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[QUOTE="Orangezoo, post: 4550447, member: 237"]
Do a rewatch and freeze frame when Mintz drives. Once he is in the paint there is not a lot of options as guys don't do a good job setting their screens or getting in his line of sight.

Both Mintz and Sy primarily attack the same areas but the hesitation move by Sy opens up Jesse for a dunk sometimes. Mintz would have more assists if he dished it earlier on his drive. Last night Joe was really bad off the ball and I wonder if between VT and tonight he was sick given Gerry and Red both looked pretty rough on the sidelines. So there was very limited options for Judah given how UVA was defending. Also, Judah has not been efficient shooting of late overall so making him beat them was likely part of UVA's strategy.

All that said the defense is what failed us again. Our offense was stellar the first half shooting 64 pct. That should have been good for a 8-10 pt lead. Instead the zone gave up 62 pct, including too many open 3s and as a result we were still chasing them.

In the second half we got the lead and then floundered trying to manage a lead again which was a combination of bad sets, poor FT shooting, continued rebounding and defensive woes, fatigue and then a top scorer nowhere to be found.
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