When we get better players. Oh, and the last part is garbage. This team hasn't had a lack of effort. They are just bad.
I love how everybody on this board went from this team could be a contender, while at maui, to this team is just bad.
I also believe 90% of the people in the basketball forum say "Golden is a terrible point guard", but were on his nuts after the game against memphis.
It looks like to me you can not make up your mind about any of our players.
http://www.volnation.com/forum/tennessee-vols-basketball/150392-etsu-postgame-report.html
http://www.volnation.com/forum/tennessee-vols-basketball/151442-we-have-2-5-decent-sec.html
So is Golden a good basketball player or not?
I love how everybody on this board went from this team could be a contender, while at maui, to this team is just bad.
I also believe 90% of the people in the basketball forum say "Golden is a terrible point guard", but were on his nuts after the game against memphis.
It looks like to me you can not make up your mind about any of our players.
http://www.volnation.com/forum/tennessee-vols-basketball/150392-etsu-postgame-report.html
http://www.volnation.com/forum/tennessee-vols-basketball/151442-we-have-2-5-decent-sec.html
So is Golden a good basketball player or not?
Maybe I should make something clear:
A game report is not prediction based. It's based on what I see from that game. When I say Cam Tatum found his strength on offense, I'm saying he's done in that particular game, or maybe the last couple games. Not that he's going to do that all year. Or when I say Trae Golden has played bad, that doesn't mean he's a bad player, or I think he's going to continue to play bad. It means, hey this game (or previous games) he has played bad.
In the ETSU game, when I said the point guard play was going to cost this team a tourney bid, I meant that because we had a lot of winnable OOC games that cost us because of shoddy PG play. Now, I don't know how Golden is going to play the rest of the year. I'm not a pyschic. I never said Golden was a good player or a bad player. I said he was a decent player. I've meant that for most of the year, because while he has struggle, he still has lots of talent.
If that's what you see, it puzzles me that you're still watching.I gave him half a year to make my judgements. I've seen enough. He's been sorely unimpressive to down right disappointing.
Some can continue to blame the players and call them the problem, but with a little coaching these guys could look and play a ton better. Their record may be only two or three games better but they would at least look like they know what's going on. Right now we're good at substituting out hot players, not calling timeouts when our defense breaksdown two trips in a row, jacking up 24 foot clankers with 30 seconds on the shot clock, o-laying on dunks, and staying back on the offensive end in case the other team misses a shot and we can throw it the length of the court for an easy layup.