Bruce's mood on Sunday.....

#6
#6
Normally I'm not a huge fan of your stuff, but I thought that was a good piece.
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#7
#7
Still don't understand why everyone is pushing the Panic Button on our Program, and our Coach. The man truly wants to win, better the team every day, and most importantly he wants to make the fans happy. A Few losses during year 4 doesn't take away all he has done for our program (not just wins and losses either), and In no way should his job be at stake. The man loves where he is, loves his job, and we should love him right back for that....Nice Job Griff!
 
#8
#8
Basketball still is and always will be a tournament sport. The grade on this team is incomplete until we are done with SEC and NCAA tournaments. Let's hope they can overachieve.
 
#9
#9
Good read, Griff. Interesting comment about early season success being due to teams not knowing how to match up against UT. Hopefully, the coaches can correct things going forward.
 
#10
#10
We can talk about schemes and strengths and weaknesses of the Vols and their opponents, but to me, the most obvious problem we have is lack of hustle and desire. On one particular play yesterday, a rebound hit the floor with 3 of our players standing there. None of the 3 made an effort to get the ball, a UK player grabbed it and turned it into a 3-pointer, increasing the Cats lead from 4 to 7 near the end of the first half.
 
#11
#11
Big Train said:
Still don't understand why everyone is pushing the Panic Button on our Program, and our Coach. The man truly wants to win, better the team every day, and most importantly he wants to make the fans happy. A Few losses during year 4 doesn't take away all he has done for our program (not just wins and losses either), and In no way should his job be at stake. The man loves where he is, loves his job, and we should love him right back for that....Nice Job Griff!
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not hitting a panic button, i'm hitting the disgust button in how our team seems to have not improved thru out the year. the effort is absolutely pathetic, makes me want to puke. i've gotten disgusted in their effort and will turn off the game half way thru the second half. well i've done that this past wk.
 
#12
#12
Tyler Smith wants to be the leader on this team, but the fact is that he can't force his will on other teams because we have no outside presence. When that happens, which probably won't be this year, we'll start to get a brain on offense.

This season is essentially a wash, and I think Bruce knows it. Barring an SEC tourney run, I think we'll be sitting at home through march madness. I like Bruce's optimism, but regressing through the season instead of improving is not what he gets paid $1.5 million or so to do.
 
#13
#13
Great read...

Pearl always comes off as being energetic and passionate, so I think we all know he will not quit. But the problems he has to fix with this team is not a 3 week job. I just hope somehow some way the players get it together attitude-wise. It would make Bruce's job a little easier.

The ball is still in Tennessee's court. They still control their own destiny to get a top 2 seed in the SECT and as high as a 5 seed in the NCAA tournament. It's time for them to step up, let's see what they'll do.
 
#14
#14
Good article Griff. I just hope Coach Pearl can light a fire under his guys and get them to play "together" better. Maybe they should have social things the whole team does together like a movie night or going to see children in the hospital.
 
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cardvolfan said:
We can talk about schemes and strengths and weaknesses of the Vols and their opponents, but to me, the most obvious problem we have is lack of hustle and desire. On one particular play yesterday, a rebound hit the floor with 3 of our players standing there. None of the 3 made an effort to get the ball, a UK player grabbed it and turned it into a 3-pointer, increasing the Cats lead from 4 to 7 near the end of the first half.
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It's funny you posted that...I saw it too..It was actually when I turned the game off..I figured if they don't care why should I care??..

I don't like to lose by any means but what I can't take is to lose and not hustle...It doesn't cost anything to hustle..At least go down with a fight..
 
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Big Train said:
Still don't understand why everyone is pushing the Panic Button on our Program, and our Coach. The man truly wants to win, better the team every day, and most importantly he wants to make the fans happy. A Few losses during year 4 doesn't take away all he has done for our program (not just wins and losses either), and In no way should his job be at stake. The man loves where he is, loves his job, and we should love him right back for that....Nice Job Griff!
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I agree 100%, Bruce has been a great coach, and we are really a young team except for Tyler and Wayne, and honestly I see both of them coming back next year. Everyone is on Bruce's back saying that he isn't a good coach and all of this mess, but look what we did last year and look at some of the wins we've had this year and some of the losses....Yeah we have had a few bad losses, but some of our losses have been just by a stupid mistake at the end of the game or luck just not falling our way. We have a chance still this year, but regardless of what happens this year, I think we will be a strong contender next year and Bruce will get things back to where they have been the previous years.
 
#18
#18
Exactly. Don't judge a coach by a single season, use his career at the university and what he has done for the university as a measuring stick. Duke had a worse season than we are having now in 2007, they still made the tournament and got to the sweet 16. Do you think during that bad stretch their fans were saying to Fire Coach K, and begging him to change his game plan, and critiquing everything he does? Duke realized he had a young and talented team and let it develop. We need to do he same. We will make the tourny, and possibly have a good run and then the haters will turn back into bandwagon riders.
 
#19
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cardvolfan said:
We can talk about schemes and strengths and weaknesses of the Vols and their opponents, but to me, the most obvious problem we have is lack of hustle and desire.
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Actually, Bruce summed it up best in another Griff article:

"I haven't taught AND disciplined our players enough to play our best basketball,'' Pearl said.

Awhile back a bunch of us on here argued whether it was an understanding of the game or a lack of discipline. I think I can say with greater clarity now that it's a combination of the two. You can't benefit from one without the other.

Fascinating (and I don't mean that in a sarcastic, critical way) that Bruce is now saying this 26 games into the season.
 
#20
#20
I never realized how important Chris Lofton was to this team. I knew he was one hell of a player, but I didn't know how important.
 
#22
#22
I heard Bruce apologize on the vol radio network after the game and I felt that he was sincerely felt sorry about the UK game. Thought that he should have made them run suicides everyday this week and do whatever it takes to make them play well. That game was pathetic and embarrassing.
 
#23
#23
BigPapaVol said:
JaJuan was a much more important player to this team.
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As much as JaJuan would give you those "what is he thinking?" moments, he really was a very big key to the success of the past BP coached teams.
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T_N_T said:
I heard Bruce apologize on the vol radio network after the game and I felt that he was sincerely felt sorry about the UK game. Thought that he should have made them run suicides everyday this week and do whatever it takes to make them play well. That game was pathetic and embarrassing.
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That only goes so far with today's type of players. The me first attitudes, can only be pushed so far now a days....(Which is why Bill Parcells, and Bob Knight don't have Jobs....Not just age, it is a youth movement type thing as well).

Doing conditioning isn't enough punishment and will only ware them out before our next game. It needs to be privileges, and PT. That is what gets to today's type of players. Ask my high school team, a friend of mine went from shooting 90% FT as a Junior, to about 60% as a Senior, and our coach didn't punish him at all....other than say "Until you Make 5,000 Free Throws you can play for me again....Needless to say the man is now shooting around 75% on the season and he has became a noticably better teammate.
 
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Lofton4Three said:
As much as JaJuan would give you those "what is he thinking?" moments, he really was a very big key to the success of the past BP coached teams.
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Imagine that. A tenacious defender was important to our team...
 
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