So when the score was 16-2, I texted my Brother and said....

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cncchris33 said:
This. If Tennessee is capable of a 16-2 run to open the game, then Zona is capable of the same at any other point. It's why you never get comfortable with a lead and take your foot off the gas, especially early.
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Maybe a better racing metaphor would be that when your opponent finds their groove and starts making up time on you, you have to adjust and find a new groove. Both tactically and individually, basketball is a 40-minute chess match of adjustments and countermoves.

When your opponent makes a catch-up run, timing is key because they are going to be winded and spent after that effort. I think the key to the Arizona win was when we ended the first half with our own mini-run to re-stock our lead a bit. Arizona had made their run at the perfect time, when halftime would have allowed them to fully recover with no penalty.
 
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savannahfan said:
I think it would be impossible to maintain the pace they had for the first say 15 minutes. What it did however, was cause a better (I think) team to work extra hard and foul lots to get back in the game. I guess what I am saying is the early investment payed lots of interest as Az. burned much of it's reserve trying to recover.
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Drawing fouls was certainly a strategy which is why Fulkerson should be credited with a triple double lol
 
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morristown vol said:
I just hope this team continues to get better as the year goes on.Last year we peaked to early.
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Yeah, like January 16th when we beat Vandy by 20, then got blown out at Florida. All down hill from there. It seems to me that Barnes is developing a tendency to run the offense with primarily two options: drive it and attempt layup or kick it out and try a 3. And these last two teams have been streaky shooting and many might say less than good outside shots. Both of the last two teams tend to go thru big stretches of time with no buckets. What seems strange to me is to not have a third option......why not have a mid-range jump shot game for when we cannot get to the rim because of their bigs and aren't hitting the 3? I'd like to hear anyones thoughts on why this is not tried much. Not just with us, but many programs have seemed to abandon the "middle game". I understand the analytics of why the 3 is so powerful, but when it won't fall, and you can't overpower in the paint, you need another choice.
 
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This was the type of close game we have traditionally lost in the past. I’m proud they battled and pulled it out at the end. I’m hoping Fulky can bring that same energy every single night.
 
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Woodlawn VOL said:
Games against top teams rarely go without runs or lead changes. Sometimes big runs, actually what is rare is to see a team actually keep the lead the entire game. Your complaint really doesn’t make much sense. We jumped on them and they never got the freakin lead. Teams make runs in basketball, you act like coming back from being down in double digits has never been done. It actually highlights our ability to run the lead back out every time Arizona made a run, which was several times including the first half. That is what good teams like Arizona do, but our ability to take it right back out to double digits is the most impressive thing. We simply outplayed them and responded to every run. GBO!!!!
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You must have read a different thread. I was happy the team did so well. If I were to have complained, the entire direction of the thread would have been gloom and doom. I did have trepidations during the game but hey, what Vol fan didn't? We played a very solid team and they came back just as I had anticipated. But, we held on and I congratulated the team!! :)

A very Merry Christmas to all you Vol Fans far and wide.

Not-Negative in NC!!
 
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HiltonHeadVol said:
Yeah, like January 16th when we beat Vandy by 20, then got blown out at Florida. All down hill from there. It seems to me that Barnes is developing a tendency to run the offense with primarily two options: drive it and attempt layup or kick it out and try a 3. And these last two teams have been streaky shooting and many might say less than good outside shots. Both of the last two teams tend to go thru big stretches of time with no buckets. What seems strange to me is to not have a third option......why not have a mid-range jump shot game for when we cannot get to the rim because of their bigs and aren't hitting the 3? I'd like to hear anyones thoughts on why this is not tried much. Not just with us, but many programs have seemed to abandon the "middle game". I understand the analytics of why the 3 is so powerful, but when it won't fall, and you can't overpower in the paint, you need another choice.
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Analytics places a low percentage on the mid-range game. Shooting high numbers of 3’s or taking it to the rim is the game nowadays.
 
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HiltonHeadVol said:
Yeah, like January 16th when we beat Vandy by 20, then got blown out at Florida. All down hill from there. It seems to me that Barnes is developing a tendency to run the offense with primarily two options: drive it and attempt layup or kick it out and try a 3. And these last two teams have been streaky shooting and many might say less than good outside shots. Both of the last two teams tend to go thru big stretches of time with no buckets. What seems strange to me is to not have a third option......why not have a mid-range jump shot game for when we cannot get to the rim because of their bigs and aren't hitting the 3? I'd like to hear anyones thoughts on why this is not tried much. Not just with us, but many programs have seemed to abandon the "middle game". I understand the analytics of why the 3 is so powerful, but when it won't fall, and you can't overpower in the paint, you need another choice.
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We actually had one of the higher percentage of midrange shots in the country last year. If our guys can’t shoot well from 3, they usually aren’t making midrange either (see Chandler). Exception would be our bigs; I think Nkamhoua and Fulk could maybe take a few more midrange shots if they were wide open.

Source on the midrange:
Tennessee is obsessed with the mid-range jumper. Is this a problem in 2021?
 
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HiltonHeadVol said:
Yeah, like January 16th when we beat Vandy by 20, then got blown out at Florida. All down hill from there. It seems to me that Barnes is developing a tendency to run the offense with primarily two options: drive it and attempt layup or kick it out and try a 3. And these last two teams have been streaky shooting and many might say less than good outside shots. Both of the last two teams tend to go thru big stretches of time with no buckets. What seems strange to me is to not have a third option......why not have a mid-range jump shot game for when we cannot get to the rim because of their bigs and aren't hitting the 3? I'd like to hear anyones thoughts on why this is not tried much. Not just with us, but many programs have seemed to abandon the "middle game". I understand the analytics of why the 3 is so powerful, but when it won't fall, and you can't overpower in the paint, you need another choice.
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I thought the two freshman started thinking about the draft and quit playing good team ball.This team has a chance to go far.Fulky and James will lead the way and the talented freshman will follow.This team could make a deep run if they keep improving.
 
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Arizona was too talented of a team to lie down. It would take an unreal shooting night from 3 to blow that team out
 
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The defense was stifling in the first 5 minutes, almost perfect. Not possible to sustain that for 40 minutes.
 
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