Biggest question: will we have anyone who can CONSISTENTLY shoot the 3 without disappearing in big games.this tickled me! We need a lot more than just dribbling to come in next year, but I’m hopeful everyone should be able to dribble.
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Yep a few girls had their worst game. I knew some time this season we would lose by a big margin. I thought it would have happened before this we have played better teams. The perfect storm of playing a team with a dynamic guard with 3 big's and 2 can run the floor and one hit 11 out of 11 shots and the other ran the court and drove the ball like a guard. Our best 3 point shooters disappeared and rebounds were at a minimum. I knew this would happen just got to move on. It happens a lot more than ppl think because most of their energy is on the team they watch. I've watched a lot of good teams get blown out this year. Our UT men's, UF men's USC women and so on if you play and watch this enough it happens.Had to dvr and watch this morning. SO many questions in my head...#1 is "how long do you continue the crapshow Speaman put on, throwing the ball in the general direction of the hoop?"
They’ve heavily tweaked everything else, just not the subbing. They believe the line subbing is necessary to get the amount of energy required in short bursts for the system to work. But that has the disadvantage you pointed out as well as it takes away benching as a teaching tool. CKC can and does remove players for lapses, but they’re right back in within two minutes, no reflection time.Don’t understand why people are confused by the slow starts. Who do you think has the advantage when the other team plays their starting 5 for the first 6-8 minutes and Tenn has players 6-10 in the game a minute in? I can’t think of any situation in basketball history where matching you bench against their starters has been a winning strategy. Maybe to send a message in a particular game, but not as a team philosophy.
It’s common sense. Name any top 10 team at any level that pulls their top 3-5 players out a minute in and puts their end of bench players in vs the other teams starters. You spend half the first quarter at a significant talent disadvantage. Can this work against a lesser team that might wear down over 40 minutes? Sure. But KY will win by 10+ points 9 out of 10 times if Amoore, Strack and Key play 34 minutes and 10-15 of those minutes are against Tenn’s 6-10 bench players. Kim will be ok if she isn’t too stubborn to tweak her style. I don’t care what class is coming in, a good or great team will always have the advantage if their stars are playing 8-12 more minutes than Tenn starters. Just tweak it where the top 2-3 play 32-34 minutes and hockey sub players 4-8.
People bring up 40 minutes of hell. But check and see how many players Nolan used in a big time matchup. Maybe 7. Eight at the most. Again, this can work, but not if stubbornness or pride gets in the way.
I'd call it two except we won one of them. No way Florida should've been as close as they were to winning. They beat us badly in the first half, but we came out in the second half and managed to overcome it. That was a poorly played game by us at florida we shot 40 percent far better than last night but still very bad performance. Florida is just a bad team that we were able to comeback.Every team has an off night - if this were two or three games in a row, I would be concerned.
This is a subset of one game...not ovely concerned right now.
Coach and players know what happened and what needs to happen to get it right.
Don’t think Zee and Ruby have gone against players who are both much taller and just as athletic as they are. Maybe they have, I’m sure someone will remind me. Key is 5 inches taller than Ruby so that’s a problem. Strack is 6’5” to Zee 6’4”. Then there’s Silva at 6’7 “but not as athletic waiting in the wings.Looking at these stats just makes me wonder what happened to our starters last Night.
Spearman 3 Strack 23
Whitehorn 5 Key 18
Spencer 8 Amoore 18
Spear 0 Lawrence 13
Cooper 25 Hassett 2
Thanks goodness for Copper or they almost had a shutout going. That 41 to 8 bashing of Spearman and Whitehorn is just hard to understand. Two players that have played against high level players as good or better than Strack and Key all season just got dominated by them in this game.
Bench Players Tennessee 17 Kentucky 8
If those five players don't respond in a game were going to lose. Our starters go 16 for 53 and theirs go 31 of 56 that is just sad to look at.
That's exactly right. In fact, but for the third quarter, we weren't much better against Florida. I love Coach Kim and trust she'll get things back on track, but this was the second straight dreadful effort.I'd call it two except we won one of them. No way Florida should've been as close as they were to winning. They beat us badly in the first half, but we came out in the second half and managed to overcome it. That was a poorly played game by us at florida we shot 40 percent far better than last night but still very bad performance. Florida is just a bad team that we were able to comeback.
I was thinking we had a plan to perform better offensively but the last two games have been disasters on offense just like early in the season.
Our seeding is interesting. This year we,ll face a biggie in the second game instead of the third. The semifinals have been our big stage recently , beating LSU two years ago and the infamous 1.1 last year, but it actually helps us to play the biggie in the second game this yr because our legs will be fresher. Also it will be the first game for whichever biggie, possibly first ever SEC tournament game for Texas and there could be nerves.The Tennessee men had a game like this at Florida went down there and lost by 30 points. The good part about that was they have played their way back into a number one seed and in the rematch against Florida won by 20 points. We don't get the opportunity for the rematch unless some strange things happen in the SEC Tourney, but we still can play at home and still be a three seed although it will take a huge couple wins in the SEC Tourney and beating Georgia Sunday.
Totally looks like we will be playing Vanderbilt or Miss St in the first game of the SEC Tourney unless one of the lower ranked teams beats one or both of them. Won't know until the games are played Sunday. Miss St holds the tiebreaker over Vandy but are 6 and 9 and Vandy is 7 and 8. We have to beat Georgia to avoid dropping below Vandy if they win at Missouri which is not going to be easy for them.
If we get seventh we line up with the two seed and eighth the one seed so it will be Texas or SC who we will play if we make it past the first game. Ole Miss is at LSU so I am thinking seventh for us exactly where we were picked to finish in the league. Seventh plays the two seed which with SC and Texas tieing for the title will be determined Sunday.
I think if we win Sunday and the first game of the SEC we hang onto the four seed and play at home. A win against those two and against Texas or SC could move us back to the three line or at least to one of the top two four seeds.
Kentucky gets the double bye even if they lose by having the tiebreaker over Oklahoma. A Oklahoma win would match them up with Kentucky in that game.
Going to be interesting and all I am wishing for is to hold on to that home court atvantage for the NCAA.
I guess that is an argument but LSU went up against them with shorter players and dominated them in the second half of the game. I'll just argue a bad game cause Kentucky lost to A&M and A&M certainly couldn't match up. Spear should've won her matchup by a few points and then if Spearman and Whitehorn can only muster half we make a game of it. I don't think Kentucky is even close to that dominant. Whatever happened last night is an outlier wish we had another game with them at our place.Don’t think Zee and Ruby have gone against players who are both much taller and just as athletic as they are. Maybe they have, I’m sure someone will remind me. Key is 5 inches taller than Ruby so that’s a problem. Strack is 6’5” to Zee 6’4”. Then there’s Silva at 6’7 “but not as athletic waiting in the wings.
It,s kind of telling that our only other height, Jill, is pretty much forgotten in all this.
Said since forever the two glaring problems for this team are lack of size and inconsistent 3 pt shooting.
Inconsistency has been the team this year don't see that changing now. Just need to hope the consistent one shows up for a few games going forward.Biggest question: will we have anyone who can CONSISTENTLY shoot the 3 without disappearing in big games.
LOL I have two completely useless mantras this season: what if we had gotten Nye and what if we had a pg like Spencer last yr w Rickea.
Agreed. I can't tell how concerned to be. What Kim said about this being the first time that she looked at her team and felt like they had nothing left to give scares me, as does what Sam said about it being hard to uplift a teammate when they're so down on themselves ("a lot of people were their own biggest critics, and no matter what anybody said to them, they couldn't turn it around"). It would be one thing if this were December or January, but don't love seeing this happen at the end of February.I'd call it two except we won one of them. No way Florida should've been as close as they were to winning. They beat us badly in the first half, but we came out in the second half and managed to overcome it. That was a poorly played game by us at florida we shot 40 percent far better than last night but still very bad performance. Florida is just a bad team that we were able to comeback.
I was thinking we had a plan to perform better offensively but the last two games have been disasters on offense just like early in the season.
You are probably on to something here. There is no question that we start slow almost every game. I've sort of accepted that it's just part of the scheme to wear the opponent down and pull away as the game goes. For the most part, it has played out that way, but I tend to agree that it might be better to leave our best 5 out there for at least the first 5 minutes. No need to dig a hole if you don't have to.Don’t understand why people are confused by the slow starts. Who do you think has the advantage when the other team plays their starting 5 for the first 6-8 minutes and Tenn has players 6-10 in the game a minute in? I can’t think of any situation in basketball history where matching you bench against their starters has been a winning strategy. Maybe to send a message in a particular game, but not as a team philosophy.
It’s common sense. Name any top 10 team at any level that pulls their top 3-5 players out a minute in and puts their end of bench players in vs the other teams starters. You spend half the first quarter at a significant talent disadvantage. Can this work against a lesser team that might wear down over 40 minutes? Sure. But KY will win by 10+ points 9 out of 10 times if Amoore, Strack and Key play 34 minutes and 10-15 of those minutes are against Tenn’s 6-10 bench players. Kim will be ok if she isn’t too stubborn to tweak her style. I don’t care what class is coming in, a good or great team will always have the advantage if their stars are playing 8-12 more minutes than Tenn starters. Just tweak it where the top 2-3 play 32-34 minutes and hockey sub players 4-8.
People bring up 40 minutes of hell. But check and see how many players Nolan used in a big time matchup. Maybe 7. Eight at the most. Again, this can work, but not if stubbornness or pride gets in the way.
I think about Nye every single game we play actually!Biggest question: will we have anyone who can CONSISTENTLY shoot the 3 without disappearing in big games.
LOL I have two completely useless mantras this season: what if we had gotten Nye and what if we had a pg like Spencer last yr w Rickea.
Cooper is a Dr. Jekylle / Mr. Hyde type player. She has extremely effective runs and just as many extremely ineffective runs in the same game. She seems to let her mistakes really impact her performance for a period of time. At least in the 1st Qtr, she had numerous blown defensive assignments that led to easy KY buckets. You can see where CKC is really getting on Cooper during the 1st Qtr for missed assignments.Agreed. I can't tell how concerned to be. What Kim said about this being the first time that she looked at her team and felt like they had nothing left to give scares me, as does what Sam said about it being hard to uplift a teammate when they're so down on themselves ("a lot of people were their own biggest critics, and no matter what anybody said to them, they couldn't turn it around"). It would be one thing if this were December or January, but don't love seeing this happen at the end of February.
I did catch a moment where it seemed Ruby was really trying to connect with Talaysia and lift her up during a sub switch, and Talaysia just ran off to the bench and Ruby looked frustrated. Then again, Talaysia was the only one who had a really good game, so not sure if she's one of the players Sam would've been referring to.