Albany Game Thread (Wednesday 12/28. 6pm ACC Network)

Beagle I think would be a horrible post defender at the power 5 level. Just hasnt had to be tested in that regard tonight

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Why you gotta rub it in! But yes love the add hahhaah

Dunn too. His hands need work but he really skys for the ball

He really would be a perfect 4 man at Cuse.

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FT shooting was no bueno tonight.

Hope no one took the Hoos to cover those Coleman minutes were killer

Caffaro 0-5, everyone else 11-15.

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Papi was confused on the bacon promo … he thought if anyone missed 2 in a row - free bacon!!!

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Probably could’ve/should’ve beat that team by 40 if we shot it better from 3 and the FT line. Still some positives to take away though. Gardner looked great, Armaan found his shot, and Kihei is starting to get us some one man fast break points by picking up full court.

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Good teams win. Great teams cover. Tonight we were only good. Armaan had a solid 2nd half of the first half. Jayden and Kihei did well. Game was mostly cruise control since 2nd half but only 66 points is meh.

Onto ACC play. And onto watching Kentucky lose and then reading Rupp. Oh but they are showing our documentary now on ACC Network…

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Armaan had only scored double digits once since the Baylor game- but had attempted double digit shots only once (4/12 vs Illinois). I think he is the most important player in terms of whether or not we reach our ceiling (based on consistency of Reece, Kihei and even Gardner).

Staff needs to implore him to take 10-12 shots a game. That is the sweet spot for working through mistakes and building confidence.

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I got caught in the ā€œno shootersā€ crossfire (which sounds ironic), but how did that start?. Folks worried about iMac? Still early, and he’s trying to take on a lot with Reece dinged up.

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My concern is IMac but also watching Murray brick a bunch

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Yeah, BVP 0-2, so everyone else 11-13.

Honestly McKneely’s form looks fine to me. It’s just not going in as much as we’d like. I feel he’s due for a game where he hits 3 or 4 in an ACC game

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Armaan 3-6, KC 1-1, rest of team 1-11. We’re gonna struggle if this continues. 18 conference games left, could easily see 12-6, 11-7.

Usually does against the smaller schools

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I got us at 15-5 overall, but yeah we gotta shoot it better. Need to be around 35% from deep at least, otherwise there’s gonna be a bunch of games decided by single digits in ACC play.

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11-7 would be an absolute disaster and seems to be a bit of an overreaction. We have to play better but I suspect we’ll grind out a lot of wins even when the shots aren’t falling.

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I’m all for the bench getting clean up minutes but I must admit giving up all those 3’s to destroy the final stats is very upsetting. Our KENPOM rating suffers because of the lack of focus…