I agree.
My question is why donāt we run that play 10 times a game? I gotta believe it itāll work at least three or four times.
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Question at 2:30 about scouting Virginia - seems like the simple gameplan every good team executes against us.
Box score with +/-
BB tied with iMac for team low with -12 each
Minor team high with +2
Eli +1 as only other Hoo in positive figures
Dante at an even 0
Itās a small sample size and canāt draw too many conclusions.
However, over the last month BB consistently one of the loss leaders in +/-. I think BB has improved immensely over the course of the year so itās interesting to see - my thought is that he still over helps and struggles for rebounding position which leads to breakdowns. Individually improving a ton.
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Glad I did a social media blackout to watch that this morning! Phew!
Some assorted thoughts:
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We gotta run some stuff to get Jake and iMac three point looks. Particularly when we get Reece iso in the paint. Everyone is just standing around. Need some offball creative stuff in those situations.
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This should be obvious, but our offensive woes are both a personnel issue and a schematic issue. I donāt know how it breaks down percentage wise, but itās a mix and they feed on each other. Jake and iMac being both 1) our best and only three point threats, and 2) not being great shooters off screens or quick enough to create separation is a huge problem. They just arenāt taking seriously driving the ball and it makes life tough for them on the 3P line. Compound that with Dunnās man sagging off entirely. Clogs the lane. Teams caught up to this, hence the last few games. Now, you can scheme around that to a degree and there should be / should have been a ton of energy focused on solving for it as much as possible in recent games. (see my note above).
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FFS please guys just shoot it when you are open! Looking at Reece mostly. Just shoot the 3. Please. Please. iMac - donāt pump fake so much. Just shoot it. Shoot it. Please. Iām a being clear?
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Elijah was a great spark in the first half. Exactly what team needed. He had a few breakdowns in the second half defensively at really key moments, which werenāt quite compensated by his other good plans. But it was great to see him get run with the starters.
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iMac was horrible. No way around it. He was bad bad defensively one on one, he did not look assertive coming around screens.
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Pretty good defense! Although they did miss a ton of open 3s.
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Minor - nice! Now letās solve the 3 point shot quality.
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We stayed in it and showed fight. Kudos to the teamās mental capacities for that. Nice to see after the VT trouncing. Worried about BC though.
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We had a ton of āalmostā shots that felt like they would have turned the tide. Groves missed 3 in and out comes to mind.
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Refs. Yuck.
Sigh. On to the next one.
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We ran a beautiful play to free IMac in the corner for a 3 late that he nailed; it seems like our after-timeout set plays have been pretty good this season, and definitely much better than our continuity offenses. I guess you canāt build the entire offense of after-timeout set plays without losing their impact, but it tells me that thereās a little creative offensive spark inside TBās brain somewhere. Unleash your inner Picasso, Tony!
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We started the game with something different. Iām not sure what it was. Maybe that high triangle?
Iāll have to go back and see. But it didnāt work well at all lol.
When McKneely is not hunting his shot, we are literally playing 2 on 5 offensively with Reece and Jordan being the only scorersā¦
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We also tried a wrinkle on B/M that resembles the out of bounds play. But each time the long baseline passes went poorly and it was well defended in the corner. A few times Groves and iMac had to football catch it falling out of bounds in the corner and pass it off - and the play was busted.
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BC is very worrisome. Tony will have to find an answer to restore the teamās confidence and mojo. Not gonna be easy as we have very real limitations with our personnel.
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The next 3-5 games will be some of the most challenge for CTB as a coach since 2014 and I donāt think thatās crazy statement.
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Most discouraging part of yesterday was Tony still focusing on the defensive breakdowns in the presser. Felt like staging an intervention with an alcoholic family member in denial.
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They are. Good three point shooting team. Good scoring team.
One thing I noticed though. They have been slipping in efficiency mightily since mid January, and itās continued since start of Feb.
Overall 103rd. But 114th over last 6 weeks. And 140th since Feb. 1. Mostly itās regression on offense.
Last thing Iāll note is that I hate this pattern.
I think he knows his offensive talent isnāt very good (or is very easy to shut down). Either our guys can make open shots or they canāt. Not many changes in scheme at this point are going to fix the scoring much at this point in the season. Tony isnāt a guy thatās just going to sit in there and say his talent sucks though like Pitino so he talks about defensive breakdowns that can be fixed
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Push the ball, run the minor Reece two man game more, put Dunn in slip screen situations as opposed to catching the ball on the perimeter. Post Reece up on his man to mimic feeding the post to pull help defenders and then move the ball faster than defensive rotationsā¦ probably a lot more the xs and os guys can throw in. Now it you want to say āThere is not much more Tony can do within the things heās comfortable doingā yeah but that speaks to the portal misevals and McKneely/Dunn being good role players but not the cornerstone guys we envisioned yet (which to be fair they are only 2nd years but Dunn is gone after this year).
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Yeah itās recruiting misses (portal or otherwise) and guys not living up to what we thought they were going to be. Still Tonyās fault in the end donāt get me wrong
If you lose 54-44 the defense is not the problem. Yes you can say if we got a few more stops, but you can also say if we made a few more shots.
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Defense played very well. āBreakdownsā and ābad callsā didnāt cost us this game. Our lack of offensive talent and schemes did.
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Not much more to really say about this one. Absolutely needed to make more outside shots. Both teams made 16 shots, difference was UVA 2-14 from 3, Cormac Ryan 6-11. Hats off to a guy who had his best shooting night when it mattered. After that, heās at 33% on the yearā¦
Wonāt repeat too much what Iāve posted in the Eli thread and also to come in the BC preview (#ShamelessSelfPromotion) but Xās performance is the big takeaway here. His willingness and fearlessness to attack is something this team needs to counterbalance the offense stalling out.
Lastly hats off to Jordan Minor. He balled out against the best ātrue big manā in the country. BC will offer a different unique matchup that UVA has struggled with this season, but atleast for yesterday Jordan passed the test with flying colors.
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Gotta make shots. Not gonna win many games shooting 9% from deep
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If we had won and our KenPom didnāt change, Neckel would be whining so hard