2023 UVa Offseason Chatter

Men's Basketball
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Test

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Testing to see if polls work ā€¦ Iā€™ll come back to this later. Site is acting funny, which hopefully means the mobile issues are getting sorted!

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Letā€™s check in on starters. Public voting so we can see easier whether people think Mac is a SG or SF, etc.

Starting PG - Tarleton game
  • Reece
  • Dante
  • Other (who?)
0 voters
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Starting SG - Tarleton game
  • Reece
  • Dante
  • Mac
  • Rohde
  • Bond
  • Elijah
  • Other (who?)
0 voters
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Starting SF - Tarleton game
  • Mac
  • Rohde
  • Bond
  • Elijah
  • Dunn
  • Groves
  • Other (who?)
0 voters
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Starting PF - Tarleton game
  • Bond
  • Dunn
  • Groves
  • Blake
  • Minor
  • Other (who?)
0 voters
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Starting C - Tarleton game
  • Dunn
  • Groves
  • Blake
  • Minor
  • A-Rob
  • Other (who?)
0 voters
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Ah shit I accidentally voted for Groves center. I missclicked on Minorā€¦ or am I a genius? Nah I misclicked.

Reece McKneely Rohde Dunn Minor seems to the consensus.

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I will not believe any starting lineup besides Reece, Dante, IMac, Dunn, Minor until I see it. I will not let myself get my hopes up

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I should have been more clear that I was looking for predictions not preferences. (Maybe that was obvious? Hopefully?)

Not that many votes yet, but only two people so far thinks Dante will start - you at PG and @rcm at SG. I thought it would be higher

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People forget that Dante had almost a year to get the packline under his belt over Rohde

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Maybe Iā€™m trying to will it into existence (I donā€™t rule that out at all), but I really donā€™t think Dante starts. I do think he will play 15-20/game, and often be the first guy off the bench. But I think Tony is going to take us back to the 2010s with this yearā€™s starting lineup, having everyone sized reasonably for their position.

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Did he use that redshirt year to grow 6 inches taller and become a dangerous 3-point shooter?

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Minor, Dunn, Reece, and Harris, even with Mac, is more or less a zero gravity (no perimeter shooting) lineup, at least as of their last year playing hoops. Either we need another shooter, or one or more of those guys takes a leap as a perimeter shooter, or :pray: for elite defense.

On Harris (and I swear I didnā€™t start this polling to pick on him), when you watch his clips, he seems to have a range issue. The current three point line looks like itā€™s right about where his range ends. Heā€™s much better from a couple feet inside the line. Thereā€™s always a chance he fixed that, but more likely improvement will be marginal.

Minor wonā€™t be a perimeter shooter, but seems fairly likely to start in the first instance.

If Reece and/or Dunn have improved enough that we can have a good (top 50?) offense with Harris playing starter minutes and shooting at or marginally above his career average, then I will be very happy.

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Rohde was w 32% 3 point shooter last year :man_shrugging:t3:

I hope Rohde starts too

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Yeah well you canā€™t count the misses because they came against inferior competition

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Disappointing the number of them that went with completely normal and popular songs. Donā€™t think they understood the assignment lol

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Going with Taine for my ā€˜otherā€™ vote. Will change over the course of OOC play though

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Good call. I shoulda had Taine as an option

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The degree of consensus is wild. Especially if most voters are like me, not exactly high confidence even though I was aligned with the consensus.

My confidence level in them starting, highest to lowest: Reece, Dunn, Minor, Mac, Rohde

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