Game Summary (Memphis - 11/22)

[LawVol13]

1) Jeronne Maymon. Jeronne Maymon. Jeronne Maymon. Incredible performance. That's as good a performance as we've seen in years. An All-American worthy performance.

2.) Trae Golden choked. There's no nice way to say it. If he plays even mediocre, we win the game. Plain and simple. He was utterly atrocious on both ends of the floor.

3.) Dwight Miller, Kenny Hall, and Yemi all provided quality minutes today.

4.) Jordan McRae sucked. He nearly gave Memphis an 8-0 run by himself in the first half. He also played sub-par on ball defense.

5.) Richardson was excellent for a true freshmen. He clearly beat out McRae in this game, and if McRae doesn't pick it up, Richardson will continue to play.

6.) We dominated the glass today. Dominated. That bodes well for us in the future.

7.) This was a game of two halves. Coach Martin learned very quickly why it's not smart to play up-tempo with Memphis.

8.) The second half adjustments were fantastic. Fantastic. Good shot selection for the most part, and we controlled the tempo and the game.

9.) Big time kudos for Coach Martin for getting us in a position to win in the late game situations. He put his best player in a position to make a play each and every time. That's all a coach can do. And, it's refreshing to see that rather than a half-court heave like we saw last year on numerous occassions.

10.) The bottomline is this team can be good. We learned that we have some serious toughness today. We learned that we can compete with anyone at anytime even if one of our big guns is playing poorly. Congratulations to Memphis on a well-deserved win. Both teams played their hearts out today. It was a true classic matchup that is only going to help both teams going forward.

Go Vols!

[lylsmorr]

Maymon was a bull in a china shop. I love it

[got orange]

I think I'm going to hear whistles in my sleep tonight from all the calls.

Both teams were getting silly calls.

Good game. Golden was horrendous, but Maymon was a man. This team can definitely compete with anyone. Will be fun to watch them grow.

[amazingGRACE]

My favorite thing about the game was dominating the offensive boards and shooting free throws as well as we did.

[UT's#1Fan]

Originally Posted by LawVol13

1) Jeronne Maymon. Jeronne Maymon. Jeronne Maymon. Incredible performance. That's as good a performance as we've seen in years. An All-American worthy performance.

2.) Trae Golden choked. There's no nice way to say it. If he plays even mediocre, we win the game. Plain and simple. He was utterly atrocious on both ends of the floor.

3.) Dwight Miller, Kenny Hall, and Yemi all provided quality minutes today.

4.) Jordan McRae sucked. He nearly gave Memphis an 8-0 run by himself in the first half. He also played sub-par on ball defense.

5.) Richardson was excellent for a true freshmen. He clearly beat out McRae in this game, and if McRae doesn't pick it up, Richardson will continue to play.

6.) We dominated the glass today. Dominated. That bodes well for us in the future.

7.) This was a game of two halves. Coach Martin learned very quickly why it's not smart to play up-tempo with Memphis.

8.) The second half adjustments were fantastic. Fantastic. Good shot selection for the most part, and we controlled the tempo and the game.

9.) Big time kudos for Coach Martin for getting us in a position to win in the late game situations. He put his best player in a position to make a play each and every time. That's all a coach can do. And, it's refreshing to see that rather than a half-court heave like we saw last year on numerous occassions.

10.) The bottomline is this team can be good. We learned that we have some serious toughness today. We learned that we can compete with anyone at anytime even if one of our big guns is playing poorly. Congratulations to Memphis on a well-deserved win. Both teams played their hearts out today. It was a true classic matchup that is only going to help both teams going forward.

Go Vols!

You forgot the part where we completely mismanaged the final 3 seconds of the 2nd OT.

Other than that, spot on.

[knowthevols]

Originally Posted by LawVol13

1) Jeronne Maymon. Jeronne Maymon. Jeronne Maymon. Incredible performance. That's as good a performance as we've seen in years. An All-American worthy performance.

2.) Trae Golden choked. There's no nice way to say it. If he plays even mediocre, we win the game. Plain and simple. He was utterly atrocious on both ends of the floor.

3.) Dwight Miller, Kenny Hall, and Yemi all provided quality minutes today.

4.) Jordan McRae sucked. He nearly gave Memphis an 8-0 run by himself in the first half. He also played sub-par on ball defense.

5.) Richardson was excellent for a true freshmen. He clearly beat out McRae in this game, and if McRae doesn't pick it up, Richardson will continue to play.

6.) We dominated the glass today. Dominated. That bodes well for us in the future.

7.) This was a game of two halves. Coach Martin learned very quickly why it's not smart to play up-tempo with Memphis.

8.) The second half adjustments were fantastic. Fantastic. Good shot selection for the most part, and we controlled the tempo and the game.

9.) Big time kudos for Coach Martin for getting us in a position to win in the late game situations. He put his best player in a position to make a play each and every time. That's all a coach can do. And, it's refreshing to see that rather than a half-court heave like we saw last year on numerous occassions.

10.) The bottomline is this team can be good. We learned that we have some serious toughness today. We learned that we can compete with anyone at anytime even if one of our big guns is playing poorly. Congratulations to Memphis on a well-deserved win. Both teams played their hearts out today. It was a true classic matchup that is only going to help both teams going forward.

Go Vols!

9. Its the coaches job to stop a 6'1" player from repeating the mistake of taking the ball inside amongst the trees. If he will not listen, bench him.

[BigOrangeFanatic]

Golden played awful. I agree if he just plays a decent game we went by a few baskets.

[LawVol13]

Originally Posted by UT's#1Fan

You forgot the part where we completely mismanaged the final 3 seconds of the 2nd OT.

Other than that, spot on.

I didn't forget anything. I don't believe in making up fiction. The overtimes were handled fine by Coach Martin.

[Kingston Vol]

Bright future ahead for the Baller Vols! I'm stoked!

[Kingston Vol]

Originally Posted by LawVol13

I didn't forget anything. I don't believe in making up fiction. The overtimes were handled fine by Coach Martin.

Agreed. We had the best player on the court take the final shot. Really all you can ask for. Especially considering the guards hadn't really done much to that point.

[Spartacavolus]

Our play calls out of TO's and under our own basket were bad today. They led to turnovers or bad shots, outside of one play to maymon.

[LawVol13]

Originally Posted by pl3

Our play calls out of TO's and under our own basket were bad today. They led to turnovers or bad shots, outside of one play to maymon.

There were two plays to Maymon that led to buckets. He called a timeout and got Maymon another easy look out of a pick and roll. Maymon missed the shot. I'm not sure I saw what you saw.

[BigOrangeFanatic]

I love Maymon's aggressiveness so far. He scores best by driving to the basket and off rebounds and put backs. If he can improve the mid range game, as well as scoring from the post, he could be pretty special.

[OrangeBalls]

Originally Posted by LawVol13

1) Jeronne Maymon. Jeronne Maymon. Jeronne Maymon. Incredible performance. That's as good a performance as we've seen in years. An All-American worthy performance.

2.) Trae Golden choked. There's no nice way to say it. If he plays even mediocre, we win the game. Plain and simple. He was utterly atrocious on both ends of the floor.

3.) Dwight Miller, Kenny Hall, and Yemi all provided quality minutes today.

4.) Jordan McRae sucked. He nearly gave Memphis an 8-0 run by himself in the first half. He also played sub-par on ball defense.

5.) Richardson was excellent for a true freshmen. He clearly beat out McRae in this game, and if McRae doesn't pick it up, Richardson will continue to play.

6.) We dominated the glass today. Dominated. That bodes well for us in the future.

7.) This was a game of two halves. Coach Martin learned very quickly why it's not smart to play up-tempo with Memphis.

8.) The second half adjustments were fantastic. Fantastic. Good shot selection for the most part, and we controlled the tempo and the game.

9.) Big time kudos for Coach Martin for getting us in a position to win in the late game situations. He put his best player in a position to make a play each and every time. That's all a coach can do. And, it's refreshing to see that rather than a half-court heave like we saw last year on numerous occassions.10.) The bottomline is this team can be good. We learned that we have some serious toughness today. We learned that we can compete with anyone at anytime even if one of our big guns is playing poorly. Congratulations to Memphis on a well-deserved win. Both teams played their hearts out today. It was a true classic matchup that is only going to help both teams going forward.

Go Vols!

I'd agree with all of that except that I wish he would've gotten the team's attention when we were up 2 in the 1st OT and settled for 3's or Golden went to the basket looking for the foul (and he probably gets it in the 1st half) and threw up a wild shot.

We had our chances to win that one. I hate it for the kids. They played their asses off and Golden's poor shot in the 1st OT led to a Memphis run out and a quick basket to tie it. That is how Memphis scored most of their points were off of a bad shot and they would get a run out.

I thought we flat out gave them the game. It was ours to win in the 1st OT and bad decision making by mainly Golden led to the loss. Hate it for the team, but we'll get better. Should've been a W though.

[Jonboy]

There's so much to be excited about, but I can't lie...a win would have been huge for Cuonzo and the entire team in general. I wanted this one bad, but I wanted it even more after seeing how hard these guys were fighting.

It's crazy to think...we're only 4 games in and we are this close to being a really good team.