Game Thread Lady Vols at Georgia

[dillyo51]

We are number 24 in Ap polls were back

:thud:

 

[Volfan2012]

Were in good shape for the rest of the season with four home games and two road games. The only games we lost at home were to top five teams Baylor and Miss St. I expect we will go about 4 and 2 and end up 19 and 11 going into the tourney. That would make us about a 6 seed in the tourney.

 

[Coach Jumper]

As yesterday's loss reminded us, this LVs team can lose to anyone on any given day. They could lose to both aTm and Mizzou-- or beat them both then turn around and lose at Bama. There are no gimmes when you have no idea which LV players will show up day-to-day.

This is basketball, not football.
I don't take a loss lightly, but I also don't hang a season on a single loss.
Good teams lose to lesser teams.
Great teams lose to good teams.
Teams lose (except for Uconn, this is true for every other D1 team in the nation..

This is still the same staff that guided us to four straight wins. And they did this during a stretch of 3 games in 7 days. Games during this stretch were won on coaching calls (fouls to give against ND).

I shoot from the hip.
I will be the first to tell you that a loss to a team that we had : down 59-57 with 13.7 to go and a foul to give...Should have been a win.

But it is still one loss.
It IS a coaching loss.
But it is still ONE loss.

How about we see what transpires in the following game before we cry "fire Holly."

 

[LA Vol]

Baylor game excluded, we've looked pretty good in most home games this year, so even though aTm and Mizzou are tougher competition, I think the Bama game is a bigger risk. We've really played to the level of competition on the road -- up (USC, and somewhat Texas) and down (PSU, VT, Auburn, Ole Miss, UGa).

LVs do play better at home and the schedule sets up well down the stretch. They could roll into Starkville on a five-game win streak. But they could just as easily have a letdown game or two, then close with a L at MSU.

Nared seems to be the key. When she's having an off game, DD feels pressured to carry the team and that has led to bad shots and TOs. When Nared is playing well, DD is able to play more relaxed. With bench production so erratic, we need the Big 3. Big 2 doesn't seem to work so well.

 

[LA Vol]

This is basketball, not football.
I don't take a loss lightly, but I also don't hang a season on a single loss.
Good teams lose to lesser teams.
Great teams lose to good teams.
Teams lose (except for Uconn, this is true for every other D1 team in the nation..

This is still the same staff that guided us to four straight wins. And they did this during a stretch of 3 games in 7 days. Games during this stretch were won on coaching calls (fouls to give against ND).

I shoot from the hip.
I will be the first to tell you that a loss to a team that we had : down 59-57 with 13.7 to go and a foul to give...Should have been a win.

But it is still one loss.
It IS a coaching loss.
But it is still ONE loss.

How about we see what transpires in the following game before we cry "fire Holly."

What a condescending post. Why respond to me? I never said "fire Holly"-- in fact, I never mentioned coaches at all.

 

[gule]

there should always be a shooter on the floor, whether it is AM, KD, or JN. otherwise DD is left to try the impossible because nobody else scares the defense.

AM didn't play well, couldn't rebound with UGA, Nared was lost in space?, and Dunbar was sitting all game.

SOMEBODY needs to tell our COACH that Dunbar is eligible to play.

 

[gule]

she'd be a starter for me the rest of the year.

 

[Coach Jumper]

What a condescending post. Why respond to me? I never said "fire Holly"-- in fact, I never mentioned coaches at all.

Not meant to be

 

[Orange Maniac]

People saying we had a foul to give at the end are wrong. We committed our 4th foul with 0:10 to go. We didn't have one more foul to give at the end of the 4th.

 

[Amb3096]

People saying we had a foul to give at the end are wrong. We committed our 4th foul with 0:10 to go. We didn't have one more foul to give at the end of the 4th.

Even then. Make Robinson hit free throws. Don't just give her an easy basket.

 

[Coach Jumper]

People saying we had a foul to give at the end are wrong. We committed our 4th foul with 0:10 to go. We didn't have one more foul to give at the end of the 4th.

At 13.7 left we did have a foul to give. . . We used up that foul 3.7 seconds later...90 feet from the basket.
A better foul would have been when the ball reached midcourt...With the trap we had, it would have taken 3-4 seconds for them to break it and get it down court with the good defense we had on them. ...We just closed the trap too early.

Its hard not to reach at the ball when you have a player trapped like they did.

 

[Orange Maniac]

At 13.7 left we did have a foul to give. . . We used up that foul 3.7 seconds later...90 feet from the basket.
A better foul would have been when the ball reached midcourt...With the trap we had, it would have taken 3-4 seconds for them to break it and get it down court with the good defense we had on them. ...We just closed the trap too early.

Its hard not to reach at the ball when you have a player trapped like they did.

You are correct. Meme just got caught up in the pressure of the game and fouled too early. Right strategy, wrong execution.

 

[Orange Maniac]

Even then. Make Robinson hit free throws. Don't just give her an easy basket.

End of the fourth wasn't Robinson. It was Clark. Later on in the 2nd overtime Meme fouled the wrong player. She fouled what I think was their best or near best free throw shooter. Once more, right strategy, wrong execution.

 

[Amb3096]

End of the fourth wasn't Robinson. It was Clark. Later on in the 2nd overtime Meme fouled the wrong player. She fouled what I think was their best or near best free throw shooter. Once more, right strategy, wrong execution.

Oh OK. I was talking about in the 2nd overtime when Robinson got the rebound and outback off the missed 3.

I don't think MeMe's foul in OT was that bad. That girl just came in and doesn't play much, even if statistically she's a good FT shooter.