Lol I know. But more optimistic about it being a home game and the added element of them already having beat us so we wonât take them lightly. Probably shouldnât have put that out into the mix though
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What was crazy is that we guarded pretty well the first 5-7 mins. That one white dude hit everything in that span, though. Then we were able to tighten up a bit but our offense couldnât catch up enough. They made a few more tough shots after that and we mentally broke down. Thatâs really when the defensive breakdowns started happening.
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We guarded JR Konieczny pretty well in the sense that if the court were a 2-D space, our dot stayed in front of his dot. We didnât guard him well in the sense of having a more athletic defender on him who could disrupt his rhythm or timing or make him question whether heâd be able to get his shot off.
Generally speaking, I donât really have an issue with your mental model of what going on, except for 2 things:
- how would I know? How would you know? How would anyone know?
- they can mostly be explained with a more mechanical analysisâ like, why has the team played better with Minor in the lineup: because our defense got much better because we can guard the post straight up. Which leads to our good defenders being freed up to do other things again
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Just looking back at that first ND game in the context of the rest of their season: Three of their 5 starters had their highest ORtg games of the season (Burton, Konieczny, and Njie) and a fourth (Booth) had his best ORtg game of their conference. Real outlier game for them.
Dang, thatâs one Iâd really like to have back.
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Of our five away/neutral drubbings (Wisc, Memphis, ND, State, Wake), I of course hate the ~20-point margin of all of those losses, but four of them would be otherwise âokay lossesâ if they were single digit margins. Wisconsin is ranked, and Memphis, State, and Wake are all above-average teams so losing in those gyms is just one of those things.
But man, that Notre Dame loss is the killer, and going to be held against us coming March. Iâd hoped at one point ND might go on a run to get that loss to Q2, which would mean getting their NET to 135, but theyâre stuck around 170 now and not sure how much improvement is feasible with only 12 games or so left. Sure as hell of course hope they donât make any NET improvements by playing well at JPJ!
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Booth against us: 17 points
Booth in 8 non-UVA ACC games: 30 points
They are a 3pt roulette team (mostly to their detriment this season), but sometimes the wheel does stop on your number. But itâs survivable if we also arenât giving up like 53% on 2s to them.
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Notre Dame played its best game of the year against us. But we also played one of our worst. Iâm not sure which is the chicken and which is the egg in that scenario.
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Notre Dame is obviously the chicken because we laid the egg. But is that really the question?
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The S wasnt in the budget. Dead conference
Depends, is this the coat in question?
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Wouldnt the chicken lay the egg?
Also isnât the answer clearly that the egg containing the chicken came from the species of whatever was before chicken, however you define the threshold genetically for what is and isnât a chicken? And why did the chicken cross the road? grabs mic And what really is the deal with airline food? It ainât bad
A question I wish Chick fil A would ask themselves more often.
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Iâm gonna squint and say that it reads, âAtlantic Goat Conferenceâ.
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pbp - Fake Doug E Fresh
Color - Cory Alexander
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Shit emoji and then clap
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Thatâs an advanced manuever 
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