TBs face didnt light up when he heard the name Elijah Gertrude hahahaha
Thanks for sending
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Can’t speak to the 
state but it’s pretty common in VA. At my HS I’m pretty sure the cut off was turning 20 before the new year. My HS’s all time leading scorer set the record at age 20 lol (in 4 years of HS, some extra middle / elementary school in there somewhere)
Is this supposed to be like a Rorschach’s test?
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Outside of press break situations, I would rather Eli get all of Dante’s minutes that overlap with Reece.
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Given Tony’s response during the Coach’s Corner (if it wasn’t already evident based on his usage), it’s very unlikely we see any Eli outside of cheering from the bench or the last five minutes of a blowout.
Mostly coach speak but he essentially point blank designated him as outside the 8-10 man rotation.
It’s really frustrating from a number of angles. But the boss has spoken and at least we can move on. Or at least won’t hear from me (too much) on it unless our trajectory changes.
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Stay ready! Dayum
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This! Eli is always two pick 6 Harris/Rohde turnovers away.
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If he isn’t getting in up 30 in 1H against a bunch of guys he’s tailor made to compete against, then he doesn’t need to stay all that ready.
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Honestly this is just the Kody Stattmann experience all over again
My fear continues to be that Tony and the coaches push “ball security” and “valuing the possession” so much to him in practice that it tamps down all the creativity and athletic excitement right out of him. But perhaps you have to show the safety to get the “green light” to try the other flashy things. Hopefully that is the message he is being given, rather than “just play our style of basketball or you don’t play”.
Did like that he was still hunting his shot against L’ville, but didn’t see him try to take his man off the bounce like he did against Syracuse and other earlier games. He stayed on the perimeter.
Have way too much invested in Eli compared to other players, but want him to succeed so badly so that other uber-athletic Combos and Wings will consider (and come) to UVa. Eli can be the pathway.
Go HOOS. Play free and with JOY. Have fun. Beat ND.
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Showing safety to get the green light is my base assumption. Eliminate losing first as TB says. Reece is a different type of player, but he’s got full license to take risks on offense (still top-5 among TB players at UVA in usage rate, by the way) and to do stuff outside of system; I think he earned that through being rock solid with the ball in previous seasons.
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My problem with that standard is that nobody ever lives up to it, so we should ditch the standard. In the last play of his senior season, our senior PG who had started since he was a frosh, couldn’t get a shot off at home against a mediocre defense with a replacement level shot blocker. Then in his second senior season, he threw the ball to the other team (I know, I know, somehow it was Shedrick’s fault) on the last play of the season.
In the context of the final plays of our last two seasons, what does eliminate losing mean?
It means … [Jeff Tweedy Voice] Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing at all
Let’s switch the standard to [now Craig Finn voice] “There is so much joy in what we do here! Killer parties almost killed me.” (okay, maybe not that last part).
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Hey man we put up 51 at home vs the Bonnies and Beer Man. Yikes
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I believe he was a commissioned officer in the Beer army.
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Well I think it’s more a broad direction than an absolute statement. And isn’t our current star senior PG a pretty good example of someone who has lived up to the standard, if you take it as more relative than literal?
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I think every coach values ball security. If you can protect the ball and make smart decisions, you will play.
Look at Elliot Cadeau. Not a great shooter at all but makes pretty smart decisions with the ball.
Elliot made really great decisions when he used to throw Eli alley oops when they played some together
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Yep - all time leader in assists to turnover ratio…
And 0/2 in the madness with an NIT season.
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Wilco is my favorite band. I had to look up the song because I didn’t read that in a Tweedy voice, which would have made it obvious. Did you know Wilco has a three day festival in Cancun annually? This year another favorite–Kevin Morby–played. I couldn’t justify the $4k plus flights for two people to go, but I thought maybe I could snag someone else’s ticket for pennies on the dollar last minute if they couldn’t go. Unfortunately the resale deadline is several weeks out, so prices never fell that much.
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