General UVA basketball Thread November

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I underestimated BVp, and hope that typo is in your phone for no particular reason.

I way underestimated Armaan.

However, I see a lot of takes that want to tell me that last night proves that Kihei and Reece together is good actually, and to those people I say, I could see those two win 10 NBA titles in a row together and I would still maintain those two are bad together. I’m a Kihei and Reece are bad together dead ender, and there are no set of facts that will convince me otherwise. Sorry, facts.**

** I’m being funny, but no, I don’t all of a sudden think they’re good together. They’re individually doing some nice things, but I don’t think it’s a good combo.

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The 5-second call on the inbound play notwithstanding, one time when I am generally happy to see Kihei and Reece together on the court is when opponents start pressing while trailing late in the game.

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In addition he is already familiar with the starting cast and they all are familiar with each other from last year hopefully allows him to be more comfortable…

He and Armaan need to play on the same side of the court.

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I think there will be games where we need Reece and Kihei on the floor together, and games where we’re better off splitting them up. Last night, having two elite, veteran ballhandlers on the floor against Baylor’s press was essential. And I think people are really underestimating how much their on-ball defense disrupted Baylor’s guards.

The knock against the Reece/Kihei pairing always was that it limits our offense. Our offense didn’t seem particularly limited last night.

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Needed as many ball handlers on the floor last night for sure. Also why we saw so much BVP and wow did he respond

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Whole first part of the new Titus & Tate podcast is about UVA. They’re psyched for the Hoos.

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I expect him to step it up soon. Certainly BVP is outperforming him (except Gardner leads team in rebounds) in many aspects offensively, but we now know BVP can come off the bench and contribute without losing a beat. We don’t know about Gardner. Also, if we need Gardner (and we do), we want him to get his confidence back. Don’t think taking him out of the lineup helps that at all.

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Well the key has been Armaan, then BVP and iMac as a distraction.

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Unfortunately that typo is left over from the time my newborn spent in the NICU. Thanks for correcting; all good now though :slight_smile:

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A little bit like what Manek did for Bacot last year at UNC.

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Think I’ve already derived more total joy from this season than I did all of last year. Couldn’t believe what I was seeing in the start of that second half.

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We have been shooting the ball really well. I was pretty happy to see Gardner do some work…in the 2nd Half he got a bucket and drew some fouls…i think that is his role this year when our shots aren’t falling…right now the Franklin, Reece, IMac and BVP are hitting at a good enough clip that we don’t need the blue collar buckets from Gardner…

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Thought it was funny when they said Kihei Clark is the only player in the ACC that has won a National Championship.

The other thing that was cool was when they spoke about 2019 and they talked about who was the key player to them winning the NC and they said there wasn’t ONE player because there were so many plays that won it for them.

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Only it was Ty Jerome. But yes, enormous plays by so many players. Like enormous enormous

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Advanced metrics still love BVP

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With the win over Illinois, we have now collected our third new pelt of the season. That was the last opportunity for a pelt until the postseason as we’ve beaten our remaining OOC opponents before. But we went three-for-three on new pelt opportunities this OOC slate, which is pretty awesome.

Updated lists are below. I also went through and added all of the new D1 programs so they’re in there too (looking at you Texas A&M-Commerce - we’ll come for you one day!).

  • All Teams We’ve Never Played: Abilene Christian, Akron, Alabama A&M, Alabama St, Alcorn St, Arkansas St, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Ball St, Bellarmine, Binghamton, Boise St, Boston University, Bryant, Buffalo, Cal Poly, Cal State Bakersfield, Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Northridge, California Baptist, Campbell, Central Arkansas, Central Connecticut St, Central Florida, Central Michigan, Charlotte, Chattanooga, Chicago St, Colgate, Colorado, Colorado State, Cornell, Creighton, Delaware St, Detroit Mercy, Dixie State, Duquesne, Eastern Illinois, Eastern Michigan, Eastern Washington, Evansville, Florida A&M, Florida Atlantic, Florida Gulf Coast, Florida International, Fresno St, Georgia Southern, Georgia St, Grand Canyon, Hawaii, Holy Cross, Houston Baptist, Idaho, Idaho St, I̶l̶l̶i̶n̶o̶i̶s̶, Illinois St, Illinois-Chicago, Incarnate Word, Indiana St, IUPUI, Jackson St, Jacksonville St, Kansas St, Kennesaw St, Lipscomb, Lindenwood, Little Rock, Louisiana, Louisiana Tech, Marist, Massachusetts-Lowell, McNeese St, Mercer, Merrimack, Milwaukee, Missouri-Kansas City, Montana, Montana St, Morehead St, Murray St, Nevada, Niagara, North Alabama, ̶̶N̶o̶r̶t̶h̶ ̶C̶a̶r̶o̶l̶i̶n̶a̶ ̶C̶e̶n̶t̶r̶a̶l̶, North Dakota, North Dakota St, North Florida, Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado, Northern Illinois, Northern Kentucky, Northwestern State, Omaha, Oregon St, Pacific, Pepperdine, Portland, Portland St, Prairie View, Presbyterian, Purdue-Fort Wayne, Queens University, Quinnipiac, Sacramento St, Sacred Heart, Saint Mary’s (CA), Saint Peter’s, Saint Thomas, Sam Houston St, San Diego, Santa Clara, SIU Edwardsville, South Alabama, South Dakota, South Dakota St, Southeast Missouri St, Southeastern Louisiana, Southern, Southern Indiana, Southern Mississippi, Southern Utah, Stephen F. Austin, Stonehill, Tarleton St, Tennessee Tech, Texas, Texas A&M-Commerce, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Texas Southern, Texas St, Texas-Arlington, Texas-El Paso, Texas-San Antonio, Toledo, Troy, Tulsa, UC-Davis, UC-Riverside, UC-San Diego, UC-Santa Barbara, Utah St, Utah Tech, Utah Valley, Valparaiso, Weber St, Western Carolina, Western Illinois, Western Michigan, Wright St, Youngstown St

  • All Teams We’ve Played But Never Beaten: B̶a̶y̶l̶o̶r̶, Bowling Green St, Cincinnati, DePaul, Eastern Kentucky, Fordham, Kentucky Wesleyan, Michigan St, Nebraska, New Mexico St, New Orleans, Oklahoma St, Princeton, Saint Louis, St. Bonaventure, San Francisco, San Jose St, Seton Hall, Texas A&M, TCU, UCLA, Wichita St, Wyoming

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Reece’s usage rate being that high is a really promising sign. He has been above 20% in each game so far; for reference, last season he was above 20% in only 8 games total.

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Cavalanches decided both games this weekend … a 30-5 run vs Baylor and a 13-0 run vs Illinois at the end of the game.

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