The Kim Caldwell System

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Yup. It was a challenge and I had to learn some new stuff. At one point, had Claude Chat explaining to me what Claude Code was telling me to do. Wild! I'm sure there's even more that could be done with this, but... Not today! And, I should add -- absolutely no data auditing done! Looks reasonable at this level, but... This is early development work. More a proof of concept. So, could be wrong.
 
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Yup. It was a challenge and I had to learn some new stuff. At one point, had Claude Chat explaining to me what Claude Code was telling me to do. Wild! I'm sure there's even more that could be done with this, but... Not today! And, I should add -- absolutely no data auditing done! Looks reasonable at this level, but... This is early development work. More a proof of concept. So, could be wrong.
Nerd… 🤓
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Thank you for seeking to broaden horizons at our forum! It’s almost like we knew the answers but seeking confirmation is the brass tacks of the business. Almost like the staff is leaning into current results as opposed to a theoretical construct.

PPP down but trending up…
 
Yep, talent is innate, a natural ability you were born with, that's why you see a lot of pros offspring's e.g. Manning's the Curry's etc.. Skill is a learned ability, learned through practice and repetitions. I never followed Wolfenbarger or any girls HS players but some could be overrated by services for a number of different reasons. Might be she paid to go to certain camps that had a relationship with the services or even service was the owner of the camp. Their campers get an extra star for obvious reasons or she may have played in an area with inferior talent and out sized them and put up big numbers, along with her height getting her over starred.
We miss a lot of shot in the lane, either by blocked shots, or jsut poor shooting. Seldom do we use the board up close and using the board is the most accurate shot. Our bigs seem just throw up the ball and pray. there are skills on how to shot around the basket. Our bigs don'y use them very much. Another tree I don't like is the big ,standing around the basket, bounce the ball and often have it stolen. Don't bounce the ball unless you are gaining better position closer top the basket.
 
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We miss a lot of shot in the lane, either by blocked shots, or jsut poor shooting. Seldom do we use the board up close and using the board is the most accurate shot. Our bigs seem just throw up the ball and pray. there are skills on how to shot around the basket. Our bigs don'y use them very much. Another tree I don't like is the big ,standing around the basket, bounce the ball and often have it stolen. Don't bounce the ball unless you are gaining better position closer top the basket.
That's always been a frustrating thing with me to. Not a good BB player myself but even my HS coach taught us to use the white square behind the basket for layups. Apparently that is not taught anymore.
 
Bucky McMillan bringing the CKC system to the men’s SEC. It’s working…
Yep, they’re calling it Bucky Ball, while I was watching my Razorbacks beat up on Vanderbilt the other night, the announcers were talking about it and I yelled, “That’s Kim’s system” 😂 It’s definitely being talked about on the men’s side, and working well for Texas A&M!
 
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Yup. It was a challenge and I had to learn some new stuff. At one point, had Claude Chat explaining to me what Claude Code was telling me to do. Wild! I'm sure there's even more that could be done with this, but... Not today! And, I should add -- absolutely no data auditing done! Looks reasonable at this level, but... This is early development work. More a proof of concept. So, could be wrong.
@RetroVol

I'm not sure what the definition of "plays" is on that chart, but dividing the number of plays by game(s) played produces some weird numbers, like 625 plays per game for this year.

In any event, we all know what the definition of possessions is and according to that chart the following occurs:

2025-26: 1,219 possessions/16 games equals 76 possessions per game
2024-25: 3,068 possessions/34 games equals 90 possessions per game

Maybe the possession numbers are correct, they just seem off. The total plays numbers seem really off. I'm no expert so maybe I'm just slow on this stuff.

Thx for the research and study, as always keep up the good work.
 
@RetroVol

I'm not sure what the definition of "plays" is on that chart, but dividing the number of plays by game(s) played produces some weird numbers, like 625 plays per game for this year.

In any event, we all know what the definition of possessions is and according to that chart the following occurs:

2025-26: 1,219 possessions/16 games equals 76 possessions per game
2024-25: 3,068 possessions/34 games equals 90 possessions per game

Maybe the possession numbers are correct, they just seem off. The total plays numbers seem really off. I'm no expert so maybe I'm just slow on this stuff.

Thx for the research and study, as always keep up the good work.
Perfect! Great points. Like I said, no data auditing. But I did get the sense that my final prompts focus the AI on the time to first shot question, rather than the broader set of questions I had begun with. I admit I probably should have checked more before putting up here, but it was just something I was playing with to see what was possible and I was impressed. I had to learn stuff to do it, and I like learning new things, so I may go back and do some checking on it and see if I can improve it. Your comments will really help with that.
 
Perfect! Great points. Like I said, no data auditing. But I did get the sense that my final prompts focus the AI on the time to first shot question, rather than the broader set of questions I had begun with. I admit I probably should have checked more before putting up here, but it was just something I was playing with to see what was possible and I was impressed. I had to learn stuff to do it, and I like learning new things, so I may go back and do some checking on it and see if I can improve it. Your comments will really help with that.
Retro, I would be curious what the difference is this year in the LV’s effective FG% as compared to last season. I don’t know how to do that calculation but I am sure you could tease it out of AI now that you have some experience playing around with it. I would suspect that since they are taking a bit longer to take shots it may be higher this year in spite of the points per game being down.
 
Retro, I would be curious what the difference is this year in the LV’s effective FG% as compared to last season. I don’t know how to do that calculation but I am sure you could tease it out of AI now that you have some experience playing around with it. I would suspect that since they are taking a bit longer to take shots it may be higher this year in spite of the points per game being down.
Umm... Let's make sure I understand "effective FG%".
 
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This year Effective Field Goal % 48.7%
Last year Effective Field Goal % 50.7%
I think last years team was a little more consistent from game to game. They seldom shot it awesome and seldom got down in the low percentages either. This year the team can shoot 51 or higher one game 80 percent from the foul line then the next fall to 34 percent and 44 from the line. Very inconsistent offense from game to game that is where we hope to get better as the season progresses.
 
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We have a calculator that determines how efficient a player is shooting the ball. True shooting efficiency. Mia Pauldo comes in at 55.83 percent which the calculator rates as average efficiency.

Barker comes in at 57.81 which they say is Good efficiency.

Cooper comes in at 50.0 percent which is rated average efficiency. I was surprised to see she has only shot 25 free throws compared to Barker's 77. Cooper should be getting to the line more.

Spearman comes in at 47.75 which they rate as below average.

So we see that Cooper and Spearman need to pick it up among the big four that do most of the shooting thus far.
 
This team may be a small step back offensively from last year but this year’s team is MUCH better defensively. And that’s why they’re having more success in SEC play.

You have good instincts. Our current Defense Rating is better than any season since the 2010-2011 season. That was the 3-loss Strickland, Simmons, Johnson season - a Natty contender.
 
You have good instincts. Our current Defense Rating is better than any season since the 2010-2011 season. That was the 3-loss Strickland, Simmons, Johnson season - a Natty contender.
For context, this is against mostly the lower end of our schedule. Let’s revisit and compare in a couple of weeks
 
For context, this is against mostly the lower end of our schedule. Let’s revisit and compare in a couple of weeks
I agree but look how much better we're playing against teams we should beat. The infusion of the freshman settling in with there defense now verses the cupcakes is very noticeable. Beat Ole Miss then food City center will be rocking the rest of the year no matter what happens in Connecticut. Prawl and Civil are much better defenders than our guards last year. There not as strong offensive But there growing fast.
 
I agree but look how much better we're playing against teams we should beat. The infusion of the freshman settling in with there defense now verses the cupcakes is very noticeable. Beat Ole Miss then food City center will be rocking the rest of the year no matter what happens in Connecticut. Prawl and Civil are much better defenders than our guards last year. There not as strong offensive But there growing fast.
If the LVs beat Ole Miss, I'm ready to be a believer. Not that they'll win the league or anything but that they're capable of making a decent run at something . Esp if CKC stays reasonable about subbing, etc.

Its about to get brutal but I think they're much better equipped now to be competitive in those games. I think they'll win at least one of them.

Biggest worry is either injury or dead legs like last yr.
 
This🤙! A lot of the naysayers that said it couldn’t be done have moved the goalposts once again after the LVs just beat ranked SEC teams back to back!
One even made the silly remark that beating Ole Miss is now the standard to make them a believer (a team Tennessee has beaten on a regular basis) and that we still aren’t going to win the league.
That’s comical.
The Lady Vols have as good a chance as any team to win the SEC regardless of a game against Ole Miss.
You have good instincts. Our current Defense Rating is better than any season since the 2010-2011 season. That was the 3-loss Strickland, Simmons, Johnson season - a Natty contender.
 

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