2 Scrimmages - UConn - 10/21 and at Maryland - 10/28

I should try to save chatter for the chatter thread, but yeah, I agree. We have mostly unknowns on this team, so that’s certainly possible. The known is:

  • Reece will start

The unknowns start with:

  • But at what position?

And end with:

  • literally everything else

Tip it off, already! (or Tony, at the very least, can you please selectively leak some stuff?)

Also, Borges adds to the disorienting chatter:

https://twitter.com/DaveBorges/status/1716457613905301888?s=20

This is the problem with not even having a box score, or even a listing of points. This says Karaban played well. But what does that mean?

Anyway, hard to tell much with such bad sources of info. But don’t get me wrong – I’m here for all the extrapolating!

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Also interesting is that UCONN is sending 4 players on both mens and womens teams to their Big East media day.
Why do we only send 2?

Other ACC teams send 3. 50-50 split between 2 and 3, from what I could see. :man_shrugging:

Also, on the scrimmage, others have pointed out that Dauster got some nuggets for his UConn podcast last year. Some speculated they came from our staff, but I’m not sure. Tbh, I’d still guess it’s from the UConn side. Show dropped on Wed. last week. Hopefully he gets something this year, too.

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Wonder if the mutual lack of info means we will be scrimmaging UConn for years to come? Like we used to scrimmage Villanova regularly.

Wonder if Tony and Dan are friends too? Surely Dick and Bob Sr. have known each other for decades

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This would be hilarious if true. I can’t imagine two coaches more dissimilar in their game demeanor. Maybe CTB and Bob Knight?

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It’s very impressive there hasn’t been a peep on one UVA players performance.

I am gonna fix that. If we did indeed score in the 70s our leading scorers were Reece, Rohde and Groves. We hit 12 3s. Offense was surprisingly ahead of defensive. There you have it.

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Well Bob Jr is more unhinged than Dan lol but basketball is a small circle and they’ve probably known each other since they were teens

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Gonna be tough for Gertrude to exceed expectations. Pretty sure we’ll be able to pencil him in for 0.0 mpg/ppg/apg/rpg etc once the redshirt is announced.

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Well, I won’t jinx him by making a PT prediction. I confidently predicted last year that Traudt would play over 200 minutes.

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Yeah, but I bet you have a bottle of Drakkar from 1992 in a box somewhere should the occasion arise.

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I think we can all agree with 100% certainty and confidence and righteousness that the starting line up and rotation will be

Reece McKneely Bond Dunn Buchanan with a bench of

Rohde: 6th man/more opportunities to play on ball if subbed in for Reece

Gertrude: help with shutting down guards in some capabilities and can help with help-D as well at the rim.

Groves: when we want to add 3pt shooting in the front court by sacrificing other things

Robinson: who shouldn’t redshirt and can immediately help with energy, pick n roll offense, rebounding, and benefitting from on court development.

And then rest situational whenever the occasion arises.

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Your pessimism regarding Minor is indeed Major

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And I was the one hyping him before the blue white scrimmage (and also talking about my loathing of the Groves addition even though I understood it in the context of our roster).

Just did not come away impressed with him/seems like it lines up with HGN talking about him struggling with the packline and @Cuts_from_The_Corner hearing he was used sparingly. Also to @SaberMetrics observation from the scrimmage that there was no effort to work in Minor with Reece or the rest of the starters

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and his pessimism regarding Harris is hair-raising, though I empathize with the PKSD.

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Of course a TB coached team and event has a lack of information, hype, and analysis… Of course.

Please let Uva fans actually BE fans and support the team…

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I don’t ever remember hearing much in the way of details about these secret scrimmages. Except a couple times when the box scores got passed around. That reminds me…if anybody would care to share the box score with me, that would be lovely.

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Or that one time that they accidentally leaked us punking Georgetown lol

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Okay. So, Dauster’s pod just dropped, which mentions the “not-so-secret scrimmage” between UVA and UConn. But, his take was, “The scores don’t matter; coaches are just trying to figure shit out by testing lineups and trying different things. I am not going to get into specifics because it’s really not helpful and we should just look at the big picture.” Sounds to me like he doesn’t really know anything because he went on to say the takeaways from the scrimmage are baked into the cake of what he shared about a practice he attended.

Nothing we haven’t figured out on our own. Sounds like it is pretty secret to me.

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I mean honestly, is this what accounts for reporting these days? "Hey thanks for subscribing guys, remember what I said last month? Yeah just repeat that to yourselves and make up your own stats :roll_eyes::roll_eyes::roll_eyes::roll_eyes:”.

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