We need a couple of players who can score...Nope... We need,,,

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governmentmule said:
i don't understand why there passing on the wide open shots,as long as Russell is in position to rebound :)
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Purely mental gov... If I don't have permission to fail, I don't have permission to succeed.

One of my favorite sayings for my girls is... "There's no thinking inside the arc when playing basketball"

You can think and plan before you cross mid-court. Once you cross mid-court you better have a developing plan. This goes for all entry-variations... Passing, assisting, dribbling and shooting... If you have to think in side the arc, it is death.

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A boxer was once asked how he knew when to hang it up, he said "because I saw an opening". The interviewer didn't understand. The boxer explained, "If I see it, it is too late to do anything about it. In my peak i would have hit that opening long before I see it.

This is true in BB too. By the time you see an open look, it is almost always starting to close at that exact moment. You have to see it develop.

If I dribble in and have a wide open look, but my thought is "If I miss, it will come back at me"... You mentally are not prepared to shoot. Shooters have to sense that every next shot is going in. And that they have permission to pull the trigger (And they have to know the difference between a good look and forcing the shot.... This is a standard for as long as I have been involved with the game. Even if your post is in position to rebound, you can't control the direction or distance of a rebound on a jumper. So even if Merc is under the basket, she may not be anywhere near the RB.
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
This demenstrates that with better coaching to eliminate these turnovers, the team would have won at least 4 more, if not more, games last year and would have had a better seeding in the NCAA. Trying to force inside, throwing the ball behind players, and not using the bounce pass can be corrected by good coaching.

In addition, our inside players seldom use the board for shots inside 6 feet. A bank shot is much easier to shoot, more difficult to block and if missed is easier to get an offensive rebound. Just some of the basics of basketball which we have not seen in the last few years.
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I have a drill (called Tim Duncan) where I let the player stand at the second hash-mark from baseline and shoot ten shots on rim and then show them how to use the BB for the same shot... Consistently, the bank goes in much more than the net shot. All I have to tell them is two things... The ball must hit the backboard on the downward arc of the shot and make sure you are shooting from the same spot to keep is geometrically the same from both sides of the paint. It is much easier to hit a spot that to drop it in a hole.
 
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Vols4us said:
They come to UT with a shooting touch. They don't even get noticed by colleges coaches if they can't score the ball. Once at UT they lose their shooting touch. This has been going on for more than a decade. The common denominator = Holly. She chooses to use many of the same training/development methods as Pat - which is all she knows. Which is why she wants to hire an assistant coach that can bring different things to the table.
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This belongs as its own thread V4u.... the first sentence tells all.

They wouldn't even be here if they weren't already proficient scorers. You go to HS to learn. You go to college to learn more.

As assistant to fill that niche is exactly what is needed.
My wonder is, will they try to make Coach Reaves that niche coach?
 
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We have amnesia shooters....They use to score in HS, but here, the net scares them...

At the core of the bad shooting has been the constant harping of HW, "no quick shots and get the ball inside"...I get sick of hearing it in here interviews, can you imagine how many times she says it in practice.

She does not even know what she has done to them. I'm no fan of hers.
 
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GameTime said:
We have amnesia shooters....They use to score in HS, but here, the net scares them...

At the core of the bad shooting has been the constant harping of HW, "no quick shots and get the ball inside"...I get sick of hearing it in here interviews, can you imagine how many times she says it in practice.

She does not even know what she has done to them. I'm no fan of hers.
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As long as she is at the helm, we have to spend half our time critiquing her and half our time supporting her. What she does this year WILL determine her fate. Of this I have no doubt.

Going from lifelong assistant to HC can be overwhelming. You spend all that time thinking of what you would have done differently and when you get the chance, bang.... You try to do it all.

It happened to me on the AAU circuit. My first year or two with the Pistols as a HC gave me severe doses of humility. I had to learn how to work the refs, designate duties to those who assisted me, let go of certain things, not carry losses to bed with me, etccccccccc..... Hopefully Holly has picked up these things in her first few seasons.
 
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None of us know what the players say to each other. For all we know, Diamond and/or Te'a congratulated their teammates personally instead of broadcasting on social media

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DD and Coop, I am sure are cool with their TMs..... They and Merc and Kumera all hail from GA. As do I... It is nothing like Tennessee in ways and means and the reverse is most definite. And Georgia basketball is nothing like TN BB.. . I am from there and I have been her four years. We run our offense through the best passer. TN runs it through their best dribbler. thats why people say DD is showing off, no she is playing the way she was taught, to use scoring moves and skills while Middlebrook can, when she has her head straight, can probably school DD with the handle.


UT has a team that is very unique in the recent run of UT Lady VOLs.... It is unlike (maybe) anything Holly "or Pat" have seen (Feel free to dig it up... I'd love to know if I am wrong) :whistling:

But, with the addition of Kumera and the loss of Basha, we now have two Tennessee girls the roster. Meme and Alexa ...
 
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cwbytruckers said:
I'm completely lost by this
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Think about it Cowboy. I don't know if you were an out of state scholarshipper, but if you went to another state, wouldn't you expect every event to be unique to that area of geography?... It is true on the way the sport is played and taught to.

I run a Point-Forward offense with a passing forward on the hi-post. When the ball goes into the post she can hit the give n go, hit the trailer, kick out to the other-side-arc SG, Feed the low post on a pivot, or either 1. Power-drive left or fade right....

Does this sound like TN BB to you?
 
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Coach Jumper said:
Think about it Cowboy. I don't know if you were an out of state scholarshipper, but if you went to another state, wouldn't you expect every event to be unique to that area of geography?... It is true on the way the sport is played and taught to.

I run a Point-Forward offense with a passing forward on the hi-post. When the ball goes into the post she can hit the give n go, hit the trailer, kick out to the other-side-arc SG, Feed the low post on a pivot, or either 1. Power-drive left or fade right....

Does this sound like TN BB to you?
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No this sounds like Tennessee basketball. Dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble hail murry
 
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bobkitten said:
I believe Merc is from Oregon but Draya is from Georgia.
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Not the only detail I flubbed. If I had done some simple research I would have readily seen that this team is very much like the teams of years past.

I have been a "long distance" fan of the lady vols since I can remember, but it is only since I have moved here that I have really began to fully try to understand, learn about and somehow be personally involved with this team.


I guess I got caught up in thinking i had figured a different angle. but my heart was right. Thanks for keeping me in line guys... :bash:

Since moving here I have seen almost as many games as I have in the many years of following them. I only saw them sporadically in person while in Atlanta, Texas, and Florida.

Now that I am here, I want to somehow get involved. Not just go see em, and complain or celebrate their ups and downs, but fully experience this truly talented group of girls. And I will, ultimately.
 
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Congrats on the non-firewater life! I'm right there with ya now. Even one little ole case of beer kills me now... :)


nah, I can't even handle one beer anymore without feeling like crap. terrible!
 
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Coach Jumper: "When you speak to a female gender"

On how many different fronts is that an offensive statement ???
 
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