šŸ€ Virginia Basketball: Proving Grounds Series - Episode 2

Men's Basketball
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The guy looked tired as hell.

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I need those practice shorts please and thank you

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Good eye.

I bet TBā€™s teams used Sportscode or something similar as well, itā€™s table stakes for programs nowadays and I imagine coaches love being able to have extremely bespoke analytics that reinforce their principles of play (eg the Cav score Hart was talking about).

Thereā€™s probably more variation in how much weight each staff assigns to such things though.

Thought the mention of offensive rebounding being an analytics-driven accomplishment was interesting. And it was a real increase, Odom had never had a team with an OR% ranking that was better than the 200s until last season when VCU were 12th: T-Rank History for Ryan Odom - Customizable College Basketball Tempo Free Stats - T-Rank

Propped up their offense when they were a little lacking in shooters.

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I might take the under on that bet! I donā€™t think CTB was as all in on analytics as CRO.

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Yeah, I mean anything can be coded as an analytics win. If you score more points, thatā€™s technically an analytics win.

I suspect analytics had a role in that OR increase last year, but when you had so much height and athleticism but a team who wasnā€™t collectively great at shooting, itā€™s not exactly advanced analyticsā€¦

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The only analytic that matters.

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Kadin Shedrick leading the ACC in drops that one year was some advanced analytics

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Just put this on while exercising and at The very beginning, the Hall film study, the starting line up appears to be Hall, Thomas, Ugo, de Ridderā€¦.and Lewis. Hmmm. 99% means nothing. I guess we also have no idea how old these clips are, but still fun to speculate.

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Having Jacari as the sixth man would be really great. Gives you a true shot creator off the bench

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Lewis had good looking stats (O-Rtg), too

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Yep. Jacari was supposed to be the best defender of the incoming group, but the coaches have talked a lot about Lewisā€™s defense. Maybe also a potential factor.

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Jacari is an elite catch-and-shoot guy though, so heā€™s got a lot of off-ball value and potential synergy with Malik and Dallin. Iā€™m sure they will stagger rotations enough so there will be plenty of Jacari + multiple bench guy lineups where he will be asked to do more shot creation.

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Appreciate all the efforts to pull away nuggets from the spreadsheets text, and also maybe starting to understand why Tony kept so much close to the vest :laughing:

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Yes my Lewis > Jacari narrative feasting

(Fully expect Jacari to start day 1 though)

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Tony was just looking out for my work productivity, but didnā€™t realize I would somehow spend even more time complaining about the lack of info

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Saw a comment on the Sabre on Malik that may be correct (tho I have no idea). Perhaps the story on Malikā€™s sister untimely passing had some connection to his waiver being grantedā€¦

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Maybe? He missed games related to family loss in March of his sophomore year, so not sure if the timing matters:

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Yeah, timeline might not match upā€¦ but I get the impression these waiver requests are not exactly formulaic

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