Since someone brought up the start date Iāve been stewing on this for a while
We are skipping opening day and playing on Tuesday for some reason this year! I want to be a part of everyone watching their teams for the first time on Monday. Not to mention that 11/3 is Election Night and Iād really rather not have the Maine Senate race or whatever going on in the back of my head.
Obviously not actually a big deal but I was annoyed
Might have more (sports) eyes on Tuesday. Less (sports) competition.
Yea Iām sure thatās the reason, get to be on actual ACC network or ESPN2 instead of the ACC Network Extra streaming thing.
On the bright side thereās actually some decent opening day games this year so will be nice to watch
Gonzaga-Purdue
Arizona-UCLA
Florida-Miami
Ohio State-BYU
Iowa State-Memphis
At some point there was a small groundswell of support to not schedule games on Election Day to encourage student athletes to vote and/or otherwise get involved in Election Day activities. I guess momentum stalled at some point, I havenāt heard this sentiment mentioned in the past few years.
Has anyone heard anything about that potential game with Indiana/Illinois/Arkansas? Is that still likely?
Illinois announced a January game with UNC so I think that matchup is probably off the table at least
Basket Under Review pod (Eamonn and Tate) did a fan mailbag thing and had 3 mins on UVa:
The shtick was responding to fanās concerns about their team, and so the UVa prompt was concerns about the high end talent. Eamonn and Tate are not concerned and say nice things about our returners and Odom. Thatās pretty much it!
Definitely has the be someone on this board and I must ask WHY you did not ask about our PG situation instead?!
Speaking as a pessimist, I didnāt like the episode
It was like the spiritual opposite of Brian Snowās āwhy your team sucksā yearly guest episode on Dausterās old podcast , where Snow would go through the top 10 teams and say why they sucked. Needles to say, I loved that episode.
Eamonn seemed to solicit issues from locked in fans and then poo poo them, at least for the top teams. Plus he said TDR is a borderline first round guy, which isnāt correct.
I woulda liked it better if he steel manned, then rebut.
(No, I wasnāt either of the questioners. I did make a comment on his Substack comparing Dusty May to Charles Grodin at the end of Heartbreak Kid, thoughā¦)
Of course you did Haney. Also, I havenāt been tracking May closely for a bit now but somehow feel caught up entirely
Not sure if this got posted already, but I missed Thijs calling opposing student sections āa bunch of nerdsā compared to what heās experienced in road games in Greece and Serbia:
https://x.com/CornerMediaCo/status/2072095384160063579/video/1?s=46
Excellent. Someone needs to show him the Duke nerd pic that @DFresh11 uses
TDR would be a borderline 1st round guy if he played like he did last season, but was 3 years younger. Maybe.
So I was the person from the discord who posted my concerns, and honestly yeah I agree. I like Eamonn a lot, but itās disingenuous to ask a question thatās looking for negatives and then wonder why a fan is nitpicking in their response when their team is projected to be top 10 in the country. I guess I shouldāve just said āNo concerns, weāre awesomeā or not answered at all lol, disappointed they didnāt at least entertain the response as I thought that was the entire point of the podcast.
@zh00s I almost put that instead of our depth at the 5 but decided not to, mainly because I think Mallory will have an easier time playing 30 mpg if needed than GrĆ¼nloh will making the depth there a little less important. The coach comments about the backup PG spot are a bit concerning but I still have faith someone from that group will emerge and weāll be fine there. I also donāt think that concern would have been answered anyway based on their reactions to the other two.
Yeah, agree.
3MW top 75-51 players. GrĆ¼nloh at 53!!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stats-by-will-jim/id1830213297?i=1000776837703
Jim Root and Will Warren. Will had Virginiaās offense at 6, Jim as honorable mention.
Both super high on Chance - Jim has him as a top 25 player.
Jim has questions about free throw rate and easy opportunities. Good conversation overall.
No mention of back up PG, they call Chance a true floor general, and weirdly Jim says Dallin was kind of loose with the ball. So, grain of salt.
Haha yeah - I was mostly joking for that reason. Even tho they know Virginia the level of depth will always be a bit less than us, so I suspect any answer wouldnāt quite be satisfying.
Iāve come more on the train that Malloryās leap and what form it takes will be the single most important thing for our offensive ceiling.
Didnāt Dallin have the best assist-to-turnover ratio in the ACC?
He had a pretty high turnover rate for his possession %. It was 20.4. Chance was 14.0 in comparison with both a higher possession % and higher shot %
Maybe he had a bit of a loose dribble, too? Hard to have the ball on a string at that height, I guess.
We need someone to take over the clutch time stuff.