Recent content by lvocd

I agree. Along with the super-fast pace and the constant pressing, the rapid sub pattern may all be adding to feelings of chaos for our players. I don't know about anyone else, but in my life if I get into a chaotic situation I begin to feel, at first, overwhelmed, and then if the chaos is...

My first thought: Can A.I. make a darn layup?

... or even if you don't at all, I wish everyone on VolNation health and happiness for the rest of 2025 and into the New Year. If we are all still here and have the luxury of obsessing endlessly over the Lady Vols, then I guess we can all count ourselves extremely fortunate. Peace to you and...

From what a few prominent former Lady Vols have said in years past, when "old heads" visit to talk to the current players they do respect the old guard and all, but they pretty much did what young people do when old farts come around to lecture them. They listen, but they also have to fight the...

Ummmm, yes. Missing the tournament would be a VERY bad thing, and anyone halfway-kinda-sorta okay with it on the hope that doing so MIGHT turn out to be a good thing when there is no guarantee it would, and perhaps even be highly unlikely, is definitely off my Christmas card list. 😡 Erasing...

Outside of the point guard, the suddenly fashionable concept of “positionless basketball” inherently results in varying degrees of chaos and with only a vague suggestion of roles since everyone is apparently supposed to be playing them all or none of them or whatever. And since our players are...

Something I found interesting recently. During an interview (can't remember which), Kim recently mentioned that before a game -- a game she said "going into it offense was going to be our focus" -- she had given Jaida Civil a points goal. She wanted Civil to focus on getting to the rim and...

I wonder if putting 15-20 pounds of muscle on in only one year would be too much too soon for her and maybe put too much strain on her body in trying to adjust to the extra weight. I remember when Rickea Jackson came into her second season here she showed up early on noticeably heavier (IMO)...

I wonder if it's less that players are selfishly trying "to get mine" than it is trying to "do what the coach has said the system is designed to do and that is to have players to play free and to take shots when they feel they have one." You can't tell them for months that you want them to play...

What I was thinking about earlier today was that Kim has yet to have a season where things didn't eventually work out in the end, including last season. Some people would disagree, but I felt like that team fared much better than what was predicted at the time Kim was hired. So I guess I can't...

I 'bout fell out when she did that. And to the shortest player on the team! 😳 Oh how I hope that is strongly forbidden after the team sees that in film. Good grief.

There goes Barker shooting (and missing) a layup with the wrong hand. That is a major pet peeve.

GREAT drive and score by Civil!

Ya know, last season she handled the ball pretty well. She seems to have lost confidence in her dribble, for sure.

Mya!!!