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mr.checkerboards said:
Yes. Saturdays second half has me really down on this team
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I was/am worried. I'd be more worried if we actually lost bc I think that would have just wrecked us mentally. We looked like we have no answer for when we really needed a bucket. I mean honestly, Fulkerson comes to mind in those situations right now as not great as that sounds. I think JJJ could be the dude in March. I wouldn't mind us struggling in our first game of SECC to keep us sharp and hoping we see a leader emerge. Or blow them out and cover and feel confident for next game, that always works too.
 
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The only thing that gives me pause about the basketball team in either tournament is that it is asking a lot of officiating to pocket their whistle for multiple games in a row.

Officiating in basketball has gotten to the point where it's all about pleasing the refs. Fouls are a treat in the current era of basketball. Teams and players work for them. They want to take charges, they want to jump into contact, they flop. Refs anticipate calls too often. They know the game, they think that they know a team/player, so they're already ready to blow the whistle 80% of the time.

It's such a subjective wild card that it really alters the games in real-time, half-to-half. Most of the game is players trying to figure out how to please refs. "Oh, the refs like when we take charges, let's seek that contact." "I'm going to get the whistle every time that I drive the paint." To the other side, you can watch a team completely fall out of favor with a ref crew and struggle for 10+ minutes to figure out why they aren't getting calls anymore, or how far they have to push the rules of basketball to finally get a call in their favor. It's ridiculous.

This is not just a Tennessee problem, this is an officiating issue.

The NBA is different because the refs are explicitly told to let the talent do whatever they want within reason. But even in the NBA you can tell when a call came down for "HQ" or a "central office" (don't even get me started on how ridiculous that is) to call a game tighter.

Tennessee will run into one more (GUARANTEED), possibly multiple games where they refs nail us with fouls early. The games where we rack up fouls early, and the refs disrupt our pace/rhythm, we come apart.

I think that the refs will let us play however vs Bama, or Kentucky, or Auburn, or LSU, whoever we face in the SEC Tournament. The NCAA Tournament is another story. The refs will keep some lower seeded team neck-and-neck with us. It never fails with this current era of refs.
 
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SoilVol said:
Long but rewarding day today. We drove from San Francisco to Yosemite - an interesting cross-section of the state of California. It's a route from ocean, over rolling, lush and green mountains (I assume they're brown most of the year). Then across the San Joaquin Valley before gaining elevation into the Sierra Nevadas.

We were coming into the park from the Northwest and got stopped at the entrance near Hetch Hetchy. Right now the road is closed to all vehicles without 4wd or chains. There was a guy selling chains, but the folks in charge deemed that VT wouldn't approve of the situation so we decided to drive out and swing back up through the valley. Before we left we helped some folks put chains on their cars and I saved some ladies from making the mistake of putting chains on the front of a rwd. They actually gave us a tip despite us trying to refuse.

Anyway, after several hours chewed out of the day we finally made it into Yosemite Valley around 4:00pm and by that time some clouds had moved in shrouding the top of El Capitan. Despite this, El Cap is one of the most incredible natural wonders I've ever seen. I also spotted a very solid trout at one of the bridges.

We rolled out at sunset, taking the Southwest exit toward Fresno. Cutting through the tunnel and the snow-covered 5,000+ ft (what I assume) young sequoia forest. Finally getting to Fresno around 9.

Unless I die before I have a chance, I will be coming back to this valley. Yosemite is incredible.

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Awesome. I did that trip (San Fran to Yosemite) in the fall to recreate a trip I took during spring break while on Student Exchange from Tennessee at Chico State Univ. Now the wife insists on going back to climb Half Dome. Not sure I'm up for that. But I'll definitely be back. So beautiful and the Astronomy Show in the dark was amazing.
 
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BigOrangeVols said:
I was/am worried. I'd be more worried if we actually lost bc I think that would have just wrecked us mentally. We looked like we have no answer for when we really needed a bucket. I mean honestly, Fulkerson comes to mind in those situations right now as not great as that sounds. I think JJJ could be the dude in March. I wouldn't mind us struggling in our first game of SECC to keep us sharp and hoping we see a leader emerge. Or blow them out and cover and feel confident for next game, that always works too.
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I like what I see in JJJ, but it needs to be KC.
Half the reason I'm worried is pressure free throws we have struggled from the line all year and that could cost us late in a close game. The TO's as well.
 
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mr.checkerboards said:
I like what I see in JJJ, but it needs to be KC.
Half the reason I'm worried is pressure free throws we have struggled from the line all year and that could cost us late in a close game. The TO's as well.
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A KC emergence for the tourney would be nice. He's a great player. Needs to stay out of foul trouble.
 
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tnhunter 10 said:
Manfred has to be one of the, if not the worst commissioners in sports.
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