I blame the Alabama loss on....

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#26
does the 3 point line need to be as far as the NBA in college ball ? Just to make this gunning stop a little
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
We have a crappy team
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BTO you are a great poster but why do you put yourself thru this roller coaster. We have a team we should be very proud of just like I posted about in the "appreciate reality" thread I started last week. Today shouldn't dampen any of our excitement, but the reaction was predictable.
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BruinVol said:
BTO you are a great poster but why do you put yourself thru this roller coaster. We have a team we should be very proud of just like I posted about in the "appreciate reality" thread I started last week. Today shouldn't dampen any of our excitement, but the reaction was predictable.
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Exactly. This isn't a "crappy team". They are a decent team with some strengths and some serious flaws that really show up on the road.
 
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zjcvols said:
Exactly. This isn't a "crappy team". They are a decent team with some strengths and some serious flaws that really show up on the road.
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The point most seem to be missing is that only elite teams win on the road consistently. We are good but far from elite.
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KingtUT said:
Never , and I mean NEVER,

blame the coach when just a couple of days ago people were declaring said coach to be
considered for SEC coach of the year. Those types of coaches cant be

blamed.
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Wasn't CCM fault! Good grief, I saw alotof open shots not fall. It was just a bad shooting night, it happens. If we go
9-20 instead of 4-20, we win. Plus the
refs were letting that big noodle Alabama get away with alot of hacks underneath. IMO
 
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508mikey said:
Was just joking about the stache - just a bad game - it happens :blink:
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I feel ya...dude garners a serious amount of hate on this board though, despite really giving it his all. I know he's no Lofton, but he works hard.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
The knee jerk reaction on this board is ridiculous, I bet you were the same guy praising CCM after Florida.

It's a freaking loss it happens. We have a crappy team, you can only do so much as a coach, good god.
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Come on man. The other day you were one of the posters getting excited about possibly making the dance. You cant go from that to "we have a crappy team". Now that is knee jerk reacting.
 
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BasketVolKid said:
80% is to high.

The problem was we didn't breakdown the 3/4 court zone press. You have to attack the middle and then get a 3 on 2 break. Instead, we tried to carefully bring the ball up and get into our half-court... which is miserable against the 2-3 zone the press falls back into.

Good game plan by Coach Grant. BAD adjusting by CCM and staff.
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It wasn't a zone press.
 
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gardners_51609 said:
80% on Cuonzo Martin and 20% on poor execution.

Alabama had their back up big guys in and the game plan should have been obvious. He should have played two big guys the whole game. Both Stokes and Maymon are athletic and can guard the wing if necessary.

I understand they were playing 4 guards and it presented mismatches, but if we would have started tearing up the offensive glass, they would have been hurting far more than us.

We shot a ton of three pointers and we played their game and I blame 80% of that on CCM and the coaching staff.
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Stokes was in foul trouble and we did have two "big" guys in a lot of the time. Why do you think Yemi and Miller saw minutes?
 
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You are going to lose a fair amount of road games with even a good team. This team has gotten better over the course of the season, but I wouldn't say that it has arrived yet.

This was a road loss to a fairly evenly matched opponent. They had the addvantage of playing at home, which tipped the scales in their favor--like we did against Arky earlier in the week. It happens.
 
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royboyvol said:
Stokes was in foul trouble and we did have two "big" guys in a lot of the time. Why do you think Yemi and Miller saw minutes?
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We played a lot of 4 guard lineups too. Without looking, I would guess Yemi and Miller saw less than 10 minutes combined.
 
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#38
We struggle at attacking zone defenses for two reasons. We have no consistent outside threats, and we have no one that is a threat to take his man off the dribble to penetrate the zone. This allows defenses to stay packed in close to the paint and neutralize our biggest strength, our post players. People complain about the guards not feeding the post, but it is difficult to get the ball to one of two people who are effectively being guarded by five defenders in a 12'x15' area. Until we can consistently keep defenses honest enough to guard out on our perimeter players, we will see much of the same from disciplined defensive teams like Alabama, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt.
 
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gardners_51609 said:
80% on Cuonzo Martin and 20% on poor execution.

Alabama had their back up big guys in and the game plan should have been obvious. He should have played two big guys the whole game. Both Stokes and Maymon are athletic and can guard the wing if necessary.

I understand they were playing 4 guards and it presented mismatches, but if we would have started tearing up the offensive glass, they would have been hurting far more than us.

We shot a ton of three pointers and we played their game and I blame 80% of that on CCM and the coaching staff.
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U want to blame someone then blame Kenny Hall for bailing on his team with selfish motives.
 
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Without reading everyone's response - which for the most part seem to disagree with the op - I would have to agree with the op - at least to a point. Here is where I think the staff and the team missed it. With about 15 - 16 minutes left in the second half Alabama already had 5 fouls and were struggling with our bigs inside. If we had kept Stokes and Maymon in there and continued to get it in to them - we potentially could have spent the majority of the second half shooting high percentage free throws instead of clanking up well defended 3's. Very poor ball distribution and passing in general - Alabama's defense was very good and we looked lost for a solution on the offensive end.
 
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BigPapaCat said:
Blame it on the gameplan. 20 threes wasnt the solution to a weak alabama interior.
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Your right about the 3 point shooting. Tennessee should not be shooting 3s. Go indise to the big guys. Tatum and Mcray just stop and shoot no matter what the numbers are. They could be 1 on 3 and they stop and shoot.
 
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BigPapaCat said:
Blame it on the gameplan. 20 threes wasnt the solution to a weak alabama interior.
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If that was the game plan. I doubt that it was the game plan.

I blame it on the inability or the lack will by Tennessee to run its offense through the paint, like they did against Florida. Way too many 3-s being jacked up by UT.
 
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gardners_51609 said:
80% on Cuonzo Martin and 20% on poor execution.

Alabama had their back up big guys in and the game plan should have been obvious. He should have played two big guys the whole game. Both Stokes and Maymon are athletic and can guard the wing if necessary.

I understand they were playing 4 guards and it presented mismatches, but if we would have started tearing up the offensive glass, they would have been hurting far more than us.

We shot a ton of three pointers and we played their game and I blame 80% of that on CCM and the coaching staff.
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#49
I blame myself.. I bet on the vols to cover the 4 point spread. Not only did we lose but also lost $100.
 
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#50
When we win the gang posters come on lauding Martin for COY and bashing people for ever assigning any blame to him. But when we lose, those same posters are quick to say we have a lousy team, terrible players, and no basketball IQ.

They are about as predictable as our play against a zone defense.
 
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