Game Thread: Lady Vols at Miss St; 7PM; SEC network

#901
#901
Volstylexx said:
I’ll also add (while it wouldn’t look good to lose 4 of the last 5) 19-14 would likely get this team into the NCAA. The committee will reward the SOS (as they should). It would definitely make for an anxious selection show.
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We are a one a done most likely especially if we get a high seed.
 
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#907
#907
Too early to talk about changing coaches. It really is unbecoming of a fan base to talk like that well before the season is done.

This was a winnable game and therefore a bad loss. Our team suffers a lot from the same old things: 1) very sloppy ball handling and decision making on passing, 2) it is incredibly easy for opponents to drive right down the lane and get an easy layup, even little guards, 3) mediocre, at best, PG play, 4) when we get the ball into the paint, our player refuses to pass it out to a shooter when she gets swarmed, and then turns the ball over.

On the other hand, we did great at getting to the FT line and cashing in, and Hollingshead is really starting to come on to give us a genuine post presence.
 
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#908
#908
youcancallmeAl said:
Too early to talk about changing coaches. It really is unbecoming of a fan base to talk like that well before the season is done.

This was a winnable game and therefore a bad loss. Our team suffers a lot from the same old things: 1) very sloppy ball handling and decision making on passing, 2) it is incredibly easy for opponents to drive right down the lane and get an easy layup, even little guards, 3) mediocre, at best, PG play, 4) when we get the ball into the paint, our player refuses to pass it out to a shooter when she gets swarmed, and then turns the ball over.

On the other hand, we did great at getting to the FT line and cashing in, and Hollingshead is really starting to come on to give us a genuine post presence.
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This fanbase knows when a coach isn't working out... We see all the familiar symptoms and they're there
 
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#910
#910
Good effort considering Horston get hurt. on bright side she able to come in before fouling out . got beat tigers and wildcats for third place if old miss does not lose any more games.
 
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#915
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youcancallmeAl said:
Save it for after the season. Talking about it now will just make this season worse as it will demoralize fans and players (not to mention recruits).
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That's their goal. Always has been, and a couple of the honest ones have even admitted it. And it would have been the same if we had won in regulation, only slightly less vocal. We'd still hear the same bleating to their BFF "Danny." 😆
 
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#916
#916
Chippo said:
I'm tired of hearing about Lawson..Let her stay where she's at and go outside the player base of
hiring a former vol and get someone outside the program. We have done it with mens basketball
and football with good success. What's the big
hang up of having to have a former player coaching
the lady vols basketball team.
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Amen . Time for a change that is not a former Vol.
 
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#918
#918
We're ordinary, and not getting better. I keep waiting for "it" to click and come together but we're moving in the other direction.

Rickea isn't ordinary, and what an effort. Gave her all for Tennessee tonight. And actually, it was way less chippy this time than when they came up here. Just hate for her that it ended the way it did.

But Rickea can't do it by herself every time, and the help is so disappointingly unreliable. Another game where just an average output for JH and we win. But as ever . . . Of course we were living on borrowed time with JW's string of good games, and all the rest of the problems are what they are and aren't getting better.

Except Jill, who's playing so well now that she's getting minutes. Double double! But we couldn't find her enough late.

On replay, the call that looked so bad that Purcell got the T on was indeed a foul. In fact, it was a pull down by the MS player. That's why they reviewed. It actually was intentional. We did get away with a few though, including about a 5 step walk on Puckett.

We'll make the tourney but have an uphill battle just to get out of the first weekend. No coaching decisions will even be discussed this year, but a hard look at why we've underachieved so badly and why we don't get better is definitely in order.

Meanwhile I'll just take a game at a time, hope for the best and enjoy watching a special player like RJ for the short time we have left.
 
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#921
Majors said:
Wasted year when she can look around college basketball seeing freshman making impacts while learning on the job.
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You seem hopeful she will leave. Are you that desperate to be “right” about replacing our coach?

Also, there is no way you are under 70. You just have that old guy crabby vibe and who in the hell cares about Johnny Majors. He was a drunk and did nothing for the program as coach.
 
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#923
#923
At the 3:44 mark of the third quarter why is the assistant coach off the bench telling the head coach how to coach. Incredible, never seen this before.
 
#924
#924
glv98 said:
We're ordinary, and not getting better. I keep waiting for "it" to click and come together but we're moving in the other direction.

Meanwhile I'll just take a game at a time, hope for the best and enjoy watching a special player like RJ for the short time we have left.
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That is what is down to. Hoping that it clicks and that the LVs can make a bit of a Cinderella run. This predicament is not where I thought the team would be at right now, even with the rocky start.

The stagnant offense and lack of execution at key moments continues to be their downfall. We shot incredibly well from the line. Jillian had a great game., Rickea did her thing with a 28 point double-double.

But, as i said before we are a three cylinder Rickea, Jordan, and everybody else. It is hard to on just two cylinders.

And except for Jillian, even that 3rd cylinder was spotty. 5 for 20 from 3 pt line makes it hard to win. MSU went 8 for 20, which makes a big difference in a tight game.

I don't put any of this loss on Rickea who kept us in the game but I wish she was a more selfish player. I would rather see her force a few shots out of our stagnant offense sets rather than Powell or Walker-- the odds are better.
 
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