Game Thread Lady Vols vs Syracuse

#226
#226
Holly can recruit but she is out of her element as a the head coach of a top tier team. I would hope she could prove me wrong, but IMO any number of coaches could get much more out of the talent the Vols possess.
 
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#227
#227
Staggers the imagination why Holly doesn't have the best ball handlers in that situation. Jones is a good hard nosed player but handles the ball too much. She is best when she is in a position to catch and shoot, not dribble.
 
#228
#228
mlindsay said:
Yes when she is in the paint she helps but on the perimeter she's a liability
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2nd game back after a year off, she'll be fine. APB? Has anyone seen the REAL Diamond Deshield, hello, you came to Tenn for games like this her'e. Our guards must get better.
 
#230
#230
Ace said:
Holly can recruit but she is out of her element as a the head coach of a top tier team. I would hope she could prove me wrong, but IMO any number of coaches could get much more out of the talent the Vols possess.
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Eventually it will impact recruiting if it already hasn't.
 
#231
#231
Te'a Cooper, please don't shoot us out of a game, and Russell and Graves, barely got touches in the 2nd half.
 
#233
#233
Volfan2012 said:
We won and the fact they made 8 threes to our one is why it was so close. The 3 pointer is the equalizer and they made them and we didn't. 57 to 55 final horrible performance by our team lucky to win.
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Yes, they made 8 threes but they took 32 shots to make the 8 ! 25%. We only made 1 three but we took 20 less threes !
What made the game close was how we played not their 3 point shooting.
 
#234
#234
we need a brainwashing of the coaching staff. the big orange guy in the sky letting that cuse girl miss her foul shots saved tn's asses!

And holly needs to have them practice after the game till midnight.... guards shoot the jumper till you make a 1000
 
#235
#235
Horrible game. All those turnovers!! Why? No ball control.

The teams we are playing are not great teams! What are we going to do when we play a good team?

Help!!

What do they do in practice? Are they learning dance moves?
 
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#237
#237
Holly Warlick is CLUELESS. Our offense against the zone is absolutely STUPID. The number of dumb things we do is too numerous to list. You can't keep trying to force the ball to a center who's got three defenders around her. When Russell does get the ball, you can't stand holding it for three second with three defenders around you. Can't try to dribble through a zone like Cooper tried many times to do, along with Jones. You HAVE to have guards with the confidence to take outside shots to loosen a defense--but we don't. If we can't make three-point shots we will be in a lot of games like this--said that after the last game. Carter has a beautiful jump shot but clearly no confidence--that is bad coaching. It's not that Carter is a bad offensive player, IMO, she has not been coached/handled properly. And our defense is erratic. It is good for stretches, but then we get lackadaisical and teams roar back.

We make a TON of mistakes in every game, which is why we are continually in games like this. If a good coach had this group, we'd be beating everybody by 25. With Warlick we stumble to the end of games regularly, despite having a boatload of talent. We have a collection of players, not a cohesive, intelligent team. We are missing cohesion and we are missing intelligence. Maybe things will improve when DeShields gets her game together. We are not getting much out of her now. If that happens, it won't be because of coaching, that's for sure, just having one more talented player who starts to make some plays.
 
#240
#240
Syracuse choked or we have a loss. I want to give Holly the benefit of the doubt but some of the plays we made tonight say she isn't up to big time coaching. We threw it into Jones with 17 seconds and Mercedes with 3 not good moves. Diamond has been a non factor thus far and since she hasn't played basketball in a year and a half I can understand it.
 
#243
#243
Pat4life said:
Te'a Cooper, please don't shoot us out of a game, and Russell and Graves, barely got touches in the 2nd half.
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is to make it difficult for your bigs to score. That is the point of a zone--and why you have to take and make some outside shots to loosen it up. Russell and Graves in fact got a huge number of touches tonight--too many as we are always trying to force the ball inside, something Warlick learned 30 years ago from PS and get get out of her head.
 
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#244
#244
I said before the season started the one thing that would keep us down was three point and perimeter shooting. Diamond is usually deadly from mid-range but so far this year nothing. Cooper taking to many shots need to be setting up other players for open shots. Were a scary team right now. I have no confidence in our offense.
 
#246
#246
Diamond is struggling because the coaching staff is terrible with offensive sets & north carolina played 10x faster than the lady vols, watch old games of her with North Carolina and watch the great plays they had to get her open shots or how they moved the ball. I'm sure she regrets coming to tenn now, holly and staff plays way too many players, that hurts the team chemistry. The other top teams have a solid 7 or 8 players that play the entire game.
 
#247
#247
Plenty more zone coming 80 minutes thus far and more coming who is going to make the perimeter shots?
 
#248
#248
Glad I watched the game - would have definitely thought we lost by reading this forum.

Undefeated, ranked # 4 in Nation - just beat a top 25 team.........if only any of our other teams did this, we would be shouting with joy. #spoiled
 
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#250
#250
Carter doesn't like to shoot but I think she may be as good as any of the perimeter players besides Dunbar who I doubt will see much action because Graves has to be in there. Were a scary team to watch right now we build seven to nine point leads and give it back in a couple minutes.
 
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