We have a really weak-minded team, and our teams for the last several years have bee weak-minded. No mental toughness. One can say that because we cannot deal with pressure; every game this team plays, you know if is basically going to fall apart at some point in the game. You don't know when it's going to happen, but you know it's coming---and it's going to be of some duration, and it might (and now usually) cost us the game. The Vol collapse usually occurs in the 3rd quarter, but we played our best 3rd quarter of the year tonight--and then scored 3 points in the 4th! You can't make it up.
DeShields? I don't even know what to say about her? Was her ankle bothering her--or was it, is it, her head? Seems as if she's got some judgment problems. She comes in tonight and immediately tries a trick pass down in the low post to.....Cooper. Why? I was astounded she actually corralled the pass amid all the bigs around her. That was followed by DeShields taking two off-balance jumpers, both misses. If you are going to shoot the ball, then square up and go up strong. Notice how on a lot of her shots, she is sort of floating/leaning one way or the other--off-balance, and misses. She tries to make a lot of cute passes; Warlick has got to stop playing her. I don't know what her problem is, but she's got to stop making so many freakin' bad decisions. I thought tonight that maybe the ankle sprain talk was just a PR thing to mask her getting benched. Don't know--but the player we thought might be one of the best talents in the country has been a disaster. this team anymore. That little stretch was the only part of the game I saw; I can't watch this group anymore.