Game Thread Lady Vols at Notre Dame

#401
#401
Exposed Exposed Exposed!

Lloyd with 30+ points how do going into this not making someone else beat you???

They certainly got inside the head of our best player.

Go figure!!

We just let good teams do anything they please offensively, until we take away what they do best this will be the outcome.
 
#402
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Voluble2 said:
No different than a turnover. Maybe if we told Holly missed shots were turnovers she would clamp down on them more?

I just hate knowing that there is no chance of us winning a big game against an elite team on the road. Everything in this game went exactly how we knew it would and how it always goes. 7 years is a pretty definitive body of evidence that something needs to change.
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But at least we didn't get blown out by 35 so there is some progress. We need to keep seeing improvement. I want us to go to South Carolina and take it to the final buzzer.
 
#404
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mlindsay said:
you blame Holly because as a coach you take her out and sit her next to you after 3 missed chippys in a row, you dont let it get to 5 or 6 before you decide to sub her out, imo Massengale & Izzy played a lot longer than they should have tonight
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Harrison is supposedly our best player and Holly ran good offense to get her easy shots, Harrison just flat out missed them In my mind, if you take away fouling at the end TN lost by 6. If Harrison makes half the easy shots she missed the Lady Vols win
 
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volbabyvol said:
Exposed Exposed Exposed!

Lloyd with 30+ points how do going into this not making someone else beat you???

They certainly got inside the head of our best player.

Go figure!!

We just let good teams do anything they please offensively, until we take away what they do best this will be the outcome.
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Difficult to believe we don't have a player like her. We used to.
 
#406
#406
This game points out the difference between the good teams we play against and hold to less than 60 points and the top 2 or 3 teams in WCBB. The 5th ranked defense just gave up 88 points on 58% shooting. We have to jump up another level to be among the top few teams.
 
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volnationnj said:
If you had told me that we would score 77 points tonight I would have put the game in the win column. Our offense was, out side of Izzy missing a lot of close ones, really good tonight. But we couldn't stop ND from scoring. 58% shooting for ND. That's unacceptable defense.
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Some of NDs makes were just ridiculous. Loyd made some amazing shots tonight. When Reimer puts the ball on the floor and hits a contested 15 foot fadeaway, you know it's your night.
 
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#409
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I still like our chances of winning the SEC and getting to the final four...If Harrison makes at least 6 of those missed shots, we have a chance to win..
 
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boxerpupsrcool said:
I still like our chances of winning the SEC and getting to the final four...If Harrison makes at least 6 of those missed shots, we have a chance to win..
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True. Harrison short arming it all night just didn't make sense. It was obvious she wasn't the go to tonight but they kept going to. Holly has to stop that myopic thinking.
 
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Sandvol said:
But at least we didn't get blown out by 35 so there is some progress. We need to keep seeing improvement. I want us to go to South Carolina and take it to the final buzzer.
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I don't think we have that mental block against other conference teams. It wouldn't surprise me to see us win at SC. It also wouldn't surprise me to see us get blown out. But on the road against ND is a sure loss and it will be due to some of the girls breaking down mentally. The same will be true in the NCAA tournament.

We needed this game to show we had turned a corner. We aren't there yet. The question remains whether or not we can ever get there.
 
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Amb3096 said:
Some of NDs makes were just ridiculous. Loyd made some amazing shots tonight. When Reimer puts the ball on the floor and hits a contested 15 foot fadeaway, you know it's your night.
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They got a bunch of home cooking tonight so we had to play a lot better to win. And, we weren't that far away. There is hope.
 
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Sandvol said:
True. Harrison short arming it all night just didn't make sense. It was obvious she wasn't the go to tonight but they kept going to. Holly has to stop that myopic thinking.
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Another thing..Burdick has a sweet shot from the perimeter..I just don't know why she doesn't shoot it more from there..
 
#416
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boxerpupsrcool said:
Another thing..Burdick has a sweet shot from the perimeter..I just don't know why she doesn't shoot it more from there..
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She has learned if she just catches and shoots she makes a high percentage. I wish Harrison would learn that. Too many gyrations from Harrison.
 
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Sandvol said:
What was Lloyd? About 80%?
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No. She shot 56.5%. Notre Dame as a team shot 58.2%, so Loyd actually brought the team's shooting average down. She scores so many points because she is a volume shooter. And she's really good.

Notre Dame only took 55 shots (23 by Loyd) to Tennessee's 74. And they still won by 11.
 
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Putbacks said:
Alyssa Thomas at Maryland proved that you can play like a champion despite poor coaching. We don't have that assertiveness except maybe Draya Carter on defense. We are content with trading baskets to preserve respectability right now. We aren't hungry throughout the ranks for eliteness.
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We just do not play tough and hungry. Tonight Graves played great in the first half but went dormant in the second half. To beat the big girls, you have to be in your face and we are anything but in your face. I like Carter's play she seems to always leave it out on the floor. We also need to remember that we were playing against a young ND team.
 
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Hoya Saxa said:
No. She shot 56.5%. Notre Dame as a team shot 58.2%, so Loyd actually brought the team's shooting average down. She scores so many point because she is a volume shooter. And she's really good.

Notre Dame only took 55 shots (23 by Loyd) to Tennessee's 74. And they still won by 11.
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Wow that is telling. Harrison had a lot of those misses.
 
#420
#420
If Harrison would just be patient, not force it, and stop all the fakes and gyrating she would hit a much higher percentage like she was doing last year. I don't understand what has spawned all this. Wonder if it is the legs? She is not getting quite the height she normally does on her jumps.
 
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Hoya Saxa said:
No. She shot 56.5%. Notre Dame as a team shot 58.2%, so Loyd actually brought the team's shooting average down. She scores so many point because she is a volume shooter. And she's really good.

Notre Dame only took 55 shots (23 by Loyd) to Tennessee's 74. And they still won by 11.
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It seemed like Lloyd was making EVERYTHING. For some reason Tennessee will let a team's star player have huge point nights or even career point nights. A lot of the hot shooting might have had a lot to do with playing on home court, because ND looked very confident and just let the game come to them. They didn't force anything. Good game by them for sure
 
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They went away from Graves in the second half and started going to Izzy. I don't see how that's Graves fault and she sat on the bench for awhile too.
 
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Sandvol said:
If Harrison would just be patient, not force it, and stop all the fakes and gyrating she would hit a much higher percentage like she was doing last year. I don't understand what has spawned all this. Wonder if it is the legs? She is not getting quite the height she normally does on her jumps.
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The fakes and gyrating got her open. She did all the hard work to get free, then misses the chippie. Of the 10 or so shots she missed, 5 of them were freebies. She was wide open when the ball left her hand.
 
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Sandvol said:
Difficult to believe we don't have a player like her. We used to.
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And this is the best team we will see for a while. This is the team that I thought would be a final four team, but I don't see it now and looking at the bench doesn't give me hope for the future.
 
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