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fun fact: over 11,000 mintues of this video we were watched in the past 30 days. That is an average of 367 a day.
That is a lot of shots of beer...
Go Hokies!
By the weekend?
And Boom Goes The Dynamite.
I don't see why Leal wouldn't start his senior season unless Bucky or Carlis show vast improvement during their redshirt year.
Adam Smith is going to be pretty nasty next year. He has by far the best shot on the team other than EG. Hopefully everyone can be healthy all summer and really get after it. Maybe even learn a little something from EG and realize if you want it, you have to put the work in.
Robert brown isn't making shots, C.J. has been up and down because of hustle, Cadarian and Joey are in at the same time which forces C.J. to play center at times, Marquis had been doing better, but has a stomach virus, Marshall still hasn't found himself since hurting his foot and Will can't really dribble, can't really guard and can really only hit wide open shots. Not sure why Beyer isn't in a little more recently because he does get the rebounds, but it is fairly easy for other teams PF/C to shoot over him.
Really all that sounds like is they are lacking confidence and need to refocus themselves. Quick turnaround with GT at 1 on saturday, hopefully they can get off this loosing streak.
Raines is going to be the best player on the team next year if things don't change.
Green for 5th year of eligibility pls.
Beyer on Layman would be a mismatch. Beyer on any of Maryland's bigs would be a big mismatch. We play zone when Johnston and Beyer are in because JJ knows that neither of them can match up with ACC players.
The tall white guy who lit us up at the beginning of the game
Beyer is an excellent defender? Who would he have guarded on Maryland??
I apologize for any typos. Typed all of that on my phone.
I just don't get it. When we beat OK State, our rotation consisted of Erick Green, Robert Brown, Jarell Eddie, C.J. Barksdale, Cadarian Raines, Joey Van Zegren, Marquis Rankin, Marshall Wood, and Will Johnston occasionally. Since then, Johnston has played near to nothing (I'll touch up on that later), and Christian Beyer has proved to be a reliable player, giving us one more to add to the rotation. We also ran man-to-man defense nearly the entire game, enabling us to get pit and run and find open shooters. Now, Beyer and Johnston hardly play and we run that 2-3 zone that helps us in no way, except our players don't get tired, but from what I heard of the workouts in practice, players should not be getting tired. We don't rebound or defend the three, allowing the opposing team to find a groove. Then, we are forced to slow down our offense instead of running, where we are successful. Will Johnston is not effective in a slow tempo offense. In a run and gun offense, though, he is very productive, as we found out at the beginning of the year. Beyer is an excellent defender, something we are in need of. We MUST get back to man-to-man defense, go back to the original rotation, plus Beyer, and WIN. Players like Robert Brown and Jarell Eddie were also much more effective in this offense, and it really doesn't matter what offense Erick Green is in. He will score. We are a much better team when we run man-to-man defense and run like hell. Don't know why we've gotten away from it.
I've heard inklings that Andre Brown might get cut too. The Giants appear to be cutting A LOT of cap room.
I get you can't run man an entire game like earlier in the year but we could still run it for a majority of the game and then use the zone as a change of pace. And I wouldn't mind seeing us go down in the post more. Raines has a really good low post game, and I wouldn't mind seeing Barksdale get a little more touches on the block too
The sad thing is that Robert Brown wasn't even the worst one on the floor tonight. Eddie had more fouls than points, and was a complete liability on both sides of the floor. That being said, I expected better out of Robert Brown, especially in crunch time. Even though he hasn't shot well lately, I would've expected him to have enough basketball IQ to know to dump it to Erick in that instance.
Shout out to Cadarian for a great game tonight. (I'll take double digits from anyone not named Erick whenever I can get it)
We can't run man consistently, not enough bodies. Zone is the only way to go right now, there's nothing JJ can do about that. The only thing that bothers me is the fact that we literally have 2 plays on offensive. Run a guy across the base line with layered screens, or Erick Green Iso. Everything else is street ball. JJ isn't a very good X's and O's coach, you can tell the players are going all out for him, but he just doesn't seem like a good coach for running actual sets.
FLAG!
This is another that they needed and just can't seem to get it done. Jarrell looked lost the entire game, Robert had too many turnovers, Rankin wasn't even in the building because of the stomach bug, which he was missed defensively, and this game pretty much looked just like every other one they have lost recently.
Is Len really supposed to be a lottery pick? Maybe it's just me, but I don't see it. Nothing about he shouts great player. He's an average center, that's about it.
he's in the danger zone of having to prep this fall, along with Reid & Fisher. Hopefully all 3 of them put in the work on the academic side this spring to square things away.
We all love him but the Giants like Andre Brown better than DW22. If David can work on his ball security & pass proc in the offseason, I'd like to see him start and have Andre Brown as a change of pace back and 3rd down back.
Except when they play the Redskins, I hope Kerrigan and/or Orakpo knock his lights out. #HTTR
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one of us.
EDIT: Not saying you weren't before haha
^ That would be me!
Glad you enjoyed it. I actually handed over that series of hashtags to the @BEATBAMA feed on Twitter, cause they liked it so much.