Game Thread: (4/5) Lady Vols 61 - Auburn 71

[Mr French]

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[W.TN.Orange Blood]

Got a helmet on & smacked him in the face. What good was the helmet?

 

[J-Dog 1313]

CHOKE. NO SEC FOR UT

Unless TN wins out from here. Still possible.

 

[SandyO]

And Sarah Puckett!

 

[JCP201]

Can LV fans jump ship any faster ?
I didn't expect Tennessee to go undefeated in the SEC. However. I didn't expect them to lose to a previously SEC winless Auburn.
Bad games happen. Tennessee had been playing great team ball for the entire season. This is the anomaly. Let's see how they react, in the next few games, before burying them.

Not jumping ship, but this loss should not happen. Makes me worry about losing Green-- I didn't see anyone who can take her place when Key is in foul trouble.

 

[J-Dog 1313]

The season isn't over yet after this one loss. Goodness y'all.

Agreed. TN is still tied with South Carolina for the regular SEC title. Go get it LVs.

 

[Luna2012]

That G Tech win over UConn doesn't look so bad now...

 

[Putbacks]

The season isn't over yet after this one loss. Goodness y'all.

That’s not a final assessment. That’s the current assessment. We have to get better and fix things.

 

[Mr French]

And Sarah Puckett!

She will be great her junior and senior year. Pure scorer but I don't love her down low at this point with boxing out. Saunders needs to be a reliable defensive player next year.

 

[teacherdean]

We also missed Green, she is a banger who comes in and adds some real hype to the game. Saunders is not even close to replacing her. I wonder why Striplin did not play any, she has to be more aggressive than Saunders. However, they all played poorly.

 

[glv98]

Rae's worst game and Dyes' as well. We cut Key out of the offense. And overall the effort wasn't there tonight.
Didnt see this coming.

This is the game where our turnovers finally caught up with us.

All of this. Things were bound to catch up with us, I just didn't think it would be against Auburn. By far Dye's worst game, she was just out of synch all night.

Dang Rae and those slippers. She's does the slippin and slidin thing when she's forcing the offense, which she did all night. Rae has regressed since her injury. Has shown nice shooting touch at times but never really in flow yet. That late t.o. off the leg was the coffin nail. Right now, best for her to take her covid year and come back next year.

Good for Horston shaking off a terrible first half. She and Walker both scored well. They also combined for 8 t.o.s in the first half, JH had 6 total. This has to stop. Up until tonight we've been able to outplay the t.o.s but we knew it wouldn't last.

Losing Keyen has hurt us more than expected.

I said at the time I thought this was the one we'd have trouble getting beyond for lots of reasons. Mostly bc the next guys up were way less than ready. There's no need to pile on, we all saw it, but dear God could Striplin possibly be worse than what we saw? It's almost not fair or decent to let a player so badly out of their league even go out there. There have to be other options. Enough said.

As far as Key, bless her heart she just can't win. She's so overly cautious when she is on the floor that she's almost ineffective. I'm not sure why we can't at least get her more involved in the offense in the fleeting moments she is in the game. IMO she just has to play with effing abandon and let what happens happen.

A sucky loss, but we'll see what they do with it. Not the end of the world, at least hopefully. Time to pull it together one more time.

 

[stlvolsfan]

Unless TN wins out from here. Still possible.

If we don’t solve our post play, SC, LSU, and even Mizzou will light us up.

 

[UT Challenger]

I listened to the game on radio. Turnovers and rebounding killed us. We got out rebounded bad tonight.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

That’s not a final assessment. That’s the current assessment. We have to get better and fix things.

Starts with Kellie .... I'm sure she'll be watching this team's breakdown tape replay & what to do about fixing it.

 

[JFP]

Shots from out in the paint will never go in if the ball doesn't clear the rim. Dye needs to aim at the middle of the back of the rim. Quit the wild lobs. Her improvement on her shot's aim needs to go along with her other very good play.

 

[Nute Gunray]

I listened to the game on radio. Turnovers and rebounding killed us. We got out rebounded bad tonight.

Rebounds LVs 43, Auburn 30.

 

[Volstylexx]

No chance at a 1 seed after this, you can kiss that goodbye. All we can hope for is that they beat UConn and/or SC otherwise ESPN will be reminding everyone for the rest of the season how Tenn lost to Auburn.

Auburn was 98th in net rankings out of 356 before tonight’s win. On paper, the loss wasn’t horrible, but it’s hard to overcome the visual of losing to a team that has lost 23 straight SEC games. They’ve been close many times this season (including a win over a top 25 GA Tech team). They just happened to finish tonight.

 

[OrngeJuiceJones]

I mean wow. Pure crap loss.

 

[Aladywhovolunteer]

Tough loss. Walker and Horston played very well, until they got sped up with a couple of minutes left. Let's be honest (in my opinion) the winning play for Auburn occurred on Sunday when Keyen Green was injured. Auburn played well and deserved to win; however, Keyen's presence was greatly missed. As Kellie said in her press conference concerning Keyen's loss, "It's a gut punch for our team."

 

[UT Challenger]

The 4 subs turned the momentum in the first quarter. We were playing uphill the rest of the game. Listening on radio different than watching on tv. I could momentum turn after that.

 

[Putbacks]

Burrell really struggled tonight with her mobility and angles of attack.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

I had a feeling once we got to a #4 ranking we'd have the wings to fall off soon.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

Burrell really struggled tonight with her mobility and angles of attack.

I think all'em were in a funk & not ready to play on the road no matter who it was against.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

I'm still very proud of this team & what they have done so far this year.

 

[GiveHim6InSC]

Agreed. TN is still tied with South Carolina for the regular SEC title. Go get it LVs.

And SC lost a game they absolutely shouldn’t have at Mizzou. It happens. I hate losing to Auburn, but it’s hardly the end of the world. Maybe it’s what they needed to regain focus instead of taking opponents lightly.