Itās almost like you need to recruit those guys and keep them in the system a few years ā¦ which is increasingly hard to do
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2019 would not have come together under current rules. No way Dre stays after the RS, and I doubt we would have kept Diakite under these rules.
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He aināt redshirting in the first place in the current era
What was the biggest short coming of this season? (of course all of them in play)
- The lack of experience and presence of the front court (rebounding/screen setting for a lot of the sets we could run)
- The transfer crew not āhittingā /not meeting what we envisioned for them
- Dunn and McKneely not taking the next step (just getting to do more of what they were already strong at with more minutes)
- Inexperience within system and inexperience with each other
- The schemes on both ends not fitting the rosterās strengths and causing more issues
- Lack of an established wing scorer and lack of consistent 3pt shooting threats
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Will UVA make the NCAA tournament?
- Yes
- No
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If you had to pick only one (and not 4), which would you pick?
- A wing at the 4 who can slide up to the 3 to be that scoring playmaker on the perimeter
- A forward at the 4 who can slide to the 5 as Buchanan/Robinson still develop/play alongside Cofie
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When do we know if we are out of the tourney?
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If we lose to GT, have to imagine thatās it outside an acc title
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If we beat GT and whatever happens next, selection Sunday reveal weāll be waiting.
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Weāre 12-7. 12/14 of the rest of the ACC would kill for our record. Probably all 14 would love our record in a down year.
And yet weāve now been outscored in ACC play!
Just in ACC play our ORtg is 100.6 and D rating is 101.1. Weāve been outscored by 18 total points in the ACC season.
Nuts! Never seen anything like it. (2022 Vikings come somewhat to mind)
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Itās hard to watch blowouts, but I think itās even harder for me to watch a team that looks absolutely miserable out there (not just from being blown out but right from the start). Something is wildly awry. Thereās some chemistry missing. Do these guys not get along with each other?
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I think they get along fine they just arenāt very good lol
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NET falls 3 spots to 49. We gained a Q2 win as GT moved into the top 135. WF falls to NET of 31 so our Q1 swtiched to Q2. So now 2 Q1s, 6 Q2s and 0 Q3s. The definition of a mediocre power 5 resume, but good enough to be in at the moment. Although I doubt GT stays in the top 135 and I think Wake will move back into the top 30.
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Thank you sir. Letās send Reece off with a win on senior night.
Week off is nice too
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At a macro level, the question of the season was whether our talented young guys would come along in time for our Senior all-ACC PG.
Reece mostly (but not totally) kept up his side of the bargain. Our talented youngsters either didnāt take the leap enough (RD, iMac) or didnāt play enough (Bond, Elijah) or were about what youād expect, but not better (Blake).
Collectively, our transfers gave us about what I expected. Jake on the plus side, Rohde** on the negative side, and Minor about par (on average, with a wacky time series).
** now, I wouldnāt have predicted that Rohde would be both bad and a 31 mpg guy for most of the season, for sure. You didnāt think I was gonna end this post without pointing that Tonyās coaching job this season was ass, did you? Also the youngsters not coming along didnāt happen in a vacuum, did it?
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I forgot Harris - for me, same story as Rohde, but in miniature (joke not intended, but there it is anyway). Am I surprised heās bad? Not at all! Him being bad was completely predictable and within the probable range of outcomes, albeit on the low end. What was less predictable was him being both bad and a key part of the rotation.
Now whether you want to attribute him being bad AND playing too much to coaching is of course up to you, but doesnāt seem terribly controversial to meā¦
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I think IMac and Dunn are the least of this yearās problems.
Reece + IMac + Dunn were a very, very good core who have progressed about as well as one could reasonably hope. The problem is the supporting cast largely is not P6 quality. Dante and Rohde look like mid major players - if that. Minor was apparently unplayable for half of the season. Buchanan has shown bright spots but is a first year big in a complicated defense. Bond is still shorter than many guards in the ACC and canāt shoot, pass, or dribble.
I think @WFS_HOO said this in another thread. But you have to imagine that we would be so much better if we just had āaverageā dudes. Like instead of Leon Bond, have just a league-average SF/PF. Instead of Rohde - take another first year highschool 4* guard. Imagine if instead of Dante, we took a pass-first PG who was like 6ā3."
Like are we better with Groves than a 4th year McKoy who had 4 years in the system and took 3 3s a game or so?
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I expected Harris to be bad after looking at his Gtown stats. I held out hope that beingg on a better team with a better coach could unlock something in him.
But despite those facts and his much lower usage, heās significantly worse this year than at Gtown. Fun fact: he was 89% on FT (35-39) his freshman year!
His current ORtg is 73 and his D is terrible. He should play zero minutes a game.
When Reece is off court, put Rohde at the 1.
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Agreed, IMACulate has definitely progressed this year. It would be even more glaringly obvious if he stopped taking fadeaway 20ft 2s which are holding down his efficiency.
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I guess it depend on how you interpret shortcoming. I was interpreting it more as āwhat prevented as from reaching the version of this team I had hoped we could be by Marchā. iMac and RD arenāt the biggest issues on the team, for sure, but them making the leap was a necessary condition, IMO, more than the role players hitting their marks.
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I just think IMac scoring double digits on >40% from 3 (and being arguably the best shooter in the country) and RD being a NDPOY candidate is making a leap for two second year players. Like if they were surrounded by a 5th year Wilkins, 5th year Devon hall instead of Bond and Rohde . . .
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