Secret 🤫 Scrimmage

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lvocd said:
The majority of this thread perfectly illustrates why coaches would prefer to keep fans out of these things. Fans are crazy, and they often read too much into every little silly thing. It’s what fans do, but it’s still crazy as hell. 😅
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Spot on and if you read comments from other publications it only reinforces how crazy fans can be without research on any given topic.
 
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wpcadetdad said:
Spot on and if you read comments from other publications it only reinforces how crazy fans can be without research on any given topic.
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I actually don't mind all the speculation and such. These message boards were made for crazy fans to have a place to banter back and forth with other crazy fans. Unless a poster is here officially representing a newspaper or other trusted news outlet, then nobody is required to uphold journalists' ethical standards. Message boards aren't official news outlets. They are primarily supposed to be fun and entertaining for fans, and if we're lucky, sometimes informative. But I certainly don't expect credible sourcing here like I would if I were reading a newspaper with actual journalists.
 
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The half-court condition makes sense to me. If UNC had trouble beating Tennessee's press, then they wouldn't be getting as much practice running their half-court sets. By making that request, UNC was assured they'd get the full benefit from the scrimmage.

UNC might have just requested we not press them for a half, but I doubt CKC would have agreed to that because it would be taking the LVs out of the very habits she's attempting to install with the 7 new players. Just playing half-court ball would be the logical compromise.

Given problems we had last year in our halfcourt defense, I think we probably benefitted from it, too.
 
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BruisedOrange said:
The half-court condition makes sense to me. If UNC had trouble beating Tennessee's press, then they wouldn't be getting as much practice running their half-court sets. By making that request, UNC was assured they'd get the full benefit from the scrimmage.

UNC might have just requested we not press them for a half, but I doubt CKC would have agreed to that because it would be taking the LVs out of the very habits she's attempting to install with the 7 new players. Just playing half-court ball would be the logical compromise.

Given problems we had last year in our halfcourt defense, I think we probably benefitted from it, too.
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Every team practice half court sets. Waste to much time running the full court just to setup and work on your half court sets. Game prep you work against the up coming teams best defenses no reason to run the full court to do that.
 
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volsagain said:
Every team practice half court sets. Waste to much time running the full court just to setup and work on your half court set
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I hope the LVs are spending lots of time on half court sets. The exact problem last year that led to a mid pack conference finish was lack of half court finesse both on offense and defense. I think we learned last year that while the running style is great and all, you can not live by that alone.
 
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glv98 said:
I hope the LVs are spending lots of time on half court sets. The exact problem last year that led to a mid pack conference finish was lack of half court finesse both on offense and defense. I think we learned last year that while the running style is great and all, you can not live by that alone.
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Agreed.

It may not be possible at all given how busy everyone is, but the ideal situation would be if the players can make time to get together in groups, on their own, to at least jog through half-court sets together over and over and over again. This is something they can do on their own if the can get lucky enough to get enough teammates together at the same time to do it. They would benefit greatly, mentally, from the repetition of seeing and feeling themselves moving from spot to spot, even if they're not going full speed. Kinda like visualization, but actually trotting through the movements instead of just mentally doing it.

But like I said, it may be asking too much, especially for all the freshmen who are still (I'm guessing) adjusting to life/coursework on a college campus. It'd sure be nice, though!
 
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glv98 said:
I hope the LVs are spending lots of time on half court sets. The exact problem last year that led to a mid pack conference finish was lack of half court finesse both on offense and defense. I think we learned last year that while the running style is great and all, you can not live by that alone.
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Yeah, that is why i am puzzled about folks getting up in arms over the "secret" scrimmage (allegedly) switching to a half court format in the 4th quarter. It seems people feel some great injustice was done because (allegedly) the LVs went from dominating the full court format and then (allegedly) struggled in the half court game. The flipside of the outrage is that, during pre-season, you had better be working very hard on your weak points because those deficiencies are what opponents will try to exploit in the regular season.

Again, the pre-season talk on this board is exactly like last year. We are team of "cheetahs" that no one will be able to keep pace with and we will run everyone out of the gym (every game LVS 105 opponents 42!!!).
No team will ever have seen anything like this and so give us the national title right because the season is just a formality.

Well, we saw last season, that good teams (and sometimes even middle of the road ones) can slow the tempo down and force the cheetahs to run half court sets.

But wait, we have more cheetahs this season!!! It does not change the dynamic that much. The better teams will handle the LV press and not let the game turn into a fast break fest. Good 3 pt. Shooting and half court execution remains a necessary component of a deep run in the NCAA tournament.
 
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madtownvol said:
Yeah, that is why i am puzzled about folks getting up in arms over the "secret" scrimmage (allegedly) switching to a half court format in the fourth quarter...
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This "folks" wasn't upset that there was a switch. What upset me is the fact that we were there expecting to play a full scrimmage game and it was changed without prior knowledge that we would be working on half court offense.

As a coach myself, I know that if I go into a situation prepared for one thing and something else is programmed..it makes me look unprepared and that affects my entire day. As a coach, I go into any situation, practice. Or game with a plan. And if that plan is altered not by my own doing it upsets my entire plan.
 
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Coach Jumper said:
This "folks" wasn't upset that there was a switch. What upset me is the fact that we were there expecting to play a full scrimmage game and it was changed without prior knowledge that we would be working on half court offense.

As a coach myself, I know that if I go into a situation prepared for one thing and something else is programmed..it makes me look unprepared and that affects my entire day. As a coach, I go into any situation, practice. Or game with a plan. And if that plan is altered not by my own doing it upsets my entire plan.
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madtownvol said:
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As a point of clarification, adaptability and having a plan are not antithetical. Adaptability means revising your plan in response to unexpected circumstances.
 
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madtownvol said:
As a point of clarification, adaptability and having a plan are not antithetical. Adaptability means revising your plan in response to unexpected circumstances.
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You go into a practice with no plan and ready to adapt unexpected circumstances...I'll go into a practice with a plan and we'll see who accomplishes more
 
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Coach Jumper said:
You go into a practice with no plan and ready to adapt unexpected circumstances...I'll go into a practice with a plan and we'll see who accomplishes more
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Google on "false dichotomy." Where did going into practice with no plan come from anyway? Per my previous post, "Adaptability means revising your plan in response to unexpected circumstances."
 
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Scrimmages aren't just practice for the players, they are also practice for the coaches. If a coach is totally discombobulated by a need to change plans when necessary, then there's a problem. I'd like to think Kim and her staff welcomed the chance to grow a little themselves that day. They had better be ready for a lot of different scenarios, 'cause the "new Lady Vols" are no longer a surprise to anyone, and opposing coaches will have their own plans to throw at us in hopes to surprise US.
 
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madtownvol said:
But wait, we have more cheetahs this season!!! It does not change the dynamic that much. The better teams will handle the LV press and not let the game turn into a fast break fest. Good 3 pt. Shooting and half court execution remains a necessary component of a deep run in the NCAA tournament.
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I think the jury is out on whether it "does not change the dynamic". I mean, shoot, we still haven't seen a single game of play with this rebooted roster, and we're already throwing in the towel on the idea that we could give even the best teams trouble? I'd like to see our pressure struggle at least once before assuming that this defense won't hold teams under 70 points way more often than last year's. (vs last year's team that gave up 93 to Liberty, 75 to Memphis and Middle...)

I mean, you're as free to speculate as much as I'm speculating here, of course. It does seem to me that you think that this year's team will only have marginally better pressure than last year's team, in spite of the difference in athleticism. Is that a fair assessment of your take?

"Well, we saw last season, that good teams (and sometimes even middle of the road ones) can slow the tempo down and force the cheetahs to run half court sets."

Did last year's roster even have 5 cheetahs? I think we're doing waaay better than that this year. Stepping up in the place of some graduating non-'cheetas' we've got players that Kim has especially targeted, with her system particularly in mind. (rather than inheriting those players regardless of athletic fit, arguably to the detriment of the efficacy of our full-court -- altho Darby, Spear, and Hollingshead made up for it offensively to varying extents)

Again, I'd say let this season play out a bit before concluding that cheetah theory is a bust.
 
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