The Galen Center Founders Club Postgame Report.

#76
#76
The thrill is gone, now we are just left with boring, bad basketball. Might as well get a coach who can recruit and coach to win boring, smart basketball, even the boring ones.

No point play no wins for us.
 
#77
#77
Freak said:
This season, Bone has six turnovers. He also has 11 assists.

Last season, he had five assists and two turnovers.
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Exactly. He only has 8 turnovers in two seasons. He's not going to create many opportunities for others, but at least he's a guard who can control the ball.
 
#78
#78
Vercingetorix said:
Hopson should have driven on an injured Parsons literally every single time there was a half court set until Parsons fouled out or UF got somebody else on him. Yet he didn't. Why would you expect UT to figure something out in the last possession that they didn't the entire game?
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Then they put a guy that's 6'4" in heels on him and it took us 31 trips down the floor to post him up. Didn't help that the officiating went crooked as hell for that entire stretch.
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#79
#79
hatvol96 said:
1. That's a disgracefully blown opportunity. No excuse can be made for the utter stupidty UT displayed in the last five minutes.
2. Scotty Hopson was great for 35 minutes. He was invisible the last 5.
3. Tennessee's point guard play is simply inept. Melvin Goins and Trae Golden are killing this team.
4. Cameron Tatum needs to pick up his game or take a seat. He's adding nothing of value right now.
5. Tobias Harris has hit a lull. If he doesn't get back to his early season level of play, this team is done.
6. It will be a shock to me if Florida makes it past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament. They play mindnumbingly dumb basketball.
7. There's no excuse for Skylar McBee continuing to get minutes. He's simply awful.
8. Brian Williams is playing consistently well. UT's other big guys are struggling mightily.
9. Tennessee is now a .500 team in a bad conference. That's major league underachievement.
10. Time to focus on getting this team in order before March. No titles to be won in the regular season.
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Yeah, those 2 entire minutes McBee played killed the team.
 
#80
#80
Mcmiss has no business being in a uniform,let alone on the court.It looks like to me BP is going down with Mcmiss and Pearl jr. and his 12 man rotation.BP had plenty of time watching this team on TV to see how bad Mcmiss is and that he brings nothing period to the floor.
 
#83
#83
Regarding number 3, I got into a pretty strong arguement with a couple people on this board in the preseason about who the hardest person to replace from last years team was. I argued that it was Bobby Maze and not particulary close since I assumed Tobias Harris would make everyone forget about Wayne Chism. Well I obviously overestimated Harris, but Bobby Maze was so much better than anyone gave him credit for. He was a true PG, with him right now we are probably a top 10 team
 
#88
#88
45-38 we seem to be on the verge of pulling away. Mass subs! Then I hear the announce team state...Tennessee doesn't have a scoring option on the floor.
 
#89
#89
omghulkhands said:
Regarding number 3, I got into a pretty strong arguement with a couple people on this board in the preseason about who the hardest person to replace from last years team was. I argued that it was Bobby Maze and not particulary close since I assumed Tobias Harris would make everyone forget about Wayne Chism. Well I obviously overestimated Harris, but Bobby Maze was so much better than anyone gave him credit for. He was a true PG, with him right now we are probably a top 10 team
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Good Lord.
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#90
#90
cd12 said:
45-38 we seem to be on the verge of pulling away. Mass subs! Then I hear the announce team state...Tennessee doesn't have a scoring option on the floor.
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And that was the game changer to me too.
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#93
#93
"Dey always say wen you look good, you play good."

It's why we're not playing good. They don't have the shapey dapey no mo. Fire Bruce, let's get Bobby to coach!
 
#94
#94
cd12 said:
45-38 we seem to be on the verge of pulling away. Mass subs! Then I hear the announce team state...Tennessee doesn't have a scoring option on the floor.
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Yet another thing of this coaching staff that I cannot figure out. They seem to enjoy killing runs.
 
#96
#96
I agree with most of this report, except for 4. I agree that he's played poorly the last two games, but I don't see who would replace him on this team. In my mind, UT needs to use Bone as a backup point guard, at least temporarily, so he isn't a current solution. Nearly everyone is calling for McBee to have less minutes, so I don't think that's a solution either. I don't think we want to play McRae either because of his inexperience.

What we really need is for Tatum to play with authority when Hopson takes a break. Tatum's mindset against Alabama was one of the main factors in UT's good second half. He has enough quickness and ballhandling skill to drive on most opponents, and I think his driving is important to the team's effectiveness, especially when Hopson is not in the game. Again, in the Alabama game where he mostly drove to the basket, he had 4 assists (though he also had 3 turnovers which I will assume are mostly from the first half where everyone played badly (FSN)). Plus, Tatum is a streaky shooter, and he has been shooting threes horribly lately (2 of his last 15), so driving would be a good idea to prevent some presumably bad shots.

To some extent, I wish that Hopson and Tatum would not play at the same time because they fill (or try to fill) essentially the same role of the scoring wingman. I might even like a worse version of what the Heat do now - let Hopson be the main contributor for two 10 minute periods of the game while passing it to Harris/Williams when possible, have one 10 minute period where Tatum plays aggressively while Hopson rests a bit, and then have the last 10 minutes where they essentially do what they do now. I seriously doubt that will happen and am somewhat unsure of how well it would work, however, so Tatum might as well just play more aggressively in the current system because more of his turnovers come from passing it to Williams at the three point line than from when he tries to make a play.

Also, it would be nice if Tatum played smarter and took less gambles on defense. Some of his turnovers and steal attempts now have reminded me of J.P. Prince's decisions last year before he started improving, and I'd like to see him play more like J.P. Prince did after he improved (even though Tatum is much less talented at driving, I think he's good enough to beat most SEC defenders and fill that role).
 
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