To cheer on the team especially the seniors for a win over Puke? It is the best I can do.

Monday night in Washginton, D.C., UVa didn't play the way its coaches, players, or fans would want. For senior forward Anthony Gill, it comes down to Virginia's defense and being able to execute.

In this video interview, he talks about the loss, about how the team has to be able to face adversity given the tough schedule, about how it's "100 percent" on the players to get better defensively, and how the Cavaliers have to adjust to the way the games are called not only now but for the rest of the season.

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I'm having a little challenge understanding how the Charleston Classic bracket works. (http://espnevents.com/charleston-cl...015/10/2015-Charleston-Classic-Bracket-ET.pdf). If UVA beats Bradley, we play the winner of Seton Hall-Long Beach on Friday, right? If we win the second game, we play the survivor among the top bracket (most likely Ole Miss or Okla. St.). But if we lose the second game, do we get to play again?

We miss DA and JA on defense. Next year we will have AN who will be a big upgrade over MT and then MD whose only job will be to defend the rim and his quickness and athleticism will be a big help. Then we don't have any consistently good jump shooters on this team. Next year we will have TJ and KG both off who will play because of their ability to shoot the three and to create there own shot. We will lose more games this year just because I don't we will be as good on D as last year and the year before with JA, DA, and AM the year before that. But the future is bright and this year will be fine just not quite what some thought it might be.

Though he scored 20 of his career-high 28 points in the second half of Monday night's game (including 11 straight at one point), the play of Malcolm Brogdon wasn't enough for No. 6 UVa as the Cavaliers lost at George Washington 73-68.

In this video interview, the senior guard talks about the loss, Virginia's defensive miscues, the officiating, and how the team can use the experience in D.C. to help them going forward.

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UVA losing to George Washington
Duke getting schooled by Kentucky
Jacksonville State beating FSU
NC State's embarrassing loss

Hopefully by NCAAT the ACC will show it's flex it's muscles hopefully atleast UVA

Brogdon had an above average game

Tobey and Gill had average games

It was Salt's first real time in a serious game so we don't have any data to go on with him

The other 6 players had subpar games

This is not going to happen often. Please everybody, take a deep breath. Now get ready to enjoy UVa winning this tourney down in Charleston.

It is clear to me that this team is very vulnerable in the paint. Based on our present personnel, I would consider using Diakite. He is the player on the roster that can best supply shot blocking. If we are really all in this season, I would pull his shirt and find 15 minutes a game for him.

Getting ready to get started on this week's call, first with UVa's Mike London and then at 12:30 p.m. with Duke's David Cutcliffe. Check this thread for notes.

Getting ready to go on the teleconference line with senior wide receiver T.J. Thorpe. Check this thread for notes in a few.

I agree with all of these things said and not only think the staff can fix these, but we have to admit that GW probably is one of the best 35-45 teams potentially in the country


http://collegebasketball.nbcsports....orried-about-virginia-after-last-nights-loss/

What does that even mean? Explanation of this new phenomenon being requested. Isn't the point of defense to restrict movement? Are they expecting matador defense? I'm confused.

Check out this weeks game recap with former Cavalier and St. Louis Rams defensive end Chris Long

http://www.huddlecasts.com/#!virginia-huddle/cq1p

We got exposed with them spreading the floor and them being physical with us.

We passed up open shots to take bad ones.

Offensive movement was not good tonight.

Missing JA much? Until we find someone who can knock down 3's we will see the zone a lot.

Nolte cannot guard on the wing.

Wilkins played very bad tonight.

Salt gave really good minutes tonight.

This was Michigan State type game. Beat us up. Made us shoot jumpers.

Not sure I will blame defense and missing DA. They spread the court well, but Nolte and Tobey make us damn slow and can't be on the court at the same time. Salt was a lot quicker on close outs,

With all the hype, where do we go from here? This was our worst loss other than Mich St since Tenn. We got beat up and it's that simple. A lot to improve on.

Here's a thought, cut those stupid beards and stop trying to look cool.

This team bought into how good they are and got their lunch handed to them by B rated foreign player squad in a lower tier!

Didn't help the refs were doing some serious home cooking. All the faked flops, over the back, moving screens and GW was just allowed to hang on our guys, body check and yet our guy brushed them on those leaning in garbage throw it up to the rim crap, we were called for silly fouls. That Argentinian player at the end all but tackled Gill on the lose ball and the refs couldn't call it.

We have bigger fish to fry when you shoot a pathetic 2-10 from the three mid way and most were wide open shots.
News flash: I'm retired, in my late 50's and was at my brother's house while in Charlottesville for the GT game and walked out on his regulation outdoor court that has regulation 3 pt line done professionally and free throw lines marked off, with fiberglass back board set regulation height and I hit 6 of 10 stone cold with my younger brother running up (45) that still runs with his high school son and his team mates on the week end .

I have had both collar bones broken in my military career, and rotator cup tear in my right shoulder and have not picked up a basketball since I was at his house back in 2012 and hit 6 of 10 stone cold with him running out with hand up, stomping his foot and yelling!

Yeah yeah yeah you are going to say game action is different than just one guy running out, but I played in competitive ball teams in city leagues, big city church leagues, military leagues and overseas leagues until I was 40+ years old and could sink threes ALL DAY! NEVER had a game where I missed more than I made!

Just don't get this anemic effort and two games in a row both Perrantes and Brogdon bricking threes.

Getting set to go with UVa's Tony Bennett. Check this thread for notes.

total BS. Let's call a spade a spade!! Rule changes in favor of the offense because the true skill level of players are down. Yes, players may be more athletic, etc. But there is no team ball, and slowly but surely the AAU style of play will dominate college basketball.

Why did I wake up today more mad than I've been after UVA lost in about three years? Might be that I explained to my basketball team to watch the game last night and pay attention to how Virginia executes on defense and that might have been one of our worst defensive performances in years.

TB needs to figure out the best defensive lineup and in a hurry.

Someone posted that we would destroy Virginia Tech, but what teams are going to do is spread this out and make us work on the defensive end of the floor. With some kids you can stretch it or go four guards. When GW was running their flex offense they didn't have much success, but as soon as they spread the floor we were dead in the water.

I know it's too early to say we got exposed, but there were definite warning signs. Honestly did not realize how much DA was an asset until last night. And unless it's going to be Wilkins (who really had a horrible game last night)....

We have some nice guys, but to be honest we played a little scared and after getting some of the questionable calls early in the game last night we let them be the aggressor and as we've seen against Michigan State once that happens and we don't knock down shots this has been the trend.

Even though defense was a big issue last night, the fact teams will junk it up with zone plus the fact our offensive movement was bad and when GW was in man it was just as big of a problem as defense to me because we really had no flow.

Our floor spacing was just absolutely horrible most of the night and it's going to be hard to attack the basket when we are clogging up the lane. Tony has to figure that out because teams are just going to give us a three point shot if we insist on clogging the paint as horribly as we did last night.

I had a friend tell me that he had heard that CL would announce he was retiring after next year and that they would keep ML because they would not want a lame duck AD hiring the next coach. I know CL is close to retirement and who knows if Sullivan might not then just move Oliver up so he could hire the next coach. Not likely but if CL does decided to retire at the end of next year what coach would want this job not knowing who his AD would be. The worst would be the promotion of JO.

Getting ready to go on the teleconference line with middle linebacker Micah Kiser. Check this thread for notes in a few.

perhaps best indicator of how passive we were --- only 3 UVA players even SHOT a free throw ( brogdon-10, Tobey-2, gill-4). By comparison GW had 6 go to the line and shot 22 for 28

When game is called the way it was tonight - and perhaps all year- we MUST adjust and our guards/wings have to take the ball to the basket aggressively. Otherwise results like this be all too common

even shoot a FT. None from Perrantes, Hall, Shayok, Thompson, Wilkins, or Nolte -- since games are gonna be played under new BS rules these guys have to be more aggressive