The Section 103 Postgame Report.

#76
#76
I feel Bruce felt the game was out of hand and couldn't be won and didn't get ejected to fire up his team but rather to give Tony Jones a 5 minute test run for his upcoming suspension. Funny part in the time outs after that I noticed Jason Shay doing most of the coaching NOT Jones! I wonder did you see the same thing I did. Of course my season tickets aren't as lucrative as yours Hat.
 
#77
#77
bnhunt said:
Am I the only one that see a direct parallel with this team to the teams at the end of the Jerry Green era? A lot of talent, but absolutely no discipline or heart. Save maybe Tobias Harris, which is pathetic considering he's a true freshman and most likely a one and doner.
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Today bore an eerie resemblence to the last two months of Green's tenure.
 
#79
#79
I heard the Hamilton interview and the way he explained it ; there will be no punishment from ncaa until august and would not effect the 2010 team so I don't believe it should be an excuse for our terrible play I realize it is a distraction but it should not cause the total collapse It's like two different teams I keep thinking next game we will snap out of it but it's getting worse I've been a coach Pearl fan but something has got to give
 
#81
#81
binns37388 said:
Does anyone think there are some internal problems on this team? I kinda think some players, who are better athletes, aren't happy with Stephen Pearl getting more playing time than they are. One on one, I'm not sure the younger Pearl could play with anybody in the current substitution pattern.
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I don't think Steve Pearl is the issue, but the poor play could very well be the manifestation of some major internal problems. Do these players like each other? Is there one guy everybody hates? Did one guy bang another guy's girlfriend and it caused the team to become divided? Are a couple of the guys bad into drugs?

I'm not even posing these questions in jest. Something has to be going on.

Maybe it is as simple as BP coming to the realization that his days are numbered, and consequently giving up on the team. But I'm not sure if I buy that either. If BP knows he is on the way out, then he would be treating this season as an audition for future employers....he'd be coaching his rear off.

I find the situation to be confusing. The Villanova and Pittsburgh games were not flukes. We were the better team on the days we played them. We are now a shell of that team, and I'm just scratching my head.
 
#82
#82
There is no offensive flow for this team. They look lost on defense. No focus during the game is the major reason for terrible shooting. This team has too much talent to be getting beat by mid-major teams. Something is very wrong. The administration made a mistake by not firing Pearl when this whole mess started.
 
#83
#83
We definitely need more offensive production from people not named Hopson and Harris. They have to get some help. I'm upset that we lost again but in all honesty I'm not fuming. Other than Hopson and Harris not getting help we didn't do badly. We should have played better but I watched that whole game and most of those three attempts from Charleston were contested. Goudelock, Monroe, and Wiggins just couldn't miss from downtown. Goudelock went into Stephen Curry mode and just could not be stopped. When he threw that three up that scraped the ceiling with Harris in his face completely blocking his view of the goal and hit nothing but net, I knew we weren't stopping him. I'm not sure anybody could stop that kid today. He was on fire and the fire just wouldn't go out.
 
#84
#84
Every team we play now is on fire shooting the ball---has to tell you something about our defensive effort. When the two guards combine for almost 60 points, there is little defense being played.
 
#85
#85
I agree that defense has been lacking in all our losses. I thought we did good today at keeping them at the perimeter for the most part and making them take long shots though. We also contested alot of the 3 attempts. They just wouldn't miss.
 
#86
#86
This team really looks like Green's team that tanked down the stretch and lost eight straight games and then flamed out in the first round of the SEC and NCAA tourneys leading to his firing.

Pearl always prided himself on winning the games that they should and stealing a few they shouldn't. This team has lost it's desire to win the games it should. They have a sense of entitlement that says they should win because of the name on the front of their jerseys. They don't throw their bodies on the floor for loose balls, they don't play like every game is their last, they don't hustle 94 feet for 40 minutes. That is a reflection of their leadership.

It's difficult to follow a leader who tells you that integrity and doing things the "right way" is paramount, and then behaves the way he has in his own personal life and lately, in his professional life. It's a bit hypocritical to call your players to a higher standard than you hold yourself. Even if he is held over following the NCAA findings and somehow keeps his job, it will be difficult to reign in the players who have personally witnessed him blatantly trample over every ethical boundary and hold them to a mantra of "do as I say, not as I do."

This team sure has played it's last six games like a team that knows the are playing for a lame duck coach. I have been saying this for about a week, but they play as if they know something that we don't and even if they don't know anything "officially," they have heard the rumblings of potential punishments and have tanked it emotionally, leading to one lethargic performance after another. I just don't see a good explanation for the nose dive this team has taken in the last month where a six point win over UT-Martin has been the highlight.

I always liked Pearl and his style of play when he arrived at Tennessee, but he has for some reason reverted to a style of offense that does not suit his personnel very well because we are a terrible perimeter team. He has strayed away from recruiting basketball players in favor of recruiting athletes (Kevin Ware might be the next example of that pattern). Bruce is the type of coach that excels at convincing average players that they are unbeatable by teaching them to be the hardest workers, but he has struggled to coach the better players he has recruited. It's as if the higher rated his talent seems to be, the harder time he has generating his team's desire to be the best. His coaching style seems to be more fitting for overachieving players who were passed over by bigger schools that play with a chip on their shoulder. The kind of players that put as much an emphasis on winning as they do on making it on Sportscenter. It's a shame that he can't motivate the superstars the way he can motivate the overachievers.

Just one man's opinion.
 
#87
#87
ALLVOL1220 said:
I agree that defense has been lacking in all our losses. I thought we did good today at keeping them at the perimeter for the most part and making them take long shots though. We also contested alot of the 3 attempts. They just wouldn't miss.
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We played absolutely pathetic perimeter defense. You don't get lit up for 60 by Charleston's guards by doing a "good job."
 
#88
#88
Y'all never been a good defensive team, with the exception of defending out of bounds play.
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#89
#89
wildnkrazykat said:
Y'all never been a good defensive team, with the exception of defending out of bounds play.
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With the exception of a few games early on this season, that is absolutely correct.
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#90
#90
wildnkrazykat said:
Y'all never been a good defensive team, with the exception of defending out of bounds play.
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Disagree. We were a great defensive team last year, particularly in the second half of the season. Our defense is what got us into the Elite 8. It certainly wasn't the slop offensive system we run and we didn't shoot any better last year either.
 
#91
#91
kidbourbon said:
I find the situation to be confusing. The Villanova and Pittsburgh games were not flukes. We were the better team on the days we played them. We are now a shell of that team, and I'm just scratching my head.
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As are most of us.

It would be nice if someone (other than Hat) who covers this team for a living could uncover some truths about it.
 
#92
#92
Agree with an earlier poster. Pearl quit on the team, and then the team quit on him.
 
#93
#93
zjcvols said:
Agree with an earlier poster. Pearl quit on the team, and then the team quit on him.
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I disagree, you Pearl haters are posting everything negative you can think of about the team and Pearl and
the players are reading it. Morale is at an all time low.
Nice going. Hope your happy now.
 
#94
#94
knowthevols said:
I disagree, you Pearl haters are posting everything negative you can think of about the team and Pearl and
the players are reading it. Morale is at an all time low.
Nice going. Hope your happy now.
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There you go. Damn you zjc; if you would quit posting negative garbage, we'll probably go to the Final Four.
 
#97
#97
hatvol96 said:
This team's decline began immediately after Mark Emmert made his thinly veiled comments about the comparison between Pearl and Dez Bryant. I don't think that's a coincidence.
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Hat, you and I have had our sparring matches, which have been all your fault :):dance2:, but I believe this is exactly what is going on.

I'll take it one nauseous step further. I believe this is why Pearl Jr. is getting the absurd amount of playing time that he does. Why not? BP is toast, let the kid play.

BP at times acts as if he has part of his brain and much of his enthusiasm circling out there in the LaLaland.

Here's what really grinds on me though. That we don't have one of the older players with only a season or a season and a half left to go to round up his teammates and let them know in no uncertain terms that he/they are not going to put up with the rest of the team walking through games as if they don't give a damn.

I think you would, I know I would, you only go around once and it would be worth getting into a full blown fistfight if that is what it took.

I'd do it right now but I'm too old to get my rump busted and my face smashed into sub-nuclear particles. :cray:

Instead, it looks more like "O Woe Is Me" and frankly, it is beyond pathetic.

For BP: Yeah, you frocked the goose and broke the orange egg and your death sentence may be looming but have a pair. At least show that you aren't a pathetic wimp as well as a lying, cheating lowlife.
 
#98
#98
Ari Silverstein said:
HThat we don't have one of the older players with only a season or a season and a half left to go to round up his teammates and let them know in no uncertain terms that he/they are not going to put up with the rest of the team walking through games as if they don't give a damn.
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Who is Scotty Hopson?
 
#99
#99
knowthevols said:
I disagree, you Pearl haters are posting everything negative you can think of about the team and Pearl and
the players are reading it. Morale is at an all time low.
Nice going. Hope your happy now.
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I am a Pearl supporter but am quickly turning into a Pearl "Get out of Towner". I hope the players are reading this, where's your sense of passion and pride?

So your coach is a butt, so what, when you walk on the floor, take your own self worth with you. Do you think, Players, that life after basketball is going to be about having people coach you up, pump your enthusiasm and swarm and support you.

:stop:

Uh, like no. You had best get this message loud and clear, you had better get your feet up under you ASAP because if you don't, I cannot begin to tell you what a HYOOGE surprise you have ahead of you.

Players, buck up. In front of you lies an opportunity to get in practice for the real game...Life.
 
#100
#100
hatvol96 said:
1. The Vol Network's Tim Berry should be incredibly proud. His daughter performed the Anthem flawlessly.
2. Charleston joins the list of teams to run off the floor just before the Anthem. I still don't get it.
3. Tennessee is at a crossroads. This season is in imminent danger of going off a cliff.
4. Weideman and Hall weren't so terrrible, UT loses by 35. Charleston is a Thad Delaney type from being back to Kresse Era quality.
5. Don't blame Pearl for getting tossed. It's the last trick he had left in his bag.
6. Hopson and Harris have to get some help. The rest of the team looks petrified offensively.
7. Josh Bone needs to shoot more. He's accurate enough to warrant four or five shots a game
8. Kudos to Pat Summitt for trying to awaken the crowd. You won't see Geno doing that for Calhoun.
9. Kentucky appears to be on track. They're playing the best ball in the SEC right now.
10. I hope the guys have more intelligent New Year's plans this time around. A barbecue at the coach's house is a safe option.
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One of your better post game observation(s).
 
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