Ole Miss Postgame Report

#27
#27
I was hoping Cuonzo's scowl would be good for a few wins this season. His coaching certainly isn't doing the job.
 
#28
#28
Hopefully we won't play any teams with athletes the rest of the year.
 
#29
#29
OrangeBalls said:
Oh, they're a tournament team alright. A NIT one.

Kenny Hall's stat line - 0 points, 0 boards and 5 fouls. I really don't wish for players to leave because they chose to go to UT. However, this team will be a much better team once McBee and Hall leave. I'll just leave it at that.

UT got outclassed in almost every single category. It's almost like the team and coaching staff was satisfied with coming back against Memphis. The Memphis game was fool's gold. Memphis doesn't play a lot of defense. That's why UT came back. Ole Miss is a more physical team and just bullied UT. They had their way in the post and on the perimeter.

As I was afraid of, this team is going to go 0-3 to start the SEC season. They'll lose at Bama and they'll lose at Ky next Tue. A horrible, horrible way to start the SEC season.

Other than the COC, Oakland and Austin Peay games last year, this is easily one of the most pathetic efforts of the Martin regime. This team and coaching staff better get their heads out of their asses or they'll be lucky to have 10,000 people show up at the next home game.
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Tennessee will be lucky to make the NIT
 
#31
#31
OrangeBalls said:
Only problem with that is Ole Miss shot 86.4% from the line. 38-44. 44 free throws...on the road.

Un-freakin-real to get that many foul shots on the road.
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I will never blame the refs for a loss (especially this one), but you know the officiating is off when one team has 40+ FT attempts, let alone 70 attempts in one game (yes, 70 FTs were taken tonight).
 
#32
#32
Chris4Vols22 said:
I will never blame the refs for a loss (especially this one), but you know the officiating is off when one team has 40+ FT attempts, let alone 70 attempts in one game (yes, 70 FTs were taken tonight).
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Two words, one name. Anthony Jordan. He sucks. He shouldn't be allowed to ref a YMCA game.
 
#34
#34
OrangeBalls said:
Oh, they're a tournament team alright. A NIT one.

Kenny Hall's stat line - 0 points, 0 boards and 5 fouls. I really don't wish for players to leave because they chose to go to UT. However, this team will be a much better team once McBee and Hall leave. I'll just leave it at that.

UT got outclassed in almost every single category. It's almost like the team and coaching staff was satisfied with coming back against Memphis. The Memphis game was fool's gold. Memphis doesn't play a lot of defense. That's why UT came back. Ole Miss is a more physical team and just bullied UT. They had their way in the post and on the perimeter.

As I was afraid of, this team is going to go 0-3 to start the SEC season. They'll lose at Bama and they'll lose at Ky next Tue. A horrible, horrible way to start the SEC season.

Other than the COC, Oakland and Austin Peay games last year, this is easily one of the most pathetic efforts of the Martin regime. This team and coaching staff better get their heads out of their asses or they'll be lucky to have 10,000 people show up at the next home game.
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You are fooling yourself if you think we make the NIT.
 
#35
#35
Worst time to be a vols fan. One of these days if we make it out of the darkness of mediocrity in mens sports, it will be a beautiful thing. Then maybe ut fans will appreciate a winning season a little bit more. However, until that day, I guess I'll just stick with, "It's ok at best to be a Tennessee Vol."
 
#38
#38
If this team can start hitting some open shots they'll be fine. How many wide open 3's did they miss last night? How many layups did they miss? They're getting good looks at the basket, but there isn't a consistent shooter on this team. Ole Miss played a trapping defense last night which allows for open shots if you break. UT was unable to make those open shots. If they make half of those it's a different ball game.

McBee is out there to make 3s and he's not. Time to sit. The ball doesn't go to Stokes enough. McRae is our best option on the offensive end right now. The ball should go through him and Stokes.

Can't believe I'm reading that Stokes is "digressing" and that Martin should be fired. Ignorant comments. Martin is having to play leftovers from Pearl. Granted, the guys he's brought in, sans Richardson, aren't producing. McBee and Hall are Seniors and they aren't producing. I believe once Coach Martin brings in his next recruiting class and gets Maymon back, this team will be fine.

Our fan base is so ignorant, especially when it comes to basketball.
 
#40
#40
n2motorsports said:
If this team can start hitting some open shots they'll be fine. How many wide open 3's did they miss last night? How many layups did they miss? They're getting good looks at the basket, but there isn't a consistent shooter on this team. Ole Miss played a trapping defense last night which allows for open shots if you break. UT was unable to make those open shots. If they make half of those it's a different ball game.

McBee is out there to make 3s and he's not. Time to sit. The ball doesn't go to Stokes enough. McRae is our best option on the offensive end right now. The ball should go through him and Stokes.

Can't believe I'm reading that Stokes is "digressing" and that Martin should be fired. Ignorant comments. Martin is having to play leftovers from Pearl. Granted, the guys he's brought in, sans Richardson, aren't producing. McBee and Hall are Seniors and they aren't producing. I believe once Coach Martin brings in his next recruiting class and gets Maymon back, this team will be fine.

Our fan base is so ignorant, especially when it comes to basketball.
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Surely you don't want Maymon back because he is a Pearl leftover.
 
#41
#41
cncchris33 said:
At ZJC's request, I'm making an emergency start out of the bullpen tonight for him...

Wow. Where to start? I guess I'll start by saying we are not a tournament team. I wasn't really convinced of this until tonight. We just aren't tough. Surprising with a coach whose reputation is one of toughness. We lack killer instinct. This was one of those games that we were never really out of, but we were never really in it after 5 minutes in. We regressed again in this game, and after the positive step we saw coming out of the 2nd half vs Memphis, I think we conclude that this is a team that will often take two steps forward, and three steps back. Obviously, not having Maymon makes a difference, but we just played with no inspiration and let Ole Miss push us around and do whatever they wanted.

Good news (this will be a short list):
-McRae played well again and with purpose.
-Stokes missed a lot of easy shots, but rebounded well and scored a fair amount too. He was aggressive offensively.
-Yemi continues to be solid.

Bad news:
-Kenny Hall...pathetic effort and attitude. I held out hope after your Memphis effort. You let me down again. Shame on me for believing you were something other than what you are; a lazy player who takes for granted the opportunity in front of you.
-Skylar McBee is just ineffective across the board if he isn't hitting from outside. His defense tonight was pitiful.
-Trae Golden played well in the first half and looked to be more assertive. In the second, he looked pretty bad all around again. Lopez didn't do much in relief.
-Derek Reese didn't really provide any spark. His defense was terrible tonight and his lack of strength was glaring in the paint vs the stronger OM players.
-Our team defense is nowhere as good as we thought. The stat shown at the beginning of the game was played out tonight. We are 13th in the conference in defensive efficiency.
-We tried a zone, which failed miserably on the whole because of the quickness of OM's guards.
-We were destroyed on the boards.

Ole Miss played really well. They were the tougher team. They played like they wanted to win. Marshall Henderson and Murphy Holloway are really good players and we had no one that could stay with them. Henderson is exactly what Tennessee is missing.
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I can't believe I'm saying this, but what we need are a couple of Senior season Lil Pearl's.
 
#44
#44
Everyone knew he's a scorer, I'm very dissapointed we didn't have a better scout on him and play better D on him.

The first half wasn't bad, but it seemed like as soon as we went zone and he canned the 2 threes it was on.
 
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