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But Tech's losing streak is not. No. 18 Pittsburgh handed Tech its sixth straight defeat Saturday, rallying past the Hokies 64-59 at Cassell Coliseum. Tech (3-6, 0-1 ACC), which entered the game on a string of five straight double-digit defeats, lost despite leading for most of Saturday's game. "It sucks. It feels like the worst thing," said Tech guard Jaden Schutt, who scored 15 points. "You see some good things, but at the end of the day you've got to play for 40 minutes." The Hokies led 58-54 with 2:44 to go but scored just one point the rest of the way. "We have to be more decisive with what we were doing (down the stretch)," said Tech forward Tobi Lawal, who had 16 points. "We kind of held the ball on the perimeter a lot. We didn't really find ways to get downhill or exploit the mismatches that we had. "The pressure on the ball made it hard for us to ... know what we're trying to run. They kind of took us out of what we wanted to run. And we weren't really helping (point guard Brandon Rechsteiner). ... When he's getting pressure, we've got to find ways to relieve the pressure and get the ball up (the court). "Even though we lost today, I felt we learned a lot and we grew a lot. "We should've won. But we played well." Not in the final 2:44, though. "For a lot of us, it was our first time ... trying to close it out," Schutt said. "You've got to finish. "We tried to run some stuff and they just started to deny stuff and we couldn't really get to it. Ended up having to try to make some one-on-one plays." Pitt (8-2, 0-1) took the lead for good at 60-59 with 50 seconds left. Where does Tech coach Mike Young still need to see improvement for his team to finally end its losing streak? "Everything," Young said. Tech committed 17 turnovers, including some where Rechsteiner coughed up the ball at midcourt. Pitt scored 17 points off Tech's turnovers. "(Pitt) can stop somebody at midcourt and get into them and you're (turning it over). You can't play that way. It's just really, really bad basketball," Young said. "You've got to be able to get into the frontcourt and get things initiated. I've been doing it a long time, but I'm not sure I've seen that like we've seen here in the last little bit. "You can't turn the damn thing over 17 times. That's embarrassing. "I've got to continue to do a better job coaching it." Rechsteiner, a sophomore, had eight points, four assists and five turnovers. Freshman backup Ben Hammond had one assist and one turnover. Virginia Tech has committed at least 15 turnovers in five of the six games in the losing streak. "We had so many unforced turnovers (Saturday)," Lawal said. "As a young team, you're going to get a lot of turnovers. ... But we can't do that. ... We have to grow and learn quicker." Young had brought in veteran point guard Hysier Miller from the transfer portal, but he was released from the team in October. How much is Tech missing an experienced point guard? "You continue to get better with the ones that you have," Young said. "Brandon played a really good ballgame all in all. Ben had a couple plays in the first half that bothered me. "Our point guard play's got to be better. ... You've got to be sound in that area. You can't turn the ball over. You've got to get the ball in the frontcourt and get your stuff started." The Panthers trailed 36-28 at halftime but outscored Tech 36-23 in the second half. "We played with more force, with more physicality (on defense in the second half)," Pitt coach Jeff Capel said. "We didn't get knocked off of screens as much." Tech shot 51.7% from the field in the first half but just 33.3% in the second half. Tech made six 3-pointers in the first half but only two in the second half. "They changed the coverage up (in the second half)," Young said of Pitt. "We were going into the post with regularity in the first half. ... They started fronting that. We've seen that before. Just didn't execute it nearly as well as we needed to." Pitt point guard Jaland Lowe scored 19 points, including nine in the final 2:30. "Down the stretch, Coach Capel (had a) pretty easy game — you give the ball to your best player and he finds a matchup that he likes and Lowe gets downhill," Young said. The Panthers bounced back from a 90-57 loss at Mississippi State on Wednesday. "We got boat raced on Wednesday and I wasn't sure how we would respond," Capel said. "(Tech) knocked us back early. But the toughness (from Pitt) the last 2:44 ... was really who we've been all season." Lawal made two free throws to extend the Tech lead to 58-54 with 2:44 to go. After Lowe made a layup, Rechsteiner turned the ball over. Ben Burnham missed a 3-pointer on Tech's next possession. Guillermo Diaz Graham made two free throws to tie the game at 58 with 1:34 left. It was the first time Tech did not lead in the second half. Lawal made one of two free throws to give Tech a 59-58 lead, but Lowe made a layup to give Pitt a 60-59 lead. After Diaz Graham blocked a Burnham shot, Lowe made two free throws to extend the lead to 62-59 with 25.6 seconds left. After Jaydon Young missed a 3-pointer, Lowe made two more free throws for a 64-59 cushion with 6.9 seconds left. "(Capel) changed some coverages," Young said of the final stretch. "We didn't handle a couple things, couldn't get to an action. "They're good, so he stoned us a little bit. And that's on me. I own that." Tech center Mylyjael Poteat played only 18 minutes. Mike Young said Poteat was sick.Investor Warren Buffett renewed his Thanksgiving tradition of giving by announcing plans to hand more than $US1.1 billion ($1.7 billion) of Berkshire Hathaway stock to four of his family’s foundations, and he offered new details about who will be handing out the rest of his fortune after his death. Buffett has said previously that his three kids will distribute his remaining $US147.4 billion ($226.8 billion) fortune in the 10 years after his death, but now he has also designated successors for them because it’s possible that Buffett’s children could die before giving it all away. He didn’t identify the successors, but said his kids all know them and agree they would be good choices. Warren Buffett with son Peter and daughter Susie. Credit: AP “Father time always wins. But he can be fickle – indeed unfair and even cruel – sometimes ending life at birth or soon thereafter while, at other times, waiting a century or so before paying a visit,” the 94-year-old Buffett said in a letter to his fellow shareholders. “To date, I’ve been very lucky, but, before long, he will get around to me. There is, however, a downside to my good fortune in avoiding his notice. The expected life span of my children has materially diminished since the 2006 pledge. They are now 71, 69 and 66.” Buffett said he still has no interest in creating dynastic wealth in his family — a view shared by his first and current wives. He acknowledged giving Howard, Peter and Susie millions over the years, but he has long said he believes “hugely wealthy parents should leave their children enough so they can do anything but not enough that they can do nothing.” Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway into an investing powerhouse. Credit: Bloomberg The secret to building up such massive wealth over time has been the power of compounding interest and the steady growth of the Berkshire conglomerate Buffett leads through acquisitions and smart investments like buying billions of dollars of Apple shares as iPhone sales continued to drive growth in that company. Buffett never sold any of his Berkshire stock over the years and also resisted the trappings of wealth and never indulged in much — preferring instead to continue living in the same Omaha home he’d bought decades earlier and drive sensible luxury sedans about 20 blocks to work each day. “As a family, we have had everything we needed or simply liked, but we have not sought enjoyment from the fact that others craved what we had,” he said. If Buffett and his first wife had never given away any of their Berkshire shares, the family’s fortune would be worth nearly $US364 billion — easily making him the world’s richest man — but Buffett said he had no regrets about his giving over the years. The family’s giving began in earnest with the distribution of Susan Buffett’s $US3 billion estate after her death in 2004, but really took off when Warren Buffett announced plans in 2006 to make annual gifts to the foundations run by his kids along with the one he and his wife started, as well as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Warren Buffett’s giving to date has favoured the Gates Foundation with $US55 billion in stock because his friend Bill Gates already had his foundation set up and could handle huge gifts when Buffett started giving away his fortune. But Buffett has said his kids now have enough experience in philanthropy to handle the task and he plans to cut off his Gates Foundation donations after his death. Buffett always makes his main annual gifts to all five foundations every summer, but for several years now he has been giving additional Berkshire shares to his family’s foundations at Thanksgiving. Buffett reiterated Monday his advice to every parent to allow their families to read their will while they are still alive — like he has done — to make sure they have a chance to explain their decisions about how to distribute their belongings and answer their children’s questions. Buffett said he and his longtime investing partner Charlie Munger, who died a year ago, “saw many families driven apart after the posthumous dictates of the will left beneficiaries confused and sometimes angry.” Today, Buffett continues to lead Berkshire Hathaway as chairman and CEO and has no plans to retire although he has handed over most of the day-to-day managing duties for the conglomerates dozens of companies to others. That allows him to focus on his favourite activity of deciding where to invest Berkshire’s billions. One of Buffett’s deputies who oversees all the noninsurance companies now, Greg Abel, is set to take over as CEO after Buffett’s death. The Business Briefing newsletter delivers major stories, exclusive coverage and expert opinion. Sign up to get it every weekday morning .
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