TV: theCW
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Cal and Stanford back to back? Is it startup week in Charlottesville? Is there an incubator pitch day we don’t know about?
The academic gauntlet comes to a sharp halt with Louisville after that.
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When the kids were little, we always told them that part of the reason we liked rooting for the ACC was that it was top-to-bottom full of schools that were really strong academically. And that they could go to any of them and we’d be proud. If they picked VT or Duke, we might never speak to them again, but we’d be proud from a distance.
And then Louisville joined the conference. We had to revise it to “Ok, the ACC is almost great academically top to bottom, and we’d be proud of you at almost any ACC school…”
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Are we sure there’s actually a university attached to the Louisville basketball team? I’ve never once met anyone who claimed to’ve gone there.
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Don’t forget about F$U.
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I dunno. I’ve never been to YUM, but when I see clips of games there seem to be college-aged kids in the stands. Maybe just good marketing?
Grandstanding about academics is the lamest part about this fanbase. You can get a great education at any legitimate research university. One of the smartest people I know went to Ole Miss. It’s fine to be proud of UVA but putting down other schools is what gets us our shitty reputation as fans.
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I don’t know who is gonna stop Okorie. Maybe Ugo. My guess he gets in the 30s. During their second half the announcers kept marveling with statements like “Okorie has accounted for 26 of Stanfords last 28 pts by either scoring or assisting”.
Here’s where a defensive stopper would be nice. He is far better than Hammond. Odom needs to plan for it.
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You can see Odom is on the “Elijah can be our defensive stopper” train, but Elijah hasn’t actually actualized the potential yet. And keeps making mistakes. I bet we see some Elijah on Okorie in the 1H this weekend
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My answer in the Cal thread was drop coverage + help off of Stanford’s lesser players. Though thinking about it more, I’m wondering if it’s gonna be more like how they covered Coit from Maryland where Ugo and Johann came up to the level of the screen more to take away the pull-up 3. Ideally you’re making anyone but Okorie make a play against you. That might mean getting put into rotation a little more often than they typically want, but I think that can be OK against a poor 2P% shooting Stanford team.
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Dallan may be running looking at his back a lot… 
Staying in front of his man is not his strong suit. Honestly Chance and Sam have an issue with that as well.
I assume they don’t do 40 minutes of slides at practice anymore. 
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I bet we don’t see Elijah at all in the first half this weekend after his showing last night.
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Maybe, but he’s stuck with it the past few even though results have been uneven. TBH, will probably depend on how it’s going otherwise.
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Do we need to stop him?
Wouldn’t mind a “let him get his, that won’t be enough to beat us” strategy.
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I’ve seen that work against some teams but not sure if that would work against them… Yesterday he had 31 points and six assist and their second leading scorer went 1/11 from the field and only scored four points and yet they still won.
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Well, they’re both in Blacksburg this week too, so there endeth suspicion of an Academic Summit.
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I am watching that too. Definitely missing assignments and getting burned much as the rest of our team did earlier this season. I think he is still getting used to game speed and game intensity due to his layoff. Hopefully, his feel for it will improve with more reps.
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Did they plane-pool? The west coast scheduling dynamic is so odd to me
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Maybe I have low expectations, but I’m pleasantly surprised:
https://x.com/uvamenshoops/status/2009409186501730607?s=46&t=wAzMZR-0PRGT1LpN6U5x0g
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