Game Thread: #23/23 LADY VOLS VS. LSU

[gule]

Laugh if you will but if you had ever witnessed the 6 player games as played in Tn hs until the early 70’s and in Iowa until 1980’s you would have seen just as an exciting game as you see today in girls b-ball. Good teams, good coaching and good fans.

 

[creekdipper]

Best of all, no rolled-up skirts.

 

[krichunaka]

That would be a game to watch! You got your women who play defense and your women who play offense. No mingling and jumping around run and gun like.

I tell ya (Shaking fist at the sky) the world has gone to heck in hand a basket since they the ladies start playing full court and running around all over the place helter skelter like.

And, when it seems it couldn’t get any worse ...a uterus hits the floor.

Everyone is due some criticism, so why not Jessie Rennie? She overplays the “team first” concept and passes up shots. That’s her weakness. That’s my criticism. If you ain’t scoring, every little miscue is magnified.
Shoot the ball, Jessie!
All this has me thinking more about Coach Kellie’s offensive scheme, which many posters think she doesn’t even have. I disagree. Everybody knows she likes shooters (who doesn’t?). We also know that we are big and tall. She has attempted to exploit our height advantage by having Massengill, and of course, Horston drive and dish. These little designs aren’t just chalked up and run to perfection every time, and thus our biggest hiccup - turnovers. Have you noticed most of our screen action occurs in, or very near the paint? ...again the emphasis on post play.
But, not JUST post play.
Many of our turnovers have simply been the result of coming in a little too hot. There’s another characteristic to those drive-and-dish blunders: We’ve had unguarded shooters ...because EVERY defense we’ve seen has been most concerned with our height, and of course, with Rennia Davis.
The broader point here is, our offense is inherently “creating shots!” For Jessie, Lou, Rae, Rennia.
So where it appears that Coach Kelli is placing a low premium on creating outside shots, the scheme she’s utilizing is designed to do just that.
And it’s working!
Execution, not design, is the problem.
So, all that’s required to create shots for Rennie is to get the ball to her.
Pomptly.
As we improve our offensive execution, we will “create” more, better shots.

 

[VolBall09]

I feel like people are dragging Horston for her turnovers but not looking at the bigger picture.

Sure, she turns it over, but she still has more assists than turns on the season. When is the last time we had a freshman who was passing the ball like this? So far the answer is never. I think she’s going to be the PG we need.

As freshman Annie Hayes and Evina got talked up a lot for their passing. Annie had a negative AT ratio with 114 assists to 117 TOs. Evina had about the same AT/o as Jordan currently does, ending the 17-18 season with 143 assists and 121 turns.

Jordan already has 103 assists to 88 turnovers and we are only 2/3 of the way through the regular season. If she cleans up the turnovers even more going forward she will undoubtedly end the season as our best freshman passer EVER. In the history of the program. To this point of the season she has more assists per game than any other freshman in history. If the last game out was any indication that’s only going to get better.

Proud of our team this season, the more I look at where they are compared to last year the better I feel.

 

[PRG]

For those who would consider try to draw a correlation between Evina and Horston! Please stop ..... There is tooooo wide of a gap between these two !!!!!

Jordan is and will FOREVER be a better player/teammate...... JMO

There is not enough positive adjectives to describe Jordan . This is the best thing to happen to the Lady Vols in a very long time. She will be one of the reasons other top talent come to UT ! (A chance to play with her ) again JMO

PS : T. Key ain’t no slouch either. Just Saying

 

[dapeak]

For those who would consider try to draw a correlation between Evina and Horston! Please stop ..... There is tooooo wide of a gap between these two !!!!!

Jordan is and will FOREVER be a better player/teammate...... JMO

There is not enough positive adjectives to describe Jordan . This is the best thing to happen to the Lady Vols in a very long time. She will be one of the reasons other top talent come to UT ! (A chance to play with her ) again JMO

PS : T. Key ain’t no slouch either. Just Saying View attachment 257634

Jordan is great but so is Evina. Had Evina stayed along with Collins, With those two being coach by Kellie, I have no doubt we would probably be undefeated at this point in the season.

 

[madtownvol]

And, when it seems it couldn’t get any worse ...a uterus hits the floor.

Krich,
You know, I was "gule-ing", right?
MTV

 

[Coach Jumper]

I feel like people are dragging Horston for her turnovers but not looking at the bigger picture.

Sure, she turns it over, but she still has more assists than turns on the season. When is the last time we had a freshman who was passing the ball like this? So far the answer is never. I think she’s going to be the PG we need.

As freshman Annie Hayes and Evina got talked up a lot for their passing. Annie had a negative AT ratio with 114 assists to 117 TOs. Evina had about the same AT/o as Jordan currently does, ending the 17-18 season with 143 assists and 121 turns.

Jordan already has 103 assists to 88 turnovers and we are only 2/3 of the way through the regular season. If she cleans up the turnovers even more going forward she will undoubtedly end the season as our best freshman passer EVER. In the history of the program. To this point of the season she has more assists per game than any other freshman in history. If the last game out was any indication that’s only going to get better.

Proud of our team this season, the more I look at where they are compared to last year the better I feel.

You see what I see!
This kid is worth watching her grow.

 

[Tennesseefan2019]

I bet you would have loved this team. Very, uh, structured indeed.....

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They could have beaten this season's Ole Miss team

 

[krichunaka]

Krich,
You know, I was "gule-ing", right?
MTV

Yessir, I figured as much. But your analogy was, Simply Irresistible (due reverence to the late, great Robert Palmer).
And, I was gonna tell the one about the local gals here in dirt poor Carter County deciding to have themselves a Ladies "Professional" Football Team. Never mind that none of them had played the sport. Ever. I'll spare you that one, well, except to say, I covered a few games for the local paper. Those Wimmin' would absolutely knock your socks off. Gruesome stuff.
Cheers.