And thats okay when basketball abd march madness are ultimately guard oriented
You can recruit stud forwards and play them at the 4 and 5
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Bliss:
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Link isn’t working. Go to Nikeeyb.com and click on livestreams. Bliss is court 2, and Jarin/ Takeover is court 4
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Thanks
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BLiss is 13 in Black. At Halftime now, I think
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PSA is so tough to watch. Zone? Yeah, really bad BABC vibes. I’m gonna watch this kid all summer and he’s gonna commit to Duke. Just to sit.
And the guards all take the first bad drive they have open with no apparent plan. That’s why Bliss’s 2pt% is balls. He has this nice first step, and can get into the lane, but can’t convert the floater yet (basing this on 2-3 possessions, so it might be completely wrong)
Finally, Expressions might stink because they have the worst team name. Like, you’re a 14 year old, and deciding if you want to play for “Nightrydas” or “Expressions.” Are you kidding?
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Judging by Coach Bennett’s winning percentages, I’d say the pack line is working. Like the man said, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” Additionally, I don’t think that the willingness to sit & learn is dictated by the number of stars next to a recruit’s name. I suspect that there are three star prospects who believe that they could be OADs if only they get the chance to show what they can do. In that sense, it is simply a case of qualifying prospects. Assuming that Coach Bennett is honest and up front with recruits about their expectations (and, from all I’ve seen and heard, he is), then it is just a question of finding kids who are buying what Virginia is selling. I think it is pretty much a self-filtering process. As we have seen, this is a bit easier after you’ve won multiple conference titles as well as a national championship.
Covid, the transfer portal, and immediate eligibility have created some challenges, but the biggest obstacles to success in the Tony Bennett era, IMO, have been injury and illness. The regular season successes are obvious. WRT to post-season, when Virginia enters the NCAA tournament completely healthy (2014, 2016, & 2019) they perform well. When there are injuries or illnesses at play (2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023), they tend to exit the tournament in the first weekend. I think Virginia’s recruiting has been fine. Immediate eligibility and NIL will create a new “normal”, but I have every confidence that Virginia will negotiate the emerging landscape in good fashion.
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My thoughts based on watching a few possessions of Takeover v. United. I’d like the good parts of Ngongba and the good parts of Jarin. Jarin looks the part of a really intriguing prospect. Ngongba seems like a good disruptive big in a few years. Is Ngongba fairly new to the game?
Okay, Bliss just had a nice floater there.
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And rebounding at the 4/5!
For those keeping track at home. Hubert Davis showed up to 0 Jarin games this aau weekend
The entire HS year it was only Williford going to Jarin HS games while Unc was showing up 3-4 deep at times.
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Coach needs to put Jarin back in.
Heels just cutting their losses at this point??
Bliss’s weekend:
https://basketball.exposureevents.com/202866/event/documents/playerstatistics?playerid=3600142
Jarin’s weekend
https://basketball.exposureevents.com/202866/event/documents/playerstatistics?playerid=3600260
Also, I guess I Shouldn’t have given up on the Thibs era last year
What do we make of Jarin not protecting the rim at all?
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Nice final two games for Jarin. But yeah, box score shows a scoring wing who doesn’t do much else.
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Well we definitely don’t need scoring
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And nothing in my admittedly very few minutes of viewing changed that opinion
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If he could do a lot more than score he would be a top-5 prospect and we wouldn’t get him
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That’s true
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I would be very happy with a scoring wing to be the backup 3, 4 for us for the next 2-3 years, especially if Dunn, Bond, and Gertrude live up to their defensive potential
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