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Tired of the foolishness will you be quiet. Destinee Wells started for 3 years as a PG. Averaged 19 points a game. Led Belmont to the NCAA tourney where they advance her soph yr. as their leading facilitator and playmaker. If healthy she is playing on this team. And not for a few minutes. Wells was adjusting to a one dimensional offense and we only saw her play for less than half a season. The offensive system didn’t really maximize her potential. Her 12 games was far less than HVL year in LSU and I don’t see people writing her off completely as a few minutes a game reserve. I would say if Destinee could’ve continued to play she would’ve gotten a lot better as the year went on. Just because you do not like a players style of play it does not make your opinion valid. If Destinee Wells is healthy she is a key piece to this team point blank.
 
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brittannica said:
Gotta learn to not commit offensive fouls though. Love Kaiya’s speed and determination, but she fouled on those drives more often than I liked.
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The way CKC runs her offense, offensive fouls are actually a little less likely. When you’re getting downhill at that clip it’s tough for the defense to get set. More often than not it’s going to be free throws.

It was tough for players like Wynn to attack in the past system because our opponent’s defense was almost always set before we were trying to score.

Against less athletic or less disciplined teams we were able to score with pace last season and we won most of those games. Even if our defense wasn’t as spectacular, like the Florida game, where we won but both teams were in the 80s.

Against better coached or more athletic teams we struggled to dictate the pace. Those were games where we needed our defense to help with our pace and it wasn’t able to do that under Kellie. We did not create enough turnovers to win games where we were struggling to score, like @ Alabama, @ A&M and vs Indiana. We didn’t even have a lot of TOs our self in those games but we didn’t force our opponent into significantly more and couldn’t score against their set defense.
 
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brittannica said:
Gotta learn to not commit offensive fouls though. Love Kaiya’s speed and determination, but she fouled on those drives more often than I liked.
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If you watch Caldwell's team last year they didn't get as deep as Kaiya was going. They seemed to get just past the free throw line to suck in the defense and then kick out. Then the ball would move around the perimeter for the best open shot.
 
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PineyBluff Vol said:
Opinion or Fact?
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Well it is fact that Dark Phoenix is doing nothing but trying to stir the pot and knows nothing about what is happening with any rectuit or how recruiting is progressing right now .He was against this hire from the beginning so what does he do now ....he hears rumors that top recruits are not considering the Lady Vols . That is pure crap to be kind .
 
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DarkPhoenix said:
I’m not going to debate, but I’ll say go watch some film of Wynn going in for layups and then go and watch her high school film and tell me if u see a difference.
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Kaiya was on of the nations leading scorers her senior season in high school. That wasn't done from the perimeter, I assure you.
 
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alexvol said:
Well it is fact that Dark Phoenix is doing nothing but trying to stir the pot and knows nothing about what is happening with any rectuit or how recruiting is progressing right now .He was against this hire from the beginning so what does he do now ....he hears rumors that top recruits are not considering the Lady Vols . That is pure crap to be kind .
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Could be the new Darth account. Haven’t decided. Have had them ignored since they appeared which usually means they are repetitively negative but provide no context or support for their position.

I think they were constantly negative while Kellie was coach also.
 
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alexvol said:
Well it is fact that Dark Phoenix is doing nothing but trying to stir the pot and knows nothing about what is happening with any rectuit or how recruiting is progressing right now .He was against this hire from the beginning so what does he do now ....he hears rumors that top recruits are not considering the Lady Vols . That is pure crap to be kind .
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Not stirring anything I want us to Get Kiki Iriafen and Zaay Green, I don’t want the rumors to be true, I’m hoping we can get them aand a few others.and I’ve never did I was against the hire, I don’t care who the coach is as long as we get elite recruits and the top portal players.
 
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DarkPhoenix said:
Not stirring anything I want us to Get Kiki Iriafen and Zaay Green, I don’t want the rumors to be true, I’m hoping we can get them aand a few others.and I’ve never did I was against the hire, I don’t care who the coach is as long as we get elite recruits and the top portal players.
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The only rumors being spread are by you. Numbskull.
 
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VolBall09 said:
Could be the new Darth account. Haven’t decided. Have had them ignored since they appeared which usually means they are repetitively negative but provide no context or support for their position.

I think they were constantly negative while Kellie was coach also.
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The only negative I make is I always say we need a better roster which was true, never said anything bad about Kellie and u can look that up.
 
#3,266
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VolBall09 said:
Could be the new Darth account. Haven’t decided. Have had them ignored since they appeared which usually means they are repetitively negative but provide no context or support for their position.

I think they were constantly negative while Kellie was coach also.
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I've been thinking DarkPhoenix is Darth, too.
 
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DarkPhoenix said:
I just said from the rumors on here, I never state anything as fact unless I know for sure. People post rumors as facts on here everyday.
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Semantics are important, what you did was state as fact that none of the top players are considering [the Lady Vols] us. You simply admitted that your statement of "fact " was based on rumors.
It's a shame that so many posters fail to understand the effect the written word can have!

Jim
 
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DarkPhoenix said:
so because I want the roster upgraded and others on here think it’s good enough I’m someone else, u people are funny.
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I have seen zero people here say the roster is “good enough”

We clearly need 5-6 players who can go next season. Thanks to the previous staff that’s the position we are in. Are all 5-6 of those going to be top talent? No, some of them are going to be very a serviceable players coming off the bench. I have no doubt we land 2-3 quality players that significantly improve this team.

The coaching staff is better, why shouldn’t the roster be?

Now back to ignore for you.
 
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MrBiggles said:
This might be a dumb question, but what type of help do we need? Do we need an imposing center? A quick guard who could break down Ds? A forward who can fill it up? There's 4-5 slots available so who and what type of players should we target?
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Athletes---that's the short answer. They better be athletic and not one dimensional
 
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DarkPhoenix said:
Not stirring anything I want us to Get Kiki Iriafen and Zaay Green, I don’t want the rumors to be true, I’m hoping we can get them aand a few others.and I’ve never did I was against the hire, I don’t care who the coach is as long as we get elite recruits and the top portal players.
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Zaay green caught a drug charge at UT. She isn't coming back.
 
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