Game Thread: 2023 Women's NCAA Tournament...Round of 16: Lady Vols v Va. Tech...Sat @ 6:30 ESPN2

[Majors]

St. Louis and Toledo didn’t walk through the door tonight.

 

[VolBall09]

St. Louis and Toledo didn’t walk through the door tonight.

Piss off. At least say something constructive.

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

My biggest complaint is the 8-10 moving picks not called out front. They have made several really good plays and deserve the lead. That is especially true with that bogus call that took off our 3 pointer. We are lucky they have not shot the 3 better too....

 

[VolFuture]

Franklin is a turnover waiting to happen

How she ever came to UT is beyond me

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

Playing to out of control and unsure of ourselves on offense. On D we are letting them have their way with us. They look confident on offense and we don’t. They are beating us to the punch way to much. They are giving us outside looks and haven’t been able to hit enough of them. And we’re trying to hard to force it inside sometimes. Somebody has to be willing to take the good looks out front and hit them. We have to make the easy open looks as well. Just everything we have to do better, everything.

 

[cwbytruckers]

How she ever came to UT is beyond me

You can think our coach for that

 

[VolFuture]

St. Louis and Toledo didn’t walk through the door tonight.

Maybe we need some ACC transfers

 

[travis929]

We can still win this game. We are way better than this based on the last few games..

Yep. This is probably the worst we've played since January (against UConn). But we were down 17 to LSU and came back to win. This definitely isn't over if we come out and play looser in the 2nd half.

 

[alexvol]

Franklin is a turnover waiting to happen

Won't have to see her much longer this will be her last game in Orange and White.

 

[Voluble2]

Normally we reach a point in games like this where we start to play better because we get far enough behind that we no longer expect to win and we relax. Hopefully, that kicks in earlier in this game.

We really need to recruit about four guards because we got nothin' at that position.

And why was Kellie talking about tired legs? Why would we have tired legs? What have they been doing that VT hasn't?

 

[I4Vols]

Stop shooting threes and Kellie needs to put Jillian in the game. Think Kellie darn

It is truly one of those games where you really wonder if she can get things done.

 

[VolBall09]

How she ever came to UT is beyond me

She was very talented and athletic. Her knee never seemed to get back to where it needed to be. She was a very explosive player before her injury but never recovered that aspect of her game.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

How she ever came to UT is beyond me

It looks like she doesn’t even know how to play basketball.

 

[pasadenavol]

How she ever came to UT is beyond me

Harper's the reason.

 

[Prophet1]

Mastermind Harpers. Kitley on the bench and Horston and Jackson is also. Using slow butt Striplin and Puckett OMGOODNESS who is not shooting jack smiitt

 

[SATXVolFan82]

Revenge Tour my a$$…..might as well just play in the WNIT

 

[SGMVols]

At this point, for me next year, it’s Final Four or fire Kellie. The sweet 16 should not be too big of a stage for us. VA Tech has never been relevant in this sport and they look like the school with 8 titles.

 

[JCP201]

This is not a well prepared or game coached team. The line up is absurd for too many minutes esp given their big is out. Franklin? Puckett? Too much, wrong time. RJ not motivated. JH not focused.

We should be going to the paint with the big out--and coach puts a WTF lineup in.

 

[Volfan2012]

Amoore is a fabulous shooter not something unusual happening she does this almost every game. The kind of player any team would love to have we don't have any outside shooters like her.

 

[zaqhhh]

Been watching on delay just got caught up.

Shocked at how bad things are going especially considering how close things were the first time and that we have gotten better since.

Could always come back but I’m quite disappointed rn

Best path to a deep run in some time

 

[travis929]

You ask a good question--makes no sense.

I don't think it was a bad idea to sub in Franklin for a bit as an experienced leader -- and Hollingshead was rushing and playing nervous -- but Franklin probably stayed in a bit too long.

 

[Voltopia]

It's truly unfortunate that Tennessee looks either unprepared or unmotivated to compete out there. Virginia Tech is a one person show right now and no one seems capable of guarding her.

 

[I4Vols]

Why did we play Franklin so much in the second quarter? Very bad decision.

The whole world recognized this except one person

 

[VolFuture]

She was very talented and athletic. Her knee never seemed to get back to where it needed to be. She was a very explosive player before her injury but never recovered that aspect of her game.

Low iq has nothing to do with physicality

 

[Rons1989]

Stage looks to big for us v tech isnt doin anything spectacular, shot selection is terrible getting lost on defense regroup at halftime this look like the team earlier in the season