Game Thread: Liberty v Lady Vols, Sat. Nov 16th; Home-FCC; Noon; SEC+ network; win 109-93

#128
#128
Hooper22 said:
Friendly PSA..Kim has repeatedly said the first few months are “horrendous” in her system. This is what she means. I’ll take this style of play though over any we have had since Pat.
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100%, but when our offense has a bad day and if our defense looks like this it could get REAL ugly.
 
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#131
Hooper22 said:
Friendly PSA..Kim has repeatedly said the first few months are “horrendous” in her system. This is what she means. I’ll take this style of play though over any we have had since Pat.
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And she has repeatedly stated in post game pressers than she was not happy with the D and they will work on it so its not like she doesn't see the bad play or is not concerned.
 
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#132
VolBall09 said:
Our offense is crazy but our half court defense is still trash.
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The defense is much better. They just aren’t consistent. The same players are giving up easy looks, not making their rotation, or not boxing out to secure rebounds.
As long as they play regular minutes, the defense will look like there are these deficits or holes that really aren’t there at all.
Latham, Whitehorn, Boyd, Cooper, Ayodele, and Spencer gives you what you need defensively to be elite.
Spearman, Spear, Hollingshead, and Puckett have to improve fundamentally to be effective in this system.
 
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travis929 said:
Cooper is on pace to break Chamique Holdsclaw's records for FGs made in a game (15) and points in a game (39)! And she's only played 12 minutes.
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Wow. Something to keep an eye out for, for sure. Only needs 7 FGs to break that record. The points record will be a bit tougher, needs another 20 point half for it.
 
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KnoxLikeUs said:
The defense is much better. They just aren’t consistent. The same players are giving up easy looks, not making their rotation, or not boxing out to secure rebounds.
As long as they play regular minutes, the defense will look like there are these deficits or holes that really aren’t there at all.
Latham, Whitehorn, Boyd, Cooper, Ayodele, and Spencer gives you what you need defensively to be elite.
Spearman, Spear, Hollingshead, and Puckett have to improve fundamentally to be effective in this system.
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On the money. There are combinations we obviously still can’t run. As mentioned earlier we cannot play Darby and Puckett at the same time. Both are too slow on their feet defensively and give up a lot of open looks on the back end of the press. They can’t play out top on the press due to lack of foot speed.

Gotta have their head on a swivel and bust their a$$ to close out when teams make those long passes.
 
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#137
VolBall09 said:
Right but with Kellie at the helm we couldn’t buy a bucket most possessions. Certainly weren’t spreading it around like this. It was rickea or bust.
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Totally different styles of basketball. Really liked Kellie as a player from highschool through college. She just couldn't recruit the ladies she needed for her system. GLVS !!!
 
#139
#139
And1 said:
She’s not pulling the press. That is her system.
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I do think that nlvf might be right in a blowout game like this. Slow the game down, we don't need 130 points to win.

I think if we keep allowing these wide-open shots, we should change it up.
 
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#145
Lady Vols effort is horrible rn… Puckett doesn’t get back… horrible on ball defense… people shooting 3’s that shouldn’t be shooting
 
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#148
Terrible start to the half. 14-5 run for Liberty to start.

Again cannot have Darby and Puckett out there simultaneously. Way too slow.

Also going to have to adjust on Smuda we can’t just let her shoot wide open layups, someone has to pick her up. Preferably not Tess.

This system will be much more effective when we have 9-10 players athletic enough to execute it. Some of the returners just don’t have the speed or athleticism to do it properly. Not their fault, but they are limited.
 
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