Baylor and St Johns had no issues. 98 to 99. These teams just can't score. Tennessee's defense isn't horrible but that's all they have going for them. To be fair I don't get to watch all of their games. Maybe its an off night but this is bad.
They still play great defense and are sound fundamentally but I don’t see a game changer on offense that they can consistently go to…which you need in a slowed down half court offense. Either have to be able to post someone that can score consistently or have someone who is good in the iso game when playing traditional 2 in/3 out flex offense
Yeah, you may be right. Virginia is known for its low scoring and Tennessee has been decent on defense, so these teams are just not making shots. Ugly basketball... 🤣
I'm sure somewhere some old fart is going "This is pure basketball! A great defensive struggle! How exciting!"
There defense isn't bad at all for sure. Tomorrows game against Baylor will give us a better idea though. I doubt UV is gonna pull an upset.
I still can’t see how Virginia won a championship playing this style. Mind boggling to me.
UVA has scored a whopping 17 points in this half. This is why Bennett left. Because he didn't want to be freaking embarrassed.
Ref help. If we had gotten to play them that year we'd have eaten them alive.
Baylor and St John have zero defense. I hope Orange loses tomorrow but Baylor will not get 70 points tomorrow. VA has a smothering defense as well. VA has 19 points in second half and 16 turnovers.
It’s no wonder Bennett wanted out because of the NIL rules . There’s no telling how much he’d have to pay to get someone to come play in that offensive system, lol .
It really is. They had a little NBA talent on that team but when you play such a limited possession game, you really shrink your margin for error.
They’re still elite defensively and always will be under Barnes but they don’t have anywhere near the offensive fire power they had last year in Knecht. I still bet they finish towards the top 5 in conference just because that hack and grab defensive approach throws teams off. But offensively it’s hope Lanier and the white guy who can shoot 3s save us
You can’t still be awake and also be watching Tennessee and Virginia play basketball against each other, it’s literally impossible to stay awake for such a thing.
Not to get too far off topic, but agree with you about not understanding why we didn’t try to increase possessions.
And they were on a redemption mission after the stinging embarassment of being the first 1 seed to lose to a 16
With or without Tony Bennett Virginia still can't score. I would like to recommend to the CIA if they ever wanted to make our enemy talk. Just tell them that they're going to force them to watch a Virginia basketball game. They would tell every secret that they had anything is better than being forced to watch that crap.
