Cant wait for our baseline out of bounds plays with Elijah
Edit: this alley oop thing with him is kinda new, I think. Didnt see much of it all summer. He should do the high jump as well ala Herman Moore
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We need to show those alley oops to our PG recruits. Easy assists, cmon you know you want to be half of this play.
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Absolutely. We also need to offer Tahaad cause he throws em the best to Eli
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I thought Tahaad was doing G-League or something (I forget the other, maybe Overtime Elite but might be way off on that one).
Tahaad is a rising HS junior if you can believe that. Unreal talent and way ahead of his years
Edit: I forgot school started. Tahaad is a junior this year
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Interesting heâs good now, but that also means how much better could he get? Maybe his peers will catch up and bypass him?
Tahaad? He is really really good. Can definitely improve his jump shot and range. I havent seen a better HS point guard in all the stuff I have watched. How much better remains to be seen, but I know he works at it tirelessly
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Thank you!
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Look where he catches it and where his head is ⌠EG
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Time stamped with 2 Bond highlights ⌠shows a great example of why itâs important to have a real 3 playing the 3.
First play strong enough to finish against a strong but undersized 4 - who size wise is really a 3.
2nd play - easily elevates over a 2 who has been a miscast 3 the last year.
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Size at the 3 by Dunn - importantâŚ
Then threat of shooting at the 3 by Murray allows him to get downhill and still strength to finish over length.
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@hoos9412 Putting this here to keep the other thread free of the VCU/Richmond stuff.
I donât claim to have much of a horse in this race, tbh. I have tended to root for VCU over the last 15 years or so b/c my UVa buddy teaches there and because theyâve been good / fun. Not intense; just a mild preference.
I took a look at the KenPom history (back through 1997). In the 9 years pre-Mooney, the Spiders went to two tourneys, one in Beileinâs 5-year tenure (lost in round 2) and once in Wainwrightâs 3-year tenure. Then on sports reference, Iâm looking, and you have to go back to the mid-late 80s when they are going to the tourney consistently, and winning games there somewhat consistently.
Mooney: 3 tourneys in 17 years (plus right on the bubble, with KenPom putting him in for 2020). 1 sweet sixteen, 1 round 2. A winning record in the A-10 a bare majority of the time (9 of 17 years).
So, I donât know. Itâs not exactly an awesome record. And, yes, he was saved by the extra year rules. But itâs not so bad, and itâs pretty consistent with his immediate predecessors.
Maybe, Iâm a bit inconsistent, because I shrugged at Tony Shaverâs firing. But he had never made the tourney. I basically think Mooney hit a real low point from 16-19 and now maybe heâs pulled out of it?
Anyway, just some thoughtsâŚ
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I think they are afraid if they move on from him theyâll go from mediocrity to being flat out bad. But that wonât happen if they get J Willy 
Agreed, itâs not awful in a vacuum. But when their biggest rival went from little brother to big brother under his watch? And across how many coaches VCU cycled through? Thatâs a huge failure. And thatâs really what the unhappy Richmond fans are discontent about.
I expect the roof is about to collapse anyway. If not for the A10 tournament title last year he wouldâve missed the tournament consecutive years with a junior + senior loaded team and then a senior + bonus year loaded team. Not sure they wouldâve even made the NIT last year. Thatâs not good.
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I donât know the local scene well enough, but are Richmond and VCU comparable in terms of resources that they put into basketball?
On VCU, itâs remarkable that Rhoades was able to create an elite defensive practically overnight (compare their 2017-18 team to their 2018-19 team), when he had no real track record of doing so before at Rice.
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I donât really know either, but the Siegel Center seems like an ideal venue for a mid-high major (basically A-10), in a nice location, too (based on my limited knowledge of Richmond geography).
According to this VCUâs budget last year was almost $5.9 million and Richmondâs was about $4.2. Would love to see what those numbers were in 2005 when Mooney took overâŚ
Most interesting thing with regards to VA schools is VCU has a bigger budget than VPI. Young is really a good coach to have that program competitive with his lack of resources.
https://www.three-man-weave.com/3mw/college-basketball-budgets-2022
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This is good content ⌠would be nice to get some like thisâŚ
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Interesting question about in house analytics staff. No matter how excellent the analysis is, there is still a degree of prejudice that goes into the initial selection of data that will be analyzed.
Therefore, I would assume that the best analytics team has a mixture of in house personnel who follow the Virginia way and some analysts who view the world very differently. I would even add someone with a Lean Six Sigma who could identify waste in a game plan.