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House|RockyTop said:
That’s something that has explained already. It’s not hard to see how Jewel Spear was not properly being used in the offense night in and night out. The system was focused on post play as the #1 and #2 option on a team without a true back to the basket post player.

Every game the ball was being forced to the paint. And not to give Rickea Jackson more attempts but for other lower percentage attempts to score in the post.
No consistent movement in the offense or space for any guard to drive from the spots where Jewel was placed which 75% of the offense was in the corner. When she attempted to drive from that spot the post players were clogging the lane.

Nobody should still be asking for people to spell it out when it was obvious.

That is why her season was up and down.

She was trying to fit into her role and not force the issue by being a team player. That is how she earned the respect of her teammates by putting the team first.

You don’t score 30 pts against Ole Miss on the road, 21 pts against South Carolina, and 24 in the SEC tourney against Alabama with a lack of athleticism. Watch those games. That’s your proof.
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It seems when anyone looks over her season that she had good games when her shot was falling and not so good when her shot was off (same for any player). You mention the Alabama and SC games where she did well as examples. But in other games against those same teams and others she had vastly different results depending on her shooting % that game. Note the dates of games....Unless the staff was changing roles on a nightly basis I would put her inconsistency (up and down season in your words) into the shooting category mostly.

Examples of off games:

3/25 vs NCSU 29 min 7 points 3/9 shooting
2/8 @ Bama 34 minutes, 5 points 1/9 shooting
2/15 vs SC 35 min 0 points 0/6 shooting
2/25 vs LSU 30 min 6 points 2/12 shooting
12/6 vs MTSU 29 min 3 points 1/6 shooting
12/6 vs OSU 20 min 0 points 0/9 shooting
11/23 vs IU 30 min 5 points 2/7 shooting
11/19 vs Troy 28 min 3 points 1/9 shooting
1/18 @ MSST 32 min 9 points 3/11 shooting
12/10 vs EKU 28 min 12 points 4/13 shooting



Examples of good games:

3/8 vs Bama 27 min 24 points 8/11 shooting
3/9 vs SC 36 min 21 points 5/11 shooting
2/29 vs aTm 29 min 16 points 6/10 shooting
2/18 @ VD 31 min 16 points 5/10 shooting
2/4 vz MZ 33 min 22 points 9/14 shooting
2/1 @UGA 29 min 25 points 8/14 shooting
1/28 @ OM 35 min 30 points 11/17 shooting
1/11 vs UF 36 min 20 points 5/10 shooting
1/7 vs UK 30 min 21 points 6/9 shooting
12/19 vs Woff 31 min 16 points 6/12 shooting
11/13 vs Memph 32 min 19 points 7/14 shooting
11/9 @FSU 34 min 18 points 6/12 shooting
11/7 vs FAMU 17 min 20 points 7/12 shooting
 
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Orange. said:
Hey, Lucy, I know what DW said and how it likely got misunderstood by a few people here.

In introducing Coach Caldwell, Danny White said the first thing he did in the search was to meet with the team. The team elected a leadership group to meet with him for an in-depth discussion of what our student athletes wanted and felt like was most important. DW said "As a women's basketball program, we want to get back to competing for Southeastern Conference and National championships." He said "they [the players] told him they have that ambition, and we [the players?] are not on a three-, four- or five-year plan. They talked about wanting to win next year. ["To win," not necessarily to win a national championship."] "We [both AD and players?] wanted to make sure we are positioning ourselves to be competitive right away."
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"The prerequisite for this search, and something I was unbending on, was how was this person going to bring us back to the top. [That is, as a trajectory, no promise of the first year.] We weren't looking for a possible solution that got us back to being maybe more relevant. We wanted someone with an enormous upside and trajectory, and I will tell you why I think we found that."

There's a lot more. Everything Danny White said about decision to hire new Lady Vols coach Kim Caldwell

The second factor that may have been misinterpreted is that DW put in CKC's contract a clause that offers the opportunity to become the highest-paid coach in the country by winning a national title. That is not restricted to her first year, although maybe some people wrongly assumed it was. How Kim Caldwell's national title contract clause came to be as Lady Vols basketball coach

Sorry, I hadn't seen @choochoovol's post when I wrote this. But I'll leave mine because adds some things.
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Looks like what I said has already been covered. Good job.
 
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2022 HoopGurlz Recruiting Rankings - espnW 100 - ESPN

Get the inside scoop on the top ranked high school girls' basketball players. In-depth player briefings, film and more on ESPNHS.com.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

Notice how a lot of 2022 Hoopgurlz list got in the portal. I guess 2023 will be the ones next season.

www.espn.com

ruby-whitehorn

High School Girls' Basketball Recruiting Ruby Whitehorn
www.espn.com www.espn.com

Got a 97 hasn't lived up to that yet still has been solid overall.
 
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Lloyd_Christmas said:
His comment mentioned speaking to the current players and their desire to compete. Several of those girls don't have 2 or more years left to wait for things to turn around, so DW saying that their goal was to compete next year was more to support the current players than it was to put an unfair lofty goal on the new coach. Interpreting it any other way probably has less to do with what he said and more to do with a dislike of DW and a desire to manufacture things to complain about.
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Last sentence not true.

DW said no 2, 3, or 4 yr plan on "competing" and moving from good (current) to great (expected). That means better results next yr.

I agree he didn't really mean it and shouldn't have said it. Should have left it vague at "competing" and not added a one yr timetable. But he did say it.
 
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LBI Thanksgiving Hoopfest-November 2019: Ultra-athletic guard, explosive in transition, attacks the rim in uptempo; quick-leaper, exploits mismatches, rises over the defense; rebounds and runs in transition; drives and finishes at the rim; a coveted prospect in the class of 2022. (Olson)

JLE 160-September 2019: Athletic guard with versatility; superior size creates mismatches, elevates over smaller defenders; manufactures shots, 1 on 1 creator with body control to the rim; emerging offensive threat to the arc; best off the dribble, attacks the rim; defends and disrupts in passing lanes; continues as an elite prospect in the class of 2022. (Olson)

Ohio Midwest Showdown-May 2019: Athletic guard with superior size, wingspan defends, traps in pressure; quick-leaper, active on the glass; elusive off the dribble, mid-range game creator with catch and shoot range at the arc; scores in uptempo game, converts off of pressure defense. (Olson)

LBI Summer Shootout-July 2018: Athletic off-guard with combo-game; flourishes in transition game, handles and attacks the rim, elusive off the bounce; quick-leaper, active on glass; traps, defends and converts plays from turnovers; makes plays in traffic. (Olson)

All the evaluations related to a player that would flourish in transition basketball. Hard to understand why she pick Clemson the first time.
 
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Rooster1 said:
It seems when anyone looks over her season that she had good games when her shot was falling and not so good when her shot was off (same for any player). You mention the Alabama and SC games where she did well as examples. But in other games against those same teams and others she had vastly different results depending on her shooting % that game. Note the dates of games....

Examples of off games:

2/8 @ Bama 34 minutes, 5 points 1/9 shooting
2/15 vs SC 35 min 0 points 0/6 shooting
2/25 vs LSU 30 min 6 points 2/12 shooting
12/6 vs MTSU 29 min 3 points 1/6 shooting
12/6 vs OSU 20 min 0 points 0/9 shooting
11/23 vs IU 30 min 5 points 2/7 shooting
11/19 vs Troy 28 min 3 points 1/9 shooting
1/18 @ MSST 32 min 9 points 3/11 shooting
12/10 vs EKU 28 min 12 points 4/13 shooting

Examples of good games:

2/29 vs aTm 29 min 16 points 6/10 shooting
2/18 @ VD 31 min 16 points 5/10 shooting
2/4 vz MZ 33 min 22 points 9/14 shooting
2/1 @UGA 29 min 25 points 8/14 shooting
1/28 @ OM 35 min 30 points 11/17 shooting
1/11 vs UF 36 min 20 points 5/10 shooting
1/7 vs UK 30 min 21 points 6/9 shooting
12/19 vs Woff 31 min 16 points 6/12 shooting
11/13 vs Memph 32 min 19 points 7/14 shooting
11/9 @FSU 34 min 18 points 6/12 shooting
11/7 vs FAMU 17 min 20 points 7/12 shooting
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That is kind of the life of a jump shooter.

She was Robin and some games she just was not there to help Batman, who was defiantly battling villains in the paint.

I like the part of Jewel's game when she would get to the rim, instead of always settling for jumpers.

I think "athletic enough" is a good description of Jewel but she is no Saniya Rivers or Aziaha James.

But she should thrive more in a system that plays a faster pace and has more off ball movement.
 
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PG-Cooper Wells Wynn Boyd
SG-Spear Darby Strickland
C-Spearman Hollingshead
PF-Latham Puckett
WF-Whitehorn

We get Muhammad or another center move Puckett to the three and Hollingshead to the four.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
PG-Cooper Wells Wynn Boyd
SG-Spear Darby Strickland
C-Spearman Hollingshead
PF-Latham Puckett
WF-Whitehorn

We get Muhammad or another center move Puckett to the three and Hollingshead to the four.
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You good with that starting lineup shooting volume 3s?
 
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glv98 said:
Or score. Has to be a plan B, and I'm sure there will be. Don't think we can count on dictating tempo all the time, esp against very good teams.
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So, CKC is proving to be astute beyond her years.

From a transformational leadership view, she has played things very well.

I know some wanted her to keep Sam for presumed recruiting connections but that would be sacrificing the war to win a skirmish. If the goal is to bring in a nw outlook, philosophy, and attitude, you can't have vestiges of the failed team hanging around.

And here is where CKC made the very smart play. She did not stay in the comfort zone with her Marshall staff with but hired two coaches with more conference experience than her. That decision is both smart and showing confidence. To me, it signals that she is more than willing to learn and adapt from those who know more. A great leader does not have to know all the answers; they just have to be able to recognize the right answers and implement them.

Long way of saying, I would be very surprised if CKC's LV "system" is a carbon copy of her Marshall system. I am sure the team will look to get out on the break more after getting rebounds; we won't see much of the "walking the ball up the court and dribbling for 10 seconds on the perimeter before running a play" that happened too often last season. I think the old school "high-low sets" will be replaced by a spread offense that will probably look a lot like Iowa's half court sets.
 
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VolFuture said:
Lol I think u need to reevaluate positions… but this is pointless and speculative bc we have a new coach so… I think TC will be a wing same with Wynn she’s not a pg at all
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She was a point guard in high school. Where you playing Darby has to be the two or three. I'd rather her play some at the two she is not that great of a rebounder.
 
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Rooster1 said:
Pretty obvious the needs going fwd are a natural PG, another C and another PF.
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I don’t agree with most of these positions he’s listed

Imo it will be more of a “shooter/dribbler” and “rebounder/blocker” set up

Not true position but needs based on what they bring to the game.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
She was a point guard in high school. Where you playing Darby has to be the two or three. I'd rather her play some at the two she is not that great of a rebounder.
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No she’s playing the 4 or not playing. I don’t really see her playing much at all anyway she can’t run. Will make a rotation but be at the bottom
 
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