At least. Could easily be 5 or 6. Going to be blood in the water for all of Nova, Tenn, StJ/BU, SMU, UF, Memphis, and NC State who we see before the yearās out. As of today Iād put us as the underdog in every one of those contests.
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I forgot we get the winner/loser of StJ or BU. Yeah 5-6 seems right.
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Whole golden era of Bennett hoops is defined by elite guard play and excellent guard shooting and then we roll out what weāve rolled out all the years since the natty and this year at the 1 weāve got a guy who literally wonāt shoot threes, a guy who was mediocre last year at KSU and also hasnāt proven the ability to shoot, and a perpetually injured red shirt freshman. Roster has been a mess for way too long and that guard play/trying to make up for it with shooting at other positions that are much easier to defend is going to potentially tank this season too.
Am I being dramatic? Yes. But this Georgetown team isnāt good. Getting waxed by VCU and losing to this Georgetown team is a gigantic red alarm going off.
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Agree that we havenāt been successful recruiting to our profile, Bliss injuries kind of no oneās fault but Reece, Dante, Ames, and Warley definitely are questionable when you consider their shooting concerns. Itās like the staff learned nothing from the Nigel Johnson year.
Granted weāve tried with guys like Trent Perry, Juzang, etc and failed to close. But results are what matters of course
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Saunders had to play a bit at the 3, right? Reasoning:
- Blake and Cofie had a good amount of overlap, since they both have positive +/-.
- If they had more than 5 minutes of overlap, then Saunders was on the court with them, since he only sat 5 minutes
Also means we got killed in the minutes with Saunders at the 5
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Sweet, a year of playing 4 on 5 at the offensive end.
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Of course we thought we were 4 on 5 offensively with Dunn in the mixā¦
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I donāt think so. Adding up the minutes. Power and Cofie probably split the 5-6 minutes Saunders sat. Georgetown probably went on a run when UVA went small, as you said. While UVA probably had a run with a Cofie/Buchanan frontcourt along with 3 guards not named Power. Doesnāt take long to shift +/- numbers in one game.
Edit: Another thought, itās not clear UVA ever went without one of Cofie or Buchanan. Guard minutes suggest probably not. My guess is UVA just went on a really good short run with those two together. Also wouldnāt guarantee the total accuracy of everything in a scrimmage box score haha
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Roughly 62 possessions.
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Well, Rohde had 5 assists.
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I havenāt understood from day 1 how Saunders and Power were going to play with a big in the same lineup, and your starting pg canāt shoot.
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I donāt think a Cofie/Buchanan run makes sense, because the 5 min Saunders was out was only +2
But yeah scrimmage box score accuracy is a good point. Minutes donāt even add up to 200 exactly
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This thread has gotten dark. LOL.
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RIP Virginia basketballā¦.
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Ha. It survived Melvin Whitaker and Dave Leitao. It can survive two scrimmages.
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Hold a team to 2/21 from 3 and lose by double digitsā¦ whoa
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This is the reason coaches a) prefer secret scrimmages and b) liked when they stayed secret. November basketball is badā¦October basketball is horrid.
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I think you said 66 for the VCU game right?
Doesnt UVA basketball hover around around 62-63 the last few years?
Both scrimmages assumptions and consistencies
- Rohde leading the team in assists. No on else really standing out as a facilitator
- Poor 3pt shooting on solid volume: they are confident to shoot it atleast. except for Taine of course
- Cofie and Buchanan both games had the best plus minus on the team. (Buchanan -5 vs VCU, +2 today. Cofie -8 vs VCU, +3 today)
- TJ Power has had the worst/tied for the worst plus/minus both games. Assumption is struggles at the 3 spot/playing as a guard vs playing as a natural 4 who can slide up to the 3 some.
- Struggles seem to also arise when going small
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I was going to take the contrarian take on this game: a lot of our stats (2p%, FT rate and %, % of attempts that were 3s) look good and just shooting 30% from 3 we win easily.
Then I looked at their 3p%.
Woof, terrible game from us. I think the computer models are looking good at the moment. Maybe weāre even worse.
Iām still hopeful though, and will remain so unless we stink and show no improvement.
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