Because somebody has to do it. Before the season started, I was talking about how I would build the offense around Jay Huff as a three-point shooter, and to a lesser extent Mamadi Diakite. I focused more on Huff than Diakite because he had done it, he had shot 45% from three in the role I envisioned, while Mamadi never reached that percentage or consistently played that role. We did not see any such thing play out. The evidence of our eyes and the statistics said that Tony was trying to build the offense around them as post players, with the guards doing the shooting. You know, fitting his normal template of movers and blockers (whether in the Continuity Ball Screen or the Blocker-Mover, the same basic roles apply).

This morning on Twitter, Brad Franklin responded to a question in response to a tweet of his:

One nit – letting the bigs shoot IS having multiple shooters. It's just that Tony has never considered nor used bigs as "shooters" before, probably because he never had bigs who were shooters. Now he has two, and it appears he may be starting to use them.

— Seattle Hoo (@SeattleHoo) February 4, 2020

Fair point. I meant “traditional” KG type shooter but I agree with everything in there: Just because they go a different way doesn’t mean they can’t get to the same destination.

— Brad Franklin (@Cavs_Corner) February 4, 2020

What this exchange tells me is that another fairly astute observer of UVA hoops has seen the same thing I have: that we have started putting the bigs in shooting positions more in the last couple of games. If we are seeing a tweak to the offense where pick-and-pop and the bigs drifting out to the corner are centrally featured with an eye toward inverting the offense for the guards to get in the paint and the bigs to shoot more threes, it means Tony is finally coming around to designing the offense the way I wanted to see it in the beginning, after his traditional design has failed. This leads me to believe that a suspicion I have had is accurate: that in the off-season Tony looks at his personnel and tries to figure out how best to fit them into the system, rather than trying to figure out how best to utilize their strengths.