🏀 #10 Virginia vs #10 Colorado St, NCAAT FF, Tues, 19 Mar, 2110, truTV

Yeah. But he selected the personnel, then plugged them into his systems.

He can keep his defense. I think that I have seen enough of this jump shooting offense with motions that seem to end up away from the basket. Belmont, Princeton, PnR, please run something else.

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I know the vibe on Tony is probably the lowest it’s been in over a decade, but if Carla actually does that there will be riots in the streets from the UVA fanbase.

Risking the program bottoming out for the slight chance that we do better than a future HOF coach would be so impossibly stupid, the only way to justify it is if he’s indicated he’s already out the door.

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Key question is how checked in he’s in… By all accounts, he is (maybe doesn’t do the initial recruiting evals but I think that’s fine). I hope this fires him up even more to figure things out.

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Dude posted this at 9:42 am today. Time traveler!

https://x.com/MrQB17/status/1770083404643516568?s=20

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LMAO that flatline.

Could build a house on that flat foundation

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Lol?

Is the GM that put this team together also putting next year’s team together asking for a friend?

Also is the coach going to match the offense to his talent or just ‘run his stuff’ again? Let me know so I can plan my next winter evenings/afternoons accordingly.

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I think lessons can be learned for sure. Think a step back is needed maybe.

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Both appear to be the case.

I try not to call out players but Mr. Dunn is riddle, wrapped in mystery, hidden in an enigma.

Watching those two light skin kids for CSU get double doubles on movement, inside touch, and WANT TO sure was something. And they don’t even have NBA size and athleticism…

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The lack of a couple front court threats forced our offense out to the perimeter where defensive pressure was exerted against us. No consistent reliable drop off relief valves down low or cutting to the basket ie Mamadi, Huff, Key, Darion, Gill, Justin A, even BVP at times.

It reduced our B/M offense (that has looked beautiful at times in the past with the right personal) to mostly just passing around the perimeter looking for an open 3 or a forced mid range shot. It was more about the personal than anything else. Address this in the portal with an Adkins or Gill type to go along with Cofie and our offense will look much better next year. Take the pressure off of the perimeter.

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Read that Nique Clifford is a fringe NBA draft prospect. 6’6, athletic, good defender, 38% from 3

That 2019 run, maybe it was a fluke idk at this point, it is the only thing that keeps me sane.
https://twitter.com/CBKReport/status/1770295661008752830?t=xNqoQ7DbBTadc76DCfxfbw&s=19

One game is a fluke. 6 in a row is not a fluke. Those guys were special.

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And even if someone points to the things that went our way in those 6 games, that’s true for every single championship team. That’s just the nature of a high variance single-elimination tournament.

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UNC will be good. Like with most things, they actually care about winning and understand how important it is for their University brand to be good at basketball. They are ranked higher than us academically as well. Wrong people leading UVA right now during the critical stretch of conference realignment

I wouldn’t quite call it a fluke. The guys still had to hit those shots and FTs. And there is luck involved in almost every championship run, even for the most talented teams.

It is about as close to a fluke as you can get though. It doesn’t usually take three absolute miracles, another 1 point win and a 14 point come back against another 16 seed. Out of 12 halves in that tournament, only 3 were even close to comfortable. All of that with a “HOF” coach and 6 or 7 NBA to fringe NBA guys.

I’d say it’s fluke adjacent.

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2019 was no fluke. That team was awesome. Run it back 1000 times and maybe the median outcome is final 4 or elite 8 or so, but still.

But UMBC was no fluke either. Take 2 of the big 3, Dev and Zay and we let a just okay team manhandle us in our biggest game of the year. For me, that game makes more sense in the context of the recent 5 years. The same guys who were so mentally tough a year later had one thing go against them and they shattered.

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The liked tweets by Carla disappeared. So probably an intern who liked them. Or Carla saw others aware of it and tried to switch it up

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