This team plays like it is unmotivated, unfocused and lazy. I can't believe it lacks athletes, although some of the ladies are clearly weak, out of shape and clumsy. Players who lack self-motivation will get focused and hustle when they respect/fear the coach's response to lack of effort. Maybe someone significant needs to be called out and made a major example of for lack of effort.
The Georgia coach wasn't all that great, but she purposefully chose to sit her "star" big (who was playing pretty much like the Lady Vols) and the rest of the Georgia team immediately came alive with effort. Coach Harper needs to use the teaching power of the pine bench and not be afraid to use it no matter who the pupil is. When Barnes sees a lack of effort he sits the player regardless of who it is. If the pupil pouts, sit her longer. If they pout the season away, think about addition by subtraction at year end. Scholarships are for one year with no guarantees. If one important and capable, but underperforming, player gets called out by the coach in a public way, the rest of them will step up. If they don't, trade them all out for players who act like they care to play for the Lady Vols.
Had this team tried at all tonight they would have beaten Georgia by double digits.
