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# | Virginia Tech Announces Four-Game Football Series Against Maryland ...Assuming ACC would want them back. The manner in which they left (money grab) cost them a bunch of perception points.
I admire your endless naive optimism (serious, no insult), and
a decent jump shot away from being a Hokie great.
heard this a billion times before.
Right, and that philosophy should hold true, but with 17 seconds left UNC pushed the ball and didn't drive before the defense was set. Once that happened, there was ample time to recognize that there was no play drawn up and a time out should have been taken.
I have been in NOVA since 1968 and next year I am putting my house up for sale, so I can move to SW Virginia and we go and schedule a 4 game series with Maryland within the beautiful landscape of College Park. Are you kidding me? Who knows with Maryland, they may not even have a football team in 10 years (Just Kidding)
While this is all true and he should call timeouts in some of these situations it is his and Dean Smiths philosophy to push the ball and attack before the D is set. I don't know why people expect this to change? His initial reaction is to get the ball to his best player (who should know this, I knew it and I have never spoken to Roy Williams in my life.) and push. People forget all the times that Ray Felton took it straight up the court for the win, or Ty Lawson doing the same.
With that being said. Once he realized Berry had his thumb up his ass he should have taken a TO to draw up a play.
It really is hard to believe with that kind of resume you could make the argument it was underachieving, but man, that program annually brings in at worst a Top 5 recruiting class, and most of the time their entire starting lineup came in as a Top 5 player in their position from high school, with the backups only being Top 10. Really, only Kentucky has been able to recruit like them, and yet they really don't have as much to show for it as you'd expect.
I don't know how many points it will get but I do know for a fact, that if you are a recruit and an SEC school is interested, it will get you 2 extra stars.
I'd be surprised too, but I see very little in the coaching world today to indicate that their is much loyalty in the coaching world. Especially in the more competitive programs it is almost a merry-go-round
Anytime! Its part of what I like about TKP so much, in that we just don't take ourselves too seriously.
That said, I will say with this team, you just have to kind of take seasons like this as they come. I wouldn't necessarily say we're out-manned, as we do get pleeeeenty of open looks per game, and we do a good job of helping to contain the opponents most of the time, its just that our shots aren't falling. That's it, the shots aren't falling. And they're not falling for players who have shown throughout their careers that they do fall. So to me, it just looks like we're rushing our play as a team right now, and we're just playing too fast. That makes sense when you consider how young the roster truly is. Once the game starts to slow down, and they're used to the speed and style of the ACC grind, the shots will return, and once that happens, we're going to be a very tough team to beat. As you said, we get a lot of open looks. Imagine what the games would look like if half of those shots or more fell through the hoop.
These comments always pop up, and confuse me every time. They are two totally different positions, with different skills and knowledge that goes with them. Lets look at it differently... would you ask a orthopedic surgeon to perform brain surgery? Or a airline pilot to fly a helicopter? I'd generally hope the answer is no.
Yes, the physical and mental talent requirements are roughly the same, but they are extremely specific skills and knowledge bases, not to mention all the reps required to be an expert.
He regularly has some of the best talent on his rosters and rarely can do anything with it
This assertion would be difficult to argue. It's hard to say someone can rarely do anything with talent when he has 2-tournament wins, 3 Final Fours, 6 Reg. Season ACC Champs with 13 years at UNC. He did well at KU too. Probably not rare, but maybe not as much as he should?
Thanks for expanding. I agree with you 100%. I think he can be that guy like Rodriguez or that dude from UVA (name escapes me). Very high upside with the right coaching, which I believe we have.
My UNC buddy told me last night that he will be the reason that this team won't win a national title.
Thanks, Alum. I really needed a laugh this morning. Thing is, in less than a year, my tight group of Hokie friends has lost three of our best friends, top notch Hokies all, and two more peripheral (to that core) friends, also top notch Hokies and I'm adding sorrow to the already hard to take February blahs. While it is natural at my age to lose friends and family members, it is no less difficult to deal with. The humor on this site has helped me each and every day lately and I really appreciate the quick and sharp minded posts this community is known for. Not trolling for sympathy, my friends have that covered in-house, but I did want to let you know how much it means to have a laugh out loud moment these days, something I can count on happening here at TKP. Again, thanks.
Rick, Glenn, and Daryl. Best characters on the show!
Maybe Carol too. I reserve the right to change my mind!
No doubt. I figured UNC would run it across and take one, giving them about 15s left. Their O was in absolute shambles the final four minutes and completely relied on FT's and fastbreak points instead of the O sets that maintained their lead for practically the entire game. Johnson put up a career first half and had to rely on put-backs and fast breaks in the second half. Paige was absolutely AWFUL. Puke definitely provides matchup issues across the board for UNC. Puke kept D pressure up and forced UNC into pressured and contested shots down the stretch. Poor leadership collectively by UNC. Nobody stepped up on the floor or sideline to take control late.
Nah. You getting old is not analogous to returning from injury. For every Adrian Peterson or Deshaun Watson, yes, there are George Bells. 100% physically healed does not always translate to being the same player. There are obviously the mental issues that come along with it among other things.
A coach calling a player 100% is different from a trainer. Granted, this came from Shane, so take it with a grain of salt. But George Bell is not the only reference point here.
We really need to stop using our training aids during the games themselves....
He'll always say afterwards that he should have called a timeout but yet he never does and never will, and so they will continue to lose those types of games.
I have said for years that Roy is one the most overrated CBB coaches in the country. He regularly has some of the best talent on his rosters and rarely can do anything with it. This year his team has performed fairly well, but last night he helped prove my point with his careless game management at the end. I kind of feel like he is too stuck in his old ways and isn't adapting to the game today.
McFadden had a rough weekend. Hopefully he gets back on track in this match.
Roy has always been terrrrrrible with timeouts. Most of the time he explains it away as trying to let the team figure it out on their own, but his mismanagement of timeouts bites them at least once per season.
Look back at that 2007 game when they came into Cassell as #1. We go on a run in that first half, and a close back and forth game absolutely snowballs into a 20+ point blowout in our favor. I was stunned Roy didn't call a timeout to regroup the team and cool us off, but he just allowed the beatdown to continue. Of course, once UNC got their act together late, they made it a 2 possession game within the last minute or so, but it was too little too late. A strategic timeout in the middle of our run probably would have won them that game.
And that kind of timeout mismanagement from him happens every year. Thankfully for him, they usually have enough talent to win anyway, but if he has one weakness as a coach, this is definitely it.
Our New Jersey commits would be up 300%.
I think a lot of what happened was due to his relative youth. It's hard to maintain composure when you're looking at a 5+ deficit, and he started wrestling wildly in the second and third periods. I think once he learns to temper that aggressiveness and employs a more methodical tempo, he should produce quality results.