these Warlick quotes from a year ago were very telling

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Many of us have read these before but in light of our current offensive woes, it's alarming to see us shooting even worse than we were at this point last year. I don't know if Warlick has again neglected our offense in practices this year or not, but if the proof's in the pudding...

12/6/14: Attention to shooting has been elevated in the wake of losses at Chattanooga and Texas, during which the Lady Vols shot a collective 36.6 percent from the floor. UT coach Holly Warlick said a greater portion of the two team practices before Wednesday's 111-44 rout of Saint Francis were spent on shooting. The revised schedule followed Warlick's stinging critique of last Sunday's 72-59 loss to Texas in which she still ranked defense ahead of shooting among her concerns.

"I don't care if they hit a three; I don't care if they hit a shot," she said in Austin, Texas. "All I care about is getting down and playing defense."

Three nights later in Knoxville, Warlick seemed to have at least rethought her rankings.

"We haven't spent a lot of time shooting the basketball and that was just my decision because I thought we needed to work more on our defense than our offense," she said. "But I think our offense and our shooting percentage suffered because we haven't done that."
Lady Vols' shooting confidence still in question - GoVolsXtra Story

Nine days later: It didn't sound so different on Sunday, though, with Warlick brushing aside concerns about the Lady Vols' 27.5 percent field goal shooting against No. 17 Rutgers after their defense led them to a 55-45 victory

"I will tell you this," she said. "To this point our practices have probably been 70 percent defense and 30 percent offense. Now we will get on the offensive side and honestly we haven't been doing a lot of shooting in practice. I will take the fault of us shooting poorly because we haven't spent a lot of time shooting the basketball. We have spent more time with this group stopping the basketball. That has been our priority. These kids, when you recruit them they are great offensive players, so we have it in us (to shoot well), but it's up to us, the coaches, to turn them into great defensive players."
Jody Adams has coaching experiences to share with Holly Warlick - GoVolsXtra Story
 
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In all fairness it doesn't take much time to teach the team this offense. PG passes to 2 guard who drives to the baseline then dribbles back out, continues dribbling while staring inside to the paint, pass the ball back to the point who dribbles it over to the 5 position at the three point line who hands the ball off to the three. The 3 dribbles while staring inside to the post. The 3 passes back to PG who looks at the shot clock with 3 seconds on it. PG then has two options, throw inside into a triple team or chuck up a shot and pray for rebound. Offense done.
 
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Wait, you missed the part where the shot hits the bottom of the backboard. And the lob pass to the center that lands in the 8th row of the stands.
 
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Good defense is what separates good offensive teams from one another. But the good offense comes first. Shooting and scoring is the most fundamental - and as a result, the most important - part of the game. You won't win if you don't score.

The quotes linked by the OP are very telling. The team has no balance on the court during a game and it's plain this is a direct result of the team having no balance in their practices.

This isn't football where you play either offense or defense but not both. Hey Holly, your players have to play both sides of the ball.
 
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Even after we scored only 43 points against va. tech, she was talking defense--the poor defense in the fourth quarter. Granted, it was bad; granted, defense is important--but if you don't understand that offense is equally important you should be flipping pancakes somewhere and not coaching a basketball team like ours.
 
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Your usually not going to hold many teams to less than sixty points. So if you can't score sixty your going to lose.
You have to be concerned when players shooting 26 percent for the season are playing 30 minutes on the court.
She will have to bench these players if they continue to produce at this percentage. We have players that can shoot higher percentages unfortunately they are injured right now.
 
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CHW thought if CBJ's slogan "brick by brick" worked for him, then maybe she should apply it to her basketball coaching.
 
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kamoshika said:
...Holly : "These kids, when you recruit them they are great offensive players, so we have it in us (to shoot well), but it's up to us, the coaches, to turn them into great defensive players."
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Offense is an acquired skill. While I am open to the possibility of born shooters, most people have to learn to shoot and score. It's like anything else - painting, riding a bike, carpentry - the more you practice it the better you get. Holly doesn't practice offense because they're already great? The proof that this isn't true stares us all in the face every time your team takes the floor.
 
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If you read anything about Geno's philosophy (blasphemy I know), he mentions that he starts off only teaching offense the first four weeks of the year because he doesn't want his defense to get too good too quickly in a way that stifles offensive development in practice.
 
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I don't think Holly KNOWS how to teach offense. UT has never been as adept at running motion as; say ND; UConn. If you don't KNOW------ASK SOMEONE THAT DOES! Change is coming; I just hope not too late.
 
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Orange Maniac said:
In all fairness it doesn't take much time to teach the team this offense. PG passes to 2 guard who drives to the baseline then dribbles back out, continues dribbling while staring inside to the paint, pass the ball back to the point who dribbles it over to the 5 position at the three point line who hands the ball off to the three. The 3 dribbles while staring inside to the post. The 3 passes back to PG who looks at the shot clock with 3 seconds on it. PG then has two options, throw inside into a triple team or chuck up a shot and pray for rebound. Offense done.
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That about covers it .Takes about one possession to scout this team;s offense and I have been saying that for three years now
 
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Tennessee runs the two step offense. (1) Get the ball inside do not think of anything else must go inside no matter if player is tripled teamed. (2) Don't quick shoot the basketball. Dribble around the perimeter for 20 seconds then force something up if you can't for any reason which shouldn't be many go inside.
 
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508mikey said:
How do McD AAs all of a sudden not know how to shoot ?
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See that is what has bugged me about this whole deal. I really don't see how you can in all honesty have a basketball practice without a large majority of that time spent in shooting the ball. This is so unusual. It is not like these girls are putting up 80 pts each time they hit the floor. If my team is putting up the numbers like less that 50 pts, you bet we would shoot so much you would have to ice down their shooting arms after practice!
 
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I've made a couple of lengthy posts addressing this. It's NOT that they have forgotten how to shoot or that they are bad shooters. What's happening is that they don't have a good (arguably any) offense and it rarely ends up where they get GOOD shots. When you constantly take bad shots, you will likely have a poor shooting percentage.
 
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We lead the league in shots hitting the bottom of the backboard....That does take real skill....
 
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PineyBluff Vol said:
See that is what has bugged me about this whole deal. I really don't see how you can in all honesty have a basketball practice without a large majority of that time spent in shooting the ball. This is so unusual. It is not like these girls are putting up 80 pts each time they hit the floor. If my team is putting up the numbers like less that 50 pts, you bet we would shoot so much you would have to ice down their shooting arms after practice!
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At the end of the day, no matter how much Holly stresses defense, then Va Tech was STILL the superior defensive team. Sure, Tennessee held them under 60, but they held the Lady Vols under 45. And it's not because it's the Hokies are superior athletes or have superior defensive schemes; it's because playing defense against Tennessee is supremely easy.

No matter how much they emphasize defense, they will still be the 2nd best defensive team on the court against any reasonable team because their offense doesn't challenge the opposing team to exert too much effort on the defensive side.
 
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I think a good offense for the Lady Volunteers might be a 4 guard offense with Russell inside and let the guards shoot three pointers to mid range shots. This way, the court is spaced and the guards can drive to the basket if they are being guarded closely.
 
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When teams go bad, can't recruit, can't play offense, have major turnover issues and don't know how to fix it, coach gets fired. For some reason no one fires the players.
 
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