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Crowd mics were super low. Couldn’t even hear whistles. People would stop playing and I’d assume the whistle blew, but a couple times they played on. Same thing on the next game on FS1 (Alabama-Illinois in Chicago). Illinois had a blocked shot that led to Stojakovic dunking on someone’s head...

Whoa - Clingan is 18-19 from the free throw line this year.

I think on the worst of those possessions, he was on the floor with Ross, Stewart and Koroma and we basically had no offense to run. None of those guys are coming off screens and doing anything. We were mostly just biding time until the break. Thought Smith was great the whole second half with...

Watched him off the ball for some possessions - and there were times he didn’t cut with any purpose at all. Just this lazy movement where he didn’t want the ball - or didn’t think he’d get open so didn’t bother trying. And there were times the screens he got were pretty bad. Reibe has some work...

Is there a November/December loss we had in the past that still eats at you because it hurt our seeding or our season trajectory? Maybe there’s one. I think back to Georgia Tech being bad at the time - might have cost us a 1 seed I guess. Losing to Syracuse with a hobbled Okafor in the finale...

What’s ridiculous is thinking a November game is somehow so big time that we want our most important player to play hurt and risk getting hurt worse. He just had a hamstring problem, now an ankle. If he’s not moving fluidly and protecting the ankle, then maybe the hamstring flares up again or...

I did like how Peat tried to back him down and he didn’t budge an inch. He’ll help guarding some bully ball type forwards for a few minutes here or there and maybe get some dunk chances. He did attack the rim with some ferocity after the offensive foul.

Why would you say that? There’s no “difference” in mid-November that’s worth risking a guy’s long-term availability.

The crowd mic on Fox was super quiet. Couldn’t even really hear whistles. Same thing in this Illinois-Alabama game now. Stojakavic just flushed on a guy after a blocked shot and the crowd was barely noticeable.

Strong half for Cam in a battle between the depleted Grizz and the depleted Spurs - 10 points (4-6 FG, 2-4 3FG). They also ran a great play for him coming out of a timeout for a clean look at a three and he buried it, but they called a defensive holding foul way away from the ball as he was...

Nowell only played 2 minutes against NC State yesterday. A freshman has the PG role there (Nyk Lewis) and when they shortened their rotation in the second half, he didn’t play. Went through the VCU gameday thread to see if maybe he was injured and he wasn’t even a topic of conversation.

Clingan with a decent game going. Has a double double (16 and 10) in the third (6-11 FG, 2-6 3FG). The last 3 he missed was after getting two offensive rebounds and drawing a foul going after a third on that one possession, so he earned a chance to miss.

Castle pulled at the half with a hip injury today. Obviously hope it’s just precautionary and the only long term issue will be that it’ll hurt his per game scoring a bit (4 pts).

Tenth rebound was an offensive board down by 6 that resulted in getting to the line and cutting it to 3. Would have taken a Reggie Miller type play to tie it - but game wasn’t over.

That’s always been my feeling too. He plays really big on defense in the post and really small on offense. He’s not fluid and just doesn’t have that natural scorer’s body control, so smaller guys can defend him. It’s almost like he has T-Rex arms on offense and then he’s a pterodactyl on...