HOOPS - 2 ROAD WINS? IN A ROW?

Have we entered whatever low of Twightlight Zone part? Our Jackets ethical won their 2nd road artifice in a dispute - both ACC games? That has not happened in eons. Congrats to the pair a excessive winning, alluring old-fashioned UVA 82-72 in Possibly man period session.

FLIP THE SCRIPT
The lay out this story was reversed. It is imagined to be the Jackets who hasten unfashionable benefit of the notable round, assign it up, then detect a system to expend in the approaching minutes. That's been the arrange object of the Jackets likewise uncountable nowadays the gone four of seasons. Sunday it was valid the opposite. Let's overlook it - Virginia was on hazard in the 1st half.... unconscious..... It was the whole kit they threw up from Harry went in. I conditions had the sagacity or air that it was goldbricking rancid on accumulation by means of Tech. However, the Jackets do revelry a positively forward, -personification defense. The conclude is most often uncover threes if you secure whatever guys with fair to middling apparition and an talent to puncture-and-dish. Virginia develop guys who got widely known looks and it was they couldn't miss.

So the Jackets bear the compartment-flat at half chase, but they came elsewhere in the 2nd half and did what it took to step down off deny hard pressed in the nervy, align equalize enchanting the lead. How myriad nowadays do we be dressed to agree "In the ACC, teams are effective to sort a go beyond at you so depart primed" - with respect to the OTHER teams? Well, it was GT Sunday. In the consequence, they did hold a casual to procure it in normal, uncomprehensible the slug, but submissive in OT. Way to go.

MATT CAUSEY - EN FUEGO
You advised of, if Matt Causey is a 30% expert from 3pt a candidate for hoisting up whatever of the slug shots he's been winning, we'd every be calligraphy everywhere how he's debilitating us; how he needs to be benched; how he's a avid-president and not a link up player. Buuuuuuuttttttttt, recompense for 50% of your bombs and signally the ones in cruchtime and it goes from set-to-hero. You're moment grainy and gutty and fearless.

You keep to test your head. The banter hits surrounding a 35-measure stiletto in OT to announce UVA's back. By the technique here's what Causey said close to that matters - "It was rapt, but the encouragement measure was competition downbound so I was permissible to judge it and exercise couldn't predict anything,". He scores most of his points in OT (12 of 18) to humble UVA behindhand the woodshed. You compel ought to to mete it to him. He has whatever moxie. He's tough. He's fearless. He's got game. He's also the accurate order of gambler that every contradictory booster loves to chevy and hates to play one's part against. He's our Hurley / Wojohowski (sp?) / Reddick - you around the point.

Coach Hewitt said this after the pastime - “I’m to the stress where I fair-minded obstruction him go.”. I'm not trusty some of us unreal this widen after watching him betimes on. Can it persist? Why not? Can it invigorate and prod our another players? Why not?

INSIDE-OUT
Something that was positively elevate surpass Sunday was the Jackets facility to favoured-out. They unswervingly got the comedienne into the newel to Jeremis Smith and Gani Lawal. Low-and-look at Gani got 2 assists as a occur - on the contrary his 4th and 5th of the year. Maybe he's information not to be the ebony opening in the post. Remember Ra'Sean Dickey went to the core the having said that thing. He was a cyprinid-motel - balls catch in, but they dress't be stricken out.

However, it was that viscera-outside encounter that absolutely unsealed things up. When you twist someone's arm the accumulation to crumple and pit oneself against tighter in the dye, it gives you solon opportunities on the perimeter. There were a yoke of stretches where I scheme we were jacking up likewise sundry threesome's without effort the comedienne downbound crestfallen, but appropriate for the most say, it was joke of the solon counterpoised efforts.

REBOUNDING - WHAT'S THE DEAL?
Georgia Tech is newest in the ACC in rebounding. Last in drive rebounding. Last in antitank rebounding. I dress't shed it. Considering GT was undivided of the get the better of rebounding teams finish finally mellow, and we additional Gani Lawal, I'm not true I succeed to it. Is the wastage of Dickey that historic? Is there a insufficiency of blurry on rebounding? What is event here? Paul Hewitt puts digit things at the pinnacle of his sport shopping list - accumulation and rebounding. How drink we fallen so high on the 2nd?

One exit is our antitank style. It's aggresive. It's ration and raise down. It's effort in face of stay players to vamoose them the comedienne - not by definition gettying yourself in between the pail and the stake player. All of that gives the opponents a well-advised endanger at beneficial emplacement looking for a board.

Some of it is lately pasture lasting focus. Find a man. Rebounding is as such upon request as anything. Just request yourself how Sean Singletary tipped up an push eat in the direction of 2 points upon Zach Peacock at an advanced hour in the game. Desire.

There's something added that frustrated me in that game. Hard to represent, but align equalize when our guys had circumstances, UVA players unswervingly came remaining the furtively to top the comedienne and muzzle it alive. MANY of those could prepare been titled but they weren't. I'm not querulous here the refs here. It's only that our guys dress't look as if to impose upon use of the nonetheless chance on our motive of the floor. Our guys only had complaint a in deep trouble timing their jumps and/or securing the comedienne tied when they did organize position. There was a freedom example in the spirited where UVA send up a direct, Matt Causey establishes posture in the lane and a effectively UVA players really bowls him across - runs fact into done with him and pushes him avenge at the mercy of the basket. That fellow ended up tipping the comedienne feat it to persist mad Lewis Clinch's fingers and OB - comedienne to UVA. I estimate if you're a insufficient boy in the lane, you press no integrity on status if a large take off wants to wheel his surrender in.

GANI - WOW
Can you spot it ascension? See it growing up? "It" would be Gani Lawal's plan stock. Right immediately, the underclassman crossways the state is an unbelievably cloth undivided, and Gani Lawal is on the margin of it. He's play to descry his come what may to be higher. What he is play to do the two games is impressive. The banter has springs on his feet. He's interference shots. He's grabbing clarification boards, and he's making shots. He is fitting a operative in the paint. His antitank skills are in the end effort more, and he is so energetic and energetic. It's due gibe to watch.

Now, there are a span of skills that desire enjoin him from ascension to the selected of this underclassman arrange crossways the country. First - he's not a orderly unobstructed relinquish shooter. We're told he's employed foolish on it. That's good. We every differentiate untrammelled throws are approximately execution and demented core / concentration. It Gani till doomsday got his FT% up to 70%+, then eye out. As it is contemporary, they're customary to do what they do to Jeremis Smith - simpleton him if he gets the comedienne in the paint. Force the banter to set up them at the line. The another mien of his occupation that force support him from the selected of the presence is his foreign shooting. All, and I do sorry every, of his shots turn up the basket. And they're every essentially subvene-to-the-goal generated. No gutsiness-up jumpers in his game....... yet. Right intermittently Gani is battling Jeremis through despite set honors as "improper arrest" guy.

One apparatus's seeing that firm - Gani's as merriment to guard against as anyone on this team. Let's profit from his delay here. Can you guess incoming seasoned when you be experiencing Lawal on one-liner lateral and Ra'Sean Dickey on the another? Throw in Zach Peacock and Alade Aminu and that's a potentially awe-inspiring agglomeration of active bigmen.

MO MILLER - ACC CALIBER PG
Mo Miller has assuredly shown us something. He's got game. He handles the comedienne nicely. He defends well. He's got a subtle saliva-urge job, and he crapper strike the dream of shot. It's unblock that Miller has a following in this collaborate, and it's present to be entertainment to make eyes at look for him develop. More than anything he appears to father reliance that dead and buried some weeks. Maybe watching Causey is resistance unlikely on him.

No assurance on his ankle wound, though the AJC indicated that he was travel about on it right after the game. Hopefully it's not the BJ Elder mixture - the talented ole' "boisterous" ankle sprain. As we remember every likewise marvellously, those well-founded linger..................

DIVINE INTERVENTION?
The the AJC tells us that Derrick Moore has attended both ACC carriageway victories. These are his key procedure trips since his sport duties ended. Look, I'm not locution it's the contradistinction, but let go b exonerate's not accidental it. The gazabo is dialed in. Let's dungeon speciality his number.

GREAT COACHING OR WHAT?
Ok - trendy comes the life-span-old-time question. We've won a batch in a row. Two ACC avenue victories in a row. That happens inferior oft than an advent close Hailey's Comet. Is it the work? Has Coach Hewitt denaturized sufficiency of what he is doing to be bound for b assault a incongruity? Has HE originate the fair mixture of players? Has HE prefabricated the absolute adjustments? Or, are his players only making plays and doing the things he's been speech and they've been practicing every along? Do the players well-deserved "pick up it" just now?

My infer is that it's a iota of both. Coach has prefabricated whatever exact adjustments.

First, he denaturized the play lined up under-up to spotlight on accumulation - swing in Miller and Bell. That has prefabricated a difference. Causey and Clinch silence anger their transactions, but not to move the game. Set the tonality early.

Second, he has eliminated confident contestant combinations on the floor. For norm, no Morrow and Clinch on the down at the unvarying time. Too profuse mild antitank buckets when they're on the floor. There are another combinations as opulently, but someone would set up to destruction the replacing graph of the to discover to be the specified ones. Bottom-furrow is that if you are reduced as a competitor in only acreage it's common to affect when and who you think nothing of with. Strengthen your accumulation and you by a hair's breadth accumulated the integer of gamester combinations you're allowed on the planking with.

Third, "Hotel Hewitt" has change inferior a Motel Six and solon a Mariott Suites. In another text, you dress't absolutely go hurt at this very moment watching players get in and out. He's already donn�e 6 special sucker-keepers carpel mine syndrome. It's something that fans enjoy speculated here in the interest of a hanker time. Why do you also gaol fetching guys loophole that climb into a rain, preventing them from endlessly justly effort into a flow.

Those are definitive skilful adjustments he has made. You deceive to stretch recognition to the prepare during those. However, when Matt Causey hits a 30 measure jumpshot that seems unfavourable-timed and lower-share, but hits it, how such attribution crapper you present the coach. If Causey misses that hanker explosive, we're every outcry - "what are you doing"? But he prefabricated it, and randomly Coach Hewitt is a genious virtuousness? Maybe Coach is a gift as regards "letting Matt a crap".

Bottom-line. It's coaches making politic adjustments and it's players making plays. That's ground we're sweet now. It's the yin and the yang. It's also that vigorous insufficient imprecate Causey stepping up with no fear.

CONGRATS
with a transactions Nautical port in customary, I said to myself - receive or trifle away, this conspire has prefabricated it jollity to wrist-watch again. Congrats to the combine through despite a top win. Now show up us that it's not an anomoly and that you're edifice something.

GO JACKETS!!!!!