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No his dribbling and finishing is fine. He does hot dog on passes at time though. Sometimes they are great and are on our highlights, he had at least two in the first half at WVU, that were ill advised and resulted in turnovers.

I don't consider him a hot dogger either but sometimes he takes tries to make highlight reel passes when a more deliberate or easy option is in front of him.
Are you talking about Gilly with one of the best assist to turnover ratios in the country?
 
Haven't seen Crabtree in a Spider uniform. First take, he looks like an athlete. From a distance, he and Burton are very similar body wise. Seems pretty confident out there.
 
Not much to complain about...couple bad passes by Crabtree, couple cheap-ish fouls on Sal, Burton picked up two fouls. Otherwise we look great...shooting well obviously, sharing the ball, limiting offensive rebounds.
 
Haven't seen Crabtree in a Spider uniform. First take, he looks like an athlete. From a distance, he and Burton are very similar body wise. Seems pretty confident out there.
Ya, Crabtree should give us a decent amount of what Burton does. With him around, I feel better about things if Burton has to sit for foul trouble or whatever.
 
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Blake looks back to being Blake. 16 points at half on 6-8 shooting. He was slumping, he wasn't gonna slump for ever.
 
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Blake looks back to being Blake. 16 points at half on 6-8 shooting. He was slumping, he wasn't gonna slump for ever.
Corrected to 14 on 5-of-7. Even the scorekeeper initially confused Blake and Crab on that buzzer beater.
 
Gotta love that Crabtree has not missed a shot this season in his limited playing time. With Sherod out, need his shooting (well, not today so far).
 
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Announcers are going to run through all of their game note factoids by the under 8 timeout.
I wish the color commentator would shut up regarding stats and strategies "that lots of coaches use." Our players are playing great - but are getting very little positive commentary, since the color analyst can't shut up about his stunning knowledge of college bball. Just call the game, please.
 
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I love Burton's aggressiveness but maybe slow down with trying to dunk over people for now.

How about a timeout Chris. They have 21 points in 5 minutes.
 
Yes, Vandy is very bad, but we are playing well. We are good.

It's nice to be able to get Grace, Sal, Gus and Crabtree first-half minutes against a P6 team.
 
Vandy scored as many points in the first 5:04 of the second half as they did in the entire first half.
 
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Chris finally takes a timeout after 27 points allowed in less than 8 mins (only 21 in the entire first half).
 
I love Burton's aggressiveness but maybe slow down with trying to dunk over people for now.

How about a timeout Chris. They have 21 points in 5 minutes.

What is that 4 in the last 2 games where he got denied at the rim?

Need to tighten things up here boys. Huge lead down to 11. Finally got the TO from Mooney.
 
Burton's perimeter defense awful right now. keep letting people go bye and trying to get blocks with his athletic ability, but not working at all. His guy has gne by him repeatedly. Also, our rebounding has been horrible. These are both simple effort things!

Overall not a good look for a veteran team to team to take a game that was won and put it in play!
 
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We played the whole first half in the half court and dominated. Vandy came out and sped things up, and we inexplicably decided we should go fast too. They can’t get anything on us in the half court, Mooney needs to tell our guys to slow it down and run back on defense
 
Another straight blow by of Burton. We have given up 33 points in 10 minutes thats ridiculous.
 
Are we trying to match one of the early predictions? 77-70?
 
So many layups. They have scored almost all these points right at the rim. Looks like first half at WVU. We cant afford to get dragged into these boat race games because its clearly not our thing

Burton in particular is leaning forward and reaching on the perimeter and his guy goes by as soon as he reaches. He is not in position to move laterally
 
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So many layups. They have scored almost all these points right at the rim. Looks like first half at WVU. We cant afford to get dragged into these boat race games because its clearly not our thing

Burton in particular is leaning forward and reaching on the perimeter and his guy goes by as soon as he reaches. He is not in position to move laterally
Boat Race Games?
but “Rising tide that raises all boats in our athletics regatta“ ;)
 
We get burned off the dribble trying to reach for steals and then two guys try to help leaving wide open players under the basket. Gilyard gets steals but loses his guy consistently. Announcer says the same. It happens all of the time. And Golden seems to not have instinct or quickness for rebounding.
Good win though.
 
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