bleedingTNorange
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1. A Q1 win, on the road, in conference play...I don’t care if it was only a 1pt win that was on a late shot, you take that and you like it. No it wasn’t the prettiest, no we didn’t look our best, but maybe you take the positive in that? That we didn’t play our best, they played a very good game and yet we won on the road against a tournament team? I’ll take it.
2. Beast effort from Grant Williams, and I like the fact we made an effort to continually get him to it late, good things happen when he touches the ball typically and that was the case late in this one. Jordan Bowden once again struggled but that was a big late shot from him that he didn’t think twice about taking, to me that is a good sign.
3. We are still struggling on offense, a big part of that is simply missing a lot of the perimeter shots we were hitting at a much better clip earlier in the year. Turner and Bowden combine to go 1/8 from deep tonight and in the last 4 games are a combined 5/38 (13%) from deep, that’s obviousiy well below both of those guys season averages. Our assists numbers were better tonight, we had 16 which is much closer to where we have been all year than the previous 3 games.
4. Kyle Alexander had the flu tonight and to me it looked like Jordan Bone was still suffering from it as well, Kyle did have 4 rebounds in his 11 minutes, but we need him back to the good KA we have seen in spurts this year, we are at another level when he’s there. Same for Bone, last game and today he hasn’t had the same energy or continued burst, obviously being sick really makes that tough for someone like him, just need our whole squad to get healthy.
5. Ok so heading into the final 7 I said 4-3 would be just fine, we are sitting at 2-2 with 3 games to play, 4-3 is obviously still attainable with a huge game coming this Saturday in the rematch against Kentucky. The Wildcats very well may be playing better than any other team in the country right now and we all remember the beat down they put on us in Rupp, this will be a huge test for Tennessee but also for Kentucky to prove themselves as well, I think both teams are going to be ready for a war and I expect it to be a great game...hoping we show one of our better performances than we’ve seen in awhile and that it starts us out on a strong finish.
GBO!!!
2. Beast effort from Grant Williams, and I like the fact we made an effort to continually get him to it late, good things happen when he touches the ball typically and that was the case late in this one. Jordan Bowden once again struggled but that was a big late shot from him that he didn’t think twice about taking, to me that is a good sign.
3. We are still struggling on offense, a big part of that is simply missing a lot of the perimeter shots we were hitting at a much better clip earlier in the year. Turner and Bowden combine to go 1/8 from deep tonight and in the last 4 games are a combined 5/38 (13%) from deep, that’s obviousiy well below both of those guys season averages. Our assists numbers were better tonight, we had 16 which is much closer to where we have been all year than the previous 3 games.
4. Kyle Alexander had the flu tonight and to me it looked like Jordan Bone was still suffering from it as well, Kyle did have 4 rebounds in his 11 minutes, but we need him back to the good KA we have seen in spurts this year, we are at another level when he’s there. Same for Bone, last game and today he hasn’t had the same energy or continued burst, obviously being sick really makes that tough for someone like him, just need our whole squad to get healthy.
5. Ok so heading into the final 7 I said 4-3 would be just fine, we are sitting at 2-2 with 3 games to play, 4-3 is obviously still attainable with a huge game coming this Saturday in the rematch against Kentucky. The Wildcats very well may be playing better than any other team in the country right now and we all remember the beat down they put on us in Rupp, this will be a huge test for Tennessee but also for Kentucky to prove themselves as well, I think both teams are going to be ready for a war and I expect it to be a great game...hoping we show one of our better performances than we’ve seen in awhile and that it starts us out on a strong finish.
GBO!!!
