Holiday Wish for the Team

[SNAFU]

Consistency from Dalton Knecht.
"The prized Northern Colorado transfer has run hot and cold for the Vols. Through a 4-0 start, including wins over Wisconsin and Syracuse away from home, he averaged 19 points on 52 percent shooting, 39 percent from 3. Then he shot 10 of 30 in UT’s first two losses of the season. Then he dropped 37 in a loss to UNC. Then just 10 points against George Mason. Then 21 in a win over Illinois. Then nine total points on a combined 3 of 14 shooting the last two games. Tennessee, with that typical top-5 defense, needs to know it can count on Knecht’s scoring.

Defense is always going to be there for Rick Barnes, whose team has held 9 of 11 opponents under 44 percent shooting, six of them under 38 percent, and forced more turnovers than it has allowed assists this season. But inconsistent scoring threats have doomed UT in all its recent NCAA Tournament exits. The Volunteers, who haven’t had a leading scorer top 14 points per game since 2018-19, averaged 59.7 points and shot a combined 19.4 percent from 3-point range in their last three season-ending losses. Knecht, who has scored 20-plus in 22 career games and 16-plus in 37 of 78 games, is supposed to be insurance against that kind of power outage."

Kyle Tucker, The Athletic

 

[Stoked]

Don't forget he had an ankle injury and a reported illness our last game I believe.

 

[walkenvol]

If you play team style offense compared to an isolation style, I don’t think it’s fair to ask any player to produce close to the same number of points in every game. We should be looking to exploit what the defense is giving which will differ from game to game. If teams are going to put extra attention on DK, then other guys will have great looks. I think JJJ has benefited from that so far as teams still pay a lot of defensive attention to SV and now even more to DK.
JMO

 

[Lankykong]

My holiday wish would be 40% average from 3PT for the rest of the year as a team.

 

[chuckiepoo]

My holiday wish would be 40% average from 3PT for the rest of the year as a team.

Go big or don’t climb up in the big man’s lap!

 

[Volfan1000]

Consistency from Dalton Knecht.
"The prized Northern Colorado transfer has run hot and cold for the Vols. Through a 4-0 start, including wins over Wisconsin and Syracuse away from home, he averaged 19 points on 52 percent shooting, 39 percent from 3. Then he shot 10 of 30 in UT’s first two losses of the season. Then he dropped 37 in a loss to UNC. Then just 10 points against George Mason. Then 21 in a win over Illinois. Then nine total points on a combined 3 of 14 shooting the last two games. Tennessee, with that typical top-5 defense, needs to know it can count on Knecht’s scoring.

Defense is always going to be there for Rick Barnes, whose team has held 9 of 11 opponents under 44 percent shooting, six of them under 38 percent, and forced more turnovers than it has allowed assists this season. But inconsistent scoring threats have doomed UT in all its recent NCAA Tournament exits. The Volunteers, who haven’t had a leading scorer top 14 points per game since 2018-19, averaged 59.7 points and shot a combined 19.4 percent from 3-point range in their last three season-ending losses. Knecht, who has scored 20-plus in 22 career games and 16-plus in 37 of 78 games, is supposed to be insurance against that kind of power outage."

Kyle Tucker, The Athletic

Knecht will be fine once he gets completely healthy.

 

[Lankykong]

Go big or don’t climb up in the big man’s lap!

Yep, you got it. I feel like with that average we would almost have to win out

 

[CAVPUT]

Get more minutes from Dillione and Estrella. Both are needs if we're to make noise come March.