Tony Bennett Virginia Box Set – Gate Action ATO Play by Dana Beszczynski
The Tony Bennett Virginia Box ATO Play is a perfect example of the College Basketball’s most efficient offensive team playing right now. They shot ball horribly when Virginia played Cal. Cuonzo Martin is the head coach at Cal. Coach Martin is a hard-nosed defensive coach so it makes sense that Virginia wouldn’t shoot well.
The Tony Bennett Virginia Cavaliers showed the faith, resilience, and depth that will define if they are destined to be the National Championships.
The Tony Bennett Virginia Cavaliers are ranked 4th in Offensive efficiency by the 2016 Ken Promeroy Rankings
The Tony Bennett Viginia Cavalaiers will run a three guard mix and a smaller ball rotations. Virginia’s three-headed backcourt of senior Malcolm Brogdon, junior London Perrantes and sophomore Darius Thompson theoretically should’ve helped it handle Cal’s pressure with ease, but … as Bennett said after seeing his team commit turnovers on an uncharacteristic 32.4% of their first-half offensive possessions, “We looked like we had three centers on the floor.
The Cavaliers fixed things in the second half—and cut down their turnover percentage to 24.2—by making a few key adjustments. They used 6’7″ sophomore forward Isaiah Wilkins at the four, giving him 17 minutes that were almost all alongside Gill at the 5, and kept centers Mike Tobey and Jack Salt on the bench. Wilkins didn’t commit a single turnover, the offense seemed to open up with him on the floor, and he was their most active second-half defender, recording four steals. I doubt Virginia’s small lineup will be effective against fellow ACC title contenders North Carolina and Louisville, but it could match up well against Duke, Miami and Notre Dame.
The other, subtle adjustment was that although Perrantes is the Cavaliers point guard, he had more looks created for him by his backcourt teammates (Thompson, Brodgon and Devon Hall) in the second half. Perrantes is a steady, sure-handed creator, but he’s also the team’s most dangerous shooting weapon on the wing, having knocked down 53.8% of his threes as a junior. He was 3-for-3 from deep, all from the left wing, and scored all of his 13 points in the second half. That this came in his first game back following surgery for an appendectomy that happened nine days ago makes it all the more impressive.
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