3 games in 6 days..

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allvol21

allvol21

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Feb.3 @ AUB 9:00
Feb 5 Bama 5:00
Feb 8 @ UK 9:00
This crucial 3 game stretch in a 6 day timeline could present many problems that are an obvious concern outside of the opponents themselves as if they are not a big enough concern without the grueling schedule.

1) there is the obvious problem of the amount of recovery time for each game especially leading up to the game at UK at the end of the stretch when you would hope your team would be the freshest.

2) With 2 crucial games lerking in the minds of the players in Bama and UK I hope Auburn is not over looked considering the consequences of losing to the sec's worse at home.

3) there is a little time to prepare for the next 2 following auburn. 1 day for bama and 2 for UK and two of those days are going to have to be used for recovery so if practices will be light.
 
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I think we our schedul last season looked like this before we played UK the first time. The SEC Network is working against us. But if any team in the SEC is built for this, it has to be us. I look for more players coming off the bench in the Auburn game and early against 'bama. Pearl will get more minutes, as will Maymon and Hall. Might even see a Woolridge sighting if he isn't laying down some tracks.
 
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when was the last time we won at rupp arena ? it has been awhile. :salute: :salute:
 
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Auburn should be a blowout victory but you never know. We are far more talented than Bama but they are very tough on defense. It could be a low scoring, grind it out game. Its going to take one of those great efforts to win at Rupp.
 
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A win at Rupp would be an unexpected plus while a loss to either the Barn or bammer would an unexpected minus. I think we'll be 6-3 in SEC after our visit to Rupp.
 
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We won't lose to Auburn with 4-5 days of preparation. Alabama could be a trap game, but it's Alabama so we won't take them lightly. I'd like to win 1/2 out of the UF/UK games to give us some momentum towards the last part of the season.
 
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It's like clockwork. Someone posts about how difficult three games in 6 days is right about the time the Spurs start their Rodeo Road Trip. I won't post the entire San Antonio trip this year, I'll simpy say again that the idea of 3 games in 6 days, one of them at home, being some sort of death march for properly conditioned 18-22 year olds is absurd.
 
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hatvol96 said:
It's like clockwork. Someone posts about how difficult three games in 6 days is right about the time the Spurs start their Rodeo Road Trip. I won't post the entire San Antonio trip this year, I'll simpy say again that the idea of 3 games in 6 days, one of them at home, being some sort of death march for properly conditioned 18-22 year olds is absurd.[/QUOTE]

Did someone say death march? I think not. I stated that it is obvious with 3 games in 6 days and the toughest game being last out of the 3 creates obvious concerns. In stead of blowing the post out of proportion to disagree please disprove how any of the three points are not legit concerns. I guarantee you they are concerns to this coaching staff and would be to any staff heading into this type of stretch.
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allvol21 said:
hatvol96 said:
It's like clockwork. Someone posts about how difficult three games in 6 days is right about the time the Spurs start their Rodeo Road Trip. I won't post the entire San Antonio trip this year, I'll simpy say again that the idea of 3 games in 6 days, one of them at home, being some sort of death march for properly conditioned 18-22 year olds is absurd.[/QUOTE]

Did someone say death march? I think not. I stated that it is obvious with 3 games in 6 days and the toughest game being last out of the 3 creates obvious concerns. In stead of blowing the post out of proportion to disagree please disprove how any of the three points are not legit concerns. I guarantee you they are concerns to this coaching staff and would be to any staff heading into this type of stretch.
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Yeah, quality coaching staffs spend copious amounts of time worrying about scheduling nonissues. If you're going to over look Auburn, it's because they suck. It doesn't matter who's next. If your team is so poorly conditioned that a stretch that pretty much every team in college basketball will face is a physical challenge, you've got serious issues. You play Alabama and Kentucky every year. It's not like either team runs some unique system that UT never sees.
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I honestly don't think that the 3 games in 6 days is as bad as playing this past Sat. and then not playing again until Thursday. I think that for the most part teams seem to come out a little flat and takes a lot longer to get going than if we had one Tuesday and then Thursday. But we seem to have that swagger we had during the beginning of the season. I think that we are going to do fine. I think that our earlier losses this season will not allow us to overlook anybody. GO VOLS!!!
 
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hatvol96 said:
allvol21 said:
Yeah, quality coaching staffs spend copious amounts of time worrying about scheduling nonissues. You play Alabama and Kentucky every year. It's not like either team runs some unique system that UT never sees.
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No, quality coaching staffs concern themselves with the preperation and time to do so with their team. I was unaware that all players in the current rotation are completely aware what both bama and ky does and what we plan to do against them considering almost half of the rotation has never played either. Hell I would say there is no need for the staff to even give a scout. I was also unaware that this team has matured over night to the point where they would not look past a weaker opponent towards a bigger game. Please, If you think Rest,time of preperation, and overlooking an opponent is not a concern to this staff you are not wrong you are dilusional.
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hatvol96 said:
It's like clockwork. Someone posts about how difficult three games in 6 days is right about the time the Spurs start their Rodeo Road Trip. I won't post the entire San Antonio trip this year, I'll simpy say again that the idea of 3 games in 6 days, one of them at home, being some sort of death march for properly conditioned 18-22 year olds is absurd.
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I did enjoy our three games in 6 days stretch last year when we ended at LSU and you could tell we hadn't even installed a gameplan.
 
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allvol21 said:
hatvol96 said:
No, quality coaching staffs concern themselves with the preperation and time to do so with their team. I was unaware that all players in the current rotation are completely aware what both bama and ky does and what we plan to do against them considering almost half of the rotation has never played either. Hell I would say there is no need for the staff to even give a scout. I was also unaware that this team has matured over night to the point where they would not look past a weaker opponent towards a bigger game. Please, If you think Rest,time of preperation, and overlooking an opponent is not a concern to this staff you are not wrong you are dilusional.
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Yeah, I'm sure your insight and firsthand knowledge of what quality staffs do and don't do is vastly superior to mine.

By the way, if you can't spell delusional it's probably a bad idea to accuse someone of being such.
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tigervol9802 said:
I did enjoy our three games in 6 days stretch last year when we ended at LSU and you could tell we hadn't even installed a gameplan.
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The staff was too concerned about avoiding fatigue to worry about such mundane issues as gameplanning and scouting.
 
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I agree 3 games in 6 days is no big deal, especially when we play as many people as we tend to.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Yeah, I'm sure your insight and firsthand knowledge of what quality staffs do and don't do is vastly superior to mine.

By the way, if you can't spell delusional it's probably a bad idea to accuse someone of being such.
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Once again you avoid the points of a post and pick out a grammatical error in stead of having a valid argument. Don't shy away from what this conversation is about. If you were so confident in your knowledge that my concerns are not legitimate than you would not spend your time trying to find a typo instead of disproving the points. Lets get straight to the point...

In your opinion you think this staff is not concerned about the...
1) amount of time they have to prepare for Bama and UK.

2) Overlooking Auburn with Bama coming up and/or overlooking Bama with UK next on the schedule.

3) Being fresh tuesday night for the third game since thursday at 9:00?
 
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3 games in 6 days is no big deal. Most of these guys are just at most 3-4 years removed from high school camps where they played 3 games a DAY. I remember a time we played 12 games in 3 days, with a practice each morning as well.
Not a light practice either.
If we could do that, I think these DI and NBA caliber athletes will be just fine. :)
 
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Daloth said:
3 games in 6 days is no big deal. Most of these guys are just at most 3-4 years removed from high school camps where they played 3 games a DAY. I remember a time we played 12 games in 3 days, with a practice each morning as well.
Not a light practice either.
If we could do that, I think these DI and NBA caliber athletes will be just fine. :)
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Once again nobody said that it was an impossible task for these players to compete for three games in 6 days from a physical standpoint.

The argument of being worn down was actually the smallest worry of the three. The only point I mentioned about that being a concern was you would hope your team was freshest for the game and rupp and you can't convince me that this team will be as fresh for the UK game as they are for the auburn game.

You played 12 games in 3 days congrats! Were you as fresh the third day as you were the first?
 
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