🏀 UVa Men’s Basketball - February 2024

Hopefully a global pandemic doesn’t start between now and tipoff tonight.

Yes, I think the difference between descriptive and predictive is worth noting.

The rank over the last 10 games better describes our current play than the overall season rank.

But if you are trying to predict the future, you’ll probably do better with more data incorporated rather than less, with some exceptions like the ones discussed.

The grey area for prediction is when there seems to have been a qualitative change that would make you want to weight the data from a certain stretch more, but you can never be 100% sure.

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All that is very true, but it also doesn’t account for the variation from mean in a team’s performance, and I have a suspicion that that variation is on the increase across the board. Look at Kansas’ home performance vs. its road performance. I would be very interested if anyone’s metrics can explain Georgia Tech’s record this year. NCAA basketball has entered its Wild, Wild West era. If someone has no vested interest in the NCAAT this year, I imagine they are going to find it very, very entertaining.

This look at whether home court advantage is increasing might be relevant to your questions:

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Tu Takes are awesome. Facts

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Can you Tu translate the third sentence for me?

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Playa BS?

There isn’t player (locker room) drama, and he [gets] the best out of his players.

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My bad. Tu is just saying Elijah should start

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We need to get Tu on here.

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I didn’t take it that way, just the opposite lol I read it like he’s saying Eli would play at other schools over Taine just because he’s a highly ranked freshman recruit/NIL, which leads him to respect TB more.
Idk. Now I’m questioning if I understand anything from the tweet.

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I was joking

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That is why I follow him on Twitter (X whatever). I don’t always agree with his takes but I am never bored.

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This is really interesting. Looking at it qualitatively, I think it’s worth asking what’s changed and whether those changes are durable. For me, boiling down a bunch of stuff reductively, my list is:

  • Minor in rotation and knock on effects (Better roles for Blake and Groves and sorta RD). Durable? I think so
  • Takeover Reece. Durable? It will probably vary
  • IMac making midrange shots. Durable? I’d expect a better trend than the first half of the season
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#FreetheTu #WewantTu #LetaTuLive

Do it @HoozGotNext you won’t

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LOL my bad dude. Went way over my head :man_facepalming:

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Just remember unless Fresh is making full proof points on Forums i am proly joking hahaha

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In real life, Tu has won several distinguished Literary Awards for his pose and poetry. But on Social Media, PlayAs got Tu Hate.

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As long as I can hand over my moderator badge…or get some kind of Tu hazard pay haha

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The best part is in Tu Speak he actually never has a spelling error

Tru tu the game

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