UVa 57, Virginia Tech 54: Well, Now What?

by furrer4heisman on Dec 6, 2010 2:11 AM EST in Virginia Tech Basketball

Trib managed to ruin the result for me before I got home to watch the game on DVR, so I decided to delete the recording, sight unseen. Anyone got anything to say about this game?

I see the point total was almost exactly what I thought I'd be so I think I have a pretty good idea of how things went. Let's see... yep, we shot 43 percent and had more turnovers than assists. At least Malcolm Delaney looked to be hitting his shots. That's a step in the right direction. The rest of the team going 12-for-36? Yeah, not so much.

Oh, and Jeff Allen fouled out and Mike Scott had 21 points. I'm guessing those two things are somewhat related.

The good news is we should win the next five games. Penn State is somehow more pathetic on offense than we are, Mississippi State lost EVERYONE off last year's squad and lost to Florida Atlantic and the other three should be cake. This team has plenty of time to get better, but if it's going to find the cure it better do it in the next five games because after that nothing will be easy.

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First half sucked balls

Pretty much it. We went down by 10 at points and just never recovered. Second half they looked a lot sharper, but the damage was done. There was definitely a few bogus fouls in the second half that killed any momentum we were building, but we shouldn’t have been in that situation in the first place.

The crowd was pretty good but the dead first half made the crowd dead. Second half it was back to the Cassell I know.

by Frinkahedron on Dec 6, 2010 9:02 AM EST reply actions

Allen only had 1 foul in the first half and managed to stay on the court for 38 of 40 minutes, so foul trouble wasn’t really too much an issue there. Maybe fear of fouling was more of an issue. We need better interior defense. There were some nice blocks, and some hard fought rebounds. Just not enough, and too late. We weren’t stopping anything in the first half. I’m not sure why we didn’t see Raines at all…

These guys are really down. You can see it in their faces. That may be our biggest problem right now… need to get some fire, some energy, some confidence… You wouldn’t think that’d be such a problem for a senior-dominated team, but nevertheless it certainly appears to be.

by hokiegrad on Dec 6, 2010 10:13 AM EST reply actions