Holly Goes To School

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teacherdean

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If you paid attention last night, Holly was simply out coached by a coach who knew what she was doing. When we stopped the threes Stanford went baseline dribble drive and we looked like we were playing in cement sneakers. When we tried to stop Stanford's quickness, they went with the mid range and downtown offense. When we staged a comeback Tara had an answer. Keep in mind that Stanford is young and not loaded with a boat load of 5 stars. Stanford has three things on their side, for the most part they are athletic, intelligent and have an outstanding head coach. She knows how to coach up any star athlete. If Tara was our coach, with the talent we have, we would be buying final four tickets. However, with the existing state of affairs, we will be luck to make it to the sweet 16.

Holly's best line was when Russell was on the bench. She lacks quickness and constantly plays out of position on both defense and offense. Do not give all the blame to Russell, the coaching staff must take a great part of the blame.

Carolyn Peck and the other commentator, talked about how Russell was playing out of position. The two of them talked about her not taking advantage of her height. No they did not come out and say that Holly's coaching sucked, but it was heavily implied.

I hope Holly was taking notes because school was in. However, I doubt if she even paid attention.
 
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Not only does she need to go to school, she needs tutoring as well. She doesn't have a clue. It will get much worse and out of the top 25 by next weeks poll, hard to imagine isn't it. I have not jumped on the fire Holly band wagon I could see the year she had to bench coach for Pat that she was awful. It is so sad to watch our program go down to the bottom of the SEC. No players signed, or committed for next season, I guess the girls can see the writing on the wall as well. If we go much farther with her, it will take years with a great coach to bring us back.
 
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No way it will take years for the LV program to recover from the total debacle that is Holly Warlick. The history of women's college basketball proves a program only needs one, maybe two, special players to achieve great things. Our history, fan base, facilities and campus will be a major draw for any young talent if we have an astute, detail-oriented coach in place. Holly isn't that person.
 
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She is seriously bad at her job now. I had hopes the last couple of years that she would modernize the LV's. But she has turned them in an awful direction with her half court offense and defense. The only things they do well are full court pressure and transition offense. This will be the worst team in recent memory that may not make the tourney without major changes.
 
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BearCat204 said:
Hopefully Hart gives her a year or two to turn things around and to rebuild the program.
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"Turn things around", "rebuild"?

Is this not the University of Tennessee Lady Vols who just transitioned from a power house and and handed the reigns from a great coach to the coach of her choosing?

I'm not sure if you are serious using the above terms. Are you?
 
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"It would be about two to three notebook pages of stuff we have to get better at," said UT coach Holly Warlick in summing up the Lady Vols' performance.


On the top of the first page it should say, GET A NEW COACH!!!!!!!
 
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Let's face it--the Lady Vols are now just another fair to middlin' program. The blue chip players who are there are there because of the program's history, kind of like UCLA after Wooden hung it up.
 
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A few lines from the ESPN review of the Stanford game:

STANFORD, Calif. -- It was a game that was, in many ways, a shell of its former self.

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But because neither the 14th-ranked Lady Vols nor the 15th-ranked Cardinal look like obvious contenders to be in Indianapolis in April.

The two most storied programs in the history of the game, the standard-bearers in their respective conferences, are looking up at long line of teams with more talent, more potential right now.

Both still have to prove they belong in that line.
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It wasn't exactly a statement win because Tennessee isn't exactly a statement team right now.
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BearCat204 said:
Hopefully Hart gives her a year or two to turn things around and to rebuild the program.
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This is her fourth year, I believe, and the program is falling apart! Warlick has been schooled since she took over as coach. All she can say after games now is, 'we have to get better"--along with her daily complaint about "quick-shooting the basketball," which makes me laugh. That's the sort of astute analysis that has us in this mess in the first place!

I agree about Russell--I would reduce her minutes. She's not playing badly but she is not playing very well either. If we as a team moved more and created more space, she might benefit. But we don't: our guards dribble around on the perimeter while the bigs post up and it is very ineffective and borderline stupid. What is also stupid is that Russell has this habit of following her man way outside--taking herself out of position to help us defensively in the paint and to rebound. Why follow someone out to the top of the key who is not going to score from out there? And it's not like Russell has the quicks to pressure her defender out there and create a turnover. Call out the opposing big's picks, communicate, but stay close to the basket. Has she not been told this.

On defense, our guards get beat off the dribble a lot, and this is a problem--Reynolds, Cooper, even Carter. Play more zone, perhaps, and play different personnel. You can't keep playing a lineup that is bad.
 
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creekdipper said:
A few lines from the ESPN review of the Stanford game:

STANFORD, Calif. -- It was a game that was, in many ways, a shell of its former self.

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But because neither the 14th-ranked Lady Vols nor the 15th-ranked Cardinal look like obvious contenders to be in Indianapolis in April.

The two most storied programs in the history of the game, the standard-bearers in their respective conferences, are looking up at long line of teams with more talent, more potential right now.

Both still have to prove they belong in that line.
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It wasn't exactly a statement win because Tennessee isn't exactly a statement team right now.
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And never will be with Holly at the Helm.
 
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Rather than continuing to :bash: Holly, just like to reiterate that we lucked out with the SEC schedule.

We play Vandy, Arkansas, & 'Bama twice.

The 4 currently-ranked teams & 3 "honorable mention" teams...once.

Look at the bright side. Those predicting won-loss record for the season would surely be more discouraged if we had the likes of SC or KY twice on our schedule (not counting tournament). Or even some of the "just out of the ranking" teams.

So the outlook could have been worse.

Some might argue with that, of course. :question:
 
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Voldon18 said:
No way it will take years for the LV program to recover from the total debacle that is Holly Warlick. The history of women's college basketball proves a program only needs one, maybe two, special players to achieve great things. Our history, fan base, facilities and campus will be a major draw for any young talent if we have an astute, detail-oriented coach in place. Holly isn't that person.
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I agree with everything you wrote Voldon18, but we need to change the head coach by the end of the year if not sooner. I would be surprised if Holly can see the handwriting on the wall. We need a real go getter with a heavy basketball IQ. In the words by that great master mind, Donald Trump, Holly is low energy.
 
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I support it also but that does not change the product we are seeing on the basketball court.There is definitely something wrong in the locker room.This team is capable talent -wise to overcome bad or no coaching.IMO they are rebelling on the court.Why are some players starting and playing in front of others when they have not had but one or two good games in their careers and they are juniors ? Lifestyle with coach off the court maybe ? Heck .I do not know but something is dreadfully wrong other than bad coaching.
 
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creekdipper said:
Rather than continuing to :bash: Holly, just like to reiterate that we lucked out with the SEC schedule.

We play Vandy, Arkansas, & 'Bama twice.

The 4 currently-ranked teams & 3 "honorable mention" teams...once.

Look at the bright side. Those predicting won-loss record for the season would surely be more discouraged if we had the likes of SC or KY twice on our schedule (not counting tournament). Or even some of the "just out of the ranking" teams.

So the outlook could have been worse.

Some might argue with that, of course. :question:
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Did Pat try to run and hide from the ranked teams?

Holly is destroying what Pat worked so hard to built.

It is time to move on. I like Holly but she is not getting the job done.
 
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