The Consol Center Postgame Report.

#128
#128
zjcvols said:
They didn't box out like they should. My opinion. I thought they got tenative also because of the officiating, and there were some dumb fouls.
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They were trying to figure out the officiating. Was it a 4 feet or six feet line that they weren't supposed to cross, when defending?
 
#129
#129
Too much whining on here about the refs. TN plays physical, get used to seeing the opponents at the line. At the end of the day, it was a great win.
 
#130
#130
Sir orangealot said:
Too much whining on here about the refs. TN plays physical, get used to seeing the opponents at the line. At the end of the day, it was a great win.
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Exactly. Watch how much, for example, Kansas State sends their opponents to the line. It's the price of playing physical, but it's well worth it.
 
#131
#131
Sir orangealot said:
Too much whining on here about the refs. TN plays physical, get used to seeing the opponents at the line. At the end of the day, it was a great win.
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It's on purpose. They've got Williams, Fields, Hall, Harris, Pearl, and now Maymon in the post. That's plenty of fouls to give, so they're telling the bigs not to be careful at all...if a guard beats his man, our bigs are to block and/or disrupt the shot, and not worry one bit about contact.

When an opponent manages to get by our perimeter defense (not an easy task this year), they don't get a layup or a dish for a dunk. What they get is either a blocked shot, a trip to the FT line, or they throw up some off-balance garbage.

Worst case for us is FT line, but we're OK with that, because we have plenty of fouls to give, and two FT shots is better than a free layup.

As an added bonus, the opposing guards tend to get frustrated and put up some ugly shots.
 
#133
#133
Do yall have anymore tough games before the Memphis game? I would love to see yall undefeated when we make the trip. Today we took the redshirt off a freshman big man Hippolyte Tsafack and Angel Garcia (6'11" reserve PF) left to play overseas.
 
#134
#134
homefry20 said:
Do yall have anymore tough games before the Memphis game? I would love to see yall undefeated when we make the trip. Today we took the redshirt off a freshman big man Hippolyte Tsafack and Angel Garcia (6'11" reserve PF) left to play overseas.
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Our next tough game is at Connecticut.
 
#140
#140
Homefry we have a couple of sleeper teams in between our game w ya'll.

Oakland and @ Charlotte this week
College of Charleston on NYE
and Southern Cal in early Jan.

We should win all of them but we can't just show up to win
 
#141
#141
homefry20 said:
I see what yall did there. Go ahead and sleep on us. Makes it easier to play spoiler.
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I'm just messing with you. :)

Yeah, we've got a seemingly tough Oakland squad tomorrow, and then a rematch with a Southern Cal team that gave us a pretty bad loss last year. I don't see that happening again with the way the season has gone so far, but you obviously never know.
 
#143
#143
BigPapaVol said:
they were flat out awful. They singlehandedly made Wanamaker a better player.
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You knew it was bad towards the end when the ref waited to see if the shot fell and when it didn't he blew the whistle. I just started laughing at that point.
 
#144
#144
Ericvol2096 said:
Homefry we have a couple of sleeper teams in between our game w ya'll.

Oakland and @ Charlotte this week
College of Charleston on NYE
and Southern Cal in early Jan.

We should win all of them but we can't just show up to win
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Playing an Oakland team that just lost by 1 pt to Michigan State coming off a big win is a bit of a trap game. Greg Kampe does a good job with his team each season and has had some success. He is actually getting scolded for playing a "murderers row" schedule thus far. However, his team has competed in all of those games. Charlotte is garbage. Coll of Char. always has a solid team but shouldnt be a threat. USC has their one "surprise blowout" already for this year (#20 Texas by 17). Belmont lives by the 3-pt shot but a win over them already is good preparation.

I have to give Pearl credit, thats a fine scheduling job he did especially for a BCS team that will face a strong SEC east. The UNCC game turns out to be a bad RPI game but that was unforeseeable at the time.

Hopefully Yall can be 14-0 on the morning of January 5th but its going to take some continued good play, not many cupcakes on that schedule.
 
#145
#145
Game against Pitt was like going into someone's house on the other side of the tracks who you don't like and looks down on you; knock the crap out of him; point your finger at his kids and dare them to say one word and then kick his dog on your way out.
 
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