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Arizona exposed Georgetown's fundamental flaw by cool counterexample. "We're a team here," said Geary, who was Iverson's counselor at a Nike camp two years ago. "We're not a one-man dribbling exhibition." But the Wildcats also showed up the Hoyas with efficient execution. They doubled up on Iverson when he came off screens. "Late in the game he got tired, and his teammates weren't helping him," Simon would later say. "Maybe he was wasting some oxygen running his mouth with Reggie." The Cats also broke the Hoya press with surgical passes up the floor, leaving Georgetown in much the same quandary as the 1988 U.S. Olympic team Thompson coached to a disappointing bronze medal finish: When the team's furious defense provided few chances to score, there was little else to fall back on offensively.
Mention to Geary that the teams the Wildcats beat in the Preseason NIT are all young ones, and you do so at your peril. Geary thinks that observation is encoded with the dreaded disrespect. "Don't be telling me all those excuses," he said. "They'll say Georgetown's young, Coach Thompson had a cold, that their mascot wasn't loud enough. This ain't no fluke. We got down and got dirtier than they did."
Probably in a landfill somewhere back in Ohio.
. You are no newbie. Is there any way that we could work on recreating the "old School" thread?
