Non-Lady Vol Basketball News 2024-25

[mudcat1973]

Tara lipinski

It's especially rich given that this is Russia where they have entire programs given to doping their athletes, even teenagers. But just a little bit of weed and it's 5+ years in prison.

said she was best skater she ever saw. but that russia limits food and water they say her skaters are washup as adults their bodies take beating under her head russia coach taking about russia 15 year who had heart meds.

 

[lvocd]

I don't agree with rules for a lot of countries, but I also make it a point not to push the boundaries when I go visit them. I was on particularly good behavior in Russia. I wouldn't even take photos of something if I thought it would be an issue. I appreciate my freedoms in the US, but I'm not going to assume that I have the same leeway in other countries.

Exactly. My guess is that Brittney has spent so much time living and working in Russia over the years that she probably long ago lost the sense of caution that short-term visiting tourists and businesspeople maintain. It's all "old hat" to these basketball players who spend so much time there now. She showed up at that airport without a care in the world.

 

[mudcat1973]

What’s your point Mud, are you saying you believe Russian state controlled media?

no just not a place to be for american l saw a newspaper say she could get of to 10 years. they no jury traial ofyour peers in russia. its like china they have a king more or less.

 

[shiverz]

I can`t see LSU as a 2 seed they just don`t have the firepower or quality depth make a deep run. Plus without Morris they don`t look like the same team. The committee seems to like Iowa State so i think they stay at a 2 seed.

Iowa State got blown out after they received the 2 seed. If they were to lose again today or early next week in the Big 12 tournament, no way they stay a 2 seed.

 

[VolBall09]

Miami about to knock off Notre Dame. A win for us today would be huge. ND is a team close to us in terms of NCAA seeding. A loss for them today is definitely helpful if we take care of business.

 

[zaqhhh]

Kansas takes down Oklahoma as well, again a 3 is virtually assured for us with a win now.

Only worry is that they decide 1 of Maryland/Arizona should stay ahead of us and Indiana passes us due to better wins in Tourney.

Win puts us between 11-12 I would say (Likely 3)

Loss puts us at 13-14 I think. (Highest 4)

 

[JBB1985]

You are thinking of how the "S Curve" or "Strength Curve" works, generally. The strongest #1-seed gets the weakest #2-seed, plus the strongest #3-seed. So that implies overall from the NCAAW Reveal that you'd have #1, #8, and #9 in the same Regional. However, and it is a big "but", NCAAW guidelines almost never want the same Conference teams that could be #1-seed and the #2-seed in same Regional. This season NCAAW is using the "G Curve" or "Geographical Curve" which means they can shift similar seeding level teams from the 2nd seed-line and the 3rd seed-line around quite a bit to avoid same-Conference matchups between #1's and #2's. -- this was in reply to volfan2012 post on LSU as a #2-seed potential, apologies for not including that message to my comment

 

[Rickster]

USC does not seem to always play well in the 4th quarter.

 

[Putbacks]

Belmont makes it! First team in…

 

[Poultrygeist]

Fulwiley scores 41 pts with 17 boards in SC State Championship 60-58 win over Camden and Joyce Edwards (24 pts, 14 boards and 8 blocks)

Fulwiley currently rated #7 in next years class and Edwards rated #1 in 2024 class could be our next home grown generational talents. In 7th grade Fulwiley started for Keenan H.S.

 

[Rooster1]

Fulwiley scores 41 pts with 17 boards in SC State Championship 60-58 win over Camden and Joyce Edwards (24 pts, 14 boards and 8 blocks)

Fulwiley currently rated #7 in next years class and Edwards rated #1 in 2024 class could be our next home grown generational talents. In 7th grade Fulwiley started for Keenan H.S.

Fulwiley was once ranked 1 in her class, not sure why she is 7 now, perhaps the top 6 are just that good, but if you watch Fulwiley play you immediately see a HS player who will likely play significant minutes as a freshman next year. She is amazing. Nobody knows where she will go to school yet but wherever that ends up being she will be a force.

 

[mudcat1973]

Tess also got one from Academy Sports and Outdoors

green eye monsters are coming out.

 

[Volfan2012]

Posters can talk about Clark being a volume shooter all they want. Everytime she puts up a shot her average is 1.39 points per shot attempt which is absolutely amazing for a guard. You won't see many guards get that kind of point production for their team playing the point.

 

[Cb153181]

Posters can talk about Clark being a volume shooter all they want. Everytime she puts up a shot her average is 1.39 points per shot attempt which is absolutely amazing for a guard. You won't see many guards get that kind of point production for their team playing the point.

Yes seen her play Michigan live and she is the best player this year. She is way better than Paige and doesn’t have the same talent around her as UConn and South Carolina

 

[Volfan2012]

Yes seen her play Michigan live and she is the best player this year. She is way better than Paige and doesn’t have the same talent around her as UConn and South Carolina

You talk about volume shooter playing the guard position you really have a star if they can get to a 1.20 point per shot attempted. She way exceeds that to the better than elite category with that 1.39

 

[superfly]

Fulwiley scores 41 pts with 17 boards in SC State Championship 60-58 win over Camden and Joyce Edwards (24 pts, 14 boards and 8 blocks)

Fulwiley currently rated #7 in next years class and Edwards rated #1 in 2024 class could be our next home grown generational talents. In 7th grade Fulwiley started for Keenan H.S.

The Camden team (my hometown) has a 7th grader, 9th grader and 3 sophomores in the starting lineup. They will be a force for the next 2 years and beyond. Their coach (Norris) played at South Carolina under Nancy Wilson.

 

[superfly]

No she is not the most deserving unless you are a biased SC fan. Clark's scoring average is far higher, she is much higher in assists, and not much lower in rebounds. She leads in more categories than Boston does. So you come over here talking about bias since it seems you are exactly the one who is.View attachment 436866

Again...Boston doesn't "NEED" to be a scorer. She plays her role and she could easily score 30 points a game if needed. No one can stop her....

 

[Volfan2012]

Again...Boston doesn't "NEED" to be a scorer. She plays her role and she could easily score 30 points a game if needed. No one can stop her....

Who was saying anything about Boston? How did she get into this conversation. Not needed or wanted talking about a specific player that is far beyond her classification as a volume shooter.

 

[Mr.Pivot]

The Camden team (my hometown) has a 7th grader, 9th grader and 3 sophomores in the starting lineup. They will be a force for the next 2 years and beyond. Their coach (Norris) played at South Carolina under Nancy Wilson.

They are VERY good to be so young! I was very impressed. I think they will win a few state championships themselves in the next couple years.

 

[volnationnj]

Again...Boston doesn't "NEED" to be a scorer. She plays her role and she could easily score 30 points a game if needed. No one can stop her....

A ridiculous comment.
She "needed" to score 30 against Missouri, but she didn't. That game, and loss for SC, went into OT and Boston only scored 17 points.
She's a great player. There's no need to make obviously absurd statements regarding her abilities.

 

[Volfan2012]

Again...Boston doesn't "NEED" to be a scorer. She plays her role and she could easily score 30 points a game if needed. No one can stop her....

Why would you want her not to score 30 if you have other players taking shots at a much lower percentage and low efficiency. That doesn't make much sense at all.

 

[Rooster1]

Have to agree with the Clark posters above, she is having one hell of a season. But she is not better than a 100% healthy Paige, just isn’t, nobody is.

 

[Rooster1]

Why would you want her not to score 30 if you have other players taking shots at a much lower percentage and low efficiency. That doesn't make much sense at all.

Because you build a championship caliber team by building depth and spreading it around so if one goes down they are not impacted as much. Another important reason is that in order for a team to be consistently good, they cannot be predictable and do the same thing over and over, and in that light a good coach does not put too much of the teams success on any one player when possible.

Boston could score 30 many nights if that was the plan, she shoots around 56%, but then you hurt your team by relying too much on one player in the long run. Watch the tourney, if Clark goes for 30 or more most games her teammates are suffering from less shots and they are easier to game plan. If she is off on a given night they are doomed.

By your logic, you let the player with the highest points per attempt shoot all the time. Tell me how well that works for most teams, men’s and women’s, including the pros.

Last season, for UT, Davis had to carry too big of a load. This year it was JH Having to carry too big of a load, ideally it is spread around so no one player dictates the entire team’s success. Having said that, Boston would be a huge loss to SC if injured, obviously. But fatal? I think not based upon the depth they have built by spreading it around.

Haley Jones from Stanford could prob average 20-25 a game if they played to one player. Wonder why they spread it around?

That is not the case with Iowa. If Boston went down, Cardosa, Amihere and Saxton would get extended minutes in and around the post position and their production per minutes played are all high enough to suggest the team‘s wound is not fatal, albeit it would hurt. If Clark goes down, Iowa is done.

That is why you do not ask one player to be the end all of all things on your team. Hell, Boston averages about ten minutes less PT than Clark who rarely comes out. So is Clark the MVP of her team and maybe of WBB, yes. The best player, POY, ? It’s close IMO but I like the SC/Stanford method of running a team as far as trying to go deep in the tourney, more well rounded. I would never argue against Clark as POY If she wins, but man, in the tourney there will be teams that focus on her and let’s see what that looks like as far as wins and losses.

 

[Volfan2012]

Because you build a championship caliber team by building depth and spreading it around so if one goes down they are not impacted as much. Another important reason is that in order for a team to be consistently good, they cannot be predictable and do the same thing over and over, and in that light a good coach does not put too much of the teams success on any one player when possible.

Boston could score 30 many nights if that was the plan, she shoots around 56%, but then you hurt your team by relying too much on one player in the long run. Watch the tourney, if Clark goes for 30 or more most games her teammates are suffering from less shots and they are easier to game plan. If she is off on a given night they are doomed.

By your logic, you let the player with the highest points per attempt shoot all the time. Tell me how well that works for most teams, men’s and women’s, including the pros.

Last season, for UT, Davis had to carry too big of a load. This year it was JH Having to carry too big of a load, ideally it is spread around so no one player dictates the entire team’s success. Having said that, Boston would be a huge loss to SC if injured, obviously. But fatal? I think not based upon the depth they have built by spreading it around.

Haley Jones from Stanford could prob average 20-25 a game if they played to one player. Wonder why they spread it around?

That is not the case with Iowa. If Boston went down, Cardosa, Amihere and Saxton would get extended minutes in and around the post position and their production per minutes played are all high enough to suggest the team‘s wound is not fatal, albeit it would hurt. If Clark goes down, Iowa is done.

That is why you do not ask one player to be the end all of all things on your team. Hell, Boston averages about ten minutes less PT than Clark who rarely comes out. So is Clark the MVP of her team and maybe of WBB, yes. The best player, POY, ? It’s close IMO but I like the SC/Stanford method of running a team as far as trying to go deep in the tourney, more well rounded. I would never argue against Clark as POY If she wins, but man, in the tourney there will be teams that focus on her and let’s see what that looks like as far as wins and losses.

Aliyah Boston Stats | ESPN

Well here is Boston's totals scoring eff is 1.36 so she and Clark are about equally effective per shot attempted and points gained for their team.

 

[Rooster1]

Aliyah Boston Stats | ESPN

Well here is Boston's totals scoring eff is 1.36 so she and Clark are about equally effective per shot attempted and points gained for their team.

Yep, and one of those players is elite defensively (DPOY), the other is below average defensively.