VT mens bball vs Clemson game thread

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So uh...can't watch the game anywhere wtf

9 combined points in 6+ minutes of play. nothing much to watch right now.

Mutts with two turnovers before we can even tune in

"event about to begin on Watch ESPN" but we are 6 mins in?

Same.

I hope I'm able to catch part of the 2nd half. Thanks for nothing ACC.

Why the hell is MASN 2 showing a rerun of women's basketball instead of our game? Literally nobody is watching that.

It's on regular MASN for me. 🤷🏿‍♂️

No, I *don't* want to go to the SEC. Why do you ask?

We don't love dem Hoos.

Swofford fucked over the acc for years to come with this bullshit. I just want to watch my team play.

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Ok, game over. Let me watch!!!!

I hate the ACCN so much right now

Why the EFF do we go to Clemson and wear orange??

Is coronavirus over yet?

Wow @ these officials... maybe the worst game of the season from that perspective.

Is coronavirus over yet?

N'Guessan got absolutely mauled at the end of the half. No call.

absolutely insane 2 minutes from the refs

Danny is always open

They haven't let up. Refs are going to make sure we know who is in charge

We put the K in Kwality

Lots of questionable calls on us keeping Clemson in it; otherwise we were doing our end of the bargain

I guess any lead at half is good, but we were up 9 with 1:10 to go....

#10 just clocks Catoor sending him to the floor on that wild play. Announcers: "what incredible effort to keep the okay alive"

We put the K in Kwality

They follow up with calling the craziest offensive foul on him I've seen. He was setting a screen and literally didn't touch the guy (who was behind him).

We put the K in Kwality

We picked the perfect game to play down to our level of competition. We look like shit

Ref ball continues

We're definitely not passing the eye test for a late tourney bid right now...

"GO BACK TO YOUR ROOM LITTLE BROTHER, THE CUP IS COMIN’ ON HOME!”

Also that's not an offensive foul....why are basketball refs such dogwater 90% of the time?

"GO BACK TO YOUR ROOM LITTLE BROTHER, THE CUP IS COMIN’ ON HOME!”

Clemson has needed some insane help from the refs on this run. Defenders aren't anywhere near set yet we're getting offensive fouls

Mutts gets pulled backwards...traveling.

We put the K in Kwality

Only guys moving on offense recently is the guy with the ball*....

*After the initial action 5 seconds after crossing half court

Yes,that's the Hokie Bird riding a camel. Why'd you ask?

The thing that's actually the most surprising is the general lack of composure of this team for most of the game. They're responding to any resistance as if they're a team that expected to win this game by 30 and are not doing that. Their reactions, frustrations, etc are out of character.

We are in the bonus. Better be aggressive and start drawing fouls. Time for ugly basketball.

Mutts better use Hall...it's doesn't look like that kid can even move.

We put the K in Kwality

Too many turnovers and too much dribbling from Mutts for about 10th straight game

"That's it guys. Let's get out of here. That cold drink's waitin' on us, let's go." - Mike Young after win no. 300.

He's a fifth year senior. Don't expect him to change. I'd rather see us change the offense to suit his skills.

We put the K in Kwality

Yeah though it almost seems like he's doing more of that this year. A change for the worse if you will. He makes some great passes, but the bone headed careless ones, and the dribbling down low in traffic is so frustrating. This is high school level stuff.

"That's it guys. Let's get out of here. That cold drink's waitin' on us, let's go." - Mike Young after win no. 300.

Finally got one back. Refs are just all over this game.

#4 looks like is about 47 years old. We should have him checked.

We put the K in Kwality

Keve keeps signaling he's getting hit in the head on most rebounds. Ref just looks at him and shrugs.

We put the K in Kwality

It's just about Pedulla time.

Two of their players in foul trouble and in double
Bonus keep Pedulla in please

Mutts had a wide open Pedulla at top of key, dribbles 3 times into traffic and nearly turned it over. Ugh!!!

"That's it guys. Let's get out of here. That cold drink's waitin' on us, let's go." - Mike Young after win no. 300.

Ughhhh I was screaming get this turnover machine out of the game rn

Ugh!

Then jack up an air ball Jesus

Air ball fest might have our bubble pop in a bit...

Yes,that's the Hokie Bird riding a camel. Why'd you ask?

It's almost like we're in the double bonus and we should drive the right instead of jacking up 3s

Pedulla!!!!

Apparently lying on the floor with the ball is a travel. TIL

If you slide/roll over with possession it is. I'm not sure he fully had possession, though.

In the double bonus and we spend the last 6 minutes of this game hoisting up three after three at a time when we couldn't hit the broad side of a fucking barn. They apparently think they're the Golden State Warriors. This team deserves to lose this game

That air ball was just brutal

Can't win when we shoot 1/10

Let's see a repeat of Miami.

Welp... All but guaranteed we don't go dancing this year unless we see some insane magical run next week in the ACCT.

Love how this team has played down the stretch, but certainly very disappointing with the veteran squad CMY has.

Is coronavirus over yet?

Can't blame CMY for winning the 9 of the last 11, but damn if this season haven't had a million what ifs.

It will take a miracle ACC Tournament run to get us to the dance.

Even if not, I'm proud of the way this team played down the stretch

The only way we are getting a NCAA Tournament invite is via the ACC Auto Bid

So let's get it

"When I was growing up, Virginia Tech was a school that was kicking ass and taking names, and it's time we get back to that" - James Franklin

We can make a run if we hit 55% from 3... that's young's offense. When the 3's are falling, we can beat anyone. Also Catoor needs to score more than 3 points and Keve more than 6...

This is an oversimplification - some of our games withbthe lowest 3% were in the winning streak. One of the articles went into how our defense started winning it for us as the expense of the previously high 3%.

Danny is always open

That last couple minutes was truly awful. Hope they get it together by the ACC tournament.

Leave it to fucking mutts down by 4 to dribble all the way down almost turn it over unguarded and jack up a 2

Damn dcwilson called it. That's pretty much a wrap to our time on the bubble

A weatherman who always predicts rain is bound to be right every once in a while.

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lol. Ive been very high on this team if you have been paying attention. But that Clemson game was a trap- saw it a mile away.

Says the guy who claimed we'd never beat Louisville so long as he was alive...
Every pessimist claims to be a realist when the worst actually does happen.

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Yep, I've said that many times on this forum, you are right. Why? Because they had beaten us 17 straight, including in Cassell against Buzz's best team with their illegal shoe deal transition team. The fact that this team needed them to have an interim coach/dumpster fire with Mack and all time worse conference season, in order for us to beat them validates my opinion- which of course had hyperbole in it as I've said "never" involving a game with 18-22 year old kids.

Pop

Bummer

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Really need cattoor to find his form before the ACC tourney the offense needs his touch right now with keve having an off night against hall

Directions from Blacksburg to whoville, go north till you smell it then go east until you step in it

Cattoor has gone from automatic to dreadful from 3... for 5 weeks he's been horrible shooting

The refs stole our lead in the first half but at one point In the 2nd, we had 4 to their 10 team fouls. We blew that game in the second half. Clemson's second effort points didn't help. VT completely ignoring the bonus+ with two of their bigs with 4 fouls????? Turnovers are what they are. We've done that all season. Just an overall disappointing player/coach based loss.

That sucked. Pop goes the bubble, unless we can win 4 in a row next week.
Still, Let's Go!!

I don't know what a Hokie is, but God is one of them!

Just think the discussed plan needed to be drive to the rack with Pedulla finish with mutts Nguessan or Aluma draw the foul, from about 7 min out. Keep Maddox and alleyne on the wing for the kick out. Never saw a lineup or attempt at this which was baffling. Kept just crowding the 3 point line and trying to play iso ball with mutts down low. whhhyy

Almost like they wanted it too bad and couldn't get out of their own way.

Mostly, it was like they couldn't buy a three pointer.

Bubble: Popped.... Ugh this stinks

Saw CMY with the F bomb towards a ref. He was pissed.

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Glory is Forever, Let's Go Hokies!!

I noticed the calls got better after that conversation.

Mike Young is a good coach.

Well I did hear the NIT is nice this year

(add if applicable) /s

Nice set up for a commonwealth clash in the final

Maybe we will get this instead.

As long as it is here.

UVA - an elite coach- is going to make a run to the ACC Finals and get in the dance this year- watch. Who scares you in the ACC? Duke?

Play Seth Greenberg games (losses to horrid BC, NC State, Clemson) win Seth Greenberg prizes... the NIT. Bottom line. Those 3 wins against the bottom of the league and we are in the dance. Those are what kill a season.

Agreed. Ultimately it won't be that Clemson game that decides this team's fate if they don't make the tournament. It's going to be the losses in non-conference and the beginning of conference play. Those games matter. There seems to be this sentiment that as long as you play well in February and March, it will be okay. Not the case.

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I feel like Clemson is always at the end of the season, and it's always a trap-loss

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Its a trap loss because they usually suck. Brownell is going to be fired, and we lost to them.