January 22, 2020
Virginia Tech (10-6, 2-2 ACC) at Florida State (5-9, 1-2 ACC)
I'm curious to see if we can beat a team who isn't UVA or Miami. The Hokies are rated better than us in every category but haven't been that great on the court. They're 89 OVR (88 off/89 def/90 sht/88 reb/92 coach). They lost a game to Miami which has to be embarrassing, but they beat UNC by 13 last week.
Scouting
PG JB Matsui – JR – 85 OVR – 92 speed/90 quickness. 89 defense/73 steals. 93 hands/87 passing(A-/B+, extremely good). 91 close/64 med/80 3/89 off the dribble/81 in traffic. 77 o awareness/84 d awareness, good for coach on the floor status. A very strong all around player, 15.1 ppg/4.9 apg so far this year.
SG Jarred Warzynski – SO – 80 OVR – 91 speed/82 quickness. 79 D/78 steals, the steals can be scary but he is very bad on ball. 83 close/71 med/74 3. 80 off the dribble. Great hustle(92/A-). Good rebounder for a guard to(79 drb/B+). Just 5.8 ppg, seems overshadowed, and hopefully Moye can take advantage.
SF Quin Moreno – SR – 83 OVR – 6'9” SF, 86 speed/84 quickness... very fast for a big SF. 79 D is about average for a SF. 88 close/75 med/69 3/85 in traffic. Strong athlete... B+ vert/B+ str/C+ hustle. 13.2 ppg/5.3 rpg.
PF Etienne Harmon – JR – 83 OVR – 6'7” natural PF. 85 orb/83 drb. 93 post off/83 post def. 89 close/90 in traffic. His other ratings may suffer a bit... though I don't see where. Hell why is this guy only rated 83 OVR? He's a monster. 71 o aware/69 d aware.. not a great dunker. 13.7 ppg/4.9 apg. 83 shot blocker. This guy has great skills in all the right places, that post offense is A level, all his physical abilities are B level or better(A vert/B str/B hustle). Harmon looks like the best player on the team honestly.
C Bamba Wilmont – JR – 76 OVR – 78 orb/83 drb. 79 post off/81 post def. 91 close/84 in traffic. Only 6'8”. We've got a big size advantage here. Just 4.9 ppg.
Matsui is a coach on the floor. They have two backup guards... Manning and Bright that have 3 point ratings of 82 and 84.
Virgina Tech signed the #3 recruit class in the nation last year and they have 4 freshmen on the roster rated 75+, 3 guards and a PF.
Haha wow. Va Tech has a team unity of 78. Ours is 32.
Half
| Time
| FSU
| VT
| Notes
|
1
| 16:15
| 0
| 7
| We try to force sneed early, and they get 2 blocked shots, Sneed is 0/5 and Ozier and Moye are 0-1 each. Time to look elsewhere for now at least for scoring. I get a timeout.
|
1
| 14:30
| 0
| 14
| Two steals for Va Tech, and we're now 0-10 from the floor. I go ahead and get the backups in because why not, the starters haven't scored yet!
|
1
| 12:30
| 2
| 17
| Alloway gets out on the break and blows by his man for a layup, and we are on the board.
|
1
| 10:00
| 9
| 22
| Ok the offense has gotten off its ass and gotten moving. Despite my fears about Harmon from looking at his ratings, they do prefer their guards pretty heavily. Warzynski has 8 early on for them.
|
1
| 8:15
| 19
| 22
| Alloway can be incredibly explosive... if he develops at the rate an A- potential suggests he could end up a superstar for me. Sanders gets a bucket inside and then Alloway scores 8 straight. I've complained about his slow release and that is a problem, but he is very explosive and very good going to the basket. He's got 12 of our 19 and has saved the day.
That said... starters are back in.
|
1
| 5:40
| 23
| 24
| Timeout Hokies. We had it 22-21 and had 2 chances to take the lead and came up empty both times. They get back out 24-21 and Sneed gets his first bucket to make it a 1 point game again.
|
1
| 1:45
| 25
| 35
| They score 7 straight to go up 31-23. We get a bucket then 4 more by Va Tech and we're down 10... I get another timeout and hope to end the half strong.
|
| HALF
| 28
| 37
| Tough half. We withstand a huge early run and get the lead down to 1, only to allow a late run and go into the locker room down 9.
Neither team shoots well, 38% for Va Tech, 34% for us. They are 3-8 from 3/8-9 at the line. We're 1-5 from 3/7-11 at the line. Matsui, Warzynski, and Wilmont(their center) all score 8 in the half. Matsui is a horrid 3-11 in coming up with those 8 points though.
On our end, its all Alloway. He has 12. Sneed has 4, no one else has more than 3. Moye is scoreless. I don't think we can win games where Moye is scoreless, he's too important to our offense.
|
2
| 13:50
| 34
| 50
| We take 3 ½ minutes to get our first points and they're on fire. We did have it 44-34 but they just hit 3's on back to back possessions. I get a timeout.
|
2
| 12:55
| 34
| 53
| A 3'd straight 3 and I get a timeout and get the backups in. down 19...
|
2
| 7:35
| 46
| 66
| We can't get it back below 18. Its 20 now and I get the starters back in.
|
Just a miserable performance except for one hot streak in the first half where Alloway went crazy. I quick sim at the 5 minute mark, still down 20.
Virginia Tech 79
Florida State 64
Virginia Tech was 3-8 in the first half from 3. When I simmed it out they were 8-17(5-9 in the 2
nd half). All 5 of their starters hit double figures, SF Moreno ends up leading them with 15, Warzynski 14.
Forte: 3 points
Moye: 9 points (2-9 shooting)
Ozier: 3 points
Sneed: 13 points/6 boards (6-15 shooting)
Locklier: 2 points/8 boards
Alloway: 17 points
Disappointing loss really, as I think there are at least 4 teams in the ACC that are better than Virginia Tech, maybe more. Although... even with team unity effects turned way down(but not off)... a 78-32 difference is a bit insane.