Debbie Antonelli does a really good job. I much prefer a color commentator who sees their role as “game analyst” and not “entertainer.” She just wants to talk hoops.
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I will say that Wake is just eating UVA alive on the boards, but Wake can’t hit the broad side of a barn so it works out.
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What’s going on w/ the defensive rebounding???
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UVA has been getting whistled for everything this quarter too so its kinda weird.
Edit - 6 fouls on UVA in the first 5 minutes of the quarter.
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We win yet???
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4 minutes left… up 21 still… 65-41
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All the UVA guards do the windmill layup that Kihei does… it is not very efficient.
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That looked bad, but honestly if the Wake player had been a half second slower it’d have been a foul on Taylor instead.
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Brunelle’s a great player who does everything well, but she moves like her knees hurt constantly.
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Halfway to our ACC win total from last year after one game.
6.6% of the way to matching Tina Thompson’s career ACC win total (3 full years plus an 0-2 COVID campaign).
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Same note too. She plays an old woman’s game at 22. Sad that her body betrayed her so quickly.
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I worry her knees probably do hurt constantly. The first game, she started playing with braces on, eventually ditched them, but the fact she even tried tells us it’s not a minor issue.
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She looks like she’ll have two new ones by the time shes 40.
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great win… things to work on are free throws (Wake even more so… I thnk they were under 50%) and box out drills. Possibly not as much hero ball on fast breaks.
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Massey predicted a 64-63 UVA victory, once again we way outperformed expectations. WE BACK (to at least mid-ACC respectability).
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I’ll take it. Huge step from where they were
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The PGs, though especially Valladay, have a tendency to get hero-ball-y late in the shot-clock too. Valladay did seem to get better about it as the game went on, though. Mox is probably talking to her about it.
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I think its fun that we’re actually talking about the game afterwards, rather than forgetting it was on the schedule until a couple days later.
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Agreed it’s pretty qwesomw watching the program grow. It feels like you’re imnon the ground floor of something special
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Attended my first women’s game in probably 20 years today. We took the kids and had a blast.
We seem to take some time to find our groove out of the gates and we play some pretty basketball but in streaks.
Loved Coach Mox’s sideline presence. Full staff in suits gives me old school Tony B vibes. And she seems to have already built great rapport with the players. Also appreciated how she took every moment she could to coach these ladies up. She was drawing things up and talking with guards while we were at the free throw line. She was pulling players over at every dead ball. Was really inspiring to see. I don’t know enough about women’s ball to know if we are tourney caliber or not, but we have ourselves a coach that is changing the culture and it’s refreshing to see.
Today will not be the last game we attend.
Congrats on a great start to the season, ladies!
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