Lady Vols

This is all true, but, unlike the men, I saw a lot of fixable things with a lot of new players in a one possession game in an away game, essentially, against a top ten team. I have some optimism. The talent is there.

 

I don’t think turnovers and other issues for men’s team seem in game 1 aren’t fixable

 

No, those are fine. I’m looking at the dearth of explosiveness, scoring, and quickness from the perimeter and a frontcourt which looks merely pretty good while not as physically imposing. I think it’s a clear step back from the past 4 years.

 

Yeah you learn nothing from wbb buy games but damn

 

The amount of layups missed at this level is mind boggling.

 

One of the benefits of this style is the way it overwhelms inferior opponents. Create more possessions and force higher tempo is going to be trouble for lower level teams, even if it becomes fairly chaotic.

 

Yes, it is.

 

This team [uck fay]ing sucks.

 

Yeah they kinda do. Flipped the roster with tons of talent and somehow got worse.

 

I had to stop watching their game today. This system just doesn't work against good teams. Super sloppy and completely useless if you can't turn teams over. It leads to chaos with open shooters and layups galore.

 

Ha. I did too. Watched till start of 3rd but had to flip it. Still awful on defense giving up layups or easy 3s and play low iq basketball.

 

I can see how a forced tempo can work, but you can't simply run one type of full court press which leaves gaps and easy safety valves to break it, then have the opposing player dribble all the way to the basket before doing some half assed contested shot. It is hilarious to watch opposing players sort of hesitate to the basket as if they're thinking "Really? I'm this open and nobody is going to step to me?".

I'm not sure who's time is up first, Caldwell or Heupel, but neither have more than 2-3 years left in Knoxville.

 

I was led to believe DW was a coach hiring guru.

 

Kelly Harper came back over to my parents' house a couple of weeks before the season started to see my Papaw out of the blue. Nice woman. Papaw pulling for Missouri and not the Lady Vols this year. Kelly had to be fired but not sure the replacement is really an upgrade.

 

Elite hire Danny.

 

There are a ton of freshmen, so maybe they have a leap in them, but she’s certainly introducing a lot of doubt.

Also has every damn team on campus lost their most recent game now?

 

Only 3 freshman played and they all came off the bench. Best players are junior/seniors.

 

Welp, so much for that. I kept hearing them call freshman names but I hadn’t checked their proportion

 

They did bring in a highly ranked freshman class, doesn’t look like any of those were year 1 game changers.

 

Once again, I'm subjecting myself tonight to the anti-basketball which is the Lady Vols. As I watch them play, defensively they stop to watch the ball shot towards the basket and refuse to establish positioning. Then, offensively, they take turns dribbling, dribbling, dribbling into traffic and trying to shoot some wild 5 foot shot off-balanced or simply chucking a three after one pass. I suppose Caldwell practices, but I'm not exactly sure what they do.