Only 2 teams have led CT at halftime so far this season

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KellywillwinNC said:
you mean that 2nd half tennessee played was even called basketball..it looked more like a clown show..they should have made kk, burrell, horston, and key all wear those big floppy shoes and red noses and made kellie the ring leader i dont think it could have looked much worse
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You don't have to sound so happy about it.
 
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KellywillwinNC said:
i hope this isnt the start of a 6 or 7 game losing streak
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It's not, and it won't be.

Kellie and staff need to throw every drill and practice situation known (and invent a few new ones) to simulate intense pressure with something at stake. At least this may reveal who can handle it and who panics (and who gets better).

I hope they continue to work with the bigs while experimenting in practice with the quickest lineup available.
 
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glv98 said:
Chicken or egg. Hard to say. Many of our t.o.s seemed unforced (as usual) more a case of our younguns reacting to the idea of the amped up D than the reality of it. KJH nailed it in her presser - we lost composure. She even admitted she called the obvious time out to try to pull them back together but was unable to do so.

IMO, this is the huge challenge and huge op for a positive takeaway - staff figuring out how we lost our collective minds mid-game under increased pressure and how to restore order in the heat of a meltdown. No question the problem has been correctly ID'd by coaches. media and at least 8 million times on this board. Unfortunately, fixing issues of focus and concentration are way way harder to fix than to identify.

Hard to know how much of this is attributable to a hangover from the previous regime, where it happened with numbing regularity, or to the current staff. So far, because its relatively early, the team is relatively young, and the turnover virus was so pervasive in the immediate past, I'm willing to give KJH some more time.

It's probably a coach's toughest challenge; almost anyone can do x and os, but fixing intangibles like decision-making and confidence with the ball is much more nebulous and much harder. Good luck to the staff in conquering this killer beast. Doing so IMO will be the difference in making even a semi-decent run down the stretch.
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glv98 said:
Chicken or egg. Hard to say. Many of our t.o.s seemed unforced (as usual) more a case of our younguns reacting to the idea of the amped up D than the reality of it. KJH nailed it in her presser - we lost composure. She even admitted she called the obvious time out to try to pull them back together but was unable to do so.

IMO, this is the huge challenge and huge op for a positive takeaway - staff figuring out how we lost our collective minds mid-game under increased pressure and how to restore order in the heat of a meltdown. No question the problem has been correctly ID'd by coaches. media and at least 8 million times on this board. Unfortunately, fixing issues of focus and concentration are way way harder to fix than to identify.

Hard to know how much of this is attributable to a hangover from the previous regime, where it happened with numbing regularity, or to the current staff. So far, because its relatively early, the team is relatively young, and the turnover virus was so pervasive in the immediate past, I'm willing to give KJH some more time.

It's probably a coach's toughest challenge; almost anyone can do x and os, but fixing intangibles like decision-making and confidence with the ball is much more nebulous and much harder. Good luck to the staff in conquering this killer beast. Doing so IMO will be the difference in making even a semi-decent run down the stretch.
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Increased defensive pressure ignited the meltdown but a seasoned mature team would have handled it better. So, chicken or egg is a good analogy. Girls certainly looked in a panic with the ball in their hands. LVs have got to get better at taking care of the basketball obviously. Everybody including coach knows that. That's not negotiable if this team wants to reach its potential.
 
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The change of momentum and in my eyes what changed the game to favor Uconn is when Olivia got benched for being in foul trouble. We was up I believe by 8 and instead of Coach Kellie pouring it on with our starters she subs in puts in a lineup that consisted of Kam, Kasi, Rae Jordan, and I believe Jazz. That lineup should have never been in at the same time for that long of a time. It should had maybe been a minute and I'm being gracious. That allowed Conn to gain confidence and momentum. My personal opinion that changed the complex of the game
 
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lvocd said:
Baylor led by 1 in their eventual blowout, and Tennessee led by three in a game that, if our unforced turnovers hadn’t done us in, we may have actually had a chance of hanging with them to the end.

As someone who thought their overwhelming home-court advantage, couple with their overwhelming advantage in quickness/precision ball movement, could result in a 30-pt slaughtet, I am extremely proud of that first half and feel like this game will help them going forward.

Thank you, Lady Vols, for going up there and giving them a scare for a while!
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To bad we had to come out and play the 2nd half.
 
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1985Vols said:
UConn definitely not the same as they have been the past several years. That was a winnable game for the LV’s and they basically gave it away with senseless turnovers in the second half
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I don’t think you guys are giving enough credit to the intensity their defensive effort was in the 2nd half. It rattled the girls. They lost their composure. It happens. If it continues to happen then harp away. They will get better at it. They have to learn to play within what they are good at.
 
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