Game Thread: UT Martin v Lady Vols, Thurs Nov 7th; Home-FCC; 6:30PM; SEC+ network...UT wins 90-50

#252
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BruisedOrange said:
🎙️CKC remarks from radio postgame:
"We knew it would be ugly because that's the way that team (UT-M) plays--they force you to play an uncomfortable game."
"The one positive on the sheet was offensive rebounds."

🎙️On things she will work them on between now and next Tuesday:
"Our half-court defense is horrible!"
"Our 3pt guarding has to improve."
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She’s never pleased. I LOVE HER.
 
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RubDub is an elite talent. Top 20 prospect-McD-All American talent.
On her way to an All-SEC Team selection I’m calling it now.
This high octane system under Coach Caldwell is a thing of beauty.
All eyes are on Knoxville!
Don’t believe me in the words of LVFL Niya Butts & current SEC announcer this “Tennessee team is a force to reckon with this season.” GBO!

 
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I am so proud to be a rabid fan of this year's team. There really is no telling how much better this already exciting group of energetic, athletic women can get as time goes on and as experience playing together increases. Even though they obviously do,
and at this point SHOULD, have much to work on, I am stunned they can look as good as they do sometimes this early. It's a work in progress, but they have a GREAT baseline IMO.
 
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travis929 said:
This was my first game in-person in 3 years - and I pretty much agree with all of this! Loved the commitment to rebounding after missing boxouts in the exhibition and Samford games. There were some really ugly stretches (not loving that the first two games have lasted over 2 hours each with all the stoppages) but they are also really fun to watch overall. I can't wait until we go against some better competition to see how good we really are right now.
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welcome back to the Summit of women's basketball. If I recall correctly, you live in New England. Will you be able to go to some more games here this year?
 
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travis929 said:
This was my first game in-person in 3 years - and I pretty much agree with all of this! Loved the commitment to rebounding after missing boxouts in the exhibition and Samford games. There were some really ugly stretches (not loving that the first two games have lasted over 2 hours each with all the stoppages) but they are also really fun to watch overall. I can't wait until we go against some better competition to see how good we really are right now.
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Tuesday will be a bump up on the quality level of opponent. From 1 to about a 4 or 5 on a scale of 1-10.
 
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VolBall09 said:


Dude is such a loser lol.

Claims they controlled the pace…no. Maybe for about 3-6 minutes of play the entire game.

Then claims one of our players broke their player's hand.
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Yeah, if not for that brief lapse in their control of the pace, they probably would have beaten us. That couple of minutes they were off resulted in Tennessee going up by 40, and then if Tennessee hadn't broken that girl's hand they clearly had us dead to rights. We got lucky I guess.
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lvocd said:
Yeah, if not for that brief lapse in their control of the pace, they probably would have beaten us. That couple of minutes they were off resulted in Tennessee going up by 40, and then if Tennessee hadn't broken that girl's hand they clearly had us dead to rights. We got lucky I guess.
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It made me chuckle.

They asked Coach Kim about it and she immediately said “well we took 84 shots” ☠️☠️☠️☠️

And then conceded they controlled some aspects of the pace lol. But her real answer was “no” hahahah
 
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VolBall09 said:


Kim after a 40 point win sounds like a lot of coaches after a 10 point loss. That mentality is going to take this team places.

Still a rockstar answering questions. Her brain works rapid fire, gotta love it.
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I am crazy about this woman's no-nonsense, quick, intelligent responses. There is nothing about Caldwell that isn't impressive. Love her!
 
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VolBall09 said:


Dude is such a loser lol.

Claims they controlled the pace…no. Maybe for about 3-6 minutes of play the entire game.

Then claims one of our players broke their player's hand.
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Nah, I like this guy! He's a good coach. I like that he let his personality out in front of the orange press. That's gutsy. He knows the plan he's working to bring his girls to where they need to be to vie for their conference again.

And if someone broke my player's hand--AND no foul was called... I don't know that I'd have the self-control that he displayed in answering that question. Our radio announcer mentioned several times that the refs missed obvious fouls on both teams, but that UT-M got especially (or, more blatantly) jobbed.

Thanks for posting that, VolBall09!
 
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VolBall09 said:
I love Spencer. She gives up the body, she’s on the floor all the time. I don’t remember her being that way at Arkansas.
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When you bring in a freshman and try to run 80% of the offense through her it could cause some locker room issues and also cause some upper class players to not put it all out on the floor. Then again, defense has never been a strong point of Arkansas.
 
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glv98 said:
I didn't know Cooper would be this kind of defensive player. This will help her so much in pursuit of the W. Fouled too much, obvs, but she's a special defender. Reminds me of Jordy.

As a team, we did give up several dribble drives as Niya called out. That's killed us the past couple of years.

I thought Latham would play more and be more effective. Didn't see Favor getting almost as many mins. Ditto for Jill. Not sure why they wouldn't get extended mins in this game. Curious what kind of mins Edy would have gotten.

Ruby goes a little Rickea and was awesome. So under control and locked in. Great start to the season for her.

The rebounding, esp offensive rebounding and shot advantage stats are incredible. I fully understand the point is just fling em up there enough, rebound enough of em and eventually enough will go in. I'm still working hard to understand why it wouldn't be easier to just take good shots and hit them in the first place?
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I am super excited about Cooper. She looks a lot like Jordan H. On the court but she might be quicker. Ruby is quite the player as well — a great motor plus skill.

They definitely on rebounding from Sanford. I would bet that CKC would like a better shooting % but the team did take 3 or 4 shots that would have been long for Caitlin Clark.
 
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KnoxLikeUs said:
I’m planning to do a film study of this game tomorrow and really breakdown the performance.
Based on what I saw live, Alyssa Latham and Kaniya Boyd are really about to click soon along with Spear, Whitehorn, Cooper, Spencer, and Spearman who have had strong games to start the season.
And when they do folks better lookout!
Latham defensively was really impressive and she was crashing the boards hard. Jordan Horston-like!
She obviously is still transitioning and seems focused to get to the point where she’s contributing at a high level.
Kaniya Boyd is further alone offensively than a lot of people probably recognizes because she doesn’t take a lot of shots.
Boyd looks like a Top 20-30 recruit early in the season.
All it takes is one game, and I have no doubt that the next game could be that breaking out moment for Latham and Boyd.
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I have been preaching Latham…. She’s freaky athletic, hustles, seems like an energy giver, and has a better offensive game compared to Jill and Favor.
 
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Our defense has to improve and our communication. We foul way too much, we look at trying to steal way too much instead of sitting and containing/ moving our feet. We don’t rotate and close out with a sense of urgency. Too much standing up after we are off the ball. And our on ball defense we get beat off the bounce. Just watch UConn for the first 10 mins. We want to reach our full potential then the girls need to clean this up.

 
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