Another Career Ruined: Xavier Alexander

I seems as if Xavier Alexander is going to play some NAIA ball next year for Southern Nazarene University. The once highly touted recruit who turned down multiple BCS schools has fallen hard. While SNU's academics (100% acceptance rate) is nothing to brag about, their basketball team did manage to win 20 games last season. So it looks like X is going from an A-10 school to a decent NAIA program back home. At least it is a better situation than what Miles Beatty and the recently graduated Chey Moore are in. In all honesty if Matt Allbritton could get on a D-1 team, there is no reason X couldn't. The most disturbing part of this whole ordeal is that, the school waited 4 months to release X from the program. Yet, X is another example of how Hobbs managed to turn a highly touted recruit (who has the backing of the future number 1 NBA draft pick) into just another transfer to an NAIA school . Way to screw the kid over... Was Hobbsie afraid that X may go to another A-10 school?

Our favorite quote from the article 

Keep in mind that X left GW in Jan. We wish him the best and hopes he makes his free throws. FKH would like to wager that his free throw % goes up at least 20% at SNU because they have REAL coaches.

"After leaving GW, Alexander didn't get his release until late May. Waiting four months to get his release made it tough to find a home since schools couldn't contact the former Oklahoman Super Five member. Once he did receive the release, many Division I schools, including OU and Oklahoma State, no longer had scholarships available."

X gone. Joe next?

So X has left GW. The same guy who was named Oklahoma 5A MVP and was offered scholarships by BCS schools and decent mid-majors who would defeat the current GW squad without breaking a sweat. Granted X is a challenged offensive player who may have been the best player on the squad in terms of "taking the ball to the hoop".  Unfortunately his drives rarely led to points. He now leaves GW with a abysmal FG and a even worse FT shooting percentage. Yet even with his offensive shortfalls one can argue that he was one Hobbs' better defenders and a great athlete. 

Let's not focus on X but Hobbs. He has now "recruited" four players who have left GW for various reasons in the last 12 months.  Are there any other basketball program in the country have had four players leave school for reasons not involving "legal issues". I really doubt so. Not only is Hobbs playing musical chairs with the substitution pattern on the court but also the team's roster. How bad must have X been treated at GW if he CHOOSE to leave GW in the middle of the season. This rate has got to hurt our recruiting efforts. It also proves that Hobbs cannot recruit kids that (a) he can get along with (b) survive at GW and (c) play at a DI level (ex. shoot see Chey Moore, Beatty, X).

This brings us to our next question... who does Lord Hobbs kick off the island next.

FKH odds are listed below

• Jabari- 50-1. Sees very minimal playing time. rarely dresses up. Koundjia has dressed up more often this season than Jabari has.
• Johnny Lee- 25-1. He realizes Hobbs is an idiot and punches him in the face.
• Matty All- 250-1. He knows no DI program (including winless NJIT) wants him so he stays for the full ride.
• Opoku-150-1. Hobbs Loves Him still....I guess Hobbs has yet to see him play because he has been too busy kicking people off the team.
• Katuka- 8-5. Odds on favorite right now. Hasn't seen action in the last couple of games. When Jabari gets more PT, you must be in the doghouse.
• Hollis- 20-1. Says f*** you Hobbs. Leaves before season ends. Goes pro. Signs with a team in Europe. 
• Diggs- 300-1. If Hobbs ever kicked this man-child out of Foggy Bottom, he would most definitelyfollow.
• Hobbs- 2-1. Gets upset at himself for failing to catch a ball that gets deflected his way. As a result he banishes himself during the next timeout. GW goes undefeated the rest of the way as Diggs avgs 20/10 and Spoon helps him out with a solid 15pts 5 rebs 3 ast per game.

UPDATED: Dukes Game on TV, X Gone

Here are the links

http://www.channelsurfing.net/watch-duquesne.html

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We at FKH are stunned to see the 4th person in less than a year to get kicked off the team. We will find out at tip-off wont we. More later.

GWSPORTS CONFIRMED THAT "X" IS OUT

The Dirtiest Stats of the GW season.

• Diggs 13 games only 11 started. He should be starting every game.
• Tony Taylor 29.2 min per game. Leads the team in min. A freshman is leading the team in minutes. Granted he can be good someday but with multiple seniors on the team how is he getting the most min?
• TT shooting .307% from the field. and he has taken the fourth most attempts. He is shooting better from 3pt range. (.310%).
• X is shooting guess what .325 from the FT line. 
• Spoon has YET to go to the line. WOW.
• Team is shooting .627% from the line. Thats just not acceptable. 
• Seldom played Opoku has 31 fouls in 146 min. Thats a foul every 4min and 45 sec.
• They say in every sport that you hae to take care of the ball to have a chance to win:
• Diggs 9 ast. 36 To. Hollis 13 ast. 35 To. Only three players have a favorable ratio TT (37/25) King (34/24) and surprisingly Spoon (20/5). WHY DOESNT SPOON PLAY AS MUCH AS TT?
• On the year GW Ast/To ratio is 200/158.

You cant win if you dont take care of the ball and fail to make your Free Throws.

This is this coach's job to make sure that turnovers are held to a minimum. He is also supposed to teach them how to shoot.