he is contractually obligated to do coaches corner 
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https://twitter.com/MattConnollyOn3/status/1762224509661151642
Tony not speaking up for the acc here is certainly a choice
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He definitely said something on the coaches corner about this.
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Itâs a good choice. Brownell is making a bad argument.
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Brownell is conveniently ignoring that some of the reasons their NET held them back last season were some horrendous losses: by 18(!) on a neutral floor against a bad Loyola Chicago team and by 10 on the road against a Louisville team running the avant-garde experiment of playing with one person on their roster who could dribble and pass the ball. Funnily enough, they played a pretty bottom tier non-con schedule last season, didnât seem to help them much.
Also, there were 9 teams with a better NET than them last season that did not make it into the NCAAT. They were closer to the bubble just based on the resume metrics on the team sheets, but there were still a handful of teams ahead of them on those metrics that were left out.
2023 team sheets at a glance sorted by resume metric average:
Side note: 2023 committee kinda did OK? Pitt and Arizona State were the sketchiest at-larges, and Rutgers and Oklahoma St probably had the most cause to feel wronged, but I think those last two teams fell afoul of the below .500 Q1-Q3 standard @Raleigh_Hoo has talked about. Otherwise the teams with the best resumes made it in.
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@Cuts_from_The_Corner or anyone who listened, sparks notes of Tonyâs coaches corner last night?
Tony clearly recognizes the offensive challenge we face ⌠in so many words, we have 2 shooters and our opponents have schemed them out and are âzoning offâ the others. He mentioned cutting harder, screening better, getting putbacks and rebounds, taking the good shots that are there ⌠he didnât go into specifics and I wouldnât expect him in a public setting at this point. Also said Rohde is struggling a little bit mentally with his lack of shooting.
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We really need to play less structured and with more pace. Donât over coach/let instinct play out.
-Would benefit both Rohde and Gertrude
-More possesions = less value of possesions = players less afraid of making a mistake or a miss = coincidentally leads to better play
-Attacking non-set defenses = more opportunities for Reece and Dunn and Gertrude to get down hill and more open looks for McKneely 3s
Letâs play to the strengths of the current roster, even if not perfect, Letâs play to a scheme that doesnât neuter the psyche of our players. Play an offense that doesnât put players in awkward spots where they dont really have a situation to make a play on.
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This - our offense has really struggled to win the efficiency game this year, esp. against better teams. Surely thereâs a way to play a faster paced offense while still limiting transition opportunities for the other team, esp. given what our average pace of play is this year.
Just want to push back slightly here because there seems to be the thought on the boards the last week and a half that playing slowly and deliberately equals playing bad, inefficient offense.
From 2014 - 2019, which I think we can all agree is the Golden Age of Tony Bennettâs UVA tenure, the Hoos had very highly-rated offenses while playing at the same methodical pace weâre used to. The worst offense in that time-frame was the 2017 team, which was 50th in KenPom for AdjO. Right about now, a lot of us would kill for those kind of results.
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Difference between early season and even midseason and now is the lack of live-ball turnovers weâre forcing on defense â which limits our easy points.
Some of that probably has to do with Bennett doubling down on âno freelancing.â In the past four games, when weâve gambled defensively, weâve mostly paid for those gambles rather than cashing them out in points.
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Itâll be interesting to see how the committee weights the different factors. Iâd like to see the NCAA figure out a way to heavily discount results from those buy games. The system should be encouraging good teams to play one another rather than offering tournament-hopeful teams the option of beating bad competition by enough to be the equivalent, metrically, of beating a good team.
Iâm talking less about generating offense with our defense and more about trying to attack defenses before theyâre set and running early actions to generate points.
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21 was really good too. 20 was awful and the years after 21 have been a struggle.
Common thread for the good years? Lots of NBA and NBA adjacent players on the roster.
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Great and appropriate use of an avant-garde (avant-guard?). Well done!! AQ crushing it on a Tuesday!
Never gonna happen if it hasnât in 15 years.
Yeah, Iâm not holding my breath - itâs more just a statement that what weâve been doing on offense the last 15 years hasnât been working very well for the last 5 of those years. Maybe itâs time to try something different?
Since the 2019 team, weâve had good-to-elite defensive teams, whose ceilings have largely been determined by a bad-to-mediocre offenses. The 2019 team had an insane amount of talent for even a blue-blood team, and if it takes that level of talent for our âsystemâ to generate decent offensive numbers then maybe itâs time to re-evaluate our offensive system.
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The common factor with our good offensive years, missing from our bad offensive years, is the presence of 3 legitimately good 3 point shooters who fit together on the floor at the same time. Preferably including the point guard.
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And who donât tank the defense on the other end.
Iâve never been a big fan of our offensive system, but I havenât been a big detractor, either, until this year.
The common refrain is that our offensive system can be good with the right players. Sure! But would it have been better with those same players if we ran a better system? I think so. (And if so, what does it say about the system?)
Also, the further we get from the Hauser/T-Murph/Huff year: Why were we not setting offensive records with that team?
Also Iâm using the word âsystemâ to encompass things more than just offensive scheme, and also things like discouraging guys from attacking and rewarding (or at least not punishing) guys who are incredibly passive.
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