New starting lineup

[FrozenLVFan]

I don't really like what I've seen from DeShields at times this year. Her defensive effort has often been pretty weak, and her body language is not positive. We need her to be a leader on this team--but that starts with giving full effort all the time, and I haven't seen that with her, and it also includes encouraging your teammates, which I don't see much of either. We have a poor leader at the top, and we have little leadership on the floor, and that's the first and biggest problem with the team. And then our coaches seem lacking in tactical/teaching fundamentals that shows up in our pathetic, hard-to-watch offense. The team is a mess.

As someone else mentioned, I think we're really missing our senior leadership from last year. This team doesn't seem to have any players who are natural leaders.

 

[Rixxx]

Russell was the most over-rated #1 recruit of All Time to this point in her career. Totally soft. like hot butter,

I would also like to add invisible at times. Please bench her. Bring her in off the bench as a defensive stopper. Is that even possible?

 

[reno tony]

Put Luigi as head coach and we're national champs.

It might take a year or so to unscrew then rescrew their heads on and learn some basic basketball and to have them playing like a team instead of individuals running around like some Parks and Rec team. Does UT have assistant coaches that are responsible for certain positions, is there a practice squad they play against and do they practice offensive schemes?

 

[armchair]

We've been facing a lot of zone defenses--and Cooper has struggled hugely against them. Her strength is dribble penetration and that is hard against a zone. That is why she has looked bad against zone defenses, and she has shot poorly all year. She is talented, no doubt about it--but you have to play well. If you are playing and shooting poorly, you can't keep playing. And she is not a very good defender either. Our guard play generally have been embarrassingly bad--but, yea, I think a lot of it is a result of crap coaching. Whatever sets we use are not good; there is not enough ball movement and good passing. Until we get our assist numbers up and our turnover numbers down, and improve our shooting, we will stink. We need better coaches--but the least Warlick could do in the short term is tap the brains of some outsiders who know offense. If she and her staff can't get it done, at least consult with some people who know more.

 

[Hoya Saxa]

Diamond is a stud/star and she just simply do not trust players who she feel isn't up to the quality she feels they should be which is why she takes a lot of shots because she feels she has to...

Fact: Diamond shoots 38%. Cooper shoots 32%.Tennessee as a team shoots 40%.

Fact: Diamond and Cooper have attempted more shots than anyone else on the team.

http://www.utsports.com/sports/w-baskbl/stats/2015-2016/teamcume.html#TEAM.IND

Why are two players who shoot below the team's average taking the most shots? The team would score more points if they never shot at all and let more accurate players take those shots. The two "me" players score a lot of points because, as the statistics show, they are volume shooters, not quality shooters. If they made up for their poor offensive efforts by contributing on the defensive end, their minutes might be justified. But neither one seems interested in playing basketball unless the ball is in her hands.

 

[508mikey]

When is Dunbar going to be back healthy ? She should be a starter