Game Thread: Lady Vols v Belmont, Home, Thurs. Nov 13th, 7PM, SEC Network

#427
#427
KnoxLikeUs said:
I donโ€™t know how she could mix up the two but something tells me she is confusing Oliviyah Edwards with Kaleena Smith. I donโ€™t see Smith committing with two years remaining in high school.
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She said both Edwards and Smith committed. Donโ€™t know if she got Smith confused with Minus or if Smith has committed and it isnโ€™t public yet. Hope itโ€™s the latter!
 
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#432
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I think we need Cooper and the Pauldo's to take a higher percentage of our three point shots. They seem to be more consistent. If someone else is having a good night they can rotate in and take more too. Teams are sagging and daring our posts to shoot from outside while making it impossible to drive or rebound well. We have to hit enough threes to draw them out or we will see this all year.

On defense, we have to fix how we fall asleep and allow the full court pass to get behind us on the inbounds. Better teams than Belmont will capitalize on those opportunities.
 
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#439
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KnoxLikeUs said:
Feeling good after watching tonightโ€™s game.
I think thereโ€™s two adjustments to the system that would elevate this team to an unguardable levelโ€ฆ thatโ€™s the mass substitution patterns for four quarters and the full court press.
Often times when we build a good leadโ€ฆ against both NC State by 10 and Belmont by 14 the full-court press is basically how both teams got back into the game.
Itโ€™s really not even effective to run this type of press and expect consistent results.
Itโ€™s like a football team being up 14-0 and blitzing every single play with their entire front 7โ€ฆ eventually you going to get burned when the team adjusts.
Someone really needs to sit down with Coach Caldwell and tell her this actually makes no sense running this type of full court press and giving up easy baskets that essentially work against your own team.
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We would have beat NC St if she didnโ€™t press and give up 10 pts on layupsโ€ฆ

Please someone let her know itโ€™s ok to just get back on defense and play 6-7 players..we donโ€™t have that type of team right nowโ€ฆ
 
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#440
#440
I finally understand the LVs full court press strategy. It is too speed up the game by letting the other team score quickly....

Belmont could have a dozen more points if they had been able to finish at the rim. This was a team whose best player could not really crack the LV line-up last season. That is a warning sign.

The math of the press does not work. You send two players to the ball. That always leave one player open and the LVs outnumbered in the half court. The press only works when the other makes an error-- bad pass or the player not cutting to the open space, like Strickland did on one TO.

This was Belmont. Teams with more size,skill and athleticism (i.e. everyone in the SEC) will have a field day with the LVs overplaying like this. The ball will always move faster than a player. No amount of effort can compensate for leaving players wide open.

On the flipside, we saw the defense look pretty good, when one player, like Coop harassed the PG in the back court and everyone else was positioned to be play lockdown half court defense. That is a more effective and efficient way to play D which will then facilitate more movement on the offense, which remains way too stagnant.

Super happy for Kaniya Boyd, she turned the game around. Does that mean she will be a game changer in every game and she should now play 30 minutes a game. Uh, probably not but different players who are less central are going to have to step to help Coop and Barker score points.

Prawl looked more comfortable and confidence tonight. Even though her shots weren't dropping, the looked pretty good on the release. I see her having more impact as the season goes on.

But, the LVs lack of consistent outside shooting will be a problem in SEC play and this team will have to be creative to get paint points and play better D.

I know, I am supposed to say, "we are the elitist of elite" and these early season games are just tiny little growing pains as as the team learns "the system". But a defense scheme, which has potentially great half court defenders chasing ghosts on over aggressive full presses and an offense built on 3 point shooting when good 3 point shooters are in very short supply is not a formula for success. Some adjustments really need to be made. The "system" is not optimizing the talent
 
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#445
#445
Volfan2012 said:
Looks like Belmont only won quarter two and three by 6 against them and they won those quarter by 17 against us. Ace didn't score 14 points in that game. She scored 7 just 1 of 5 from three
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They actually ended up with one more shot attempt than OU.

That was one big positive last night for me is that we still won the possession game even though we shot the ball horrendously. We had 69 attempts to their 56, primarily due to offensive rebounding.

OU beat them by a few more point than us because Beers was unstoppable and a really good finisher.

I donโ€™t think this will be our best shooting team but I donโ€™t see us shooting quite THIS bad very many times this season. Some nights are just like that.
 
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#446
#446
LadyVol1908 said:
After finally watching, the only thing I enjoyed about this game was pausing it, due to the wild goose chase Carolyn Peck sent me on for 15 minutes!!! ๐Ÿฅด๐Ÿ˜ฉ๐Ÿ˜‚
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I remember she leaked Diamond Deshields commitment back in the day. I do think she completely misspoke last night and mean โ€œvisitโ€ not โ€œcommitmentโ€ but it would be huge if we landed Kaleena.
 
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As others (including Kim, WEEKS ago) have pointed out, not having reliable 3-pt shooters is hurting us. Bad. And not having a steady, seasoned pro like Spencer at pg has hurt us so far, too.

I believe the Pauldos will get much better at directing the offense with more time, but Iโ€™m concerned about how obviously overly concerned Mia is about getting her shots blocked inside. It it negatively affecting her mind/game right now, so I hope she gets past that soon.

I get the sense that Kim is low-key panicking on the inside. Hope Iโ€™m wrong about that and that she is just being โ€œNovember coach.โ€ But something feels different to me. Not having dead-eye shooters is a BFD I think.

Anyway, itโ€™s still early! Still hopeful here.
 
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