Game Thread: (7) Lady Vols 86 - (RV) Arkansas 83

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lvocd said:
I absolutely love that coaching duo, and hope they are highly successful. (Except against Tennessee, of course)
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Yes! Formidable duo. I actually thought they would have won more SEC games this season. She needs a year or two to get some players that believe in her system. Right now they play sometimes.


They played really tough in that GA Tech game as well. They’re a team a lot like us that hangs their hat on defense but is very big. Auburn hangs their hat on defense but are very quick. Just a terrible matchup for us. Same for Ga Tech.

Ga Tech had also lost some players right before that game I believe. Not to injury but their PG left the team I believe.
 
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mudcat1973 said:
key 38 , rae 39, horston 40 mins key not getting in foul trouble and rae able to play longer got the win. but we need dye or someone to cut rae and horston down to 32. hope karoline can give 8 to 10 mins for key.
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Looks like Puckett has the back-up center spot locked down now against certain types of teams.

We seem to do a MUCH better job of picking who to play during the game than we did last year except for times when we think we can plug a whole platoon in. Players who are hurting us get fewer minutes and the coaches seem to have a good feel as to who should be allowed to play through mistakes and who needs to sit.

I have to give props to Rae. I had no idea she had that many points tonight. She had some rough spells with the turnovers, but once she got into the flow of the game she did much better. She has to be a little behind on chemistry and trying to know exactly where she fits in given all the time she missed.
 
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Mr French said:
Those two turnovers were frosh turnovers. You were butthurt. You literally capslocked your message. She was a double edged sword tonight but I guarantee if you rewatch her two turnovers led to 6 points so in reality she scored 2 points.
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Yes, but she had 6 assists. I’ll have to see how many were for 3s or 2s

But for fun we will say they are all 2s. That’s 12 points + her 8, so 20-6 is 14. Somehow, still not a bad night, it’s like she played a complete game or something. Crazy.
 
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VolBall09 said:
Yes, but she had 6 assists. I’ll have to see how many were for 3s or 2s

But for fun we will say they are all 2s. That’s 12 points + her 8, so 20-6 is 14. Somehow, still not a bad night, it’s like she played a complete game or something. Crazy.
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Walker had a final efficiency rating of 16 tonight. 14 is average so she was slightly above. Horston had a 21 and Ramirez for Arkansas had a 31.
 
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We’re going to lose at least a couple more games in SEC play. We can’t win every game especially as we are adjusting to our substitutions. The main thing is to be ready for the SEC & NCAA tournaments as South Carolina is the probable regular season winner. We have to be excited with the steady improvements the last three seasons.
 
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JohnnyPayne said:
We’re going to lose at least a couple more games in SEC play. We can’t win every game especially as we are adjusting to our substitutions. The main thing is to be ready for the SEC & NCAA tournaments as South Carolina is the probable regular season winner. We have to be excited with the steady improvements the last three seasons.
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If that happens certainly second place as everyone already has three losses. I thought we'd go 12 and 4 before the season started may still do that, but hoping for at least 14 and 2.
 
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Great game. Team gutted out a tough win against a very good and motivated opponent. Every one of our ladies deserve recognition. However, in my opinion, the game winning play was Walker's three to tie the game in the fourth quarter. We gave the lead back but that shot said to everyone on the floor, "Tennessee isn't losing tonight." That shot was a gut punch for Arkansas.
 
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VolBall09 said:
Yes, but she had 6 assists. I’ll have to see how many were for 3s or 2s

But for fun we will say they are all 2s. That’s 12 points + her 8, so 20-6 is 14. Somehow, still not a bad night, it’s like she played a complete game or something. Crazy.
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She did come along past my comment. At the time she had 5 points and 2 turnovers shot 1-4 from 3 and 50% from the stripe. That's bad guard play. and she had 3 fouls 2 being bad so do you want to throw 4 more points against her for free throws?

My point being is she basically took her points out of the game, Puckett and Dye did it too. Puckett gets grace because she is young. Dye and Walker need to be better.
 
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VolBalls33 said:
UF on the road will be tough to win. UF had won 5 in a row(including LSU by 1) before SC beat them 62 50. If UT somehow can get by UF with a W the team should have some confidence going to Hartford. What a tough week!! Very proud of the Lady Vols for pulling out with a W.
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You wonder how they will try to guard Key if they push three in the paint then will again be up to Burrell and Horston others to make plays. Hopefully more than they did tonight.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
Yes he has some players think he loses Ramirez, Daniels, and Barnum but solid group back and think he got a transfer from UConn so they will be tough. I hoping Justin will be our Ramirez next season.
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Barnes is a supporter of the Lady Vols, but he may have second thoughts about giving up Powell.
 
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Aladywhovolunteer said:
Great game. Team gutted out a tough win against a very good and motivated opponent. Every one of our ladies deserve recognition. However, in my opinion, the game winning play was Walker's three to tie the game in the fourth quarter. We gave the lead back but that shot said to everyone on the floor, "Tennessee isn't losing tonight." That shot was a gut punch for Arkansas.
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If that is where Rae got a steal immediately after the 3, so we got 5 quick points, that was HUGE!
 
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JohnnyPayne said:
We’re going to lose at least a couple more games in SEC play. We can’t win every game especially as we are adjusting to our substitutions. The main thing is to be ready for the SEC & NCAA tournaments as South Carolina is the probable regular season winner. We have to be excited with the steady improvements the last three seasons.
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As long as we win the games we absolutely should we will be in good shape. We could lose to South Carolina and LSU OR MIZZOU. Winning two out of 3 of those would put us in good position.

Ideally we have to beat Florida, Vandy, Bama, and MSST. Florida will be no small task this Thursday and I’m a bit concerned about how exhausting this game was with the OT.
 
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Aladywhovolunteer said:
Great game. Team gutted out a tough win against a very good and motivated opponent. Every one of our ladies deserve recognition. However, in my opinion, the game winning play was Walker's three to tie the game in the fourth quarter. We gave the lead back but that shot said to everyone on the floor, "Tennessee isn't losing tonight." That shot was a gut punch for Arkansas.
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The almost-game-losing play was also by Walker - the lazy pass that Arky took the other way for a lay-up inside two minutes that tied the game in OT.
Personally, I loved how Key battled at the end even though she'd played more minutes than she ever had. And we don't win without her clutch free throws.
 
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