Ah yes, this is all the fans' fault
I'm a fan of her, I like her, but she deserves the bashing she's getting right now after that joke of a press conference yesterday. When you are the coach that suffers the worst loss in program history, you are the only one who should be taking accountability after the game whether it's your fault or not.
Cooper's lazy passes and bad handles have been a problem her entire career as a Lady Vol. Not a drive and dish player either. In her defense, when she does drive other players usually just stand and watch instead of cutting to the basket to present themselves for a possible pass or to get rebounding position. She does things that make me say "wow" sometimes then follows that with a "what the hell" moment. She can be a stat stuffer or a no show, one never knows. In my opinion, she has much work to do in order to become a significant player in the WNBA.
We’ve seen her take accountability before. I’m tired of seeing people saying she hasn’t. She has. Publicly a few times this season. Said it starts with her top down.. so everyone can drop that narrative real quick. Clearly those that say she hasn’t haven’t been paying attention. These players are getting paid a hefty sum now. It’s just as much their job to go out & do what their supervisor tells them to do. This fan base is always overblowing things. It’s YEAR 2! she overachieved in yr 1 & everyone was on her side. The first sign of struggle & everyone has their pitchforks out calling for her job. Year. Damn. 2. Chill out guys. If it’s still this bad in year 3 or 4 then maybe a different convo could start to be had.
Multiple times she’s taken accountability. If your employees kept screwing up no matter how many times you implored them to be better & do better, should you take the blame constantly for their incompetency?
If you hand chose them for the job and are paid handsomly to manage and develop their output, then yes you should take at least a share the blame constantly. And certainly when the output is as big a disaster as yesterday's game was.
Yep. I remember avoiding the thread following Camilla’s 3 pointer. Lurked for a couple of days following Kellie’s dismissal. Best fanbase evar…except when we’re busy mandibilizing* our offspring…Vol fan forever. I know how ridiculous it gets. I promise. I’m just one of the ones that prefers not to jump ship when the waters get bumpy.
I do agree with she has much to work on. I know why Coach is so upset because she was a intense super competitive player if her team was getting thrashed somebody on the next layup is getting hard foul type. Should she first say this is my fault I need to fix sure but that competitive spirit showed when she watched her team especially upper classman lay down. As far as Zone people saying her offense was not cutting it she explained to everyone we have a good Zone offense we have done good this year but nobody wanted to go inside and mix it up rather take the easy way out and shoot 3's . As a player and coach myself I was disgusted with the players except Mia she is a young freshman but is the indisputable leader of Team. Now I want to see who has any pride in themselves because they should want to come out Thursday and thump Mizz.
This scheme does not require players to earn their playing time and it shows. She needs to let them know that is changing. It will not work without shooters who can score the basketball. I don’t see take charge leaders either. She needs to put the best five out there and let them play. Hard to establish a momentum or to develop when they are jerked out every two or three minutes. CKC better make some changes and do it fast. Good coaches have already figured out how to defend her.
