?

Who are you confusing Jackson with? He was an impressive freshman and not a coach on last year's team.

 

[TweederGMU]

Its like this....

Hewitt - Runs more a "develop the individual player mentality and getting kids to the next level and promises those kids the world." He stresses uptempo offense and running and gunning people out of the gym. Would rather have a 4 star 6-8 freak of an athlete wing player who can "do it all" on the court. The less coaching Hewitt has to do on player's fundamentals the best for him and his assistants. Wants to run his 4-1 offense and create points from running this uptempo offense.

Paulsen - I see is more in the Coach L mindset and style. Team comes first. Everyone works together to achieve great results for the team. Not about individual flair, or bragging rights, he wants to get the best out of the 5 players on the court rather than the individual. He would rather have 5 guys being consistent in games rather than having one stud scoring 25 points a game. He would rather have a 2 star athlete who hustles his butt off, plays defense, puts team first, and sees steady improvement throughout his college career. Wants to play defense, defense, defense and run more of a traditional, structured offense.

Since 1998, we have seen the "Paulsen" type take our BBall program to new heights and set a standard of basketball we have grown to appreciate and also demand.

In 4 years we have seen the "Hewitt" type take our winning, promising team and throw it down the toilets to levels most of us have not seen in a very long time. I'm lucky and have only witnessed our program, since 1999, produce winners and winning teams/seasons. These losing years, since this type of "Hewitt" bball that has been employed, has shown his strategy has not worked for the past few years. I think being in the A-10 and not having regular access to 4-5 type star bball players hampers our ability to be able to run Hewitt's type of offense and defense. Hewitt landing 2-3 stars for us and him not coaching them up, or refusing to switch strategies, doomed us. He accomplished success at GT for a while because of being in the ACC and GT being relatively good in bball and having the ability to recruit 4-5 star players definitely helps when running his style of play. Nothing wrong with running his offense, or defense, but not at a Mid-Major school where our luster of being in the national spotlight has rubbed off and makes us hard to recruit top talent coming off losing seasons.

What really sucks is these kids.... Porter, Lockett, Mayimba, and Jackson bought in to this washed up fraud of a basketball coach with his personal sales pitch of I will get you ready for the next level bullcrap, is that they have never seen a college coach like a Paulsen, or Larranaga, who stresses TEAM basketball, hard work, outworking your opponent, stressing fundamentals, and running plays as a unit and playing team defense. Paulsen's type is good for business.... he will get us where we need to be in time and I welcome every kid who wants to put the team first and play sound, fundamental basketball rather than kids who just want their time to shine.

If Lockett, Porter, Jackson are these types of kids then I feel sorry for them. If they seriously are all about themselves and are looking for a place where they can be ballhogs or coaches promising them the world then best of luck to you. But if they seriously have no idea and don't know any better of the great team spectacles to come with Coach Paulsen then shame on us for not having the ability to get these themes across to them and how to be good teammates, and people in general. I hope it is the first statement rather than the latter.

Paulsen will be good, I'm glad the rest of the roster are ready to rock. Holloway, Jenkins, and Thompson will definitely improve under a team environment with sound, structured basketball.

 

[gmujim92]

Its like this....

Hewitt - Runs more a "develop the individual player mentality and getting kids to the next level and promises those kids the world." He stresses uptempo offense and running and gunning people out of the gym. Would rather have a 4 star 6-8 freak of an athlete wing player who can "do it all" on the court. The less coaching Hewitt has to do on player's fundamentals the best for him and his assistants. Wants to run his 4-1 offense and create points from running this uptempo offense.

Paulsen - I see is more in the Coach L mindset and style. Team comes first. Everyone works together to achieve great results for the team. Not about individual flair, or bragging rights, he wants to get the best out of the 5 players on the court rather than the individual. He would rather have 5 guys being consistent in games rather than having one stud scoring 25 points a game. He would rather have a 2 star athlete who hustles his butt off, plays defense, puts team first, and sees steady improvement throughout his college career. Wants to play defense, defense, defense and run more of a traditional, structured offense.

Since 1998, we have seen the "Paulsen" type take our BBall program to new heights and set a standard of basketball we have grown to appreciate and also demand.

In 4 years we have seen the "Hewitt" type take our winning, promising team and throw it down the toilets to levels most of us have not seen in a very long time. I'm lucky and have only witnessed our program, since 1999, produce winners and winning teams/seasons. These losing years, since this type of "Hewitt" bball has been employed, has shown his strategy has not worked for the past few years. I think being in the A-10 and not having regular access to 4-5 type star bball players hampers our ability to be able to run Hewitt's type of offense and defense. Hewitt landing 2-3 stars for us and him not coaching them up, or refusing to switch strategies, doomed us. He accomplished success at GT for a while because of being in the ACC and GT being relatively good in bball and having the ability to recruit 4-5 star players definitely helps when running his style of play. Nothing wrong with running his offense, or defense, but not at a Mid-Major school where our luster of being in the national spotlight has rubbed off and makes us hard to recruit top talent coming off losing seasons.

What really sucks is these kids.... Porter, Lockett, Mayimba, and Jackson bought in to this washed up fraud of a basketball coach with his personal sales pitch of I will get you ready for the next level bullcrap, is that they have never seen a college coach like a Paulsen, or Larranaga, who stresses TEAM basketball, hard work, outworking your opponent, stressing fundamentals, and running plays as a unit and playing team defense. Paulsen's type is good for business.... he will get us where we need to be in time and I welcome every kid who wants to put the team first and play sound, fundamental basketball rather than kids who just want their time to shine.

If Lockett, Porter, Jackson are these types of kids then I feel sorry for them. If they seriously are all about themselves and are looking for a place where they can be ballhogs or coaches promising them the world then best of luck to you. But if they seriously have no idea and don't know any better of the great team spectacles to come with Coach Paulsen then shame on us for not having the ability to get these themes across to them and how to be good teammates, and people in general. I hope it is the first statement rather than the latter.

Paulsen will be good, I'm glad the rest of the roster are ready to rock. Holloway, Jenkins, and Thompson will definitely improve under a team environment with sound, structured basketball.

Damn right!

 

[p8triotfan4liferightnow]

Surely, you don't believe that I'm the only one?

Bill Rohland @BillRohland · 20h20 hours ago
Lockett and Jackson both getting their release is a big blow to Mason if they decide to leave. Jackson is going to be a STUD.

You're backing up your comment with someone on the GMU payroll?

 

[JimP]

A few posters on the Bucknell boards are discussing the most recent GMU departures and what it means for Paulson and crew. Interesting to get that perspective. One guy questions Paulson's ability to recruit in the A-10. Thing is - I remember Bucknell being quite competitive against bigger conferences. Hell, the fact that he was successful enough at Bucknell to give them the opportunity to face the big boys is impressive enough. Don't know why he can't replicate that at GMU. Yeah - Patriot League is an easier league, but if he can get GMU into the top 4 spots in the A-10 we'll finally get those opportunities again.

I agree it seems he's in the Larranaga mold - get hard workers and possibly under-the radar guys to come in and play as a team on both ends of the court. Plus, these Bucknell guys have no idea how horrid Hewitt was.

 

[JimP]

You're backing up your comment with someone on the GMU payroll?

Honestly, Rohland's sentiment is the opposite of homerism to me. I think he's being honest in his opinion that Jackson's departure will hurt the program - at least in the short term.

 

[p8triotfan4liferightnow]

Honestly it's difficult for me to be high on anyone on the roster last season outside of Thompson. We had almost no guards and the true ones we did have (Moore, Holloway) were very inconsistent and sometimes invisible. Who was Jackson truly competing with for minutes towards the end of the season? Yeah his jumper improved but I'm not losing sleep over the "loss".

 

[gmujim92]

Honestly, Rohland's sentiment is the opposite of homerism to me. I think he's being honest in his opinion that Jackson's departure will hurt the program - at least in the short term.

Good thing that we don't need to worry about the short term, then.

We sucked with the guys who left. We can suck without them until DP finds reinforcements.

 

[GMUgemini]

Good thing that we don't need to worry about the short term, then.

We sucked with the guys who left. We can suck without them until DP finds reinforcements.

The potential starting lineup doesn't seem horrible (although we'll have a dearth of 3-point shooters and a few weak links in the defense). May have to have a 6 or 7 man rotation...really short bench right now.

Translation: it could get ugly real fast if Holloway can't keep his man out of the lane and Thompson doesn't learn some monster helpside defense, and Moore doesn't magically become a 35+% 3-point shooter.