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[QUOTE="CardiacCuse, post: 2934954, member: 6979"]
1. Deandre Hunter at the free throw line will likely be UVA's bread and butter - need to prevent the entry - chukwu might struggle with his speed.  Overall, I like Hunter's chances at doing damage there for UVA - needs to be a main focus of the D. Guy and Jerome are dangerous but Hunter is the key, imo.  Not  sure what the answer is for him ...

2. I like the size of the SU gaurds vs the UVA gaurds - howard and battle have seen these guys a bunch and should be up for a fight. Don't let them shoot - even from 30 feet!!!

3. UVA only has 3 double digit scorers - if either/all of Hunter, Jerome, Guy struggle - would be big for the win% of SU. I feel like if a team could face-guard hunter, jerome, and guy UVA would really struggle to score.

4. Of course foul trouble is going to big - if UVA is getting away with a lot of handchecking and contact on drives to the basket it is going to be challenging for the orange.  Need to stick with it and not get lured into hero ball and iso plays jacking shots with time expiring on the clock. it will be very tempting for SU to get lured into a slow-down game but that favors UVA, imo.

Ball movement will be key on offense - don't want to get dragged into UVA's slow-down game though that will hard to avoid - hopefully the team can push the ball off steals/rebounds and get some quick scores - half-court might be tough.

need to move the ball and make UVA work on defense then knock down open 3's...if the 3s are dropping it will open the inside game and SU will have a good chance of winning - but can't gameplan for how many 3s will fall...regardless moving the ball and cutting and passing a la the wake game will be a good approach...
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