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glv98 said:
Guess what? She’s 5’7” and shot 32% on 3s Shots onboard!!!

Someone on Twitter said she had some previous relationship w Kim.
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That's her 3pt%, not her FG%. Her 2nd season looked better than this season. She probably had more help that season. She was 47% FG% and 38% 3pt. Those are strong.
 
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This Tennessee staff came in and on short notice last year put together a portal class with talent and did not run off several seniors that were not great but loved the Orange and wanted to stay. They were very competitive with pretty every team they played and beat the soon to be national champs. Great recruits coming in with a pretty talented base group and now we need to be patient and give them time to work their magic with the portal.
Jumper is probably right with a surprise coming and I would bet there will be more than one surprise. Sit back relax and let it happen! GBO!!!!!!!!
 
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It’s not a surprise. Coach Caldwell literally did an interview telling people they were going to sign a portal class that the staff felt could help them build towards reaching their goals that are being set to get to the Elite 8 and Final 4.
She wasn’t speaking any jargon. Straight forward they know the players they are likely to sign. Only on this forum are people acting as if things are bleak simply because they don’t have any information.
 
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KnoxLikeUs said:
If a team beat the eventual National Champion and other ranked teams while finishing ranked in the Top 15 w/ a strong roster returning next season already ranked #8 by ESPN for next season how are they chasing all these teams in your mind? Because one season “the first in a system where they played close games against ranked teams and didn’t go undefeated?”
That’s crazy. It’s like Kentucky for instance a year ago didn’t even make the NCAA tourney. Last season, they made it after a season with a coach who basically brought experienced players from his former school and hosted in the NCAA tourney. They almost loss in Round 1 of the NCAA tourney to Liberty by the way before eventually getting put on in the Round of 32.
Point being, nobody knows what teams will be at the top at any point next season now in April. Majority of these signings via the portal are players with decent numbers from bad teams that everyone just because it’s the portal is making it sound like something it’s not. All of these scenarios are not going to pan out and that’s been proven year in and year out. So if the staff in Tennessee is doing their due diligence to find the right fits to their team it’s certainly a winning strategy that fans don’t have to approve.

Edit to say: Imagine convincing yourself as a poster on a message forum that Tennessee is waiting for teams to sign players. Tennessee has over 70% of its roster spots filled and was ranked #8 heading into the season by ESPN with this roster.
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Maybe not a great plan to rely too heavily on pre-season rankings. The #8 team a year ago was Iowa State. The year before it was Virginia Tech. The year before that the #8 team was Iowa State again and they wound up #17 that year. The #5 team was Tennessee, and they wound up #24.
 
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KnoxLikeUs said:
I’m willing to bet deep down it’s not this player that’s the issue for some, they just can’t accept the team signing players they aren’t fans of. If you’re a true fan even when it’s not what you prefer you kind of keep quiet and support any player the coaches bring in that they feel makes the team better. That’s why you really can’t get attached to players in this new era with NIL and the portal. Fans have way to much influence in collegiate sports even moreso than in professional sports.
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How long, oh lord.
 
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Not sure what that has to do with Tennessee.
They started 2024-2025 and worked their way into the rankings. Based on their play over the entire season they stayed in the Top 20 and climbed as high as #11. Finished the season #15 with a new head coach. Returns a good core and top recruiting class. They earned the recognition it has nothing to do with relying on a pre-season ranking.

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Maybe not a great plan to rely too heavily on pre-
season rankings. The #8 team a year ago was Iowa State. The year before it was Virginia Tech. The year before that the #8 team was Iowa State again and they wound up #17 that year. The #5 team was Tennessee, and they wound up #24.
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KnoxLikeUs said:
If I was an agent I would put a list out too making sure I included Tennessee if the players was a guard knowing a group of wannabes in the fanbase who feel they have authority over qualified coaches to build a team run with every rumor that hits the internet… just like the guard from Rutgers did through the media. See how it turned out. Folks believe anything on the internet lol.
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Yeah, it's "agent speak." It probably means she has an offer from Villanova and assistants at the other schools took his/her phone call.
 
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I don't understand the people knocking on shooters with >30% from 3. Is the assumption there that they'll shoot much worse in the SEC? And also we should not forget that we were #3 in offensiv rebounds this season. Hopefully even better next year (our #1, #2, #4, and #6 offensiv rebounders ar returning), but to that point: the 70% that get missed will still turn into second-chance points at a non-trivial rate. We need people who don't merely hav the skills to hit >30% of their 3s, but the confidence to not let the misses get into their head and take away their green light. Hav faith in Zee, Latham, Cooper to clean up some of your misses and turn your miss into an unofficial assist, and hav faith in your own hand that the next shot will be one of the 30% that go in.
 
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therickbol said:
That's her 3pt%, not her FG%. Her 2nd season looked better than this season. She probably had more help that season. She was 47% FG% and 38% 3pt. Those are strong.
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She scored 29 points against Ohio State in her first game this season. That was the only ranked team Cleveland State played.
 
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DarkPhoenix said:
People on here said the twins are the shooters that will replace them, I just took their word for it.
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Some of these people talk to talk and I wouldnt take their word. The twins are freshman. Remember Pat Summit bringing in the consensus number one class in 2008, 5 All Americans and added that to the 3 she had on the roster, and lost 1st round to Ball State. That team had Shikena Strickland and Glory Johnoson who both had long WNBA careers. Yet most coaches considered them "scrawny" freshman because they didn't have the physicality or mental toughness when it mattered and they were playing for a hall of fame coach who got the best out of all of her players.

People keep chattering these freshman are game changers etc. Freshman have not played in a conference against players of this caliber with 2 & 3 years of strength training and conditioning all while taking a full load of 1st year college classes for basically 6-8 solid months straight. It is a tall task for any player as we saw nearing the end of this season with 7 seniors on the team. Kanaiya Boyd was our only freshman this year and only went 16-17 minutes per game and can we really consider her a true freshman? She was on campus for a full year before SEC started so she had a big head start in comparison to most freshman.

Kim Caldwell is no fool and she is out hunting experienced point guards as we speak because that is what you have to have if your going to compete in the SEC and make a decent tournament run in March. A big or two would be helpful too.
 
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VintageFan said:
She scored 29 points against Ohio State in her first game this season. That was the only ranked team Cleveland State played.
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Based on last season's portal picks, I'm leaning heavily toward trusting that our staff's eye for potential for success at Tennessee is really accurate. I really do believe this particular group of staffers, who are busy pouring over film and making determinations as to which players are checking off the right "fit" boxes, will find us some players who will make us all proud.

I just keep thinking of that simple points-per-player breakdown I posted the other day, and how I believe that Kim must be hoping to get enough buy-in that she will be able to count on getting points production from everyone at varying degrees.

Like many others here I am hoping we'll have a strong third post player. But if we don't get that, I'm just gonna try my best to trust that there's a plan to compensate for that when we play teams like Texas.

Lawd hep us!
 
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lvocd said:
Based on last season's portal picks, I'm leaning heavily toward trusting that our staff's eye for potential for success at Tennessee is really accurate. I really do believe this particular group of staffers, who are busy pouring over film and making determinations as to which players are checking off the right "fit" boxes, will find us some players who will make us all proud.

I just keep thinking of that simple points-per-player breakdown I posted the other day, and how I believe that Kim must be hoping to get enough buy-in that she will be able to count on getting points production from everyone at varying degrees.

Like many others here I am hoping we'll have a strong third post player. But if we don't get that, I'm just gonna try my best to trust that there's a plan to compensate for that when we play teams like Texas.

Lawd hep us!
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gosh, playing small ball in the SEC could backfire. i really feel like you need at least one serviceable big even if they don't get many minutes. i guess we will see! i'm hopeful but also a little concerned about all the 5'7 players 😭 it seems like coop, whitehorn and boyd already have the skills these 5'7 players have unless maybe boyd is leaving (knock on wood that's not it!!)
 
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Volfan2012 said:
Then certainly no problem everybody is happy SC is happy that she is gone evidently can't play like they expect and Fulwiley is happy cause she needed more than 18 minutes a game. Great when things work out for everyone.
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No, we aren't happy losing a generational talent. I was surprised to learn that while averaging 18 minutes she took by far the most shots on the team. Like 80 more than the next player. If she goes I hope it's to Clemson where she would have free reign in a building program.
 
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Poultrygeist said:
No, we aren't happy losing a generational talent. I was surprised to learn that while averaging 18 minutes she took by far the most shots on the team. Like 80 more than the next player. If she goes I hope it's to Clemson where she would have free rein in a building program.
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Why would you hope for a talented kid like that to waste away at Clemson never making an ncaa tournament? Rude.
 
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