Our centers

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#4
I thought they should have rotated Uros and Aidoo on him.I think Aidoo would have done the best job. Idk if it mattered , but Fulkerson at 5 inches shorter was guarding him in the second half. He did what he could but he is to big for him...I thought that was not a smart move by coaches.
 
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Mich kid was a tuff matchup for anybody. Not just tall but extremely strong compared to our guys. With him hitting both jumpers and inside, few guys could have handled him in that game. I still prefer great guard play over inside guys. Just a bad matchup on a day our guards couldn't hit anything. Our guards shoot their average we win by 6-8 pts.
 
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Volfan70 said:
Personally feel like our centers have to do a better job at protecting the rim! Michigans center had a huge game yesterday! And Uros and others couldn’t stop him! Still no excuse for the whole team not playing the best ! Just my thought
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Dickenson out shot our guards from 3 yesterday to go along with having his way in the paint. Just a player we don't have an answer for right now.
 
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TN needs a big that can match up with that freak, but at what expense? There aren’t enough minutes to develop a part-time player to counter that type of player or not enough spots.

Bad matchups happen. There are only 13 spots so there is almost always going to be a weakness unless you have Hakeem Olajuwon in the paint. All of next year’s posts have some type of deficiency. ORN isn’t real tall. Aidoo and Tamba are thin. BHH is a little soft. Uros is a step slow and not reliable hitting his bunnies. The trick is being able to overcome those deficiencies when the matchups are bad.
 
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Volfan70 said:
Personally feel like our centers have to do a better job at protecting the rim! Michigans center had a huge game yesterday! And Uros and others couldn’t stop him! Still no excuse for the whole team not playing the best ! Just my thought
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Idk if comparing our centers to the guy who may be the best center in college basketball is going to be overly productive. Guys like that are insanely rare.

Should we be designing our team to handle the rare possibility of facing a center who is 7'1, can pass, hit 3's, and beat our center off the dribble when he catches it around the arc?
 
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Pmarav23 said:
I thought they should have rotated Uros and Aidoo on him.I think Aidoo would have done the best job. Idk if it mattered , but Fulkerson at 5 inches shorter was guarding him in the second half. He did what he could but he is to big for him...I thought that was not a smart move by coaches.
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Agree. I think they wanted to play it safe by going with the veteran player, but it cost us.
 
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EZE said:
We got to the rim a lot, too.
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Uros scored 9 and Fulky 5, I think. However, their own big had 28 and the other around 10-12 points. Plus both defended, esp the one big man( not Dickinson) with weak side help.
 
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Vol8188 said:
Idk if comparing our centers to the guy who may be the best center in college basketball is going to be overly productive. Guys like that are insanely rare.

Should we be designing our team to handle the rare possibility of facing a center who is 7'1, can pass, hit 3's, and beat our center off the dribble when he catches it around the arc?
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I think we need a 6’10 - 7’0 big guy from the portal who can give us an inside game and end a scoring drought. Plus have enough quickness and size to defend the opponent’s big men.

Michigan, Zags, Auburn, Arizona, and others have that. Ohio State has a big guy who can score inside while defending the post, too. Strong guard play is a must but having a big man is so important in March to reduce scoring droughts and rebounding.
I love Uros as he loves this university and had a ton of passion, but he doesn’t possess the skills to be a game changer on either side of the ball.
 
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vol94 said:
I think we need a 6’10 - 7’0 big guy from the portal who can give us an inside game and end a scoring drought. Plus have enough quickness and size to defend the opponent’s big men.

Michigan, Zags, Auburn, Arizona, and others have that. Ohio State has a big guy who can score inside while defending the post, too. Strong guard play is a must but having a big man is so important in March to reduce scoring droughts and rebounding.
I love Uros as he loves this university and had a ton of passion, but he doesn’t possess the skills to be a game changer on either side of the ball.
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I think Uros has came a long way and actually played well. A year from now, I think he’s going to surprise us. Those 7 footers can take a bit to grow into their bodies.

I still think we are over evaluating one game. If one more shot falls for us at any point, it’s a different game.
 
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Vol8188 said:
I think Uros has came a long way and actually played well. A year from now, I think he’s going to surprise us. Those 7 footers can take a bit to grow into their bodies.

I still think we are over evaluating one game. If one more shot falls for us at any point, it’s a different game.
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Uros has improved and has nine points, but my point is the fact we need to add a better post player to this roster. Otherwise we will not go deep into the tourney. Every team has scoring droughts. Our issue was we had too many this yr and allowed the other team to go onto a run. I don’t think Uros will be the guy we can count on as our inside scorer.
 
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I get too emotional when the game is on to be objective. Today, I have wondered what adjustments we could have made to change the outcome of the game. 1) It felt like Michigan had the option of either the middle or open three pointers compared to our open shots. 2) Their length and physical defense definitely disrupted our rhythm on 3 pointers. Like Vescovi said at the press conference after Longwood, if he gets comfortable early, it makes it easy. They made the rhythm of our outside shots difficult early and we did not effectively adjust. Because we have so many shooters, it usually makes us hard to guard. 3) could we have deployed multiple screens to get our guys more open? 4) What defensive adjustments would have made their big- Dickinson more uncomfortable-I don't think we disrupted his rhythm. Could we have utilize a box in one to keep a man on him and collapse when he got to far in? Do we have the personnel or experience for that?

Your respectful feedback is welcome.
 
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NCVolintheTriad said:
I get too emotional when the game is on to be objective. Today, I have wondered what adjustments we could have made to change the outcome of the game. 1) It felt like Michigan had the option of either the middle or open three pointers compared to our open shots. 2) Their length and physical defense definitely disrupted our rhythm on 3 pointers. Like Vescovi said at the press conference after Longwood, if he gets comfortable early, it makes it easy. They made the rhythm of our outside shots difficult early and we did not effectively adjust. Because we have so many shooters, it usually makes us hard to guard. 3) could we have deployed multiple screens to get our guys more open? 4) What defensive adjustments would have made their big- Dickinson more uncomfortable-I don't think we disrupted his rhythm. Could we have utilize a box in one to keep a man on him and collapse when he got to far in? Do we have the personnel or experience for that?

Your respectful feedback is welcome.
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I, too, get caught up w/ emotion throughout a Vols’ game. Most fans do. I thought we could have “fronted” Dickinson and then bring weak side help if they attempted to throw over our player’s head. Doubling up on Dickinson opened up a three ball so I think Barnes had the mentality to let Dickinson get his. Chandler was the only one wanting the ball in his hands below the 4 min mark so he was our only offense.

My concern all yr was allowing other teams to go on a run and us a scoring drought, as the Vols were unfortunately in the top 20% of AA in this category. It happens but elite teams usually have a big man who can be the “go to” man. Fulky was @ times but not consistent throughout the yr nor big enough yesterday vs. their two bigs.

I think we need another guard and elite post player to go deep into March.
 
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