Virginia opened up the Discover Puerto Rico Shootout with a win over Green Bay 66-61.
opened play at the Discover Puerto Rico Shootout with a close 66-61 win over Green Bay on Thanksgiving Day. Val has the Plus/Minus to break down the win.A win is a win is a win. After a slog of uninspiring matches against largely overwhelmed cupcakes, the Virginia Cavaliers played an entertaining match against the Green Bay Phoenix. The game featured 13 lead changes and seven ties with both teams opening up their biggest leads in the last 12 minutes.
Virginia shot 6/21 from beyond the arc. Johnson and Yonta Vaughn were both 2/6 and while Vaughn did hit both of hers in the decisive fourth quarter, 29% just ain’t going to cut it. Taylor Lauterbach, who hit both of her threes a game ago against Bethune-Cookman, got a little too adventurous this game. Lauterbach is showing more mobility this year and she’ll be a positive performer down the stretch for the Cavaliers, but I don’t she should be jacking too many threes.
Green Bay has decent overall size for a mid-major – four of five starters are 5’ 11” or better – but outside of the four minutes Jenna Guyer played, the tallest Phoenix was 6’ 1”. The stats will say that Virginia controlled the boards with a 44-30 advantage, but it seemed much more contested as I was watching. Once late in the third and again late in the fourth, Green Bay had two-offensive rebound trips down the court.
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