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Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

We continue our preview of the Virginia Cavaliers.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

Jason, I'd hand it to you.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

We mentioned before the break that this team is essentially, with the exception of one guy, entirely brand new of the Virginia Cavaliers.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

So talk about some of the guys that we do need to watch out for.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

This is not like Clemson a couple weeks ago where we basically just said everyone does the same thing and there's no real star.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

There is a couple of guys up here to know.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

So talk about those players and how they form into the rest of the Cavalier offense.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

the difference in height between their tallest player and their shortest player is 14 inches.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

The difference in the height between our biggest player and our shortest player is like six inches.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

So it's interesting when we play teams that are smaller.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

And, Jason, that leads me into the things to watch for this game.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

The first one I have is stifle those guards because I think a lot of the offense โ€“

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

happens through them and i know the ritter is a guy who i honestly think that the ritter might have dame sarin him for a little bit you might see some switches off of them but when you look at a chance mallory when you look at a jacari white when you look at a dallin hall off the bench even a sam lewis malik thomas all those guys shorter than our guards um and and at least most of our guards and in the case of uh you know devon tillis or sam lewis

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

you put a slim on there or Nick committee and they're the same size.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

And so I see us being able to try and limit their guards because that is going to really affect a lot of what they do on offense against Virginia.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

I think the one thing that you always have to note, even I know we talked about how different the pack line defense under Tony Bennett was versus what Ryan Odom has brought to Virginia.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

But again,

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

You have to take advantage of every single possession.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

They're not a team that had a couple of games where they've had some high possession rates, but a lot of them are in the 60s.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #147 - Pivotal Cavalier Showdown

And so you want to be able to take advantage of every single possession, figure out how to win one possession at a time.