Game Thread: Lady Vols Vs Oklahoma; Sun Jan 5th ; Home game; 3 PM Eastern; ESPN

#453
#453
I’ll say I came into this year with low expectations. Just didn’t think the roster matched the style.

By and large Caldwell has made it work.

Talent and personal differential showed up big today.

We won’t contend for a title this year but I think a lot of the people who don’t fit the system will be gone next year and with the recruiting we have, that will improve team speed, 3pt %, and defense a good bit.
 
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#456
VolBall09 said:
Truly it’s an effort discrepancy. If you can’t see that I’m sorry. Getting crushed on the glass isn’t a talent problem. It’s a desire problem. Rebounding has never, in the entire history of basketball, been about talent. Any coach worth their salt will tell you the same thing.
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Shot after shot goes down for OK and brick after brick for the Lady Vols that have the better roster?
 
#460
#460
Worst defensive quarter so far coming out of the break when you’re already down. Total lack of focus and dedication to the game plan.

Interested in Kim’s postgame. Guarantee you it’ll be more negative than all my posts combined.
 
#463
#463
zaqhhh said:
I’ll say I came into this year with low expectations. Just didn’t think the roster matched the style.

By and large Caldwell has made it work.

Talent and personal differential showed up big today.

We won’t contend for a title this year but I think a lot of the people who don’t fit the system will be gone next year and with the recruiting we have, that will improve team speed, 3pt %, and defense a good bit.
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Running the table except UConn OOC was a huge overachievement.
 
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#464
Welp LSU is next and u still got Texas and SC waiting, Vandy is not a push over anymore either and they have an inside game and guards to carve that press up like OK did today
 
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VolBall09 said:
Truly it’s an effort discrepancy. If you can’t see that I’m sorry. Getting crushed on the glass isn’t a talent problem. It’s a desire problem. Rebounding has never, in the entire history of basketball, been about talent. Any coach worth their salt will tell you the same thing.
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We need a physical big for these type of matchups and don't have it. If you can't see that I'm sorry.
 
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#471
+/-s: Darby 0, Latham 2, Hollingshead 4; only 22 minutes combined, though. They've played with good effort when they've been in, though.

Starters have to be exhausted. This "run your starters 30+ minutes" experiment seems to be a failure, just too hard to run this system effectively for 30+ minutes.
 
#472
#472
zaqhhh said:
I’ll say I came into this year with low expectations. Just didn’t think the roster matched the style.

By and large Caldwell has made it work.

Talent and personal differential showed up big today.

We won’t contend for a title this year but I think a lot of the people who don’t fit the system will be gone next year and with the recruiting we have, that will improve team speed, 3pt %, and defense a good bit.
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This team will improve this year but you are correct to play this style for 4 quarters against Top 10 Team need more difference makers but this team will regroup and play much better against LSU. Now we need to win this quarter as we have lost all 3
 
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#473
TnVolsX4 said:
We need a physical big for these type of matchups and don't have it. If you can't see that I'm sorry.
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That has had almost nothing to do with why we’re down this much. Not keeping players in front, not stopping the ball in transition and leaving wide open shooters is why we’re down. Beers has 11.

Garbage players from their bench have as many from shooting wide open layups.
 
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#474
This has been some really bad basketball today. I can’t believe how many turnovers we’ve made along with not everyone hustling.
 
#475
#475
We're running back too much on makes. Should be leaning way more into the press, getting defensiv stops in the backcourt.
 
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