Kim, make excuses! (Seriously.)

#51
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volfan102455 said:
UCLA could have beaten a lot of the best men teams on that night - they were just all "on".
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I wouldn't go quite that far -- at least not college level men's -- but they played about as all-around great a game to win the championship as I can ever remember a team playing. They were stellar in THE biggest moment of their basketball lives. 👍🏻👍🏻
 
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lvocd said:
I wouldn't go quite that far -- at least not college level men's -- but they played about as all-around great a game to win the championship as I can ever remember a team playing. They were stellar in THE biggest moment of their basketball lives. 👍🏻👍🏻
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The looked unbeatable - completely in sync and clicking.
 
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1reVOLver said:
On a superficial level that sounds just right. But how do we define
successful?
- the team is aggressive on defense, creates turnovers, shoots quickly from 3 point land and wins?
or
- the team is aggressive on defense, creates turnovers, shoots quickly from 3 point land and loses because the opponent turns us over just as many times and scores more fast break points?
or
- the team follows KC's system and wins because the other team is a creampuff?
- we do everything Kim asks, except convert on FTs, and lose by a point?

If we say her style us successful every time we win, and declare it unsuccessful when we don’t, then we will have created a useless truism.

I believe the true test is whether we follow her system closely against the top four or five SEC teams and win the majority of those games.
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Successful can mean different things. To me it means that I feel that we are headed in the right direction. I am keeping a completely open mind. I want us to be the most fun to watch team in the country, not lose to anyone we should beat, and pull a few upsets. I want to be a team that everyone hates to face in the tournament. If we are extremely fun to watch, players have fun, and volnation has the arena rocking, I feel higher level players will want to be apart of this program. Too many people are picking a side and have their mind made up.
 
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volbeast33 said:
Successful can mean different things. To me it means that I feel that we are headed in the right direction. I am keeping a completely open mind. I want us to be the most fun to watch team in the country, not lose to anyone we should beat, and pull a few upsets. I want to be a team that everyone hates to face in the tournament. If we are extremely fun to watch, players have fun, and volnation has the arena rocking, I feel higher level players will want to be apart of this program. Too many people are picking a side and have their mind made up.
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Ok. Headed in the right direction would be nice.
 
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volbeast33 said:
Successful can mean different things. To me it means that I feel that we are headed in the right direction. I am keeping a completely open mind. I want us to be the most fun to watch team in the country, not lose to anyone we should beat, and pull a few upsets. I want to be a team that everyone hates to face in the tournament. If we are extremely fun to watch, players have fun, and volnation has the arena rocking, I feel higher level players will want to be apart of this program. Too many people are picking a side and have their mind made up.
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None of those other schedules included the most difficult schedule in the nation. We played 6 teams ranked inside of the top 6, including the four teams who finished top 4. No one is supposed to win those games unless they are also a top 5 team.

Who else played UCLA and UConn during the season? I’ll bet they didn’t also have to play USC Jr., Texas, LSU, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, and Oklahoma.
 
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adam.vol said:
None of those other schedules included the most difficult schedule in the nation. We played 6 teams ranked inside of the top 6, including the four teams who finished top 4. No one is supposed to win those games unless they are also a top 5 team.
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LVs are supposed to be competitive with them, not get blown out.
 
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1reVOLver said:
I believe the true test is whether we follow her system closely against the top four or five SEC teams and win the majority of those games.
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This is the true test of whether "the system" works. If it only works against the creampuffs that we could beat with any old system and we lose the majority of games to the top teams, I don't care if she is using the system or adjusting the system - she has failed and we need to move on.
 
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adam.vol said:
None of those other schedules included the most difficult schedule in the nation. We played 6 teams ranked inside of the top 6, including the four teams who finished top 4. No one is supposed to win those games unless they are also a top 5 team.

Who else played UCLA and UConn during the season? I’ll bet they didn’t also have to play USC Jr., Texas, LSU, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, and Oklahoma.
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Doesn't matter - past coaches have played the tough schedules. Why should we "dumb down" the schedule so she can win?? She needs to prove she can win regardless of the opponent.
 
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adam.vol said:
That’s the part Kim was talking about players quitting on her.
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They did not quit - they played hard to stay with UCONN in the first half, then UCONN adjusted and blew them out.

You are buying into the narrative and excuses of the coach.

Players are the first to realize things are broken and it ain't working.
 
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volfan102455 said:
They did not quit - they played hard to stay with UCONN in the first half, then UCONN adjusted and blew them out.

You are buying into the narrative and excuses of the coach.

Players are the first to realize things are broken and it ain't working.
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They quit in several games. When things didn't go their way, they Laid Down. That's on the players and coaches.
 
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volfan102455 said:
They did not quit - they played hard to stay with UCONN in the first half, then UCONN adjusted and blew them out.

You are buying into the narrative and excuses of the coach.

Players are the first to realize things are broken and it ain't working.
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I’m buying into what is proven. The coach is proven and the players are not.

I think a lot of you have non-basketball reasons for attacking Kim.
 
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volfan102455 said:
Doesn't matter - past coaches have played the tough schedules. Why should we "dumb down" the schedule so she can win?? She needs to prove she can win regardless of the opponent.
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The SEC will tell you if she can coach or not. Why add the 2 best teams in the country for most of the year.
 
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