GAME THREAD: Vandy in Knoxville, Sunday, 2 pm EST, ESPN

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creekdipper said:
Plus, they have your girl with the flying ponytail...who broke your heart. 😢
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She looked better in orange....
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Amb3096 said:
It looks like she had her Core 7 (Cooper, Spearman, Robertson, Civil, Barker, Latham, and Mi Pauldo) for this game. Everyone else who played only got single digit minutes. Four of them, including Cooper, played nearly 30 min in this one, so they weren’t off the court much
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I don't think it's as much the total number of minutes as the way in which they're played. 30 minutes chopped up in 3 minute increments does not allow any flow or match up continuity and contbutes to the chaos that has eaten its own team alive this year.

I can't understand why she's still subbing this way when she's not even trapping or pressing that much any more. Its almost like muscle memory that she just can't quit. I think next year she'll have to leave the whacko subbing behind in order to be successful. And at that point, mercifully the wretched, gimmicky system will be just an embarrassing failed experiment, and the Lady Vols can once again concentrate on playing actual big time basketball.
 
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volfan102455 said:
The fact that it is the second half where the breakdown occurs is a clear statement that the other coach adjusts and CKC does not. I think that is because she has nothing to adjust to at this point.
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The most telling fact is that our bigs are not playing anywhere near their potential at neither end of the court.
 
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volfan102455 said:
The fact that it is the second half where the breakdown occurs is a clear statement that the other coach adjusts and CKC does not. I think that is because she has nothing to adjust to at this point.
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Theoretically, if Caldwell only has one pitch, then opposing coaches should be able to prep for a first half domination, too. I don't know if it's coaching adjustments as much as mentality in the second half breakdowns. They just don't believe, at this point, and any crack becomes an avalanche.
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
The most telling fact is that our bigs are not playing anywhere near their potential at neither end of the court.
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Just like the Louisville game, we have 2 6'4 posts that allowed another undersized 6'2 (Washington) get going inside. Granted Blakes and Galvan set her up beautifully with cuts and passes inside. But the lack of physical play from Zee and Janiah has really been hurting most of the year.
 
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LadyVolsDiehard said:
Just like the Louisville game, we have 2 6'4 posts that allowed another undersized 6'2 (Washington) get going inside. Granted Blakes and Galvan set her up beautifully with cuts and passes inside. But the lack of physical play from Zee and Janiah has ready been hurting is most of the year.
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I’ve come to believe that we need a big like Beers. It’s seems that size and weight is important. A big that can’t be moved. A big that can impose her size underneath. I used Beers as an example, but there are others being very successful.
 
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HerdLVol said:
I’ve come to believe that we need a big like Beers. It’s seems that size and weight is important. A big that can’t be moved. A big that can impose her size underneath. I used Beers as an example, but there are others being very successful.
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I think the worry is a big like that would slow things down too much. Even when we get out of this system nightmare, CKC is going to want to play fast.
 
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glv98 said:
I think the worry is a big like that would slow things down too much. Even when we get out of this system nightmare, CKC is going to want to play fast.
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OK plays pretty fast though. Similar to us but with much better flow, probably due to subbing normally
 
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HerdLVol said:
I’ve come to believe that we need a big like Beers. It’s seems that size and weight is important. A big that can’t be moved. A big that can impose her size underneath. I used Beers as an example, but there are others being very successful.
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Uche
Izoje & Me'Arah
O'Neal would be great additions in the portal.
 
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brassie said:
Tyler Summitt is radioactive when it comes to women's basketball. Nobody is going to touch him. I think that he is content living off his mother's state pension.
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I’m thankful his Momma never knew about that situation. Maybe losing her contributed to his mindset. They were very close.
 
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LadyVolsDiehard said:
Just like the Louisville game, we have 2 6'4 posts that allowed another undersized 6'2 (Washington) get going inside. Granted Blakes and Galvan set her up beautifully with cuts and passes inside. But the lack of physical play from Zee and Janiah has really been hurting most of the year.
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💯 along with the whole team missing lay ups, free throws, stupid fouls, letting teams go on runs without time out. Those things also really hurt us
 
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CannonVol80 said:
I don't know what so many on here saw, but today's loss wasn't on the "system", because the system, with the possible exception of the substitution pattern, wasn't on display. At least, to my observation. There was no frequent, ineffectual pressing defense. Some might say there was no defense, particularly in the third quarter. I have tried, to no avail, to figure out what the problem is with this team coming out of half-time. It is pretty clear that this team cannot effectively play a strictly man-to-man defense. Even players of, arguably, lesser athletic ability consistently blow by our players. Seldom, if ever, is there any help defense that closes off the lane to the basket. And, I don't know what to say about rebounding. Pat Summitt always said rebounding was about effort. Apparently, no one has told the current coaching staff. I think that one problem with the "system" is that it doesn't allow for the coach to sit a player for poor in-game performance.

I'm not suggesting that what we seem to know as Coach Caldwell's "system" is a solution for the Lady Vols. One thing that I think negates any positive benefits is that it depends on being able to win a track meet and to get more shot attempts than your opponent. I haven't gone through the season statistics, but, I think that simply will not hold true against the majority of teams at this level and certainly not against the better teams. Unfortunately, as the season has shown, reliance on beating your opponent down the floor and out-rebounding that opponent only works sporadically and if you haven't developed an offensive scheme that considers this failure as a possibility and can be implemented when that is your reality, you get what many on here have described as "hero ball", and so far, that hasn't resulted in many wins.

The Lady Vols have players capable of being a consistently winning team. Hopefully, steps will be taken to put them in position to accomplish this in the future.

Jim
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She doesn’t seem to have the players to fit her system. They don’t seem to have the mental mindset. They missed 13 layups that I counted and don’t have the shooters or any Senior leaders like Sara and Tess.
Is it losing Ruby or are they just too young? Maybe she needs to do some tweaking and make them earn playing time. Ten of them know they are going to play no matter what they do.
What say you coaches out there? Maybe it’s time for them to go to the losers dressing room. I’m at a loss.
 
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VOLPAT said:
She doesn’t seem to have the players to fit her system. They don’t seem to have the mental mindset. They missed 13 layups that I counted and don’t have the shooters or any Senior leaders like Sara and Tess.
Is it losing Ruby or are they just too young? Maybe she needs to do some tweaking and make them earn playing time. Ten of them know they are going to play no matter what they do.
What say you coaches out there? Maybe it’s time for them to go to the losers dressing room. I’m at a loss.
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I keep seeing the “she doesn’t have the players” or “these players don’t fit her system” and all i keep thinking is SHE recruited and had to have these players. Kellies players are Coop, Kaiya, and Kaniya I believe. That’s it. The rest were brought in by Kim. These are her players and out of the 3 I named only Coop sees the floor regularly (and thank goodness because she is our leading scorer).

I’m baffled by the players comment. Now we can say the players aren’t tough, aren’t hustling, etc but to say she doesn’t have players to me is baffling when she went out and got these specific players to fit her system. She gave a specific detail of each player she brought in and how’d they fit the system. She needs to either adapt the system or learn to recruit players to her system.

Zee seemingly regressed for some reason. Ruby was a spark plug. Spencer picked it up and made us go. However it seems we are missing Tessa , Jewel, and Sara
 
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My 2 cents:

We come out excited and aggressive. Great game until mid way through the 3d quarter. Our lack of discipline, offensively and defensively catches up with us.

Vandy 88
LV. 76.
 
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Volinnooga said:
My 2 cents:

We come out excited and aggressive. Great game until mid way through the 3d quarter. Our lack of discipline, offensively and defensively catches up with us.

Vandy 88
LV. 76.
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I bet you used AI. (Bad joke)
 
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Also, why was Nya so gitty and smiling afterwards?

Does anyone with inside knowledge know how Danny White feels about this hire ? with football meh, volleyball had a mass exodus, this season for wbb has been a dumpster fire to say the least. Something has ro
give right ? 😂 At least 🥎 is repping and giving Vol nation something to cheer for.
 
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