Absolutely embarrassing performance

#101
#101
I get it. The coach is ultimately responsible for the overall performance of the team. The LVs are underachieving and she is accountable for that.

But honestly, I feel that it would be difficult to coach this group of girls to consistency. Alexa is just in over her head (Kortney too). A few of the other girls just don't seem to have high basketball IQs that they should have had in high school. Diamond, for all the positives that she brings, can be a negative in many games due to terrible ball security and poor high volume shooting. Jaime has been great at times, but then at others seems to display apathy on the court. Only MR has really met expectations this year.

Holly is ultimately responsible, but I'm not sure a Muffet, Kim, or Geno would do significantly better with this group. In fact, it's still kind of amazing that the LVs made it to the final 8 last year...
 
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#102
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Nute Gunray said:
I would like to see Geno coach this LV team!
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But Aurriema has said publicly that he and his staff do NOT coach effort and energy at uconn. He states emphatically that that is entirely on the players.

If Geno were coach of this team, a lot of girls would be sitting because I perceive he would rather lose a game than watch kids put out less than maximum effort.
 
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Trixietrouble said:
I get it. The coach is ultimately responsible for the overall performance of the team. The LVs are underachieving and she is accountable for that.

But honestly, I feel that it would be difficult to coach this group of girls to consistency. Alexa is just in over her head (Kourtney too). A few of the other girls just don't seem to have high basketball IQs that they should have had is high school. Diamond, for all the positives that she brings, can be a negative in many games due to terrible ball security and poor shooting. Jamie has been great at times, but then at others seems to display apathy on the court. Only MR has really met expectations this year.

Holly is ultimately responsible, but I'm not sure a Muffet, Kim, or Geno would do significantly better with this group. In fact, it's still kind of amazing that the LVs made it to the final 8 last year...
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Surely you jest.

Look at the opening minutes off the game. These same "difficult to coach" players opened up a 14 point lead to start the game...Where is the ineptitude, then?....The defensive strategy of the press changed for Auburn and we didn't do a thing to compensate. Auburn extended the pressure and we did nothing different.

The players can't just call a change themselves, with the HC yelling 3, 4, 5-defense,,, they have to do what "coach" calls, not what they want to do.

They adjusted, we didn't.

Coaching this level of player is not that difficult.
I have been creating this level of talent for years. Coaching personalities is not that imposing either. I know I could get more out of these players. . . Maybe I am not qualified to run an NCAA program, I get that,,,, But I am without doubt that I could get better and more consistent effort and level of play out of the players.

This is what drives me.
 
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Trixietrouble said:
I get it. The coach is ultimately responsible for the overall performance of the team. The LVs are underachieving and she is accountable for that.

But honestly, I feel that it would be difficult to coach this group of girls to consistency. Alexa is just in over her head (Kortney too). A few of the other girls just don't seem to have high basketball IQs that they should have had in high school. Diamond, for all the positives that she brings, can be a negative in many games due to terrible ball security and poor high volume shooting. Jaime has been great at times, but then at others seems to display apathy on the court. Only MR has really met expectations this year.

Holly is ultimately responsible, but I'm not sure a Muffet, Kim, or Geno would do significantly better with this group. In fact, it's still kind of amazing that the LVs made it to the final 8 last year...
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My issue is that our stagnant offense and high turnovers are systemic. We see these issues year after year, no matter who we play, home or away.

It's difficult to keep the faith that Holly can do better with new players when that is a recurring problem.

However, I also get the sense that Holly realized she has been recruiting players who don't her system and she's seeking to correct it.

When she says she had to "simplify" the offense and she shouldn't have to "coach effort", I started to listen up. It became even more glaring when she was "proud that we competed."

I refuse to believe Holly and her assistants don't know basketball. So either the game has passed them by (they don't know any better) or they need players with a different mentality (the incoming recruits).

I have noticed that our players don't seem very mature. That senior leadership is sorely absent.
 
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NoBackBoard said:
However, I also get the sense that Holly realized she has been recruiting players who don't her system and she's seeking to correct it.

When she says she had to "simplify" the offense and she shouldn't have to "coach effort", I started to listen up. It became even more glaring when she was "proud that we competed."

I refuse to believe Holly and her assistants don't know basketball. So either the game has passed them by (they don't know any better) or they need players with a different mentality (the incoming recruits).
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Just the rigid manner in which the post players fight for position while the other four players stand around the perimeter and the ball handler has the ball above her head waiting for the right moment to pass inside shows that they don't know anything about offense.

If they are not running, then their offense is completely stagnant and predictable. There is zero element of surprise, unless Jaime and Diamond go rogue and start street balling. I'm surprised they don't have more turnovers.
 
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NoBackBoard said:
My issue is that our stagnant offense and high turnovers are systemic. We see these issues year after year, no matter who we play, home or away.

It's difficult to keep the faith that Holly can do better with new players when that is a recurring problem.

However, I also get the sense that Holly realized she has been recruiting players who don't her system and she's seeking to correct it.

When she says she had to "simplify" the offense and she shouldn't have to "coach effort", I started to listen up. It became even more glaring when she was "proud that we competed."

I refuse to believe Holly and her assistants don't know basketball. So either the game has passed them by (they don't know any better) or they need players with a different mentality (the incoming recruits).

I have noticed that our players don't seem very mature. That senior leadership is sorely absent.
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I agree with you. And part of being a good to great coach is being able to more often than not identify the players who have the skill set you need and the mentality. It is not always about signing the highest ranked player but high ranked players who fit the team and bring the right mindset.

Holly has missed the marked a few times and let's hope she has "read" the recruits better with this incoming class.
 
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NoBackBoard said:
When she says she had to "simplify" the offense and she shouldn't have to "coach effort", I started to listen up. It became even more glaring when she was "proud that we competed."
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It's interesting that after the LV loss, Muffet basically said the same about her team - they aren't as "smart" (her word) as her former teams that had so much success. She has to hold their hand more, and the results haven't been quite as good.
 
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I don't know if it is universally true, but as a teacher I have seen the same thing, in certain things. School children are frequently much too knowledgable about improper things they have been exposed to or seen (alcohol, drugs, sex, language, violence) but much less personally responsible in behavior. Also, frequently less self-directed, and in many cases, more reliant on their parents to do for them. (This is in comparison to what I saw when I began teaching in 1973, and I am saying "frequently" and "in many cases," not every one!)
 
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The Alfred Dunner wardrobe is embarrassing
 
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ncteacher88 said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3_wgb3OREQ He also discusses sitting Breanna Stewart.
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I'm glad that you posted that or else I would had not seen it. Me of the 'I Hate Geno contingent':)

But everything he stated is true! Stop coddling these kids who don't want to play the right way. And there's no excuse that we have a short bench.

The game starts before tip off. That's when coaches are suppose to prepare their teams.
 
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Actually Holly looks appropriate for her body type in those outfits. I just cannot see her in nice pant suits, skirts or dresses.
 
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#121
We have 11 games left in the regular season we need 7 wins JMO to get to the tourney.
Games we should win:

Vandy
at Florida
LSU
Missouri
Texas A&M
Arkansas
Florida

tossups
at Alabama
at Georgia

losses
at South Carolina
at Mississippi State
 
#122
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Volfan2012 said:
We have 11 games left in the regular season we need 7 wins JMO to get to the tourney.
Games we should win:

Vandy
at Florida
LSU
Missouri
Texas A&M
Arkansas
Florida

tossups
at Alabama
at Georgia

losses
at South Carolina
at Mississippi State
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LSU and TAMU are tossups IMO. Missouri beat TAMU recently, so who knows how good they are.
 
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jonson said:
There is an article somewhere in which he says exactly this.
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I believe if Genno coached this team he would get their best effort from day one. I am sure he would have identified those with buyin and those without buyin. Good coaches never say they do not understand how to improve a team's effort or performance, they find a way. This team easily becomes distracted and seems to easily lose desire. As I have said before there is a coach/player disconnect on this team. I think Holly is a very good person, however, it takes more than that to be a good head coach.
 
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bobkitten said:
She was able to keep her jacket on the whole Vandy game.
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Yes, she was able to keep it on...and since many have been dogging HW's attire lately, I just have to make this totally irrelevant comment: That jacket she wore yesterday was awesome. The color was fantastic (kind of a pinkish orange - one of my faves) and up close you could see that the fabric was textured. Loved it!

Okay irrelevant comment about HW's attire over... carry on. LOL 😋
 
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