Game Thread: UT @ Auburn, Sunday; 12PM, ESPN2 win 83-76

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DarkPhoenix said:
The only way the transfer portal helps is if Rickea and Jordan come back, otherwise we will need 3 game changing players, I doubt that will happen.
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Really won't know until we see who gets in there. Rickea came form the portal. There may be players of her caliber in the portal. I am quite certain Rickea is not coming back. I will only know where we are for next season when the portal is over.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
Really won't know until we see who gets in there. Rickea came form the portal. There may be players of her caliber in the portal. I am quite certain Rickea is not coming back. I will only know where we are for next season when the portal is over.
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We will be aggressive in Portal. Lsu is only were they are as well because of Portal. You do need to be balanced with High school Portal but you sure can make your team better quickly.
 
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RAVOL said:
We will be aggressive in Portal. Lsu is only were they are as well because of Portal. You do need to be balanced with High school Portal but you sure can make your team better quickly.
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Kim is an established coach and was able to get those players, that’s how things work.
 
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I see a couple of posts about will this or that player leave.I think it’s 50:50 because we absolutely have to go back to the portal and if a couple of players see themselves going through the same scenario with playing time behind the portal influx do they really want to go through that another year.that might be tough to deal with
 
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Congrats to our team today, especially the Seniors! Senior Day brings a lot of emotions which can make for a slow start, but we persevered.

Great games by Rickea, 27 points on 80% shooting, and Tess, shooting 75% on 6 of 8 shooting, 5 of 6 for 3’s!

That’s not all, here are the stats:

SIDEARMLiveStats

All big games coming up. Defense Defense Defense, Play Smart, and Finish All Shots!

GLV!!!
 
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RAVOL said:
We will be aggressive in Portal. Lsu is only were they are as well because of Portal. You do need to be balanced with High school Portal but you sure can make your team better quickly.
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yes we need guards and an elite post. We are loaded with threes and fours on this roster. If Pissott, Puckett, and Striplin are ever going to play meaningful minutes then they will need to be three and four players both on offense and defense. You bring in two or three elite shooting guards with quickness and a strong post this team can compete. We are severely lacking at the guard positions. Horston and Jackson are really three and fours too. They have to play a lot of guard, but if they didn't and had some guards that could score would be hard to stop this team scoring over 80 every game we played.
 
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Coach Jumper said:
I'm not as convinced as you are on this
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I'd rather you be right than me. I just don't see her turning down a top five first round pick. Still I hope your right cause if she would stay and we could get two or three better guards this team would be so much better than they were this season.
 
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Memvol44 said:
She has regressed so far. Ma6be a lower level team,or Alabama. It's almost as if the staff hasn't worked with her at all!!!
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I'd think it more likely they have worked with her on quite a bit, and right now she's in that stage of learning where your mind is too full and nothing is happening by instinct yet.

It's a big mental jump to this level of play.
 
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BruisedOrange said:
I'd think it more likely they have worked with her on quite a bit, and right now she's in that stage of learning where your mind is too full and nothing is happening by instinct yet.

It's a big mental jump to this level of play.
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It was obvious why she didn't play today. Auburn plays mostly guards and their quickness is superior to ours. We had to play the quickest players we had to offset it as much as possible.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
Really won't know until we see who gets in there. Rickea came form the portal. There may be players of her caliber in the portal. I am quite certain Rickea is not coming back. I will only know where we are for next season when the portal is over.
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I don`t disagree with you There may be players of her caliber in the portal. But to pull 3 i think will be a tall task with the players returning.
 
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This was a game where our strengths - length, depth and Rickea - outweighed our weaknsses - general lack of quickness and speed. I thought Jordy struggled, and the rest of the team picked her up. I liked that zone. It helped mitigate our lack of quickness and speed on defense. Our guards are not going to get quicker or faster, and I see that zone as protecting them on defense. I thought we got a terrific performance from Jillian, and I really like how she is progressing. Puckett seems to be in a sophomore slump, hope she can figure it out by tournament time. This team is improving game by game, and I sure hope they can avoid the SC bracket in the tournament coming up.
 
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djtee said:
I don`t disagree with you There may be players of her caliber in the portal. But to pull 3 i think will be a tall task with the players returning.
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I think for sure we have seven returning so that is eight scholarships. If Horston and Jackson were to return we don't need many players a class of four mostly guards would do just fine. It all depends on who returns right now Horston, Jackson, Key, Suarez, Walker for sure, Franklin for sure, and Rennie back to Australia cuts the roster to Powell, Puckett, Striplin, Darby, Hollingshead, Miles, and Wynn. I can make some argument that Wynn and Miles will transfer as they really need to be recruited over. So seven for sure and possibly five. If all of Horston, Jackson, and Key were to return we don't need the portal that bad just some guards and one post. I am looking for us to go portal heavy depending on who leaves I could see a couple of Grad Transfers and two or three underclassmen. It all depends on what current players decide to do.
 
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youcancallmeAl said:
This was a game where our strengths - length, depth and Rickea - outweighed our weaknsses - general lack of quickness and speed. I thought Jordy struggled, and the rest of the team picked her up. I liked that zone. It helped mitigate our lack of quickness and speed on defense. Our guards are not going to get quicker or faster, and I see that zone as protecting them on defense. I thought we got a terrific performance from Jillian, and I really like how she is progressing. Puckett seems to be in a sophomore slump, hope she can figure it out by tournament time. This team is improving game by game, and I sure hope they can avoid the SC bracket in the tournament coming up.
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Cut out about six or seven bad decision turnovers and this could've been a double digit win. We lost to Miss St because of bad decisions with the ball were trying to do it again. Point guard position 8 turnovers you really need to fix that. I can live with the 7 that Jackson and Horston committed cause they are the ones trying to score most of the time.
 
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