Russell handled the Baylor Bigs?!?!?!?

[Pat4life]

What is "wuteva" and why is it in question form?

Am I dreaming I'm on Jeopardy again?

Que'?

 

[LVJeff]

...But at some point people start facing the music and expressing the obvious.

I think that started 4 years ago. You're late to the party.

 

[volman128]

I think that started 4 years ago. You're late to the party.

Not late to the party. It's been going on that way with Butch, too. But instead of it being a small minority, it's now a very vocal majority expressing their displeasure with these coaches that are way in over their heads. People are sick and tired of giving their money and time and getting nothing in return. Can't say I blame them.

 

[BuffDaddy]

I haven't seen anywhere that people have said Russell is the best in the country. You made that part up.

Russell is a solid if unspectacular player that plays hard, shoots a decent percentage, has improved at the FT line, and is not the reason the Lady Vols are a poor team.

Taken from Amb3096 in another thread:

I'm sold on Russell as one of, if not the best, posts in the country after the way she handled Baylor's Bigs.


So I made that part up??? Yeah, obviously I DIDN'T.

 

[Pat4life]

Russell isn't a polished product yet, but she is showing great signs that she may be able to live up to her billing as the #1 overall recruit back in 2013. Good things from last game:
-She posted hard every possession
-Never stopped working
-Demanded the ball
-Held Baylor's bigs to poor shooting games--although that may be a faction of them just missing bunnies more than anything Mercedes did
-She drew fouls. She got 12 FTA, and Baylor is the deepest post team in the nation so that will get opposing teams into tough spots.
-She rebounded well

She isn't the most efficient post, nor is she the most polished, but the signs of effort and improvement give me hope that she could develop into a very very good player over the next two years if she doesn't bolt for the draft.

Tennessee looks awful this year, but her and Nared look much improved. Can you imagine where this team would be without them? As bad as the season has started, it would be much worse without Russell and Nared.

Nice post!

 

[Pat4life]

She's going to face some of the WCBB top centers, so we will be able to see, how she stacks up, she plays Lang, Turner, Coates, Korie, McCall, HIllsman, which should have her Russell ready by the end of this season, miss playing Jones and Mavunga. Doubles/Doubles against those players, its on.

Go Russell, jump hook something, a shot or move that no one can stop, its money!

 

[OriginalCoach]

Yawns. Holly ain't going nowhere. She could lose every game. :loco:

If that WERE to happen, that would be a very telling story of the condition of LV basketball and would be, IMHO, a direct slap at CPS.

 

[Pat4life]

If that WERE to happen, that would be a very telling story of the condition of LV basketball and would be, IMHO, a direct slap at CPS.

You really think, Holly will give up. And u really think I would like for us to lose every game. Ya'll stupid.

Holly is a Lady Vol, a ball player.

Wuteva?

Can we talk about Mercedes Russell?

 

[volnationnj]

You really think, Holly will give up. And u really think I would like for us to lose every game. Ya'll stupid.

Holly is a Lady Vol, a ball player.

Wuteva?

Can we talk about Mercedes Russell?

You've posted similar non sequiturs in responses to some of my posts. Nowhere in his/her post did Original Coach say that you would like it if we lost every game.
Your response is an overreaction to a completely imagined slight. And I think you owe him/ her an apology on that one.
Nor did he/she explicitly say that Holly would "give up". Again, you're pulling imaginary quotes out of thin air. Though that is one possible interpretation of what OC wrote.
All he did was state that if the LV's did lose all their games and Holly was still the coach (as you said in your post that she would be) that it would be
" a very telling story of the condition of LV basketball
and would be,IMHO,a direct slap at CPS".
I interpret that as even if your worst possible scenario took place and the LV's lost every game, the administration would still keep Holly as head coach.
And yes, that would be very telling, as Original Coach stated.
Finally, I will offer you some friendly advice. I would be very careful, if i were you, with your use of the word "stupid" when responding to other posters. It just might boomerang on you one day.

 

[LVJeff]

Taken from Amb3096 in another thread:

I'm sold on Russell as one of, if not the best, posts in the country after the way she handled Baylor's Bigs.


So I made that part up??? Yeah, obviously I DIDN'T.

My error. I stand corrected.

 

[lvocd]

I love that Russell is drawing fouls now, but she desperately needs to make the defense pay for their mistakes more often by hitting more of her free throws. She approaches the first and second shots at a different pace -- rushing the first shot a bit like she knows she's going to miss it, anyway, and just wants to get it over with. lol

 

[Amb3096]

Taken from Amb3096 in another thread:

I'm sold on Russell as one of, if not the best, posts in the country after the way she handled Baylor's Bigs.


So I made that part up??? Yeah, obviously I DIDN'T.

I'll own that statement, too. She owned Baylor's post players in this game. Kalani 2 pts, 1-9 shooting, 4 rbs and 4 fouls in 11 minutes. Beatrice 6 pts, 3-12 shooting, 8 rebounds, 0 FTAs in 24 minutes. Combined 8 pts, 4-21 shooting, 19% FG, 12 rebounds in 35 minutes. Mercedes out-produced both of them with 22 points, 8-16 shooting, 50% FG, 12 rebounds and 12 FTAs in 35 minutes.

If that's not ownership, I don't know what is. Baylor couldn't stop her, and they couldn't consistently score against her.

 

[Pat4life]

You've posted similar non sequiturs in responses to some of my posts. Nowhere in his/her post did Original Coach say that you would like it if we lost every game.
Your response is an overreaction to a completely imagined slight. And I think you owe him/ her an apology on that one.
Nor did he/she explicitly say that Holly would "give up". Again, you're pulling imaginary quotes out of thin air. Though that is one possible interpretation of what OC wrote.
All he did was state that if the LV's did lose all their games and Holly was still the coach (as you said in your post that she would be) that it would be
" a very telling story of the condition of LV basketball
and would be,IMHO,a direct slap at CPS".
I interpret that as even if your worst possible scenario took place and the LV's lost every game, the administration would still keep Holly as head coach.
And yes, that would be very telling, as Original Coach stated.
Finally, I will offer you some friendly advice. I would be very careful, if i were you, with your use of the word "stupid" when responding to other posters. It just might boomerang on you one day.

U told me. I've been called worse. wuteva?

 

[Pat4life]

I love that Russell is drawing fouls now, but she desperately needs to make the defense pay for their mistakes more often by hitting more of her free throws. She approaches the first and second shots at a different pace -- rushing the first shot a bit like she knows she's going to miss it, anyway, and just wants to get it over with. lol

Nice post. Yeah she shoots 70%, mane, a touch by her in the post will mean points.

 

[BuffDaddy]

I'll own that statement, too. She owned Baylor's post players in this game. Kalani 2 pts, 1-9 shooting, 4 rbs and 4 fouls in 11 minutes. Beatrice 6 pts, 3-12 shooting, 8 rebounds, 0 FTAs in 24 minutes. Combined 8 pts, 4-21 shooting, 19% FG, 12 rebounds in 35 minutes. Mercedes out-produced both of them with 22 points, 8-16 shooting, 50% FG, 12 rebounds and 12 FTAs in 35 minutes.

If that's not ownership, I don't know what is. Baylor couldn't stop her, and they couldn't consistently score against her.

Ownership? Absolutely not! They were knocking her around like a rag doll at times. Was it a good performance? Yeah, good at best. If there was a bright spot in the game for LV, it would've been her but that still isn't saying much. She lacks consistency....she's very hot or extremely cold at times. She's showed improvement since her freshman year but still lacks a consistent performance day in and day out.

 

[Amb3096]

Ownership? Absolutely not! They were knocking her around like a rag doll at times. Was it a good performance? Yeah, good at best. If there was a bright spot in the game for LV, it would've been her but that still isn't saying much. She lacks consistency....she's very hot or extremely cold at times. She's showed improvement since her freshman year but still lacks a consistent performance day in and day out.

Knocking someone around like a rag doll means nothing when you get whistled for the foul. Sure, Kalani was physical with Mercedes, and that's why she had 2 points and 4 fouls in only 11 minutes of play. She was largely a non-factor, which says a lot given she was Baylor's 2nd leading scorer and shooting over 75% from the floor coming into the game. Mompremier hasn't been much better.

Not sure why you're knocking Mercedes' consistency, since she has been a reliable double-double for Tennesses all season, and had her best game of the year againat the toughest matchup. Baylor is a much better team and it showed on the court, but Mercedes did her job...as she's done all season. Without her on the court, an ugly loss would have been disgustingly ugly.

 

[Volfan2012]

What's with all this talk of Mercedes handling the Baylor Bigs? Are you kidding me? What game were they watching? Yeah, Russell had a few bright spots but they were very few and far between. Baylor knocked her around like she was nothing.
She's a good post player, no doubt....but come on....best in the country, absolutely not.

Baylor Bigs 4 of 24. Russell 8 of 16. Baylor Bigs 8 points. Russell 22. Baylor Bigs 15 rebounds. Russell 12. She certainly outplayed all three of them stats easily prove it.


Now if you want to talk about someone dominating someone here it is Tennessee guards 6 of 26. Baylor guards 18 of 44. Baylor forwards 14 of 22. Tennessee Forwards 6 of 17. That is where the domination occured.

 

[BuffDaddy]

Knocking someone around like a rag doll means nothing when you get whistled for the foul. Sure, Kalani was physical with Mercedes, and that's why she had 2 points and 4 fouls in only 11 minutes of play. She was largely a non-factor, which says a lot given she was Baylor's 2nd leading scorer and shooting over 75% from the floor coming into the game. Mompremier hasn't been much better.

Not sure why you're knocking Mercedes' consistency, since she has been a reliable double-double for Tennesses all season, and had her best game of the year againat the toughest matchup. Baylor is a much better team and it showed on the court, but Mercedes did her job...as she's done all season. Without her on the court, an ugly loss would have been disgustingly ugly.

You mean....had Kim not put her scrub squad in to get some experience, an ugly loss would have been disgustingly ugly.

 

[dusbelli]

Knocking someone around like a rag doll means nothing when you get whistled for the foul. Sure, Kalani was physical with Mercedes, and that's why she had 2 points and 4 fouls in only 11 minutes of play. She was largely a non-factor, which says a lot given she was Baylor's 2nd leading scorer and shooting over 75% from the floor coming into the game. Mompremier hasn't been much better.

Not sure why you're knocking Mercedes' consistency, since she has been a reliable double-double for Tennesses all season, and had her best game of the year againat the toughest matchup. Baylor is a much better team and it showed on the court, but Mercedes did her job...as she's done all season. Without her on the court, an ugly loss would have been disgustingly ugly.

Some people you just can't reason with..... had it been the other way around ( big's stats) then everyone would be saying the Baylor big's dominated Russell ..... Russell also had 4 blocks..... I think the stats show who was the smarter and better center in the game.

 

[dusbelli]

You mean....had Kim not put her scrub squad in to get some experience, an ugly loss would have been disgustingly ugly.

Kim had starters in the whole game..... maybe at the very end when we had already made a 35 point deficit a 22 point deficit did her "scrub squad" came in...... her point guard with almost a triple double was pulled with less than a minute to go.

 

[dusbelli]

Kim didn't start Mompremier or Brown at center tonight.... she started Cave who normally comes off the bench to relieve the other two..... guess Kim wasn't to happy with their performance against Mercedes either.

 

[Amb3096]

You mean....had Kim not put her scrub squad in to get some experience, an ugly loss would have been disgustingly ugly.

You're barking up the wrong tree here. I knew going in that this had the potential to be a blowout. But what I didn't expect to see was Mercedes outright OWN Brown and Mompremier. They walked off the court with "Property of Mercedes" stitched on them.

It's a shame that Kim brought in the scrubs so early. If Kalani had played forty minutes, she could have finished with....what, 8 points on 4-36 shooting? Too bad she didn't have 16 fouls to give :loco:

 

[Smallvol#1]

You're barking up the wrong tree here. I knew going in that this had the potential to be a blowout. But what I didn't expect to see was Mercedes outright OWN Brown and Mompremier. They walked off the court with "Property of Mercedes" stitched on them.

It's a shame that Kim brought in the scrubs so early. If Kalani had played forty minutes, she could have finished with....what, 8 points on 4-36 shooting? Too bad she didn't have 16 fouls to give :loco:

Thanks for your posts in this thread, Amb3096. Apparently we attended the same game😃. 'Cedes was great.

 

[Trevor 05]

You're barking up the wrong tree here. I knew going in that this had the potential to be a blowout. But what I didn't expect to see was Mercedes outright OWN Brown and Mompremier. They walked off the court with "Property of Mercedes" stitched on them.

It's a shame that Kim brought in the scrubs so early. If Kalani had played forty minutes, she could have finished with....what, 8 points on 4-36 shooting? Too bad she didn't have 16 fouls to give :loco:

I was at the game as well and Mercedes owned Baylors post all game. Thank god we had her and jamie show up to play

 

[NoBackBoard]

This is no way and shape a reflection of Holly, if they were we would be playing Lady Vols basketball, yea Holly was tough, All time steals single season leader in program history, not talented at all, but she played hard and she competed every play and did her job.

If these young ladies were a reflection of Holly, we would be tougher and competitive.

How much of our problems do you attribute to the players refusing to call one another out? They barely talk on the court, which may be a factor in their lack of chemistry on the offensive and defensive sides.