Atlanta Braves Thread - The "John Hart/ John Coppollela da real MVPs" Edition

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Vercingetorix said:
As far as I can tell, Holly's teams are pretty much a clone of Pat's. Good defense, tough rebounding, terrible offense. Pat's teams won when she had a Parker or Holdsclaw to carry the offense, but without a player like that we could never do much on offense. The uncomfortable truth (IMO) is that things probably wouldn't have been that much different if Pat hadn't had any problems and was still the coach. Holly's coaching the same way Pat did. And other than Candace Parker, this is the way it's been for almost 20 years.
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I do believe I'd take my chances with Pat over Holly any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
As far as I can tell, Holly's teams are pretty much a clone of Pat's. Good defense, tough rebounding, terrible offense. Pat's teams won when she had a Parker or Holdsclaw to carry the offense, but without a player like that we could never do much on offense. The uncomfortable truth (IMO) is that things probably wouldn't have been that much different if Pat hadn't had any problems and was still the coach. Holly's coaching the same way Pat did. And other than Candace Parker, this is the way it's been for almost 20 years.
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Summit played a tractor pull type offense that basically relied on putting the ball on the rim and then going and getting it.
 
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So the real question is...are there better options out there than Holly? I have to believe the answer is yes. My gut feeling is that the AD hopes Holly can keep the program relevant long enough for Tyler Summitt to eventually come in and take over. I'm not sure that's actually the best course of action, but I think that's the plan.
 
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Got to play in a clinic of sorts with MTSU's tennis team today. Those girls were treating me like child's play and I'm actually pretty decent.

A lot of fun though. Getting my ass whipped by foreign female tennis players.
 
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GreatWhiteNorth said:
So the real question is...are there better options out there than Holly? I have to believe the answer is yes. My gut feeling is that the AD hopes Holly can keep the program relevant long enough for Tyler Summitt to eventually come in and take over. I'm not sure that's actually the best course of action, but I think that's the plan.
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It's hard to see us firing Warlick as long as Pat knows what's going on. I don't even know if she needs to go; the main thing is that somebody in that program needs to have a Paul-on-the-road-to-Damascus experience about the fact that they have to be able to do something on offense other than just trying to out-wrestle everyone down on the block. Hiring an assistant to concentrate on that side of the ball might be enough. There has to be a Plan B besides chucking up airballs.
 
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GAVol said:
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Summit played a tractor pull type offense that basically relied on putting the ball on the rim and then going and getting it.
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It worked when she could overpower everyone with bigger tougher players. Against Maryland tonight, not so much.

This is why I think Warlick's in such a rotten position. She's doing the same stuff Summitt did, but it's not working. And it had quit working for Summitt herself years earlier, really, but everyone overlooked it. She's going to have to adapt in a way that Summitt never did.
 
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Wonder how the Lady Vols forum would react if I went in there and started saying this stuff in there, about how Holly's just running the same s***y offense Pat always did. Both sides would probably turn on me.
 
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