Ahhhhā¦shooting!
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I canāt wait for Sharma to get here and forget how to shoot.
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Nah I think heās in the McKneely camp of being too good of a shooter already for us to mess up. Plus, who have we actually messed up? I think we just havenāt recruited great shooters enough
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Morsell is probably the only one who might qualify.
Was he ever a good high school 3 point shooter though. Remember mixed results there but could be wrong
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I donāt remember his shooting splits but I do remember after he almost made Team USA that HS guys said there was never a recruit more tailor made for CTB
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Yeah, as HGN says, he was a very good 3-and-D recruit. We forget that because, when shooting from the top of the key here, he was as likely to hit the side of the backboard as he was the rim.
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More on Minor into the lineup vs. before:
Seven games with Minor in starting lineup:
(6-1)
McKneely 86.7% of available minutes, 11.4 ppg
Beekman 84.5%, 14.3
Dunn 70.0%, 8.0
Minor 58.9% 9.1
Rohde 56.2% 3.0
Groves 41.3%, 8.3
Harris 30.2% 2.2 (6 games, out injured for 1)
Murray 27.9% 3.4
Buchanan 25.8%, 2.9
Bond 18.2% 1.6
Gertrude 2.6% 1.0
Previous seven games vs. high-major programs;
(4-3)
Beekman 80.9% of available minutes, 12.6 ppg
McKneely 75.3%, 12.7
Rohde 75.0%, 6.3
Dunn 69.2%, 12.0
Groves 59.0%, 7.1
Bond 35.5%, 2.9
Murray 32.3%, 3.0
Buchanan 31.9% 2.6
Gertrude 26.4%, 2.7 (6 games, one redshirted)
Harris 21.4%, 0.0 (1 game, out injured for 6)
Minor 11.8%, 1.7
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I might actually try to cop the blue hoody sometime in the next few months.
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UVA so far is rhe ultimate resume outperforming the predictive metrics situation. All the losses have been blowouts and theyāre 5-0 in close games.
Theyre T-rank 23rd since Minor was added to the starting lineup which I think is closer to how we as fans perceive the team.
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Does Reece have a checkout code so he can get ācreditā? Iāve been tempted by these myself.
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Good reflection hat efficiency (and the gaming of those metrics) is playing too big of a role and that wins and losses are undervalued.
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Iām actually a fan of using the better predictive metric than the worse predictive metric when selecting teams for the postseason
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Blind resumes on a message board in early February is a reflection that efficiency is playing too big of a rule in tourney selection? I guess I disagree
Still feeling pretty good on team ātourney selection works just fine and if you want to apply your critical analysis skills in a fun way, youāve got a friend in Haney, but also, as I said, this all works fine, generally speaking**ā
** including the part where fans of mediocre teams get to argue that their team is slightly less mediocre. That part works fine, too.
Sorry, but three ACC teams āinā is bullshit, particularly when ACC teams not considered in have destroyed so-called bubble teams from other major conferences this year.
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I donāt think predictive metrics of any kind should be used to choose teams for the tournament. This isnāt the CFB. Pick the teams who have had the best season ā the ones who HAVE won, not the ones you think SHOULD win.
Iām not willing to die on this hill, but I am willing to endure serious discomfort.
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Not sure where to ask thisā¦. @HoozGotNext would they have recruited Rohde if TJ Power committed to UVA?
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Not HGN but I would think so. Power is a forward and Rohde is a guard.
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My point is that teams are gaming the optimization of efficiency metrics, not that efficiency metrics are bad. Furthermore, to my knowledge (correct me if Iām wrong) wins and losses are not part of most efficiency calcs, thus treating a 1 point win and 1 point loss too similarly. I do believe winning should matter more. And with this yearās Hoo squad, we certainly have done the opposite of gaming efficiency (weāve lost big when losing, and many of our wins have been close).
And I agree with you that the bubble (and efficiency quibbling), is for fans of more mediocre teams. But hereās where we are.
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Have UVA as my last team in today in my bracket. Lets get another Q2 win tonight!
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