Cngrats on Making the Elite Eight

#27
#27
Refs get caught up in helping the home team. Terrible call on Burdick when she made a clean steal. Graves got hammered several times no call. That is what the home court brings more than anything Refs that swallow their whistle against the perceived visitor.
 
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#28
#28
ALLVOL24/7/365 said:
Now we are just a shell of that great program. Someone posted that if we played UCONN and lost by 35 that was okay with a depleted roster, is that what we have come to under CHW. Did anyone of us fans EVER think that we stood no chance of winning a game when CPS was here?
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That was me who said that, and I stand by it. And there is something seriously wrong with your reading comprehension because my next sentence was that they have no pressure on them, and UConn would be in a position where they could get tight. It's no different from how I (and I'm sure others) felt in the 2002 Final Four when UConn had that monster team that was killing everyone: Tennessee will probably lose big, but anything can happen so let's not write them off yet.

Tennessee is missing three post players this year...including their overall best player. If they made the FF, that would be a huge accomplishment, no matter who the coach is. If you think that's The Dark Ages, then I pity whatever team it is that you root for.
 
#29
#29
I liked the shirt very much. Wish Holly would wear warm ups - she'd be more comfortable.

We should have started the full court press ten minutes into the game. We should also have ditched the one on one defense ten minutes into the game. Gonzaga was taller and both Ariel and Cierra had no chance with their players one on one inside. We needed some type of help defense against the taller opponents.

Holly should have made those adjustments sooner. But, she did make them in time for a win. Congratulations and go Lady Vols.
 
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#30
#30
Volstylexx said:
GO AWAY. Cheer for another team. If you are criticizing the shirt our head coach is wearing.... you are beyond stupid.
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Actually that was one the best coaching job of Holly's young coaching career, just the fight our ladies played with made me proud, that was Lady Vols basketball. And I liked the shirt, the makeup not so much... ijs. lol
 
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#31
#31
Burned a lot of my daily allotment of
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on this thread, except for post #10.
 
#32
#32
The anti-Holly crowd is beyond reason. Appealing to win percentages, conference titles, gritty wins, overcoming massive injury problems and personnel shortfalls, none of that makes any difference. For this crowd, Holly does not deserve the job and can not coach just because of her clothing choices, her accents, her stutters in interviews and on and on.

This crowd of course would have likely been calling for CPS's head had the coach not been such a legend. But under CPS, the LVs offensive execution was never poetry in motion. Even with a player like Candace Parker, the LVs often struggled to find a consistent offensive scheme. And the LVs were often accused of playing down to the competition and many other parallels. The reality is that LVs for all their success have never consistently dominated teams like the Huskies, who seem to be the tacit comparison in many of these anti-Holly rants.

While Holly had been a long time assistant, she also had the longest tutelage imaginable under the coach of the freakin' century and has been loyal beyond belief to the program. Those attributes coupled with her high win % should count for something.

But come the Maryland, we will see that if the LVs lose, the anti-Holly's will be posting their misspelled tirades; and should the LVs win (against the odds really, given the undersized and undermanned state of the team's post position) the critic will be in a "yeah, BUT" mode; BUT the LVs should have been more dominant in getting to the final four; they had the easiest region; they should have been to the Final four more times that one under Holly; and of course with her "superior" talent she should have won the NC; a claim that is always followed by the charge that Holly can't recruit. Logic is not the basis of these anti-Holly rants.
 
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ALLVOL24/7/365 said:
Well I would agree with Volunle2 that it was a gritty performance by the team when they realized they were about to lose to a much less athletic 11 seed. The only problem is poor coaching let them get that far behind, and then the young women's pride won inspite of the poor head coach we have. We should have easily beat that team by double digits. So Amb3096 I do not think anything Holly has to say will help this team at all.
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you do know that CHW and her team tied the Lady Vol record for the biggest comeback in Tourament play ?

I would assume that that team was coached by one CPS

I'm trying to remember if I have ever heard so much griping about a pretty damn impressive come from behind win

it was a win,not a lost chance at the Elite Eight,they have moved forward,which is all i am wanting for any game , any time in Tournament play,I personally don't care if it is a pretty win or an ugly win

just win :good!:
 
#34
#34
You don't have to bash Pat to make your case. We don't know when the alzheimer started for Pat, so the last few years are what they are.

Some fans to need stop comparing Holly to Pat, the same can be said about the fans that defend Holly by pointing out Pat's last few years.

Pat won. How she won really doesn't matter? She won.

Cos a person defending Holly by comparing her to Pat are just worse than those who compare Holly to Pat.
 
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