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Sheggog... whip, rover, or FS? More than one over the course of his career?
I hope so. That would be ideal.
Not only not being able to finish on lay ups, but how many dunks have we missed this year and last. Not getting the two points hurts, but the emotional lift or lack of if the dunk is missed, can be worse.
Agree with you 100% on Mangus. There's a reason why we recruited him and it wasn't to sit on the bench.
Lane Kiffin leaving Alabama, a couple years from now...
Paying a cover in Blacksburg is not cool
Is Bucky done at QB? We joked about moving him to TE and it has happened? The only thing I've heard is he spent sometime at TE on the scout team.
In 2011-2012 we were 5-10 in games decided by 4 points or fewer. That's kind of how I always picture our team.
The fact that 15 of our games being decided by 4 points or less is crazy in itself.
We apparently have an issue with finishing in the paint, watching us miss those layups was painful. Agree with your point that there is not go to guy in the offense, it seemed like everyone was afraid to shoot (just like the year after eric green). Honestly, watching this team is painful
FAKE! Those heads look to be about 30 percent smaller than accurate scale.
Awful end of game coaching by JJ. First off, Barksdale had been their best player in the second half and for some reason, he was promptly taken out with 20 seconds left with the game on the line. Then, instead of scoring or at least shooting quickly as Basketball 101 would dictate, we worked the clock down to around 2 or 3 seconds left and Adam Smith missed a challenged jump shot, leaving essentially no time left to extend the game by fouling.
I know JJ was dealt a poor hand at the beginning of his tenure, but there's no excuse for such terrible end of game coaching regardless of your personnel.
Ohhh. See, I figgered it meant that onced he done lain his hands on you, you thought you done been beamed with a tractor.
Eddie struggled with his shot which was disappointing, but he's always been a streaky player. He pulled down 8 boards though, so I'll credit the effort. I've been impressed by Barksdale, he's really upped his game this year. If he continues to develop he could be a dominant player in the conference next season.
In short, this team hasn't figured out how to win yet. I'm going off of memory, not statistics, but it seems like we're always in close ACC games and way more often than not we don't pull it out.
If pressed, I would give him a B-. He gets bonus points for creating a decent, ball control offense that complimented the defense despite some major talent gaps. He loses points from me by underutilizing Chris Mangus, for being overly cute some games and then beating Logan half to death in others. The Malleck injury, based on what I saw, devastated his game plan.
I pushed some more updates live to the website this afternoon. (Coding while watching basketball dulls the pain a bit.) The footer contains a lot more call to action items, and it's not quite as puny as before. I moved the search bar to the header since people had no idea it existed the bottom of the sidebar.
1. True freshman other than QBs/RBs with best chance to play next season?
2. Where will Joel Caleb play?
3. Will you be doing film reviews/comparisons of the other QBs (Motley, Ford, Durkin)?
Honestly, Im not as disappointed as I thought Id be. I thought they played significantly better than vs Syracuse. I know the talent is different between BC and Cuse, but I felt like the Hokies showed some life here. The offense couldnt hit a shot but was getting open looks and moving the ball finally. They were setting screens, taking better shots (minus some from Eddie), and not running behind the screen on D.
Compared to the cuse game, Im happy with how the coaches coached today. They were shifting the lineup, running set plays and creating mismatches with personnel. There isnt anything JJ could have done about players going ice cold, minus taking players out after poor shot selections, and he finally did that today! As a whole, I blame this loss on having to play too many young guys but I have to acknowledge that Tech was much better today than I saw last year and in the two games Ive watched so far this year
For those who attended/watched the game: Eddie had an awful stat line, was he defended well and took ill-advised shots or was he missing decent looks?
Well, I would guess that they would prefer to redshirt the whole bunch, with Teller, Smith, Conte, Arkema, Benedict, Shuman, Osterloh, Willenbrock, and Chung all back this season. Mitchell and Taylor are probably the closest to being ready to play, with Petit being very close as well. Smith and Gallo are longer term projects. Smith needs to get bigger without losing his speed, and Gallo needs to learn the protections.
Give me a letter grade on Loeffler, Season 1.
They didn't say the road to the Final Four would be easy
Last offseason after Loeffler came in you gave a few reviews on offensive systems he may have been looking to implement from Auburn/Florida, and what we could expect. Since the schemes never fully formulated with Logan as QB, if you think they will come back with Leal/Ford/Motley/Durkin/Kendall Fuller/am I missing someone?, I'd personally love a refresher on their basics of those and which QB would be suited to each.
DJ Coles stat line:
3 resepshuns, 3 tutchdowns
I just legged every one of your posts on this thread, and you are still over 5k legs in arrears to the top of the leaders board.
To what do you attribute this, and what strategies do you have to up your game? (Aside from the sad double post up thread. I went ahead and gave you a pity leg for that. I'm a softie.)