Tennessee looks ugly...

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jrobison said:
This week's squad looked nothing like the team that impressed against Georgetown. That being said, I do think that they were exhausted. We had too many guys standing around watching the possession and not NEARLY enough hustle. Scotty looked lethargic and neither Tyler or Wayne showed the leadership this young team needs.

I have faith, though. Bruce will work it out.
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this is becoming a very tiring refrain.
 
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#27
Griff is a moron. He said its the worst performance he's seen in his FOUR years of covering B-Ball. That means, he was around for Buzz's final year. Bruce's worst game can easily outdo many of Buzz's finest (which weren't many). My god, Buzz lost to UTC at home for cryin out loud.

My thoughts are this: Griff is a Pro-Fulmerite who partially blames the overwhelming success of Bruce and the BasketVols to the demise of his beloved coach Fulmer who sucked as of late. This is his way of generating some negative "buzz" on Bruce.

Go Home Griff.
 
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#30
As a long time fan with little UT basketball accomplishment experienced, this complaining about how we win, not whether we win, is music to my ears.
 
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#31
Ridiculous. We've lost one game, to a top ten team on a neutral floor who was shooting lights out. Yes, it was a flat performance against UNC-Asheville, but we were never in any remote danger of losing that game, and, although flat, could have easily won by 30 or more if the scrubs hadn'tve come in to jack up random 3's and give back some of the lead.

A third straight trip to the Sweet 16, which is the course I think we're on, would be unprecedented success for a program that's won, what, 10 NCAA tournament games TOTAL?
 
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BigPapaVol said:
not so much. The continual refrain of our fans proclaiming that Bruce can fix it all is absolutely painful.
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Yeah...I have FAITH that Bruce can pull it together. I didn't call him Jesus or anything.

What pains me are negative, nay-saying skeptics who loosely call themselves fans.
 
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jrobison said:
Yeah...I have FAITH that Bruce can pull it together. I didn't call him Jesus or anything.

What pains me are negative, nay-saying skeptics who loosely call themselves fans.
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If you're calling me a skeptic of our team, you might look around a bit. If reality bothers you badly, dust yourself and it's over.
 
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#35
This team is young, they'll have their issues. A sweet 16 would be nice this year. Next year and the year after that will be great, though. However, you'd think it would be nice to have everyone having 100% faith in Pearl. I'd much rather have a coach I can believe in than one I will question their every move. The ones you trust are the ones who tend to win.
 
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dickens821 said:
This team is young, they'll have their issues. A sweet 16 would be nice this year. Next year and the year after that will be great, though. However, you'd think it would be nice to have everyone having 100% faith in Pearl. I'd much rather have a coach I can believe in than one I will question their every move. The ones you trust are the ones who tend to win.
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100% faith in a guy whose teams are consistently near the bottom of the league in FG defense? Speaking of reality checks
 
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#37
I don't have 100% faith in Bruce, but I understand why many do. I'm not going to list the reasons. I'm just saying the reason so many have so much faith is because he wins. He may not do it the way you like. But he does. Every coach has their deficiencies. I'd like to see Bruce hire an assistant that focuses completely on half court defense. Completely. An O'Neal type.
 
#38
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dickens821 said:
I don't have 100% faith in Bruce, but I understand why many do. I'm not going to list the reasons. I'm just saying the reason so many have so much faith is because he wins. He may not do it the way you like. But he does. Every coach has their deficiencies. I'd like to see Bruce hire an assistant that focuses completely on half court defense. Completely. An O'Neal type.
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Shaq?
 
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BigPapaVol said:
If you're calling me a skeptic of our team, you might look around a bit. If reality bothers you badly, dust yourself and it's over.
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You're making less and less sense everytime you respond. Your posts are all shrouded in mystery...nothing like a good riddle.

Whatever, bro. You're looking to nit pick instead of talk hoops.
 
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jrobison said:
You're making less and less sense everytime you respond. Your posts are all shrouded in mystery...nothing like a good riddle.

Whatever, bro. You're looking to nit pick instead of talk hoops.
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If you don't know enough about my POV, don't address it. I'm very positive on this team, but don't like Pearl's style to win big games. It's that simple. If you want to believe he has the magical answer for everything, that's your business, just count me out.
 
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docholiday said:
Reminds me of the Wade Houston days.
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I'm not saying he sucks or that the team sucks, both of which were true in the Houston days. Pearl has resurrected a disaster of a program, made it nationally competitve and brought us to prominence. We recruit well due almost solely to Bruce. That doesn't mean he has the magic answer to get us over the hump when dealing with the best teams. Doesn't change our defense for the better. I'm a fan, but I can still see the issues.
 
#45
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From what I saw last night, the basic gist of it was that every knock you can have on any single player was present and obvious the whole game.

J.P. missed two gimme lay-ups basically solely because he went up awkwardly left-handed rather than right. His breakaway dunk was caused by miserable defense+ complete and total duke-quality acting on a foul call. His man missed a wide-open three pointer.

Scotty played no defense. Except a block or two down low, he was terrible on D. Never in the face of a 3-ball shooter.

Wayne Chism was boneheaded and soft. Pretty much at his worst.

B. Maze had no drive to his game. He was very content to sit at the top of the post and swing the ball.

Tatum was ice cold shooting in the first half. Reminded me that he's a freshman.

Woolridge wasn't really awful, just kind of lost in the discussion.

Negedu was about normal, but he got packed really bad due to a poor decision. He's done that I think 3 times now. Needs to get smarter there.

T. Smith was a god.

Brian Williams was not playing 6-10 basketball. Several times he got pushed away from the basket as he was catching it down low, and his moves to the hoop basically only include dunks and lay-ins. Got torched on D several times, though he's not wanting to get called for fouls for using his body.

Tabb has a ceiling of things he'll just never do. Can't blame him.



As for the whole team, pathetic defense was the word. The bulldogs could have any shot they wanted, and missed a ridiculous number of lay-ups and wide open jumpers. They really are terrible, and we really could've beaten them by 50 on a better night. That's something that scares me about this team. We have freshmen, and they clearly are not OJ Mayo or Mike Conley. They are freshmen, and we played an exact opposite of a game from the season opener where we looked so stunning and powerful. I can totally see us winning the SEC, losing in the SEC tournament, and playing awful and losing in the second round of the NCAA tourney as we all wonder what happened down the stretch.

I am not a believer. We are not final four. Only opportunity to change my attitude about it there is a win over Kansas, and only if both teams are top 15 in the rankings.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
I'm not saying he sucks or that the team sucks, both of which were true in the Houston days. Pearl has resurrected a disaster of a program, made it nationally competitve and brought us to prominence. We recruit well due almost solely to Bruce. That doesn't mean he has the magic answer to get us over the hump when dealing with the best teams. Doesn't change our defense for the better. I'm a fan, but I can still see the issues.
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I respect your opinion and all, but Bruce has shown some signs of beating big time talent. 07-08 we knocked off Memphis and several quality teams...06-07 we beat Texas, Memphis, eventual NC Florida and played two close games with their opponent, Ohio State. Heck, 05-06 we beat NC Florida twice! Now, we haven't quite gotten over the lapse in play around tournament time yet, but you're crazy if you think that CBP isn't capable of coaching his team up to outplay with major programs.

Defense...we live and die by the press. This year its killing us. You're 100% right on that one, bro.
 
#47
#47
we have sooo much length this year.. but not enough quickness.. WE really miss Jajuan's quickness.. and Ramar had great quickness too.. and Duke was a bad-a Defender himself..

our offense is fine, its just our defensive quickness that's lacking..
 
#48
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k-sny-vol said:
we have sooo much length this year.. but not enough quickness.. WE really miss Jajuan's quickness.. and Ramar had great quickness too.. and Duke was a bad-a Defender himself..

our offense is fine, its just our defensive quickness that's lacking..
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I think the quickness is probably there, but the heart, focus, knowledge and communication don't seem to be.
 
#49
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jrobison said:
I respect your opinion and all, but Bruce has shown some signs of beating big time talent. 07-08 we knocked off Memphis and several quality teams...06-07 we beat Texas, Memphis, eventual NC Florida and played two close games with their opponent, Ohio State. Heck, 05-06 we beat NC Florida twice! Now, we haven't quite gotten over the lapse in play around tournament time yet, but you're crazy if you think that CBP isn't capable of coaching his team up to outplay with major programs.

Defense...we live and die by the press. This year its killing us. You're 100% right on that one, bro.
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We have a history of tournament failures. CBP inherited it. It's difficult to overcome that kind of history. I think that anytime we are in the Sweet 16, and the game starts to go badly, it will be difficult to overcome the mental roadblock.

I do think that CBP will eventually get us over the hump and into the Elite Eight (hopefully this season). That would be a huge step.
 
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