Game Thread: (12/8) Lady Vols 53 - (1/1) South Carolina 67

[KrazyVolFan]

Hey — y’all, it was a delight. The game didn’t provide my entertainment, but y’all certainly did. Have a good day.

Bye

 

[dtnvol]

If we had of played this hard all year, this would be just the 2nd lost of the season...

 

[volforlife10]

Our rebounding is what hurt us the most this game. They had 31 offensive rebounds, 60 overall! Ridiculous!

horston is our best rebounder. her being hurt really hurt the rebounding stat.

 

[Aladywhovolunteer]

Never been prouder of a team. Great game ladies.

 

[VA_VOLFAN]

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I am cracking up at this meme

 

[charleyhorse]

Right now South Carolina is head and shoulders above the rest of the country in women’s college basketball but Harper has Tennessee heading in the right direction.

Yes if she doesn’t let off off court dictate on court

 

[sechamp2012]

I think the refs should start wearing Fake Eye lashes so they could call the game from a player perspective.Cut down on the bright light glare get more calls right. It should be a rule LOL.

 

[VA_VOLFAN]

I hope Kelly noticed because the energy really went up when she got playing time.

if she was gonna make it a mistake it was gonna be aggressive and i like that lol

 

[Volfan2012]

Key had ten blocks today missed a triple double by three rebounds.

 

[Prophet1]

Kind of reminds me of the LSU men's coach.

Dawn was trying to run up the score . No class.

 

[charleyhorse]

Key had ten blocks today missed a triple double by three rebounds.

No 9 got put back in for baskets

 

[volnationnj]

SC shot worse than we did this game (SC 32.1% - LV's 33.3%)
We lost because we got killed on the boards (SC 31 offensive rebounds ! and 29 Defensive. We had 17 O and 21 D). That's an overall 60-38 advantage. And that's why they had 13 more fga's.
Difficult to overcome unless we shoot a lot better.

 

[JCP201]

I have never seen so many whistles. Did anyone on our team ever get a chance to rebound and run to the basket? It doesn't seem like it. (This and the Tennessee chargers last night) I had to turn the sound down--got sick of Boston slurping.

 

[dtnvol]

horston is our best rebounder. her being hurt really hurt the rebounding stat.

As well as Keyen...

 

[th2421]

I'm pretty impressed, to be honest. To stay that competitive for 40 minutes on the road against the #1 team in the country, with basically only one practice day to prepare to play without Horston, and especially with how deflated we looked in that stretch after the Keyen Green injury...a sign we can really still do some good things. Massey had us losing this one 66-53 (only 1 point off!) and that would presumably be with a healthy Horston.

No other team in the nation has the length and size of South Carolina. Burrell, Darby, and Puckett can shoot better than they showed today against SC's defenders. If we can figure out our rebounding a little better moving forward (our box-outs today were very good but 1) SC was too tall and 2) it seemed like there was a lack of communication at times about who would go get the ball with Horston out), the rest of the regular season games are totally winnable.

Edit: Other positives are that this is the most aggressive I think we've seen Key be since the Green injury. Also might have been Kaiya Wynn's best game yet and it was on the biggest stage.

 

[volforlife10]

As well as Keyen...

yes her as well. people don’t understand how hard keyen played. she was tough and a huge energizer.

 

[VolBall09]

Really proud of Tamari. To manage 10 blocks in a game called like this is wild. She made her presence felt. Double double for the big girl.

 

[RAVOL]

Effort and fight was there just couldn't finish and put the ball in basket. If Dye can bring this attack mode against other teams she will help us win some more games. Again love the energy and fight and the most frustrating thing is they didn't have that in losses to Bama and Auburn. In CHRIST Alone

 

[dtnvol]

Some of us need not forget how good we were at rebounding BEFORE the injuries...Also SC is the best rebounding team in the nation right now...

 

[fifties fan]

See a lot of Tess criticism on here, but nobody hustled harder on defense today. Several players thought they would take JH's place today. None succeeded.

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

It's been entertaining.
Lady Vols played hard. Not always smart, but hard

We are a few players short of getting back to competitive with power houses at full strength, with a recovering Burrell and losing Green and Horston recently it is going to be inconsistent and tough. Only positive I see today is we only lost the TO battle by 2 (14-12) to a team of this quality playing a lot of good pressure defense.

 

[Memvol44]

Ok , Im probably in the minority but Wynn has impressed me! that move she just did was impressive with a little more burn time and control she will be good.

She is type of SEC guard we need athletic and has some skills.

Wynn and strip played well tonight ..

 

[JohnnyPayne]

Great effort today. The ladies played hard and kept it closer than anticipated without Horston.

 

[shiverz]

I thought she was about to dunk that jawn

I think she would have if Darby didn't spoil it.

 

[Majors]

SC has shot worse than we did this game (SC 32.1% - LV's 33.3%)
We lost because we got killed on the boards (SC 31 offensive rebounds ! and 29 Defensive. We had 17 O and 21 D). That's an overall 60-38 advantage. And that's why they had 13 more fga's.
Difficult to overcome unless we shoot a lot better.

10% from 3 is being over looked here. Made
1 out of 10 for the day. Missed 7 free throws (10-17)