Diamond DeShields article

[Coach Jumper]

NO Diamond was Beta last year. Not alpha. An alpha athlete performs every nite and leads by example on and off the court, in practices and games. If u ain't performing to yo potential u ain't Alpha, and no confidence. So, no Diamond wasn't an alpha player last year.

Alpha for one don't like to be told wut to do, it doesn't take an Alpha coach to lead, an Alpha athlete, just someone who that person trusts, and gonna be honest.

Alpha player don't need anything from anyone, just to remind them of the goals, and to stay in the moment and remain focus.

Holly and her staff can do that, most importantly, I think Diamond teammates will hold her more accountable this year.

She always been Alpha, not last year. ijs. This year. We shall see. Her swag and confidence used to crush teams before they played, no one feared the Lady Vols last year.

Mercedes, make that Izzy jump this year, All American jump this year, two years.

You are confusing alpha males with alpha females. I have coached alpha females for most of my coaching life and I know that they take a constant overseeing of their inner psyche. If they are led by an alpha male or alpha female they follow without much problem, as they have a visible example to follow.... But if they are led by a Beta female or beta male, they will use very different tactics. They will fight using the Beta's passive aggressive tactics (Shutting down). . The whole world saw this last season. DD went into a shutdown (She was still an alpha, but she was fighting with a beta on her own terms). This is how an alpha fights with a beta, by doing what the beta does, only better. It took a conversation over dinner with Jollette for DD to come out of her funk. And it will take more than one of these talks from someone over the season for DD to excel. It is not a character flaw or an immaturity. It is simply how an alpha female is wired.

You think Holly and her staff can do this?
I think that they lost the part of their staff who can do this with Pat's passing.
You can't replace Pat, but you better replace the missing coaching personna

Until they get someone on this staff who can read an alpha, this will continue.
And let me tell you.
They have an even more dominant alpha in Nunn.
Look in that girl's eyes...Total Alpha.

 

[ladyvosl23]

I believe last year was a great learning experience for holly , but I do not think holly is the coach you will scream all the time that is not who she is , but i do think she demands a certain standard and that she will make sure it is addressed.

 

[kvol1987]

Way to ruin a good article people

The things about an article, the writer puts in the quotes that fit the framework of what he or she is writing. If there are no quotes about her team that doesn't mean she didn't give any, it means the writer didn't add any. Since we don't know and she speaks of wanting to win a defensive award, one should give DD the benefit of doubt on this one and pray she and the rest of the team can stay healthy.

 

[Pat4life]

You are confusing alpha males with alpha females. I have coached alpha females for most of my coaching life and I know that they take a constant overseeing of their inner psyche. If they are led by an alpha male or alpha female they follow without much problem, as they have a visible example to follow.... But if they are led by a Beta female or beta male, they will use very different tactics. They will fight using the Beta's passive aggressive tactics (Shutting down). . The whole world saw this last season. DD went into a shutdown (She was still an alpha, but she was fighting with a beta on her own terms). This is how an alpha fights with a beta, by doing what the beta does, only better. It took a conversation over dinner with Jollette for DD to come out of her funk. And it will take more than one of these talks from someone over the season for DD to excel. It is not a character flaw or an immaturity. It is simply how an alpha female is wired.

You think Holly and her staff can do this?
I think that they lost the part of their staff who can do this with Pat's passing.
You can't replace Pat, but you better replace the missing coaching personna

Until they get someone on this staff who can read an alpha, this will continue.
And let me tell you.
They have an even more dominant alpha in Nunn.
Look in that girl's eyes...Total Alpha.

If she's an Alpha. We play in the Final Four. Ok Semantics.

Yes, Alpha can have beta moment. And last year play was a beta moment. She's alpha in mind, but in body and play last year it was definitely beta.

You are pullin for straws, their is a no one model fit all coaching style for Alpha athletes, for instance on our Championship team, we had three alphas, a coach couldn't come at all of us the same and I have won championships with both.

So, Holly gets it cos she been around long enough to get it. She kept that team together last year, when the whole Lady Vols nation turned their back on the team, fire Holly and she held that team together, with all the distractions she held them together and finally had a nice tourney run, these ladies could have quit on her, but they didn't, they played some their best ball for her and the Lady Vols fan, and I think they will continue to do that.

Holly, kudos for staying true to the process. We will be a better team for it.

If she is the best player, the Diana Taurasi of this generation, the Alpha Dog Guard. We win a Championship. Simple as that.

Fire Holly. No, not again!

 

[Pat4life]

It takes the coach, a while to raise the bar. Holly has to raise her bar, the Lady Vols bar. And its a process. She is not Pat. Excellence, just don't happen overnight, greatness just don't happen over night, its a process.

Holly knows that process, she's helped build it. Holly is building her program, can we please give her some support.

 

[Pat4life]

A grown mane inside the mind of a young female. So your pullin from personal experience. Wow. So, are you an Alpha Female Coach Jumper? wuteva.

Like My Granddady you to say "Boyee there's mo than one way to skin a cat. ******nit!"

 

[Coach Jumper]

A grown mane inside the mind of a young female. So your pullin from personal experience. Wow. So, are you an Alpha Female Coach Jumper? wuteva.

Like My Granddady you to say "Boyee there's mo than one way to skin a cat. ******nit!"

there are many grown men who have dedicated their coaching lives to females, exclusively.... One up in Connecticut.... many more. . .

Yes I pull from personal experience and no I don't struggle with getting the best out of my girls.

Whatever!

 

[Pat4life]

Yeah. But he will never be the Greatest WOMEN's Basketball coach ever. Pat, cos she's a woman.

And I don't think Men should be allowed to coach women, til women are able to coach men. So dont' go there.

Where do you coach?

 

[Coach Jumper]

Yeah. But he will never ben the Greatest Women's Basketball coach ever. Pat, cos she's a woman.

And I don't think Men should be allowed to coach women, til women are able to coach men. So dont' go there.

Where do you coach?

I am not a Geno fan, per say. But he has broken ground for male coaches. Pat will always be the best, I have no argument to that. She did what she did long before anyone took the female athletes seriously. Pat is THE pioneer and will always be my choice as the best ever . I watched her coach the LV's with my Dad in the early 80's. . . But I am a male. If you know anything about girls, you know that a male coach can say the EXACT same thing to a young girl that a female coach can say, and it is taken oh so differently. So I have to watch the male coaches to learn...I like this. I have mastered this. I made the decision to coach only girls. . . I made that decision because of what I saw coaching girls when my niece approached me to work with her BB team in 1981. I continued to coach girls exclusively because of the "left-over" coaches that were prevalent in that early era.

BUT, 35 years later women still do layups from the "two hand belly pickup" instead of picking the ball up off of their side-dribble and using the off-hand to fend,,, I've seen maybe 3-4 females in my life who could do a true jumphook,,, I see WNBA players who still shoot the "push shot" instead of the jump-shot. . . And I can count the number of reverse layups I saw last year by female players using only my fingers.

35 years later!
And you gripe about a man coaching women.

I have gone to battle on a court with hundreds of females in my lifetime. I wouldn't trade the worst female team for a national championship boys team.

 

[Pat4life]

I am not a Geno fan, per say. But he has broken ground for male coaches. Pat will always be the best, I have no argument to that. She did what she did long before anyone took the female athletes seriously. Pat is THE pioneer and will always be my choice as the best ever . I watched her coach the LV's with my Dad in the early 80's. . . But I am a male. If you know anything about girls, you know that a male coach can say the EXACT same thing to a young girl that a female coach can say, and it is taken oh so differently. So I have to watch the male coaches to learn...I like this. I have mastered this. I made the decision to coach only girls. . . I made that decision because of what I saw coaching girls when my niece approached me to work with her BB team in 1981. I continued to coach girls exclusively because of the "left-over" coaches that were prevalent in that early era.

BUT, 35 years later women still do layups from the "two hand belly pickup" instead of picking the ball up off of their side-dribble and using the off-hand to fend,,, I've seen maybe 3-4 females in my life who could do a true jumphook,,, I see WNBA players who still shoot the "push shot" instead of the jump-shot. . . And I can count the number of reverse layups I saw last year by female players using only my fingers.

35 years later!
And you gripe about a man coaching women.

I have gone to battle on a court with hundreds of females in my lifetime. I wouldn't trade the worst female team for a national championship boys team.

Sorry Pat broke grounds for male coaching, by being able to demand the salary that made the women's job more appealing. Men. Men. Men. Men. Men. wuteva.


Lady Vols = Wonder Woman...

Uconn = Super Girls...

 

[Pat4life]

Alpha, athlete just don't follow anyone, or any coach. The team usually follow the Alpha athlete's lead, and personally, I don't see Mercedes, Diamond, or Nared or a recruit respectin yo resume, yo qualification boo. Ijs.

Aye, great for message board tho.

I mean who have you coached. wuteva.

 

[reno tony]

I am not a Geno fan, per say. But he has broken ground for male coaches. Pat will always be the best, I have no argument to that. She did what she did long before anyone took the female athletes seriously. Pat is THE pioneer and will always be my choice as the best ever . I watched her coach the LV's with my Dad in the early 80's. . . But I am a male. If you know anything about girls, you know that a male coach can say the EXACT same thing to a young girl that a female coach can say, and it is taken oh so differently. So I have to watch the male coaches to learn...I like this. I have mastered this. I made the decision to coach only girls. . . I made that decision because of what I saw coaching girls when my niece approached me to work with her BB team in 1981. I continued to coach girls exclusively because of the "left-over" coaches that were prevalent in that early era.

BUT, 35 years later women still do layups from the "two hand belly pickup" instead of picking the ball up off of their side-dribble and using the off-hand to fend,,, I've seen maybe 3-4 females in my life who could do a true jumphook,,, I see WNBA players who still shoot the "push shot" instead of the jump-shot. . . And I can count the number of reverse layups I saw last year by female players using only my fingers.

35 years later!
And you gripe about a man coaching women.

I have gone to battle on a court with hundreds of females in my lifetime. I wouldn't trade the worst female team for a national championship boys team.

It sounds like you watch only High School WBB. I don't watch a lot of College WBB but I see a lot of what you don't. And the WNBA is filled with great players that can make a jump shot, lay-up and a hook. You should check them out when you have some time. The Olympics, what is left, showcases some of the best players in the world... you might enjoy watching them. There is this woman named Diana Taurasi that has a great reverse lay-up. Maya Moore and Tamika Catchings have great pull-up jumpers and Britney Griner can throw a hook at the basket once in a while. Check them out, you might get hooked on Women's Basketball.

 

[Coach Jumper]

It sounds like you watch only High School WBB. I don't watch a lot of College WBB but I see a lot of what you don't. And the WNBA is filled with great players that can make a jump shot, lay-up and a hook. You should check them out when you have some time. The Olympics, what is left, showcases some of the best players in the world... you might enjoy watching them. There is this woman named Diana Taurasi that has a great reverse lay-up. Maya Moore and Tamika Catchings have great pull-up jumpers and Britney Griner can throw a hook at the basket once in a while. Check them out, you might get hooked on Women's Basketball.

I see what I see and you see what you want to see.

 

[boxerpupsrcool]

I'm excited to see what a fully healthy diamond can do for Tennessee the next couple seasons. My big concern is the defense. Defense, or lack thereof, has been the huge final four roadblock for holly.

 

[Coach Jumper]

It sounds like you watch only High School WBB. I don't watch a lot of College WBB but I see a lot of what you don't. And the WNBA is filled with great players that can make a jump shot, lay-up and a hook. You should check them out when you have some time. The Olympics, what is left, showcases some of the best players in the world... you might enjoy watching them. There is this woman named Diana Taurasi that has a great reverse lay-up. Maya Moore and Tamika Catchings have great pull-up jumpers and Britney Griner can throw a hook at the basket once in a while. Check them out, you might get hooked on Women's Basketball.

I did a search "Brittney Griner hook shot"... Came up empty. . .

Saw Maya play in Atlanta at Pistols invitationals, she started shooting from the temple at 13-14.
There's another beautiful stroke from around ATL,,,Diamond, her stroke is just as pretty...

And I take nothing away from Lady Di. . .

But they're the exception not the rule....It should be the other way around by now!

Re the Olympics... Are they that far behind, or, are we that far ahead?

 

[Nuyoika]

I'm excited to see what a fully healthy diamond can do for Tennessee the next couple seasons. My big concern is the defense. Defense, or lack thereof, has been the huge final four roadblock for holly.

It is 2016. You are not going to hold the better teams in the country under 50 in the tournament just with "good defense" like the old days. The talent across the country and the coaching is getting better. Also, they don't have a choice but to be good. They have what 9 or so available players.

I certainly hope the coaching staff is just as concerned about the offense as they are the defense. Over the last 5 years or so the top scoring teams averaged between 80 & 90 PPG on the season. Since the 2007-2008 Tennessee has only cracked 70 once in their final game of the season.

Minus Reeves the rest of the staff has been together oh say a half a century or so right? They will get it together... someone has too since they aren't taking Coach Jumper's help.

They need to get these kids to score if they want to see a FF.

 

[reno tony]

I did a search "Brittney Griner hook shot"... Came up empty. . .

Saw Maya play in Atlanta at Pistols invitationals, she started shooting from the temple at 13-14.
There's another beautiful stroke from around ATL,,,Diamond, her stroke is just as pretty...

And I take nothing away from Lady Di. . .

But they're the exception not the rule....It should be the other way around by now!

Re the Olympics... Are they that far behind, or, are we that far ahead?

You actually searched Griner hook shot. You should watch a few games and not depend on Google for your research.

 

[jonson]

I see what I see and you see what you want to see.

For a hook shot, Tina Charles (there's even an instructional video on YouTube). What about Seimone Augustus's jump shot? Of Breanna Stewart (you can find videos of a reverse layup or two)? Or Moriah Jefferson or Courtney Williams?

I think there are women with these skills than you suggest. On the other hand, I do agree that these skills should indeed be the norm.

 

[Coach Jumper]

For a hook shot, Tina Charles (there's even an instructional video on YouTube). What about Seimone Augustus's jump shot? Of Breanna Stewart (you can find videos of a reverse layup or two)? Or Moriah Jefferson or Courtney Williams?

I think there are women with these skills than you suggest. On the other hand, I do agree that these skills should indeed be the norm.

I DVR the USA games. I watched the recording of the women's game on Friday. Seimone Augustus's jump shot is perfect form... At one point, she hit a jumper from the elbow,, the camera view was from behind her. I froze her on a shot... I froze it at the top of her jump, just as the release was happening. . . I thought to myself "If I didn't know it was a girl, I WOULDN'T know it was a girl.

DD is such a shooter.
Her release is beautiful too.

 

[Coach Jumper]

You actually searched Griner hook shot. You should watch a few games and not depend on Google for your research.

See below

 

[reno tony]

See below

This is getting interesting... what am I supposed to see?

 

[Coach Jumper]

This is getting interesting... what am I supposed to see?

I follow this game on every level. I watch NBA, WNBA, Men's CBB, Women's CBB, HS, MS and AAU. I watch at least a game or two in each program every year.

Right now I am watching the USA . Just 5 Olympics later, I see the rest of the world catching up to what was once the Dream Team in men's BB. . . Then I look at the utter dominance of USA WBB and the run they just had. Historic. Beating by an AVERAGE of 38 points. Double digit rebounding, double digit assists, a near 2;1 assist to turnover ratio... and wonder...

 

[volnationnj]

I follow this game on every level. I watch NBA, WNBA, Men's CBB, Women's CBB, HS, MS and AAU. I watch at least a game or two in each program every year.

Right now I am watching the USA . Just 5 Olympics later, I see the rest of the world catching up to what was once the Dream Team in men's BB. . . Then I look at the utter dominance of USA WBB and the run they just had. Historic. Beating by an AVERAGE of 38 points. Double digit rebounding, double digit assists, a near 2;1 assist to turnover ratio... and wonder...

What is it that you wonder about ?

 

[gule]

he done gon of da rocker, agin?

 

[gule]

not one dunk in the entire women's Olympics tourney?


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