Hey ivyleague, who the hell died and made you some kind of an expert on what fans are supposed to do? Fans pay to support the team -- and they pay with both their time and their money. You're going to lecture people here when all you and your giant, over-inflated ego do on this board is pick arguments with other people and act like you're God's gift to the LV fanbase? Bye! You aren't that important. Go find a seat somewhere and stay there. Just because you kiss Holly's feet doesn't mean anyone else is obligated to do the same.
The staff blows. There is no way around it. They have zero idea how to form a five-player unit at once that can get us out of a hole and swing momentum. I mean ... why the hell would you play JJ, Bash and Mercedes together? That's three players that can't score outside of the paint. Why is JJ the walking, talking turnover machine in the game in the last seconds with a two point lead? Oh and our guards are trash outside of Diamond and Te'a. Jordan and Draya appear to have regressed so far this season -- as if it's possible for Jordan to become a worse shooter and Draya to play like more of a headcase. But that does appear to be the case. And yet ... they are thrown out there and the staff acts like nothing is wrong. In fact, they start the two of them TOGETHER. Draya doesn't even look at the friggin rim when she gets the ball. She prefers to just stare at a post player for ten seconds, dribble a hole into the court, and then pass the ball back out to another guard. And then people act like she's this all-world defensive player and that it "makes up" for the fact that she's a scrub on offense -- when in reality she gets beat constantly during the course of a game and she's never shut down a great (let alone elite) offensive player in her entire time at UT. Jordan may be one of the least skilled guards I've ever seen at UT -- and she's definitely probably the least skilled guard that consistently starts that I've ever seen in the program. Average passer, average ball handler, below average shooter (and with that funky form it's not hard to see why), average (at-best) defender (despite everyone defending Holly's bone-headed, nauseatingly stupid little game of starting her over Rel, the girl isn't a good defender, either). The only positive they bring is that they don't turn the ball over a lot -- but when defenses aren't guarding you (both of them) and you aren't aggressive (especially Draya), it isn't that hard to not turn the ball over. The only players with any sense of urgency are Diamond and Te'a. Diamond may not be able to hit the broad side of a barn right now but at least she doesn't look like a 5th grader out there. Te'a is a freshman in her third game of her career and she's the only one that had a clue how to move or attack Syracuse's zone -- while most of the other players still looked as dumbfounded by it at the end of the game as they did to start.
Honestly I'm done sugarcoating this crap from this staff. They can't recruit and they can't coach. And don't give me this "a win is a win" bullcrap, either. We all know the team will soon lay a giant egg and it will soon be an embarrassing L. It happens pretty much every season. And I'm over the excuse-making and people defending Holly and making her out to be some kind of a victim because she followed Pat. She knew the expectations and responsibility coming in to it, and she's a grown woman.
