Another Bad Day In Vol Nation

#26
#26
Bernard said:
...All players take on the attitude of there coach, if your Tough, No Nonsense, or Soft, they inherit your personality and demeanor. Leave the bridging the gaps to your assistant coaches, that's what you pay them for. Our young ladies can't shoot, defend, pass, rebound aggressively or run a zone or man to man offense, that is pathetic at the college level!!! It all falls back on the coaching staff, the young ladies are a product of what you are teaching them period!! You can't be a inside out team, if you don't have players who can knock down the open shots. That is basketball 101. You must design a offense around the talent you have!! This group of girls is a run and gun team period (Get it out and go). They don't have the right(IQ) or mix of players to be inside out, like South Carolina!!! So please Vol nation quit getting upset when they lose to teams they are supposed to beat or maybe just maybe they were not supposed to beat them in the first place!! Talent can over come some coaching but we are highly and I mean highly Overrated, you watch the games just like I do, we struggle in every facet of the game!!
Click to expand...

Run and gun? Half the team can't run and none of them can make layups consistently. The lack of a bench is going to prevent much running anyway.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#27
#27
What we are seeing from the "non" ranked teams is what my hubby did with little league a few years ago. He "coached" up and had average players playing above their potential and skill level. They won every championship around. It was simple. Fundamentals, knowledge of the game to make good decisions, and a belief they could beat anyone.

We are seeing some good coaching that allows their players to rise above higher skilled, but lesser coached teams.
 
#32
#32
Rickster said:
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Click to expand...

Your idea of "standing by your team" is accepting mediocrity or worse? Count me out. What you are seeing is not an aberration, but a pattern of decline. Stem the flow or take what you get. No reason to call it anything other than what it is. Holly cannot make it better. Wish she was able to correct this mess.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 3 people
#33
#33
vol72 said:
Your idea of "standing by your team" is accepting mediocrity or worse? Count me out. What you are seeing is not an aberration, but a pattern of decline. Stem the flow or take what you get. No reason to call it anything other than what it is. Holly cannot make it better. Wish she was able to correct this mess.
Click to expand...

OK, I'll count you out. Guess we will see you when the going gets good.

I wonder what a recruit thinks when they read your cut and run. No, I don't have to wonder.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 3 people
#34
#34
Ed Weeks said:
OK, I'll count you out. Guess we will see you when the going gets good.

I wonder what a recruit thinks when they read your cut and run. No, I don't have to wonder.
Click to expand...

You are operating under a couple of misconceptions:

1-That "standing by" a team means accepting whatever happens and never asking for improvements.

2-That calling for improvements means "cutting and running".

Neither of the above are necessarily true. Some of the posters (and I include myself in this definition) are sincerely concerned with what they perceive to be a steadily downward spiral at both the quality and competitiveness of the program. What would you have these sincere folks do? Keep their mouths shut and be content with the status quo?

I believe doing so comes under the heading of "putting one's head in the sand".
 
  • Like
Reactions: 3 people
#35
#35
I stood by Holly for 4 years giving her a chance to be a good leader, implement a good system, and get good results. We're going on year 6. We constantly underachieve. We just lost back to back games to unranked teams. We have talent everywhere. I still root for the Lady Vols to win but it's insane to expect better results if we continue to do the same thing. We need a head coach that can get results. The one we have can't. So, you're either satisfied with the results and direction OR you want to get back to where we can be and should be. I'm in the latter camp.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 3 people
#36
#36
OK. I'll bow out. Apparently we read the posts differently. BTW, I am a Cubs fan, and have never thrown a single Cub player under the bus. I have driven by a couple when they were hitchhiking.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#38
#38
Ed Weeks said:
OK. I'll bow out. Apparently we read the posts differently. BTW, I am a Cubs fan, and have never thrown a single Cub player under the bus. I have driven by a couple when they were hitchhiking.
Click to expand...

You persist in defining critical observations as "throwing a player under the bus". If a player misses a layup what do say? "Hey that's OK I stand by you"? Or can I say " Hey you missed a layup"? What if they miss 5 layups and have 10 turnovers? At what point do you allow someone to say something critical without accusing them of throwing someone under a bus?
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#40
#40
One glaring play sums up the effort against the Hokies...Jordan Reynolds was on a fast break down the left side of the court toward the rim with one of the other LV players running parallel to her right. Jordan is contested by a Tech player and absolutely refuses to pass the ball off to the other LV player who was uncontested...and then missed the layup! No team chemistry, selfish play, and missed opportunities.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 3 people
#42
#42
Decker Moss said:
I sincerely believe that if Jamie Nared, Mercedes Russell, and Diamond Deshields were on another team together at a different school we would be seeing a much better product.
Click to expand...

100% THIS.

For whatever reason I feel that if any of these players were with Stanford, Notre Dame, Baylor, Uconn, Louisville, Maryland, or South Carolina that they'd be far more impressive than they are in Lady Vol Orange.

dunno if its bad chemistry, poor coaching, or what.
 
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.
Advertisement



Back
Top