UT Falls To Maryland In Sweet 16, 73-62

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Tennessee's season came to a close with a 73-62 loss to #4 seed Maryland on Sunday in the Sweet 16 at the KFC Yum! Center. The Lady Vols finished 2013-14 with a 29-6 record.

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[Crazy Ivan]

Once again a slow start dooms the LVs. When they play with a sense of uregency for 40 minutes they are a pretty good team. Unfortunately, they usually don't develop a sense of urgency until they are down double digits.

 

[Jperry10]

Never should have been a 1 seed to begin with!!!

 

[Vols4us]

Once again Simmons dooms the LVs in a big game. She was ridiculous. Holly let her do it, so it is on her. The LVs should be much better next season.

 

[DoubleA]

Once again Simmons dooms the LVs in a big game. She was ridiculous. Holly let her do it, so it is on her. The LVs should be much better next season.

Without Simmons, they would have beaten us by 40.

 

[Spacejam]

Once again Simmons dooms the LVs in a big game. She was ridiculous. Holly let her do it, so it is on her. The LVs should be much better next season.

The entire team is at fault for this loss. don't try to use Simmons as the scapegoat here. four of our starters were basically none shows today and they too should be held accountable for this loss.

 

[Amb3096]

Once again Simmons dooms the LVs in a big game. She was ridiculous. Holly let her do it, so it is on her. The LVs should be much better next season.

Simmons was the only one on the team who was willing to make something happen. Well, Jasmine Jones too and Harrison when she wasn't plagued with foul trouble.

Carter missed about 5 point blank layups and was no where to be found on defense.

Graves and Burdick grabbed rebounds, but that does no good when they stand around on offense looking scared.

I haven't been the biggest fan of Simmons, but she went out with a bang today. No one can say that Meighan Simmons didn't leave it all on the court today.

 

[orange plasma]

I believe this decline has a great deal to do with the complacency of the coaching staff. Anytime you retain a lot of career assistant coaches that have been in the same system for many years and have been involved in past championships they will eventually start punching a the clock and will cease to be hungry. I'd compare it to a tenured teacher that gets lazy almost unconsciously and stops enthusiastically teaching their students. Its just in our nature to become stagnant in that situation. The answer might be new blood in the staff from top to bottom. Not an anti Holly post. Just an observation.

 

[cgbtn]

This was the worst passing team I have ever seen. If they didn't turn the ball over, they took the player out of shooting position. With the whole team as bad as they were, it had to be coaching.

 

[Fijivol72]

I have decided to not bother with The Lady Vols, there is enough frustration running rampant in our Athletic Department to last me a lifetime. I'll just say Holly Warlick can't inspire nor coach and leave it at that.

 

[Amb3096]

I have decided to not bother with The Lady Vols, there is enough frustration running rampant in our Athletic Department to last me a lifetime. I'll just say Holly Warlick can't inspire nor coach and leave it at that.

If you have players that are mentally weak, there's not much you can do with them. That's not on Holly.

Maybe Tennessee needs to start looking for kids that are fighters and have a will to win, not a high ranking on Hoopgurlz.

 

[feathersax]

If you have players that are mentally weak, there's not much you can do with them. That's not on Holly.

Maybe Tennessee needs to start looking for kids that are fighters and have a will to win, not a high ranking on Hoopgurlz.

Huh? So instilling mental toughness isn't part of coaching? Guess Pat Head Summit was just lucky all those years.

 

[Amb3096]

Huh? So instilling mental toughness isn't part of coaching? Guess Pat Head Summit was just lucky all those years.

Yes, as evidenced how she was able to turn the ultra talented Shyra Ely and Shekinna Stricklen into big game players :whistling:

To a degree, it's coaching. To another larger degree, the kid is either a winner or not. You can't teach mental toughness; at best, you can teach them how to fake it.

The player that the coaches have failed, IMO, is Bashaara Graves. She had it last year. This year, she's nowhere to be found.

Burdick never had it, and it's too early to tell with Carter and Reynolds. They are good, but they are not the backcourt of an elite team.

 

[cgbtn]

Yes, as evidenced how she was able to turn the ultra talented Shyra Ely and Shekinna Stricklen into big game players :whistling:

To a degree, it's coaching. To another larger degree, the kid is either a winner or not. You can't teach mental toughness; at best, you can teach them how to fake it.

It would be unusual to get 10 McDonald's AAs who were losers.

 

[Amb3096]

It would be unusual to get 10 McDonald's AAs who were losers.

As evidenced by Mercedes Russell's HS ranking vs. Alaina Coates, it is apparent that HS rankings and McD AA exhibit games are not the end all be all of determining talent.

For the past few years, Tennessee has been playing like the proverbial school yard bully that struts and preens when beating up on inferior teams, but shuts down when faced against someone as big or bigger as they are. Sure, these were great players when they were up against girls 5 inches shorter than them, but the level playing field of Div I basketball has apparently been a reality *****slap.

 

[JDisThereThere]

I think if you swapped the coaches, the LVs would have one by about 30. No fire, no toughness, out-hustled, out-rebounded, etc. Just because you coached with a legend, doesn't mean you are going to know what to do when it's your turn to call the shots. HW is a great person but an average coach. She looked lost and defeated all day.

 

[7Iron]

We need Brenda Freeze.

 

[feathersax]

We need Brenda Freeze.

...or Mister Freeze from the Batman saga.