GAME THREAD: @Alabama, Sunday, 1/18, 2 p.m., SEC Network

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#578
LV renaissance said:
So funny you mention this. I noted when Kim called one of the most effective timeouts that she has ever had as the LV coach in the first quarter when it was clear that we had regressed to a 3-point shooting and missing team with minimal drive and penetrate. After the timeout, we totally turned it around and went on the huge run in the 2nd quarter. Our offense had some minutes of being out of synch in the second half, but we never regressed to the three and miss offense of the past. I think Kim has reached this team (thank God!),
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In the quick interview right after the game on the live she made me nervous. The asked about the freshmen and she said “if they stay,” more than once.

Hopefully they are settling in and she’s getting to them. Felt like there has been some transfer talk with the freshmen which would be a bummer. They seem like a great group and I hope we can keep them all together. It’s hard these days but I think they could do something special if they’ll buy in and stick with us.
 
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Given the rocky pre-conference start, 5-0 in the SEC with multiple road wins is a very pleasant surprise! A double digit win @ Bama is a big plus. There are stretches where you can see the promise of this team and others that make you worry about could happen when they face SC, TX, OK, and LSU, But the LVs are getting better. You can seem more team coherence firming as the subbing has become structured and they are having fewer defensive breakdowns.
 
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Never expected on my 2026 bingo card to see the Lady Vols progressing in conference play and the men team regressing in conference play!!!

Nevertheless, keep getting better ladies and build on what you did today.. looked much more mature and actually ran and executed offensive plays and didn’t just rely on the 3… love it!!
 
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Volfan2012 said:


According to the rules of basketball this is a flagrant foul. It was not a play on the basketball. The Refs were pathetic in this game as usual.
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It's probably my elderly eyes, but I'm not seeing what you're seeing. In fact, in the SLO MO clip I'm not seeing contact at all except 31 making a slight push toward JB's chest. Whatever happened must have happened just before the slow MO clip. I couldn't catch it in regular speed either. Maybe happened right before slo mo started.

Good news is I'm no longer worried about JB having a concussion. I don't think there was contact to that degree.
 
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I hear you. I didn’t view the 3s as the turning point of the game. It was the moment elite F Janiah Barker starting to attack the rim to score and Alyssa Latham (who has that dawg mentality) scored off a quick steal in the 1st quarter. To start the 2nd qtr, elite G Talaysia Cooper drilled a mid-range jumper and a nice bank shot. Next the freshmen Civil and Mia drain two 3s so it was a mix of offensive execution that change the game.
Now at 5-0 in SEC, you didn’t say this but I just read a poster trying to fit a narrative of it was encouraging for moments but they still wonder during the droughts how the team will compete against TX, SC, LSU, Oklahoma.
For one there’s no reason to group LSU, TX, Oklahoma, and SC away from the rest of the SEC. Oklahoma and LSU have already taken L’s. Beating Oklahoma a team that got drilled by Ole Miss who just loss to Georgia, doesn’t elevate LSU based on a win over Texas at or erase the weaknesses LSU still has as a team.
They still have question marks. All of these teams can be beatable. The SEC is wide open.

VOLINVONORE said:
I think you should set perimeters on thaw you want to run your offense and defense. Sometimes, you may have to alter the plan. but if you don't make plan the game will be chaos. We likely would not have won today if we had not shot a bunch of threes.
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glv98 said:
It's probably my elderly eyes, but I'm not seeing what you're seeing. In fact, in the SLO MO clip I'm not seeing contact at all except 31 making a slight push toward JB's chest. Whatever happened must have happened just before the slow MO clip. I couldn't catch it in regular speed either. Maybe happened right before slo mo started.

Good news is I'm no longer worried about JB having a concussion. I don't think there was contact to that degree.
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I guess the Refs agreed with your view as to why it was not called a flagrant. It really doesn't have to be to the head to be a flagrant just has to be a none basketball play. In this case either Barker was flopping or the push was hard enough to floor her. They didn't call a flop or that it was a push just called nothing and kept on playing.
 
#587
#587
VOLINVONORE said:
I think you should set perimeters on thaw you want to run your offense and defense. Sometimes, you may have to alter the plan. but if you don't make plan the game will be chaos. We likely would not have won today if we had not shot a bunch of threes.
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Only 20 three attempts which is 14 below our season average, but the difference was they were all great looks and were available. The 40 percent 8 of 20 we made were the difference in the game. What I see is a more balanced attack if we have an open three were still going for it and if not were going for the basket. Our trips to the foul line have really increased in SEC played. We were getting dominated there in some early games and that is not happening anymore.
 
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#588
100%. They tried to go dumb for a minute there before things got back on track. Between them and the few posters who think they are basketball analysts these threads turn to pure comedy at times.
GBO🍊.
By the way, here’s a recap:

jsc1973 said:
I had to double-check after reading this thread and make sure that the LVs did win on the road against a ranked SEC opponent by double digits. To read some of these comments, you'd have thought they'd been boat-raced by ETSU or something.
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Volfan2012 said:
I guess the Refs agreed with your view as to why it was not called a flagrant. It really doesn't have to be to the head to be a flagrant just has to be a none basketball play. In this case either Barker was flopping or the push was hard enough to floor her. They didn't call a flop or that it was a push just called nothing and kept on playing.
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What is “it”? Are we talking about the glancing push to the chest? I’m confused bc Barker seemed to be in the throes of a head or face injury.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
Only 20 three attempts which is 14 below our season average, but the difference was they were all great looks and were available. The 40 percent 8 of 20 we made were the difference in the game. What I see is a more balanced attack if we have an open three were still going for it and if not were going for the basket. Our trips to the foul line have really increased in SEC played. We were getting dominated there in some early games and that is not happening anymore.
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The 3-point shooting percent is even more remarkable given we started 1 out of 5 in that ugly first half of the first quarter. The rest of the game we were 7 of 15, almost 50%.
 
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glv98 said:
What is “it”? Are we talking about the glancing push to the chest? I’m confused bc Barker seemed to be in the throes of a head or face injury.
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Could've hit her head on the floor. Evidently that is what happened as she was grabbing her head so evidently made some contact head to floor.
 
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LV renaissance said:
The 3-point shooting percent is even more remarkable given we started 1 out of 5 in that ugly first half of the first quarter. The rest of the game we were 7 of 15, almost 50%.
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Pauldo 3 of 5 and Cooper 3 of 7 and Civil 1 of 2 and everyone else 1 of 8.
 
#595
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Volfan2012 said:
Only 20 three attempts which is 14 below our season average, but the difference was they were all great looks and were available. The 40 percent 8 of 20 we made were the difference in the game. What I see is a more balanced attack if we have an open three were still going for it and if not were going for the basket. Our trips to the foul line have really increased in SEC played. We were getting dominated there in some early games and that is not happening anymore.
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IMO we passed on some 3s we should have taken. One that especially comes to mind was Lauren Hurst being wide open in the corner on a kick out with 4 seconds on the shot clock. For whatever reason she didn't take the shot, passed to Civil, and it put Civil in a really bad spot.
 
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glv98 said:
So where’s the flagrant?
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The push to the chest could've been a flagrant if they thought that is what happened. The question being how can you not be pushed hard enough that you lose your balance and hit your head on the floor? How do you hit the floor that hard? Just some questions that won't be answered.
 
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#598
37620VOL said:
IMO we passed on some 3s we should have taken. One that especially comes to mind was Lauren Hurst being wide open in the corner on a kick out with 4 seconds on the shot clock. For whatever reason she didn't take the shot, passed to Civil, and it put Civil in a really bad spot.
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I agree she should've let that one fly.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
The push to the chest could've been a flagrant if they thought that is what happened. The question being how can you not be pushed hard enough that you lose your balance and hit your head on the floor? How do you hit the floor that hard? Just some questions that won't be answered.
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Nah. If that “push” caused that fall and that amount of head pain either I’m not seeing something or JB has some other issue. That wasn’t a foul, much less a flagrant.

I think she’ll be good to go Thursday. Glad she’s ok.
 
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glv98 said:
Wow, so it turns out quality of shots is better than quantity? Who wants to tell the analytics guys?
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Also comes down to who is shooting the threes. Some can take 20 quality shots and still make just three or four. While others can make 7 or more even if all of them are not quality shots. We just don't really have that player this season.
 
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