Game Thread Lady Vols vs Florida

#201
#201
vol-un-tear said:
losses, transfers and poor recruiting. Maybe that will get us a coach.
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Well, if we recruit like we did this year there won't be a team for anyone to coach anyway.

I think Holly is done. You just don't go 0-for a recruiting class and keep your job at this level. Not when your team is playing like this one.

It takes some doing to get this many highly recruited players to play this poorly. I bet there are only a handful of coaches in the college ranks who could pull this off.
 
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#203
#203
I think they are having an identity crisis. Failure to consistently get the ball inside in scoring position coupled with a lack of outside shooting confidence throws them into a funk and they start forcing play which ultimately takes a toll on their defense as well. I love them but they must develop an identity and play to it (strongly). It's easy to blame the coaching but I think this falls squarely on the shoulders of the team. Good players find a way and I believe this team will as well. It is just going to take more time and a lot of shooting/passing practice.
 
#205
#205
Volfan2012 said:
Missouri over Georgia tonight. Kentucky over Alabama. Vandy leading SC 24 to 23 in first half. Miss. St 38 Auburn 26 third quarter. LSU 33 to 26 over Ole Miss halftime, Arkansas 60 Texas A&M 59 41 seconds left.
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The SEC is a steaming pile of dog you know what...
 
#209
#209
Lady Vols will be 3rd in the SEC East and could be 4th! Tough conference games with SC, UK, UGA, Vandy, LSU, Texas A&M. Need to win 4 of these!:good!:
 
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#214
LVJeff said:
That is offense and Holly doesn't believe in it.

It's get-down-in-a-stance-and-root-hog-or-die-on-defense.
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I don't know. I've not seen practices to see what they do or what the coaches tell them to do. I don't think anyone else in the forum watches them practice either. Taking post-game snippets and reading between the lines does not tell me what is actually going on and why they are playing the way they are. I know they are more than capable…..so it is discouraging to see them play the way they do. I thought they were on the upswing…..
 
#215
#215
Props to Andraya for taking ownership - "I think it starts with me"
I hope the rest of the team will follow her lead and play consistent defense. We've got to be able to stop less-athletic teams like UF.
 
#216
#216
How does a team pound the boards for 30 offensive rebounds and lose? Boggles the mind.

This team has no heart, fight or, sorry Coach Jones, resolve. This isn't the Pat team with 10 regular-season losses and a National Title. This is Holly's rag-tag collection of spoiled, self-entitled disasters. Holly has lost DD and can't gain the respect of the rest of the team. Proof: One point in the final quarter Holly was screaming for a timeout and not one player on the court was paying attention to her.

No matter the reason, Holly is in over her head ... and since recruiting is an epic fail, the future looks discouraging.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
Tonight's loss was all about shooting the basketball and lazy defense in the second half. If we shoot 40 percent we win the game. 30 doesn't get it done. We got up 83 shots to their 68 or so 40 percent would have been 33 field goals or 66 points plus 16 at the line 82. If you can't shoot 40 percent as a team you need to give up basketball.
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Pathetic shooting--laughably bad. And we were indeed lazy on defense: Cooper, Graves, DeShields---all beaten off the dribble many times tonight. Cooper plays defense at about 65 percent of the effort level needed to be a good defender--reminds me of Massengale, who was the same. She was bad on both ends tonight--again. DeShields can be a very good defender when she wants to be, but she gets moody and lazy about half the time. She had a bad game on both ends. She has been a disappointment. Graves was beaten off the dribble and is consistently slow to recognize when an opponent is driving open to the basket and slow to help--she stands doing nothing and then tries to help when it's too late. Great rebounding performance from her tonight--but she does not know how to score.

Warlick will complain about taking too many threes, and maybe we did: but most of them were WIDE OPEN shots. You have to make them! These are top recruits--and they can't shoot. Warlick wants to get the ball inside--and WHO exactly is going to score for us inside? Yes, Russell, occasionally--but she is hardly a dependable scorer. And that is it! Graves cannot score. This is why were are terrible on offense--we are not good inside or out. Middleton should be playing more. She's not as athletic as Cooper but she is a better shooter--and I kinda, rather think shooting is an issue for this team. Middleton also gives a honest effort on defense. Nared is a good athlete but she is another Vol with no discernable offensive game. Awful team performance.
 
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#218
#218
Biggest underachieving team at UT since the '05 football team. Holly sucks worse than Buzz Peterson.
 
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#219
#219
Sandvol said:
Another thing about our team that was obvious tonight is they miss so many threes because they don't know how to set up someone for the three or find the hot shooter. Carter was hitting the three tonight and they should have kept setting her up like Florida did Neddles but did they do that? Holly took her out of the game.
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Holly kills more momentum with her subs than any coach I've ever seen.
 
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#220
#220
Well, this is disappointing to say the least. Their highly touted defense gave up 70+ points on their home court, and Florida was lighting them up from outside.

Tennessee will go nowhere with these crappy guards. Carter was the best of the lot...and she was at best the 3rd best guard on the court (that Greek girl and the Florida gunner were both way ahead of her). Cooper's bball IQ is practically in the negatives, and don't get me started on Deadwood Reynolds.

Diamond also shows that she's not an elite player. She's good, but she doesn't deserve her name to be mentioned as one of the top players until she fixes her attitude and becomes more of a leader.

Graves...God bless her. 19 rebounds and she fought like a beast, but with this collection of junior varsity brick laying guards, she will never have room to operate inside. Russell is a great magician who can consistently perform disappearing acts.

This team is going N-O-W-H-E-R-E until the guards show that they deserve their scholarships. Collectively, they still weren't as good as the Greek girl.
 
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#221
#221
gule said:
I'd pull a Lovie Smith on the whole staff and fire their asses by 10 pm.
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Gule, I wish this would work, but in all honesty Hart and Cheek couldn't possibly care less about women's basketball. Don't forget, Holly was Hart's choice.

He'll wait for Tyler to gain more head-coaching experience before canning Aunt Holly. He already has heat from most Lady Vol former athletes, so there's no way he'll fire one of their own. Also, a certain faction of Lady Vol nation loves Holly for personal, and non-rational, reasons. It's going to be politically difficult to fire Holly until someone like Tyler can take over. There will be no "big $$" name hire, period. Hart cost the UTAD more than $1million in a recent LV lawsuit. There will be no big spending for the program ... unless maybe attendance dips under 5,000 a game.
 
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#224
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Falcons02 said:
Holly kills more momentum with her subs than any coach I've ever seen.
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Why she played Jordan 21 minutes and most of the 4th quarter is beyond me. There is no lineup that shouldn't have at least 3 of Diamond, Nared, Graves, and Russell. Middleton should have played more instead of letting Cooper continuously go 1 on 3 and throw up a prayer, get stuffed, or turn the ball over. She's not as good as she thinks she is.
 
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