Glad someone got it!
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I almost liked it but it felt equivalent to chatting with someone juggling grenades.
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Really?? Seriously??
My man has been in college for 10 years and has like 5 degrees, no point adapting to UVA lingo at this point
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New vocab word for the day: âshibbolethâ
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Had to stick this somewhere
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âTiger Tearsâ is more savage (and awesome) than I expected from the official b-ball account.
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Really good read - the only thing I was it had was a little more context for some non-traditional stats. For example, if you mentioned true shooting % maybe say what percentile of players it puts one in. I donât want to keep swapping out tabs to google these things.
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Thanks for posting, just read it. It was a bit of a frustrating read for me, because a lot of seemed to be hinting that a decent template for how they can play together is Murphy and Hauser, but then Geisinger has to state the obvious â those guys are NBA players and these guys are not. So then the premise is that better versions of Jayden/BVP would unlock roster versatility. Yes! I agree!
Ultimately, the takeaways are sort of exemplified by this point: ââŚif Gardner finds a standstill 3-point jumper this offseason, itâll be a game-changer for Virginia.â Totally agree. Also true: if I find a million dollars under my pillow, I will have a million dollars.
Less snarky: the odds of Gardner finding a 3-point jumper in this offseason when having a 3-pt jumper wouldâve been great for him since he was 15 or so, and now heâs 22, seem significantly south of 100%.
Sidenote - but in looking up his age, I see that we share a b-day. Happy birthday, Jayden!
Edit - okay one more: this is becoming a âdeep diveâ mainstay. Show our true frosh Kiwi SG getting roasted by an ACC PF and then note that the D should be better when we have a guy whoâs 6â8" playing his 6th year in college. I mean, yeah, but it just seems like a funky takeaway. Is anyone putting âdefends the 4 better than a true frosh Kiwi SG playing out of positionâ on a resume?
My takeaway when I see that is â what in the world was going on with our lineups?
Normalize saying âwhat was up the 21-22 lineupsâ because they were absolutely bizzare
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Hello, this is Bob from the IRS calling again about the pillow money and I still want my half.
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Teelâs entry into the âKihei is backâ genre.
I think Teel is off with his 13-14 comparison, for the reasons outlined in the thousands of posts Iâve made on this topic.
Hard not to draw the conclusion from this (a bit reductively, but here goes) that basically Kihei decided to come back because the end of the season was so disappointing (FSU on Senior Day, UNC in BK). Might be more true as a matter of narrative bow-tying than actual decision-making.
Also, can we pause on these sentences: âClark will be the first to acknowledge that his size can be a liability and that his shot is erratic â his career accuracy is 38.3%. But those flaws donât merit the accompanying disparagement.â
What do we mean by disparagement? Wishing that he played fewer minutes (than 35+) and fewer minutes with Reece, with whom he has NEGATIVE offensive chemistry, which has been obvious for the last two years, and with whom he forms an overrated defensive combo? F*** THAT. Thatâs not disparagement; thatâs just talking hoops.
(Yes, there is some actual disparagement, and itâs bad, and folks should stop. Be nice, folks. To people who play hoops and to people who donât play hoops. To people who get 35+ MPG and to people who donât. But talk hoops! And donât confuse one for the other, please)
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Hate to be pedantic here, but itâs possible to talk hoops AND disparage someone. Unless youâre talking about a very narrow legal sense, âdisparageâ simply means to belittle someone, or â as the Cambridge Dictionary puts it â offer âunkind remarks about someone that show you do not respect them.â
I think itâs inarguable that many of the posts here about Kihei fit that description â but Iâm sure Iâm about to get disparaged for suggesting that.
So,
Our point guard canât shoot/finish/D up (disparagement).
We need better shooting on the floor to open up scoring opportunities (basketball).
Do I have it right?
Edit - I for one am here for the pedantry.
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Nope. Just talked to.
I guess we then get into the weeds and probably disagree about whether a certain opinion is belittling or unkind or any of the other words Cambridge offered to you.
Lots of people think Tony was 100% correct to play our shooters so few minutes. I question that opinion, but I donât think that opinion is belittling to Taine or Igor or Carson.
I think oneâs view of whether Kihei should play 0 or 40 minutes or somewhere in between is basically a hoops opinion. Saying Kihei should play 0 is not belittling or unkind, IMO. It might be wrong; it might be poorly reasoned; it might be 100% correct. But I donât think it can fit under anyoneâs definition of disparagement (Websterâs, Cambridgeâs, Teelâs, yours, mine) unless itâs something like âKihei should play 0 because heâs stupid.â
Guilty, as well
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Is pointing out the plus minus of both pgs together, Reece alone, and Kihei alone belittling to anyone or just point out that statistic and then arguing the validness of that statistic? Also anyone got that statistic?
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evanmiya.com and hoop-explorer.com, but I get bogged down when I try to play with either one
Hoop-explorer basically says (I think) we were slightly better with the two of them playing together than with one or both of them out of the lineup. Not sure if you can link the queries, but here goes:
But the caveat on this is the âwith bothâ lineups feature 87% Jayden and the âwith one goneâ lineups feature 60% Jayden. Kody goes from 32% to 64%. Shedâs time goes down. Papiâs goes up. Armaanâs goes slightly up. Malachi goes from 2% to 35%.
So I think youâre basically getting second order effects. If you want to know how STARTERS - (Kihei or Reece) + (Taine or Igor or Carson) did - the answer is you basically wonât find that in the data.
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Evan Miyaâs site linked above as a âTeammate Chemistryâ metric that is (or is similar to) an on-off comparison for duos, and it has the Reece-Kihei lineups performing slightly worse than the lineups that only have one of them. However, lineups with only one of them on the floor played few enough possessions that I would be very very cautious before trying to interpret on-off for them.
To explore, go to Team Breakdown â Lineups â and select Virginia 2021-22.
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Showing my work: https://hoop-explorer.com/OnOffAnalyzer?autoOffQuery=true&baseQuery=&gender=Men&maxRank=400&minRank=0&offQuery=NOT%20("Beekman%2C%20Reece"%20AND%20"Franklin%2C%20Armaan"%20AND%20"Gardner%2C%20Jayden"%20AND%20"Shedrick%2C%20Kadin"%20)&onQuery="Beekman%2C%20Reece"%20AND%20"Franklin%2C%20Armaan"%20AND%20"Gardner%2C%20Jayden"%20AND%20"Shedrick%2C%20Kadin"%20&team=Virginia&year=2021%2F22&
Reece, Armaan, Jayden, and Kadin played 597 possessions. 556 with Kihei. 30 with Kody. 7 with Malachi. 7 with Carson. 1 with Igor. Too low to draw conclusions
Now, take away Reece: https://hoop-explorer.com/OnOffAnalyzer?autoOffQuery=true&baseQuery=&gender=Men&maxRank=400&minRank=0&offQuery=NOT%20("Beekman%2C%20Reece"%20AND%20"Franklin%2C%20Armaan"%20AND%20"Gardner%2C%20Jayden"%20AND%20"Shedrick%2C%20Kadin"%20)&onQuery="Beekman%2C%20Reece"%20AND%20"Franklin%2C%20Armaan"%20AND%20"Gardner%2C%20Jayden"%20AND%20"Shedrick%2C%20Kadin"%20&team=Virginia&year=2021%2F22&
608 possessions, 552 with Reece, 23 with Malachi, 21 with Kody, less than 10 with anyone else.
So, yeah, the answer to whether swapping out Reece or Kihei and adding another guard/wing to the starting lineup would have helped? 
Feel free to try it with Papi, too. I considered Kadin to the be starter, even when he wasnât.
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