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Oh, the memories...
Ironically, it was against UMD in the triple OT game where young Erick Green launched his most famous brick. He had a wide open three that would have won that game......and got
VT in the tournament.......and saved Seths job.....and kept Montrezl Harrell......
Well met. But let's see where this thing goes.
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10 years 7 months
# | "Brothers in arms, Brewer, Loeffler exit Virginia Tech together" by David Teel Loeffler seems more like a pro coach to me. College doesn't have the practice hours to implement the complete details of his system.
Maybe I'm wrong about the guy, but it feels like when SA goes up against evenly matched talent he goes cold, and then gets frustrated and makes bad decisions. I hope I wrong.
From covering the team over the past month, I felt like this wasn't quite accurate, but I honestly didn't know if the stats would back my feeling up so I dug through the box scores.
Against the best 5 teams the Hokies have played (Iowa State, Northwestern, UAB, Radford, and St. Joe's), Allen has averaged 18.6 points per game. That bodes well for ACC play.
Alternatively, against the remaining 7 teams (Alabama State, Jacksonville State, VMI, North Carolina A&T, Arkansas Pine-Bluff, Lamar, and Grambling State), Allen has averaged just 11.14 points per game.
I think there's three main reasons for this:
1) Every scorer wants to score when the lights are the brightest.
2) Against better teams, our other offensive options become limited. Sure, that may cause Allen to force a little bit, but it also results in him putting up more points. Conversely, when we play Grambling State, we have a plethora of scoring options.
3) Allen wasn't any good at the beginning of the year, and that period happened to be when we played many of the lower level teams on our schedule.
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10 years 7 months
# | "Brothers in arms, Brewer, Loeffler exit Virginia Tech together" by David Teel I think that's a really cynical guess at the circumstances. More likely is that Brewer completed the student teaching portion like any other student in the program, with some scheduling flexibility to account for the football practice schedule.
Also more and more courses typically taught in-person are getting online options - especially masters programs.
I caught some of the replay (beer was required.) For the life of me I couldn't figure out why we continued to have guards chase down their big guys. Miles and Bembry were constantly lighting it up and we were matching up smaller guards man to man on them. We actually have depth at the C/F spots this year. I have no idea why we didn't rotate some bigs in to shut that down and force them to shoot outside. The bigs would have also helped with our rebounding (which was terrible from what I could sit through.)
The thing that kills me about Allen is that when he goes super aggressive to the rim, it's often against heavy numbers and a lot of the time he gets blocked, takes a terrible shot, or loses the handle on the ball. But the worst is when he drives in hard, gets fouled on the shot AND MISSES BOTH FREE THROWS. I'm all about aggressiveness if you can make the shot or get some points at the line (or better yet collapse the defense and kick to an open guy) but aggressiveness for aggressiveness sake is more of a liability than anything. Maybe I'm wrong about the guy, but it feels like when SA goes up against evenly matched talent he goes cold, and then gets frustrated and makes bad decisions. I hope I wrong.
Oh, I totally get it. Just wanted to make sure we all remembered Erick Green couldn't hit the broad side of a barn his freshman year...and then, well, we all know what happened after that.
Are the cuts free at the barbershop?
Valid point, maybe Allen just isn't good enough yet to justify bad shots.
We struggled along with Green. He was one of us. Allen isn't yet. It's weird, still feels like he's a UMD guy. I think he will earn that trust, but I'm not there yet.
It's like a family business hiring a CEO from the outside.
15. Two snares and a cymbal fall off a cliff
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Frustrating loss, also after seeing that BC defeated Fordham. We almost seem doomed for another season in the cellar. It seemed like we had started to turn the corner a bit since the second half of the Northwestern game.
I really just don't understand not using Satch at all. I get it if we had an uptempo offense but it's just not there. We are going to get owned on the boards come ACC play if we keep going with the small lineup as we saw today.
Another FBS job opened today, Texas State.
Digging this program out of the rubble is a slow process. Setbacks like Hill's injury and Outlaw's medical DQ don't do anything to speed it up.
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10 years 7 months
# | Virginia Tech vs. Tulsa Independence Bowl Preview: Scouting the Golden Hurricane's Defense Other than Franks deal.....e mail when I should get excited. But....GO HOKIES!
Must have struck a nerve on that one. Wow never had a guy go postal before after something I said.
And my analogy was about a mime that sucks!
He was. I bumped into him at the mall there. Friendly dude.
I actually enjoyed the fact that the stormtroopers actually had decent aim in this movie. It seemed as if they hit more targets in TFA than in all other Star Wars movies combined.
I can appreciate cds7c's sentiment. It often takes a while for someone to earn that trust.
However, people are quick to forget that Erick Green had an extremely forgettable freshman year in Blacksburg, averaging just 2.6 ppg on less than 30% shooting. For comparison's sake, Allen averaged 7.8 ppg in his freshman year at Maryland.
I'm not saying Allen is (or will be) the player than Green was, just pointing out that things don't always start out perfectly, even for future pros.
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10 years 7 months
# | "Brothers in arms, Brewer, Loeffler exit Virginia Tech together" by David Teel He was a four star recruit and Pennsylvania's Gatorade Player of the Year coming out of high school.
http://m.richmond.com/business/local/article_751d0234-a8bc-584c-b043-728...
Neither does KD anymore.
I'm no expert here, but the team seems lost while on the court. Defensive rotations are really bad, and on offense you see guys rotating to the exact same spot on a regular basis. It's like the guys still don't understand whatever it is that Buzz wants them to do. Combine that with the fact that there are usually only two guys on the floor at a time who can score and you get what we had today... I'm afraid many more games like today will be what we endure this season.