Game Thread: #5 Tennessee (19-11, 10-6 SEC) vs #1 South Carolina (30-0, 16-0 SEC) Saturday 3/9/24 ~4:30 pm ET (ESPNU)

[Volfaninfl2]

It was dumb play by Puckett. If we lose, it won't be because of that.

Oh yeah? That and the 2 missed free throws by Powell at the end of the game really hurt.

 

[th2421]

I’m not so sure this is a motivating loss. This may have just deflated the whole team. I hope not, but that’s just sickening.

I had the exact same thought. I worry that it will be really hard to bounce back from this. Kellie just looked totally devastated and Spear was in tears. Powell should've made those free throws - even one! - but I really feel for her, too.

 

[I4Vols]

No coaching did. Call a TO and tell your players what to do. What was, I believe Powell, doing standing in the middle of no where. Players didn’t know what to do because they are not coached well.

RJ & TK

 

[mr.checkerboards]

NOTE; u can’t catch and shoot with 1.1 seconds. Only a tap. Powell haphazardly shot the free throws. South Carolina won this. Hats off to them.- shouldn’t have to gaurd tem with 1.1 seconds.

Yes you can, the numbers say its .3

 

[J-Dog 1313]

Well, the 2 freebees the refs gave them at the end of the 3rd did make a difference.

Agreed 100%.

 

[JohnnyPayne]

If it was 2 inches to the left, we would have a whole different tone for KJH. That’s how fickle our fans are. No credit whatsoever for us being in that game especially after the slow start. Incredible effort and we outplayed & outcoached them.

 

[Peas29]

You don't think Key should have followed Cardoso out to 3 point line ?

She was protecting the lob pass. No one thought Cordosa of all players would actually step back to take a three.

 

[JohnnyD1024]

I keep thinking about the 2 points the refs gifted South Carolina at the end of the 3rd.

 

[Lurker]

I can’t wait to hear the inevitable excuse for why any player was left that open with 1.1 seconds on the clock. Terrible decision to ignore a player of that caliber.

 

[Peas29]

Agreed 100%.

A horrible call

 

[mtsuraider06]

You think this crap is acceptable then your also part of the overall problem. This almost miracle doesnt erase multiple years of bad decisions and poor recruiting.

you’re*

 

[Peas29]

I can’t wait to hear the inevitable excuse for why any player was left that open with 1.1 seconds on the clock. Terrible decision to ignore a player of that caliber.

You mean a player who has never made a 3 pointer?

 

[VolBall09]

If it was 2 inches to the left, we would have a whole different tone for KJH. That’s how fickle our fans are. No credit whatsoever for us being in that game especially after the slow start. Incredible effort and we outplayed & outcoached them.

But it wasn’t.

 

[VolBall09]

you’re*

Oh dammmnnnnn mud

 

[Volfan2012]

Was really bad strategy on our part. You need to pressure the inbounder. you need to have at least two defenders out at the three point line. I don't know what we were doing. Just terrible strategy.

 

[Deebowbear]

Not sure i agree with the language. But she actually has lost to the only undefeated team 3 times this year. And had a chance here and for some odd reason chose not to cover the inbounder or the center.

The Kellie supporters coming out now

 

[volnationnj]

Well, small consolation but I had Tennessee and 16 points. Made some $

 

[Harpethriverkid63]

Because I'm not a horrible person and the near tears in her eyes as she fell to her knees showed how much she wanted that. There's a time and place to pile it on her, but today isn't it.

Those tears will be gone on payday

 

[OrangeVolMan]

Because I'm not a horrible person and the near tears in her eyes as she fell to her knees showed how much she wanted that. There's a time and place to pile it on her, but today isn't it.

I don’t feel sorry for bad employees. She is not a bad person but she is not a good basketball coach. Sometimes you have to let bad employees go. That is not being a terrible person.

 

[Voltopia]

If it was 2 inches to the left, we would have a whole different tone for KJH. That’s how fickle our fans are. No credit whatsoever for us being in that game especially after the slow start. Incredible effort and we outplayed & outcoached them.

I don't know how much of it is fickleness this time. We certainly didn't outcoach or outplay them on the final play of the game - but we did give them a highlight reel they'll play for the next ten years on ESPN.

I don't know. The level of unpreparedness to handle success there was hard to understand. A lot of good coaching is about handling situations, and in that situation, Tennessee didn't handle anything very well.

 

[Peas29]

6'7 that doesn't score outside the paint and who's never hit a 3-pointer? Really?

Exactly

 

[JohnnyPayne]

But it wasn’t.

If Key would have came out and founded cause she was guarding her, what would you have said then? You just can’t foul in that situation and we got incredibly unlucky.

 

[Vol Hillbilly]

Are you clairvoyant because today's game hasn't started yet?

no , line from the Alabama game, keep up!

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Not a lot better , , 3 in 10 minutes minutes

 

[barrylee]

I can’t wait to hear the inevitable excuse for why any player was left that open with 1.1 seconds on the clock. Terrible decision to ignore a player of that caliber.

That was her first and only 3 of the year!

 

[mudcat1973]

Wrong. We put Key in the paint for a reason--so they couldn't throw it in the paint and get an 12 footer. That was actually very sound strategy.
That said, somebody should have run out to her when it was obvious the ball was going to her. But Powell cost us this game--not that play.

Wrong. We put Key in the paint for a reason--so they couldn't throw it in the paint and get an 12 footer. That was actually very sound strategy.
That said, somebody should have run out to her when it was obvious the ball was going to her. But Powell cost us this game--not that play.

Official giving them two free throws after clock it zero.