Game Thread: Lady Vols Vs LSU ; Sun Feb 9th ; Away game; 4 PM Eastern: ESPN

[tnvols72]

Rough break again, many mistakes that we didn’t need to make.

But I’ll take as many of these games as possible if we want to make it to the latter rounds of the NCAA

This team is not that far off and I think they will be hard to handle come march

 

[SGMVols]

Hahahaha of course this ends on another 1-2 FT line trip

 

[mudcat1973]

give tigers making free throws

 

[ShortyMac10]

Honestly we have that game away

 

[Clad in Big Orange]

Coach Caldwell has to be ecstatic with how close this team is.

 

[adam.vol]

These girls played pretty good, but they could clean up a lot of things to swing the score in their favor.

 

[Jewish Vol]

they shoot them pretty good until crunch time

3/4 FTs in crunch time today bud.

 

[JCP201]

I hope with our win against Connecticut, it moves us up a little. We played LSU tough at home.

 

[volfan__18]

There is a reason LSU don’t lose at home. It’s almost impossible to go in their place and get a win. So close yet so far.

 

[Sportslady]

Lady Vols getting jobbed by the officials in Baton Rouge.

Gotta play well enough that 8 vs 5 doesn’t impact the game. It’s tough.

 

[westtnvoljackson]

The male official was horrible.

 

[SGMVols]

I hope with our win against Connecticut, it moves us up a little. We played LSU tough at home.

Missed a golden opportunity to shoot into the top 10

 

[vols 30]

Well, at least the schedule eases up a little from this point

 

[Vols2015]

Is it disappointing we lost, yes, but what did we all even have as an expectation before this year? Me, I didn’t have any expectation of us being ranked, let alone being able to win against top 5 teams and have 6 losses 7 points or less. We have been in every game. I’ve got to have confidence all of these games are lessons for something greater. Go Lady Vols!

 

[JCP201]

These girls played pretty good, but they could clean up a lot of things to swing the score in their favor.

Need to do better hitting free throws, for sure. Otherwise, they are a playing right there with the best.

 

[utVolFanInVA]

Win or lose, we played to win and eventually we will steal a couple of these games that come down to the wire. We just seemed to be snakebitten much like the men's games.

Don't think LVs are snake bit, it's not unlucky bounces causing LVs to lose these close games. Bad decisions, poor spacing and lack of rebounding is losing these close games in the last 2 minutes. One could argue that some of these close games should not come down to the last 2 minutes but that's a different discussion.

That last LV possession, down 4 points and Whitehorn takes a fade away 15-ft jumper as opposed to driving to the basket or passing out to a 3-pt shooter. Just a bad decision.

 

[Jewish Vol]

she is a turnover or a air ball waiting to happen just like her last shot

She was 4/8 for 10 pts in the 4th quarter.

 

[lfvol]

Missed Spencer‘s today. They are bigger and athletic making it harder for her. They also handled pressure well.

 

[VolBalls33]

FT mostly lost UT the game, and I doubt LSU has shot 20 of 22 all season. Proud of the team playing so tough. Don't lose often when 4 players score 15+.

 

[Coach Jumper]

Coach Caldwell has to be ecstatic with how close this team is.

I just wish she'd coach as hard as she wants this team to play

The male official was horrible.

wonder why,,,oh yeah, he was never worked

 

[ThatVolGuy]

It's a head scratcher we lose close games with a first year head coach with inferior talent?

Do I need to retype the same words for you, or what? What I wrote was very clear. Keep up.

The "we have inferior talent" argument would check out with me if we lost these games by double digits, but as the lower third indicated earlier in the fourth quarter, no other team in the past 25 years has lost this many close games by such a small margin. Kim deserves a lot of credit, but these games all seem to feature notable miscues on both sides of the ball down the stretch.

 

[VolBall09]

We’re real close, hoping we put something special together come ncaa time. We really are right there.

 

[Jewish Vol]

Don't think LVs are snake bit, it's not unlucky bounces causes LVs to lose these close games. Bad decisions, poor spacing and lack of rebounding is losing these close games in the last 2 minutes. One could argue that some of these close games should not come down to the last 2 minutes but that's a different discussion.

That last LV possession, down 4 points and Whitehorn takes a fade away 15-ft jumper as opposed to driving to the basket or passing out to a 3-pt shooter. Just a bad decision.

So just do the for sure score play right?

 

[VOLINVONORE]

I still like the fight of this team and coach. I think by next SEC conference play, we win at least 4 of the SEC conference games we have lost this year.

 

[tnvols72]

Wow you're miserable. What about her and 1 one the play before?

what about it, You want a dog treat or something. She went like 0-5 before that and followed that and 1 up with another miss