Mizzou fans chanting overrated at Auburn…after Auburn wins. The SEC man.
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Georgia beats Alabama - Jabri scored 13 including 10 in the last 5 minutes of a comeback effort
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He was 1-6 from the field, with a made 3 in the 1st half. He did go 10-11 from the line down the stretch. With the loss, Alabama became the second team this year to lose twice as a 14 point favorite (no, we’re not the other, Kent St is the other team with multiple losses as a more than 14 point favorite). Didn’t realize Alabama is struggling as a middle of the pack SEC team at 4-4 in conference and 13-7 over all.
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Jabri hasn’t impressed me at all in the times I’ve watched. If he had stuck around he honestly might not even be getting minutes over Kody and that would have drawn so much ire from the fanbase. Glad he’s not here to inflict our fanbase with backup QB syndrome.
Nothing against him, I just don’t think he’s anywhere close to a fit in our system
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All 3 of the transfers are having pretty shitty seasons
McKoy is just terrible. Looks like he’s never played the game before. And it seemed like he had turned a corner in his last couple games at UVA
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Agree, watched Jabri a few times down here, and have not been impressed at all. He’s a decent player, but was missrated coming out of HS. And if he was on the current UVa roster he’d just add more fuel to the “why isn’t this guy playing” chatter, when the answer is maybe that guy isn’t that good.
Honestly with a half a season under our belts, I don’t miss or feel bad about any of the guys loss to transfer. McKoy maybe could have been a help if he wanted to play his role, but he seems set on wanting to be a 3 and is currently averaging 3 more mins a game at UNC than I am. I was impressed with Casey early on but he seems to have come back to earth a bit, but is still playing well. However, the skill set he brings to the table wouldn’t help the currently Virginia team.
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#uncaged
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Casey is definitely playing much better at NC State. I do think that system better suits him.
Jabri would not be playing at UVA. I agree that I wasn’t impressed with what I saw early in the season. Mind you, he’s basically a RS Freshman so will be curious to see how he develops (but I’m not encouraged by his general coordination / defense / bball IQ).
Justin would have been a contributor at UVA. He would have made us better. He made the wrong decision. I think that the coaching staff may have mangled some of that though with how they managed his playing time.
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What’s different about Casey and Armaan’s skill set?
Armaan: 30 min/ game, 42% FG, 26% 3 Pt FG, 80% FT’s, 1.6 assts, 1.3 Turnovers, 1.1 steals
Casey: 22 min/ game, 37% FG, 40% 3 Pt FG, 66% FT’s, 0.7 assts, 0.7 turnovers, 0.9 steals
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Scattered thoughts:
- I haven’t watched him since our game, but Jabri is drawing an insane amount of fouls and shooting almost 90% from the line in conference. But he’s not shooting well from the field. Very odd combo. Very high FT rate and FT% / very low FG%. At least he’s finding ways to contribute.
- My most controversial opinion is that we could’ve gone to the tourney with McKoy and Morsell (rather than Gardner/Franklin) because we would’ve beaten Navy and JMU. I think THIS team is going to be better in March, which I guess will be nice for our NIT hopes (and, trying to be optimistic, Barclays). What does this team need? Continuity/packline acumen / defensive rebounding… Check out McKoy and Morsell’s stats vs. those guys… That team would be a JV version of 2020 – very good defense / very bad offense. But our current team is mediocre defense / mediocre defense. Which is better Net/Net? Well, you know my view now…
Edit - using “continuity” in the Kenpom sense (minutes in the same program), not in the Tony Bennett continuous sense
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So your argument is he’s slightly statistically better than Armaan? It’s a wash between them, so what’s the point of having both of them? If he’s on the current Virginia team they are the exact same team essentially..
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Casey is bigger, stronger, better rebounder, and knows the defense much better, so noncon would’ve been less of a fiasco
Edit - wrong, Haney. Not bigger. Inch shorter and roughly same size
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Free Throws? hahaha
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Ha I mean sure Casey’s experience would have been nice. But overall when I look at what this team does not do well, at no time have I thought “damn is Casey were here that wouldn’t happen”
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Offensive and Defensive ratings.
Armaan: 104.3 and 102.2 = +2.1 and the team is a +5.3 (104.9 and 99.6)
Casey: 110.8 and 107.8 = +3.0 and the team is a +2.2 (108.4 and 106.2)
So Casey is better for his team vs. teammates than Armaan is compared to his teammates.
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I agree. I don’t spend much time pining over losing him. It’s not a major difference either way.
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To be clear here: I’m not pining over McKoy and Morsell. I just want Tony to be more outwardly cognizant that giving PT can create a virtuous circle. I know nothing about the situation, but I suspect if McKoy had gotten consistent backup 4 minutes last year that he might’ve chose to stick around, regardless of Jayden.
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Correct - fool me once shame on me right? No way he could trust Tony to play him regularly
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There are multiple things that needed to be added to a comparison of Armaan to Morsell. First off, a few more numbers:
Armaan: 48.1% effective field goal percentage and 51.5% true-shooting percentage on 23.4% usage, averaging 12.2 ppg.
Morsell: 45.7% effective field goal percentage and 49.3% true-shooting percentage on 18.2% usage, averaging 7.6 ppg.
One is being relied on as one of the top 2 scoring options on a middle-of-the-pack ACC team and one spent the majority of this season coming off the bench for a bottom-third-of-the-conference ACC team before just returning to the starting line-up.
More importantly though, Casey is putting up those improved offensive numbers on an NCST system that is incredibly different to ours, and there are reasons to really doubt that he would have been putting them up on our team given the last two years of evidence. Some guys are just bad fits for our system but can be good players elsewhere (see, for example, Shayok). Maybe he would have taken a step forward on our team this year (I would have loved to have seen it), but apparently he didn’t think so.
So saying there’s no difference between him playing at NCST and Armaan playing here is a little bit of a difficult conclusion to draw, because really you’d need to be comparing Morsell at UVA versus Armaan at UVA. Obviously you can say “well we can never do that, so what’s the point of the comment”, but in this instance I do think it actually matters, because his issue always really seemed to be an issue of being uncomfortable on our team, for whatever reason.
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