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glv98 said:
I was thinking wait til after the game and we could, I don't know, talk about the game as opposed to hosting the bitter football posters spewing venom and derision. Maybe I'll just make a drinking game of every time the same ones say the same things.
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Can't find Brian..all I can get is softball
 
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glv98 said:
I was thinking wait til after the game and we could, I don't know, talk about the game as opposed to hosting the bitter football posters spewing venom and derision. Maybe I'll just make a drinking game of every time the same ones say the same things.
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Too late, just put one up. The football crowd usually show up after a loss. Let’s not let our opponent stop our Game Day Thread tradition.
 
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glv98 said:
I was thinking wait til after the game and we could, I don't know, talk about the game as opposed to hosting the bitter football posters spewing venom and derision. Maybe I'll just make a drinking game of every time the same ones say the same things.
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Skimming the game thread I think you were on to something based on the comments so far 🤔
 
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volnationnj said:
2 elite starters and a "strong shooting/defensive guard" sounds like 3 elite starters to me (Would you call either Spear or Puckett a strong shooting/defensive guard ?).
You're asking for a lot.
Do you think your goal can be reasonably accomplished ?
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Someone in the mold of CMM at Indiana is what I was thinking for shooting and defense. I wouldn't say she is elite but she's an excellent supporting player.

Someone like Wynn but more steels, more threes, fewer ill advised wild layup attempts.
 
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So it looks like with the outburst she's had the last few games, RIckea will be the SEC scoring average champ.Tied w Angel at 19 pts going into today and she had a big 29 to Angel's 22. It's funny, leading SEC in scoring is where we found Rickea two years ago and that's where we're leaving her. Congratultions.

That said, they STILL don't have her stats up at the SEC site, says you have to "be on track" to play in 75% of your team's games. This even though she's played in all 16 SEC games. By my count, we've played 28 games and she's played in 20, which is a fraction under 75%. If she get cheated out of this I will burn multiple mattresses in front of SEC headquarters.
 
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For the very few on here that will be buying tickets and attending our first tournament game on Thursday, I just noticed in my tournament ticket folder that both sessions Thursday are general admission, despite the tickets having seat locations listed on them, so don't worry about location when buying tickets for that session.
 
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EarlVolFan said:
For the very few on here that will be buying tickets and attending our first tournament game on Thursday, I just noticed in my tournament ticket folder that both sessions Thursday are general admission, despite the tickets having seat locations listed on them, so don't worry about location when buying tickets for that session.
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It's been that way for several years. It doesn't sit well with me. If I pay for a certain seat, I should be able to sit in that seat for the whole tournament.
 
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Orange Maniac said:
It's been that way for several years. It doesn't sit well with me. If I pay for a certain seat, I should be able to sit in that seat for the whole tournament.
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Why do you pay for assigned seats to early games? Why not general admits for the early games where attendance is sparse and you can sit anywhere for 5$, then assigned seats for the semis and finals?
 
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Tennessee 33 Net, 25 RPI, and number one Strength of Schedule. Seems to land us as an 8th seed right now through most that predicted brackets. Seems quite certain that two tourney wins will move you up to a seven. A loss Thursday probably a nine would ok to drop to a ten if we lose that game. Win it and lose to Bama 8 looks to still be it and even if nine your still in the same situation.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
Tennessee 33 Net, 25 RPI, and number one Strength of Schedule. Seems to land us as an 8th seed right now through most that predicted brackets. Seems quite certain that two tourney wins will move you up to a seven. A loss Thursday probably a nine would ok to drop to a ten if we lose that game. Win it and lose to Bama 8 looks to still be it and even if nine your still in the same situation.
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Love that we jumped up 4 spots after being competitive with South Carolina. Unfortunately Oklahoma dropped a couple spots to 27 and Alabama down to 28, so our chances of having a top 25 win by season’s end are slipping. Our RPI SOS is 1, but our NET SOS (which I would imagine is what the committee uses) is 11, jumped up 8 spots after playing South Carolina again.

The NET is wild. Penn St. jumped up 5 spots and Ole Miss 11(!!!) spots today after blowing out bad teams. I hope we blow out Kentucky or Georgia Thursday.
 
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It's this part for me:
In match-ups against ranked teams, Jackson has elevated her play even more, putting up 23.8 ppg. and 10.3 rpg. in those contests. Over UT's last five outings, which have included a pair of meetings with No. 1 South Carolina and one with No. 9 LSU, the Big Orange star has averaged 23.0 ppg. and 7.4 rpg. while shooting 50 percent from the field and 75 percent from the charity stripe.
If we had her in those early ranked games, what a different world we'd be in. It's funny we've thought of RJ as not having as good a year but all her numbers are equal to or better than last year. Probably bc she had a couple of truly awful games, TAM and Ala that hurt us so badly. She also went on a turnover spree for a few games that was pretty ugly. But it all shows how much was expected of her when she came back, how high standards are for her and how much the team's success depended on hers.

Whatever has happened before, RJ is def on a roll now, really has been since the Arky game. If she can keep playing like this in post season, and she's always played well in the SEC tourney, good things might happen to our ragtag little team of misfits.
 
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glv98 said:
It's this part for me:
In match-ups against ranked teams, Jackson has elevated her play even more, putting up 23.8 ppg. and 10.3 rpg. in those contests. Over UT's last five outings, which have included a pair of meetings with No. 1 South Carolina and one with No. 9 LSU, the Big Orange star has averaged 23.0 ppg. and 7.4 rpg. while shooting 50 percent from the field and 75 percent from the charity stripe.
If we had her in those early ranked games, what a different world we'd be in. It's funny we've thought of RJ as not having as good a year but all her numbers are equal to or better than last year. Probably bc she had a couple of truly awful games, TAM and Ala that hurt us so badly. She also went on a turnover spree for a few games that was pretty ugly. But it all shows how much was expected of her when she came back, how high standards are for her and how much the team's success depended on hers.

Whatever has happened before, RJ is def on a roll now, really has been since the Arky game. If she can keep playing like this in post season, and she's always played well in the SEC tourney, good things might happen to our ragtag little team of misfits.
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My only issue with her is lack of aggression at times and demanding the ball, if she took at least 20 shots per game, she would average 25ppg at a minimum.
 
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glv98 said:
It's this part for me:
In match-ups against ranked teams, Jackson has elevated her play even more, putting up 23.8 ppg. and 10.3 rpg. in those contests. Over UT's last five outings, which have included a pair of meetings with No. 1 South Carolina and one with No. 9 LSU, the Big Orange star has averaged 23.0 ppg. and 7.4 rpg. while shooting 50 percent from the field and 75 percent from the charity stripe.
If we had her in those early ranked games, what a different world we'd be in. It's funny we've thought of RJ as not having as good a year but all her numbers are equal to or better than last year. Probably bc she had a couple of truly awful games, TAM and Ala that hurt us so badly. She also went on a turnover spree for a few games that was pretty ugly. But it all shows how much was expected of her when she came back, how high standards are for her and how much the team's success depended on hers.

Whatever has happened before, RJ is def on a roll now, really has been since the Arky game. If she can keep playing like this in post season, and she's always played well in the SEC tourney, good things might happen to our ragtag little team of misfits.
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But we didn’t. Can’t go back, Kellie screwed her team with the way she scheduled. Has to stop counting her chickens before they hatch.

Two seasons in a row we got clobbered and embarrassed in the non-conference due to missing star players. You know what they say about fooling someone twice…
 
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glv98 said:
It's this part for me:
...Whatever has happened before, RJ is def on a roll now, really has been since the Arky game. If she can keep playing like this in post season, and she's always played well in the SEC tourney, good things might happen to our ragtag little team of misfits.
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I'm sure Rickea has been reminded that not only her draft position but her "brand" as well is in high view.
As if she needs a reminder
That's the thing about BB,,,it is the "what have you done for me in the last few weeks" game...Kea knows she can't take a break
She knows.

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My only issue with her is lack of aggression at times and demanding the ball, if she took at least 20 shots per game, she would average 25ppg at a minimum.
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Like an "impact coach" .. An "impact player" has to learn when to take their moments.
I have even told my studs "Its time to be a little selfish".

Michael Jordan
Early on in his NBA time,, people wanted him to score 40,,,but didn't want to see him win.
It was only when MJ started focusing on making those around him better, that they became "Da Bulls"

Kea knows in order for her to have the best chance at a good post-run, she has to believe in and push her teammates.
She's got em right where they need to be...hope everybody's gets on the same page,,,,

She's where she needs to be right now...She's ballin'
 
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Coach Jumper said:
IMichael Jordan
Early on in his NBA time,, people wanted him to score 40,,,but didn't want to see him win.
It was only when MJ started focusing on making those around him better, that they became "Da Bulls"

Kea knows in order for her to have the best chance at a good post-run, she has to believe in and push her teammates.
She's got em right where they need to be...hope everybody's gets on the same page,,,,

She's where she needs to be right now...She's ballin'
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Michael Jordan is the Goat and my favorite player of all time, Michael Jordan led vocally and by example and it started in practice, he would challenge and motivate his teammates in practice and that translated into on court success. Rickea is more like a Tim Duncan that leads by example, but Tim had 2 big time competitors on his team as in Finals MVP Tony Parker and Ginobili, we don’t have that, and that’s what’s lacking. But with that being said I still have all the faith in the world in Rickea Jackson.
 
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Amb3096 said:
Wonder if the Fever are listening 🤔

fansided.com

South Carolina's Dawn Staley predicts Rickea Jackson as top WNBA Draft pick

Caitlin Clark is widely assumed to be the No. 1 pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft but Dawn Staley has her own favorite top prospect.
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This article is/was click bait. Dawn meant "a" top pick, not "the" top pick. People who don't like CC took this and ran with it. Almost every SEC coach said the same thing post game about RJ, lol esp the ones who had no clue how to stop her.

I irrationally sports can't stand Clark (the theatrical flopping and whining mostly) and therefore I'm sick as hell of the nonstop coverage as if she invented the game. But undeniably she's earned huge viewership and interest. Not sure she's the greatest player of all time but she's definitely the greatest shooter and scorer ever (in the women's game) and it's not close.

Setting off a bomb here, alot of the loathing of CC is at least partially racial. Started last spring when the confrontation w Angel got racialized. Now alot of African American WBB fans are very open in saying they resent a white player (esp this one) being crowned in a game built on the backs of black women. Same for Clark in the W, there's already huge resentment toward Sabrina Inoescu for the same reason. Much resentment for "the face of the league", which is predominately black, being white. Not saying who's right or wrong but IMO this is the nub of the issue.
 
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Indiana franchise are Morans if they don't take Clark #1 . She is box office and will put behinds in the seats.

Isn't that the Ultimate goal of WNBA to build their fan base on the National Scene?
 
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