Believe it or not, Vols struggles can be a good thing!

#27
#27
Well if he was a true fan then he would be able to get there. I do not believe that he is a true fan. Who puts "NegaVol" under there name. WTF! find another message board.
 
#28
#28
Must be bad chemistry on the team. They played so well against Pittsburg and Villanova. Now they play like they are just going through the motions. My guess is too many in the rotation. No one is happy with the amount of playing time they are getting. I hope things change when SEC play starts. If not, they are cellar bound.
 
#29
#29
The rotation thing is going to get ironed out before the SEC gets rolling. We are a very good team playing through adversity.
 
#30
#30
I'd say this topic is at best trying to put a positive spin on the recent struggles. I would agree about the Oakland game maybe, but after 5-6 games of struggling, you can't say it's a good thing considering the competition.
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#31
#31
I think that the one real positive thing is that this is happening now and not later in the season. I want to be playing our best ball at the end of the year. GO VOLS!!
 
#32
#32
Orangekush423 said:
We will go 6-2 or better in the suspension games. Book it. AND , we will beat Uconn.
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I really like your positive outlook, but I'm not this team in its "present state" can survive those eight games and still have any chance at SEC or NCAA tournaments. The chemistry must somehow change and very soon.
 
#33
#33
There's no such thing as "learning how to win close ones"--there's just luck.

HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FREAKING MIND???
I seriously want to nominate this post for dumbest sentence ever posted on vol nation. Have you ever watched a basketball game or played the game.

Now that said, if a team wins or loses by less than 5 I believe and have always believed it is on the coach..especially the losses.. I coached high school for 15 years and this was always true...especially the losses... i couldve done something different to get the win...
but to say just luck.. wow.. yes sometimes it is luck like a 60 foot last second bank shot... but you had to do something for 59 minutes to get to that point... or made a play in the last 30 seconds to get there... so many people just have no clue what they talk about:blink::crazy::ermm::no:
 
#35
#35
HATINGBAMAISAWAYOFLIFE said:
There's no such thing as "learning how to win close ones"--there's just luck.

HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FREAKING MIND???
I seriously want to nominate this post for dumbest sentence ever posted on vol nation. Have you ever watched a basketball game or played the game.

Now that said, if a team wins or loses by less than 5 I believe and have always believed it is on the coach..especially the losses.. I coached high school for 15 years and this was always true...especially the losses... i couldve done something different to get the win...
but to say just luck.. wow.. yes sometimes it is luck like a 60 foot last second bank shot... but you had to do something for 59 minutes to get to that point... or made a play in the last 30 seconds to get there... so many people just have no clue what they talk about:blink::crazy::ermm::no:
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well aren't you just a bright ray of sunshine
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#37
#37
HATINGBAMAISAWAYOFLIFE said:
you had to do something for 59 minutes to get to that point
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Yes, that part clearly isn't luck.

I'm saying that IF the game gets down to 1 possession at the end, then chance plays a huge part in the outcome of that one possession, and hence the game.

This is not only true, it's obvious. If I play one-on-one with Hopson for 100 possessions, I don't have a chance. If I play for 1 possession instead, I do, because my garbage shot might get lucky and go in once, and his might not.

If I beat him in a one-possession game, it wouldn't be coaching, and it wouldn't be that "I knew how to close out tight games." It would be chance.

Just look at our tournament loss to Michigan State. Chance played a huge role in the last minute. There was a chance the ref swallowed his whistle instead of calling that foul that put MS on the line. There was a chance (60% or so, from the numbers) that Scotty hit the other FT. There was a chance that JP hit the final shot (albeit small).
 
#38
#38
HATINGBAMAISAWAYOFLIFE said:
Now that said, if a team wins or loses by less than 5 I believe and have always believed it is on the coach..especially the losses.
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Most of the coach's work should be done in practice. The rest should be done in the first 39 minutes of the game.

If it comes down to the last possession, then there's just a lot that's out of the coach's hands.
 
#39
#39
StepCross said:
Most of the coach's work should be done in practice. The rest should be done in the first 39 minutes of the game.

If it comes down to the last possession, then there's just a lot that's out of the coach's hands.
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People here still lament Rick Pitino not sending someone to guard the passer on the inbounds play to Laettner, which was last second. Of course, this is Kentucky.
 
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