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wythevillian92's picture wythevillian92 | 10 years 8 months # | BUZZKETBALL CENTRAL: JACKSONVILLE STATE GAMECOCKS (2-1) VS VIRGINIA TECH HOKIES (0-1) 7PM ESPN3

This team is gonna drive me crazy. Feels like Buzz is still trying to figure out his squad. Really itching to see Hamilton develop...so raw. Too many stupid turnovers. Too many missed free throws. You get that with guys that haven't played together more than a few months. Hudson as been AWOL. Most disappointing by far. Like what Robinson brings to the table over Allen at the PG. Allen can't play PG. Turnover machine. Leday has been a great suprise and Bibbs played well tonight.

These are the growing pains of a young team. Come conference, I think we'll have our 8-9 playing good ball. Not sure how relative that "good" will be for the ACC, but good ball for the team we have.

Oh I Wish I Were a Hokie Engineering Undergrad's picture Oh I Wish I Were a Hokie … | 10 years 8 months # | BUZZKETBALL CENTRAL: JACKSONVILLE STATE GAMECOCKS (2-1) VS VIRGINIA TECH HOKIES (0-1) 7PM ESPN3

We got out to our double digit lead with Robinson running the show. It quickly evaporated when he and Leday went out. Our offense appeared to have no flow with Allen running the point with guys standing around. Allen seems to take a lot of shots and drives early in the shot clock without working the ball around. I'm sure we'll see improvement from him over the season. Heck, he's been anxious to get back out after sitting out, so I can understand a little bit of the rust. I just hope he is playing the 2 and we have Wilson (heal up quickly please) or Robinson running the point from here on out. Our transition offense appears to end in a turnover almost 50% of the time which I'm sure we'll clean up as the season goes along. It was great to see us beat these guys on the boards! Looking forward to seeing these guys in person on Saturday!

reesejenks520's picture reesejenks520 | 10 years 8 months # | Les Miles - Hot Seat?

I saw this earlier as well, not sure if I take much stock in it at the moment. LSU was just in the driver's seat for the playoffs, it would be wild to say his seat is hot so soon. (Granted it is the SEC west)

That would really change things up coaching search wise though, seeing as how desirable a place like LSU is.

Also, anyone else read the reports about Charlie strong being interested in Texas job?

Maybe he knows something about his future with Texas that wee don't.

Edit: Charlie strong interested in Miami

cds7c's picture cds7c | 10 years 8 months # | 2015 Six Pick - Week Twelve

My intuition is to pick the same six.

Memphis -1.5
Michigan State +13.5
Northwestern +10.5
Oregon -4.5
Oklahoma State PK
Oklahoma -7.5

I can't even find one I don't really like. Guess a push till next week. I will take Morris as next HC, unfortunately. He's about my 7th choice but my guess to get the job.

hunterhokie's picture hunterhokie | 10 years 8 months # | BUZZKETBALL CENTRAL: JACKSONVILLE STATE GAMECOCKS (2-1) VS VIRGINIA TECH HOKIES (0-1) 7PM ESPN3

He was his normal animated self. Yelled at the refs a lot (who I thought were atrocious by the way - seriously one stopped play in the middle of one of our offensive possessions because he saw moisture on the opposite sideline. I have never seen that happen)

He looked frustrated with our play at times which is to be expected. Clarke - who started terribly and looked visibly frustrated - was briefly pulled 2 times early for Buzz to coach him up.

hunterhokie's picture hunterhokie | 10 years 8 months # | BUZZKETBALL CENTRAL: JACKSONVILLE STATE GAMECOCKS (2-1) VS VIRGINIA TECH HOKIES (0-1) 7PM ESPN3

Now for the game itself.

Free throws. Free throws. Free throws. I don't know what the problem is. It must be mental because I can't fathom that a whole team of college players physically cannot hit free throws consistently. Cost us the game on Saturday and came real close to costing us the game tonight. We should have won by 20+.

This team has a tendency to get very selfish. I saw way too many one man offensive possessions tonight. I'm prone to chalk it up to a young team still learning how to play with one another but driving the hoop with 3 guys in front of you isn't the best recipe for success. Especially when we can't consistently hit free throws. The times when the ball got moving tonight most often produced good possessions. Got the defense moving and created open shots.

To me the best players on the team right now are Leday, Bibbs, Clarke (even though he was often culprit of above selfishness), Robinson, and a combo of Blackshear/Hamilton.

ltrepeter2000's picture ltrepeter2000
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| 10 years 8 months # | BUZZKETBALL CENTRAL: JACKSONVILLE STATE GAMECOCKS (2-1) VS VIRGINIA TECH HOKIES (0-1) 7PM ESPN3

Looking over the game log and stats makes it clear this is going to be a very up and down season and if the defense and free throw shooting dont dramatically improve the ACC schedule is going to be brutal. They did manage to hold this team 25 points below their average but this is a bad team and we allowed them to hang around all the way to the last couple minutes. Havent seen much mentioned on Buzz other than an early timeout. What was his.demeanor like tonight for most of the game?

hunterhokie's picture hunterhokie | 10 years 8 months # | BUZZKETBALL CENTRAL: JACKSONVILLE STATE GAMECOCKS (2-1) VS VIRGINIA TECH HOKIES (0-1) 7PM ESPN3

Random side note that the TKP community can help with (I've already tweeted @ Whit).

For yet to be explained reasons, the ticketing office has decided that the student standby line is no more. Now if a student either forgets to enter the lottery or decides to go the day of the game the only way to enter is to pay $10. Never mind the fact that there were easily a 1,000 open student seats tonight.

We need Cassell loud and full and its absurd to me that we're turning away students who want to attend the game. If enough people ask the athletic department about this maybe we can get the policy changed back.

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