🏀 Virginia vs Villanova @ Baltimore, MD, W, 70-60, 3-0 (0-0 ACC), Friday, 15 November 2024, 1700, TNT

Men's Basketball
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My proposed Eric Dixon solution:

  • Let him get his and try to shut down everyone else. He’s going to score 20-30. We have to accept that much. (reminds me a little of the Miami game last year with Norchad Omier getting his and everyone else for them being meh)
  • Only Buchanan and Robinson on Dixon. We cannot afford for Saunders and Cofie to get into foul trouble.

Also poll: Does Rohde start? (not what you want but what you think)

  • No: off the bench
  • No: back injury
  • Yes: in place of Dai Dai
  • Yes: in place of Power
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Will Robinson play?

  • No
  • Yes
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Who gets the nod in playing time?

  • Taine
  • Sharma
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I like Buchanan on Dixon, but the way they line up Saunders will start on him. I’m hoping Saunders can really show his ability to guard the 3 so they can go to the Saunders Cofie Blake look in this one.

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Dixon is playing next to Boakye a lot, so that points to Saunders matching up against him. He’s taking too many threes for me to feel good about sticking the true bigs on him.

On Taine and Sharma, I voted Taine initially, and then I remembered Ron saying post-game that the great thing about failure is that it allows the game to show who he can trust on the court.

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Basketball game threads will auto publish 0800 EST the day after every game this season… I’ll move these comments over to that one once it appears.

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What is your preferred starting lineup?

  • Dai Dai, McKneely, Power, Saunders, Buchanan
  • Dai Dai, McKneely, Saunders, Cofie, Buchanan
  • Dai Dai, McKneely, Rohde, Saunders, Buchanan
  • Rohde, McKneely, Power, Saunders, Buchanan
  • Rohde, Rohde, Rohde, Rohde, Rohde
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Let’s get weird Dai Dai iMac Sharma Saunders Cofie.

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Villanova up 1 at halftime against St. Joe’s on CBSSN right now.

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Didn’t St Joe’s stud guard Erik Reynolds return instead of portalling?

Would have been the best portal guard if he did

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He returned but he’s scoreless in this game early in the 2nd half and his team is down 4.

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St Joes lost to Central Conn. Nova just isn’t very good. We may not be either but don’t see them as demonstrably better than UVA.

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Reynolds just converted an and-1 to put the Hawks up 1.

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This but also it’s not weird. Let the first years play, I’m not ready to give up on Taine yet after one bad game but also Sharma/Cofie come in there willing and ready to shoot the ball.

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He’s a Bullis HS kid

Yeah I actually think we beat Villanova, if the Dai Dai move is a revelation for staff.

Think it’s going to be the Tenn. game that smacks us down a notch

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Yea, Brown too on their team is very good. And Rasheer Fleming got a mention in the Athletic’s start of season “this is what we are hearing from scouts” article.

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Hawks up 4 at the under 16 TV timeout. This is a St. Joe’s team that lost at home to Central Connecticut last Friday.

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To be fair I imagine the intensity and energy is different in these Philly on Philly match ups. Like how the Hokies unlock 4 extra levels of talent against UVA in football

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Providence needed some opening night heroics to beat Central Connecticut too though. Early season college hoops is just funky, even more so these days, teams are on different time frames.

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The Big 5 Tournament is legit… I had an uncle go to Drexel, cousin go to Penn, great uncle go to La Salle… they don’t talk to each other during the Big 5 tournament week… :grinning:

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Kyle Neptune dresses like a Bond villain

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