NC St post-game press conference

#76
#76
JL1231 said:
Last year TN was in the Sweet 16 - that is two wins; not one and done. In that Sweet 16 game, they had a 4th qtr lead against Texas. They beat Ohio State on their home court to reach the sweet 16.
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I was speaking of the entire last season, not the tourney. This year the season was done in the new year. Whether or not CKC has lost the team maybe true or not? I can't speak first hand, but given the $$$$$ spent, the talent, and one year under the belt. We would have had better results with a better coach.
Something is not adding up. Is it the system, or the team fit, or the team-coach relationship?
 
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JL1231 said:
Last year TN was in the Sweet 16 - that is two wins; not one and done. In that Sweet 16 game, they had a 4th qtr lead against Texas. They beat Ohio State on their home court to reach the sweet 16.
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Your are focused on the tourney and not her entire body of work at UTK.
We were gifted a tourney seed this year.
Next year probably not.
 
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Little baller said:
How much longer do we put up with this! I feel so bad for the players. No plan B? Well it looks like there is no plan at all! She is in so deep with this ridiculous idea that she has no plan to do anything. Why would Danny White stand by and let this coach take down a dynasty that was built on great coaching and great players! It makes no sense. Many of the great fans that I know will not be renewing their season’s tickets! Can you blame them?
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Well said
 
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I feel there was a lack of execution most of the season. The LVs have a lot of talent and should be able to out talent a lot of teams especially on an off nite and one with 21 rebounds. Without a game plan to work from, well it just appears to be a lot of passing around the horn and then taking a player one on one. In a game where you rebound the ball like they did and lose well that just confirms to me that the real problem is there was no game plan. If there was then it wasn't executed. There needs to be a system to work/execute from and imo there wasn't. Another problem is the 5 in 5 out. Players need time to adjust to the flow of the game and playing just a few minutes and then sitting doesn't allow that to happen. You run hot and cold when you don't have enough time on the floor. Just when you get warmed up in the game your sitting and when you come back in your cold as if your just coming into the game. Get a starting 5 and move on from there. Get a game plan teach it, teach how to execute it and work from there. If not just call a practice, give them the ball, and sit down and let them play street ball. The most frustrating thing is you have all that talent on the floor and you're expecting something good to happen and it never materializes.

Starting with defense. If you're going to press than press hard. Make something happen. Force your opponent to pick up the ball than trap them. Tenn has the athletes to do that. Teach fundamentals and practice fundamentals every day before practice. In grain what you expect and want from your team, so you have something to work with as a coach. It takes time to develop players into a system.

Kim needs to make changes, and it starts with discipline, commitment, and being coachable. It was a very disappointing season so there is a lot of room for improvement not excuses. We will see.
 
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glv98 said:
Coops initial reaction: You win some, you lose some. Literally said that.

Interestingly, she got asked almost exactly the infamous Evina question… What do you think needs to change? Fortunately for Coop, her answer was so incoherent that it couldn’t possibly have offended anyone

Please please get poor Coop some help communicating. She is quite possibly the most inarticulate LV of all time.
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Actually I thought the questions asked to Cooper were generally stupid.
 
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lvocd said:
Really? I would guess she would rather have a flaming stick poked into her eye than coach at Tennessee, a program she has demonstrably hated since the mid-90s. Yes, she knows the history, which is exactly why she’d never consider doing anything that might help the program. And we don’t want a former Hussy coaching at Tennessee and secretly pulling for her Alma mater at any point, either! 😅

NEXT!
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This is a backwards and immature way of thinking.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
That is why I am fairly sure she is coming back this group of players will get a lot of blame and deservedly so. Still SEC caught up with her system toward the end of last season. The only success she had this year was against teams at the bottom of the league except of course two very close wins against Kentucky and Alabama.
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This was not a good team !! Most teams (other than UCONN and SC that are getting the cream of the crop recruits) have a bad season from time to time. The SEC is probably better than it has ever been top to bottom. Add in the non-conference schedule; it was brutal for team that was simply not very good. I can't say whether the SEC has caught up to the system until I see good basketball players on the floor. I didn't see alot of that this year. It was certainly a combination of players and coaching. Obviously we have to see better players and better coaching next year for this current staff to continue.

Kim's first team was unranked in preseason and this team was ranked #7. The WCBB ecosystem believed that she was on the right track. Maybe they over-estimated her and/or her recruiting/portal classes. I need to see another iteration to make that determination for myself.
 
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VolTenn25 said:
Because Danny hired her for that system yall want her to change so badly. That’s why he brought her here. Yall are so toxic & trigger happy that you can’t see the facts. Everyone was so on her ass this season for “not taking accountability” well she did a few times & then again tonight. Yall BVS weirdos still aren’t satisfied. Why would she completely change a system that had worked so well for her until this exact season? Tweaks need to be done in any system, but yall thinking she’s just gonna abandon what got her here is ignorant
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She is the the worst coach in the SEC bar none. Her system will never work in D1
 
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glv98 said:
Oh, we are so completely and totally effed

The good news: she took ownership! The bad news: what she took ownership for was not doing the comically failed system even more. Deeply regretful for making the changes that we’ve been so encouraged by. Promises to never let that happen again.

Simply unable to process what WBB writer Sabrina Merchent summed up so succinctly:
effort and endurance alone are not separators at the elite level.

Kim’s lack of awareness of the actual problems are deeply disturbing.
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Sounds like Butch Jones, "the system is not the problem, its the players".
 
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VolTenn25 said:
Because Danny hired her for that system yall want her to change so badly. That’s why he brought her here. Yall are so toxic & trigger happy that you can’t see the facts. Everyone was so on her ass this season for “not taking accountability” well she did a few times & then again tonight. Yall BVS weirdos still aren’t satisfied. Why would she completely change a system that had worked so well for her until this exact season? Tweaks need to be done in any system, but yall thinking she’s just gonna abandon what got her here is ignorant
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Her “system” was consistently being beat. And who can really say it worked for her last season? She doesn’t even in-game coach. Case in point? OK game. While she does huddle for several seconds during a review late in the game (believe it was the flagrant call on Beers), the majority of the time she was gawking at the big screen. Meanwhile, Baranczyk has her 5 on the floor around her and even motions to 3 bench players to get closer, showing them something on the clip/play board. That’s in game coaching and using any “unofficial” timeout to advantage.

As you said, systems need to be tweaked but honestly, when did she ever “tweak” it during the season? Maybe once, against Mizzou I believe? If the players stay or leave, either choice is a vote (by the players, not the weird BVS fans) about how they feel about her system.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
When she said she was sticking with her system. The hockey subbing, the all out press, the only man to man defense, players that can't shoot taking threes. I was hoping she would get the call that she was fired. Guess were all going to have to suffer with her cause she is going to need talent so high to make that system work don't think were going to be able to get there.
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Reminder. This years team was the 2nd highest recruiting class in the country. These were her choices, her players, hand selected and highly paid. Chosen to run HER system. She may survive into a third year but her time on Rocky Top is effectively over.
 
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Volle said:
Anyone think she might leave on her own volition? Or is her contract here too fat to walk away? This is only going to get uglier, seems like she would want a reset at another place.
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She's steadfast in her system. But come on anyone in there right mind isn't walking away from millions. She not stupid just not a very good power 4 coach with the silly subbing.
 
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glv98 said:
Coops initial reaction: You win some, you lose some. Literally said that.
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That seems to sum up the entire mentality of this year’s team. It doesn’t seem like anyone had any fire or competitive spirit in the games. My guess is there was a lot strife in the locker room, probably due to NIL, and Kim had no idea how to handle it. It festered and spread like an uncontrolled virus because everyone felt she didn’t support their viewpoint.
 
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DDavis said:
She is the the worst coach in the SEC bar none. Her system will never work in D1
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Wow. That’s a nice original statement you’ve concocted there. So glad you took the time to say it & add nothing new to this conversation. 😒
 
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Volstylexx said:
Reminder. This years team was the 2nd highest recruiting class in the country. These were her choices, her players, hand selected and highly paid. Chosen to run HER system. She may survive into a third year but her time on Rocky Top is effectively over.
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Yes, she signed these players. Did she get everyone she wanted ? Would Chavez or Galvan been a better fit than Mia ? They have now been in her system for one year. Is that enough time to grade a recruiting class ? Sure if you are talking about Sarah Strong, Chavez, Joyce Edwards, and hopefully Big O' next year. But we didn't get that level of talent. How many of these players would have received any significant playing time at SC, Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky or even Vanderbilt ? But she has to keep it close at least !!!
 
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