Tennessee Vanderbilt Game Thread - 1/10/2007 - Page 51

**tidwell** · 01-10-2007, 10:37 PM

14 assists to 15 turnovers for the Vols. Another good way to get a loss.

**vol_freak** · 01-10-2007, 10:38 PM

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14 assists to 15 turnovers for the Vols. Another good way to get a loss.

No arguing it was an ugly game that we should have won.

blaker024 · 01-10-2007, 10:38 PM

The point is good teams beat bad teams. Its called an upset. Theres a reason. The team is upset because they lost to a team clearly not as good as them.

ukvols · 01-10-2007, 10:38 PM

They beat a down UK team last year after the Cats lost at home to Lofton's Vols. Perhaps that was the magic.

TN Vol 0320 · 01-10-2007, 10:41 PM

Only 1 of those was by Ramar according to Kessling. Not sure where the others came from, but if our starting PG is getting 17 points and only having 1 TO a game, we should be winning games, especially if Lofton scores 29.

Let's face it guys, it took Vandy's best game of the season and certainly not a good effort on our part, and they still needed a tip-in to win the game.

I don't know about you guys, but I choose to look at the positives. Lofton is double-teamed pretty much all game and still comes away with 29 points. Impressive. Ramar Smith scores 17 points, with only 1 turnover, including some BIG shots down the stretch and a BIG execution down the stretch getting Duke Crews a slam with less than 10 seconds left. If we could just get Childress and Chism to stop believing they are 3point shooters and ONLY shooting the WIDE OPEN looks, we should be alright. Good effort coming back from an 11 point deficit in a hostile environment on the road.

**hatvol96** · 01-10-2007, 10:41 PM

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I don't disagree. I'm just not willing to write us off as a bad road team based on one game. You have to hope they learn from it. Like I said, plenty of good teams have let a rival road game slip away that they should have won. Happens all the time. It doesn't mean that by rule, we now lose to every team better than Vandy.

That said, I do think that we are going to struggle if we don't start getting more production from more people. Teams are figuring out how to make Chris work for his points. We can't depend of 35 from him every night.

Not to mention our defense is less than stellar as of late and we have given up too many easy baskets.

Ok, got the "missed blockout at the end of the game" vitriol out of my system. I did do better than my pal Huggins. He dislocated three fingers on the locker room door at UAB one year because of a similar loss. It may be my greatest pet peeve in basketball.

ukvols · 01-10-2007, 10:41 PM

Has CBP been on the air yet? I love the guy, but I want an explanation.

**hatvol96** · 01-10-2007, 10:42 PM

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They beat a down UK team last year after the Cats lost at home to Lofton's Vols. Perhaps that was the magic.

That makes them what, about 4-16 in their last 20 home games against UK?

blaker024 · 01-10-2007, 10:42 PM

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Has CBP been on the air yet? I love the guy, but I want an explanation.

coming on air shortly. 1510 AM

**hatvol96** · 01-10-2007, 10:44 PM

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Good effort coming back from an 11 point deficit in a hostile environment on the road.

This isn't the Buzz Peterson Era. We don't play for moral victories. They keep score for a reason.

TN Vol 0320 · 01-10-2007, 10:45 PM

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This isn't the Buzz Peterson Era. We don't play for moral victories. They keep score for a reason.

Never said it was, or we did. I just said good effort. Are you so much better than everyone else that you can't even applaud a good effort.

**hatvol96** · 01-10-2007, 10:46 PM

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Never said it was, or we did. I just said good effort. Are you so much better than everyone else that you can't even applaud a good effort.

Losing to a bad team isn't a good effort.

blaker024 · 01-10-2007, 10:46 PM

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Never said it was, or we did. I just said good effort. Are you so much better than everyone else that you can't even applaud a good effort.

They dont give the hardware to the team who tries the hardest......

ukvols · 01-10-2007, 10:47 PM

Allow me to mediate. I do appreciate the effort, particularly down the stretch, but the top programs have high expectations from their fans. I expect to beat Vandy.

ukvols · 01-10-2007, 10:49 PM

One has to wonder, though, where the down-the-stretch effort was earlier. Still, nice effort in the last 10 minutes.