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Virginia takes out South Carolina State in a snoozer

by UniversityBall.org

Posted: 11/19/2014 9:03:04 AM


Game Central

Game Recap

Brad from Cavs Corner called last night a “game sim” game, which is to say that it was one that you’d always simulate if you were playing through our season on NCAA 2K (RIP). There was no way to come out ahead, as it being the third game in five nights with a rotation to determine and perfection just being generally unlikely left us susceptible to a pile of complaints. I have some, too — last night’s final margin was about half of what it should have been — but I’m trying to stay big picture and remember that every issue was fixable, the margin of victory was enough to not hurt our BCS bowl chances, and no one suffered a high ankle sprain.

Let’s start with the positives.

  • The defense in the first half was impregnable, as SCSU shot 22.7% from the floor and made just one of six three point tries.
  • Malcolm Brogdon flashed glimpses of his all-around offensive game, scoring 17 and dishing three assists.
  • Justin Anderson continued to bomb away (3-6 from the arc), went to the line seven times, and scored 17 of his own.
  • The team tightened up on the glass (which they had no excuse not to do given how tiny SCSU was), grabbing 78% of defensive boards and 45.2% of their own misses.
  • Tobey was engaged coming off of the bench, converting two and-ones against SCSU’s Lilliputian front line and going for 10 and five.
  • Isaiah Wilkins had eight boards in 13 minutes (he now has 16 in 45 for the season, which isn’t going to quell those Akil comparisons).
  • Devon Hall hit another three (which was the question about his game entering the season) and looked good doing it.
  • The team logged six blocks from six different guys (a block party) and is currently seventh in the country in block percentage (24.7%).

A list of negatives has to start with turnovers. Taken in a vacuum, 12 (and a 19.4% turnover rate) isn’t awful, but when it comes against a vastly overmatched MEAC foe, it’s more a case of being lazy with passes and careless with the ball (or overexerting and trying to do too much with it because you think you can against this kind of team) than it is succumbing to pressure. We also were briefly lit up by SCSU guard Koran Wright (who made four threes in three and a half minutes) and lost the second half overall (35-34), which is almost certainly more a side affect of CTB going nuts with the different lineups like a kid in a frozen yogurt shop than it is an inability of ours to play 40 cohesive minutes and finish what we started… I hope. Lastly, while we did pretty well on the glass, SCSU did convert the offensive boards they secured (nine in all) into 13 points.

GW is up next, and I think that two days off and a better opponent will make a world of difference (if for no other reason than a closer game will put CTB’s endless lineup tweaking on hold). I’m ready for real basketball.

 

 

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