We needed this in a bad way. This is the team I thought they were!

Wooooo Hoooo

Just saw where he has been traded to the Magic for a 2020 draft choice..

Hopefully when his injury has healed, he can see some "light" in Miami....

West Virginia defeated Kansas. UVA defeated Miami. I am happy.

Greetings from Charlottesville, where No. 8 Miami will face No. 13 UVa in about an hour and 10 minutes or so. I'll be out on the floor soon but thought I'd pass along the following.

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As always, have at it folks...

The last 2 road games have revealed a HUGE problem with this team. Our inability to come out at the beginning of the game and throughout the first half results in deficits that we just can NOT get out of Our defensively intensity is lacking and we are simply being out hustled.

Offensively, we are two dimensional- either MB or LP on 3s and drives or Gill inside. Kids that earlier in the year showed real promise (DT in particular just disappeared in these last 2 games.

This team is still capable of great things in March, but only if we find an emotional center and a commitment to play with EFFORT AND INTENSITY, this will be a very disappointing season.

The coaches and players need to watch Duke play some games and see how passionate they are no matter the opponent.

#21?

I don't want this to be a "hate/anger" thread. I don't want folk to launch into "the sky is falling" types of tirades or basically blame everything on "they just need to play harder!" or anything like that.

What I want is a substantive discussion and I want to use the blog post linked below as the starting point since everything UBall articulated is what I was sort of thinking about while driving back this morning and planning to touch on in my column tomorrow.

So, give this a read, and then share some thoughts.

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I think it might have been NJHoo ... there are three or four teams that are demonstrably better in terms of talent (healthy Michigan State, UNC, KU, Oklahoma, maybe Maryland), but this year is really a free-for-all behind them.

Louisville lost at Clemson today. Purdue down double digits at Illinois with about five minutes to play. Arizona is 1-2 in the Pac-12 after losing to USC. Iowa State is 1-2 in the Big XII-ish after losing to Baylor. Dayton was in the top 10 of the RPI and lost at LaSalle. Almost every team not named above (or not named South Carolina or SMU) has at least one head-scratching loss. We happen to have a couple -- I don't count GW as they were ranked at one point and might be again if this mediocrity in the P5 continues.

I guess what I'm saying is there are a lot of good but not great teams and lots will lose on the road to unranked, top 100ish teams as the season goes along.

We need this game in the worst way & this is probably the best team we have played thus far. Miami is a very complete well-coached team. They will be ranked in the top 10 tomorrow. Of their 13 wins they have won by at least 10pts in every game except at Nebraska. They have led wire to wire in 5 games thus far & this includes their games vs Utah, butler & fsu. This is going to be a tall task Tuesday night. We better come ready to play or we will be blown out on our home court.

UVa's Tony Bennett will be on his first ACC teleconference of the year in just a few minutes (Coaches of teams that play on Monday night don't appear on that call, which is why Bennett missed last week's).

Check this thread for notes in a bit.

classes historically? curious how they rated versus the success bronco has had. thanks.

The holes have been clear for some time. We were shooting lights out to cover up certain issues.

We have to come to grips that we are not as good of a defensive team as we have been the last few years.

I think our offense is very easy to defend right now. Mover blocker needs to be adjusted asap. One on one, ball screen, post. We are definitely not as crisp off the curls, flares, etc., as the past few seasons.

This team doesn't bring it on the defensive end other than a few minutes a game. TB needs to send a message that if you are not going to play defense you won't play.

Sophomore slump- None of our sophomore class is doing what we need for this team to be a really good team.

TB has been out-coached the last few games. Maybe that is effort not coaching but the same BLOB play that Tech ran was run three consecutive times in a row.

I'm coming to grips that this team might be a five or six seed, but we need to be very careful or we are in trouble very soon.

Going to hear from UVa's Tony Bennett here in just a few minutes. Follow this thread for notes..

It is difficult to win when you shoot 29.8% and are badly outrebounded.

...tough to win. UL loses at Clemson going 3/23 from three point range. Clemson was 7-5 non-conference and now sits at 3-1.

I did not get to see the basketball game today but listened on streaming 3WV on my iPhone. The good news is that my youngest son (11), won a regional chess tourney in NOVA. He is now ranked nationally. He played two kids in the final two rounds that had previously beaten him earlier tourneys. Yes, I am a proud dad. He is also a pretty good all around athlete: he is wrestling for the first time this year and is playing basketball (the only deficit in B-ball is that dad is the coach). I will pose a question that he asked me, "is it OK to trash talk in Chess?" My wife quickly and emphatically said "NO!" I tend to think that it is situationally dependent.

We can talk about our defense from the past few years, but we have been solid holding teams to one shot. This team even in wins has gotten crushed on the boards at the wrong time . It's a problem that needs to be corrected. It's effort and teams being more aggressive.