Who will be the player that stuns us?

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I say the door is open for all of em.

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Will 11 Diamond shine as bright as she (and I) think she will?
Will Dunbar 13 be the lights out shooter we need her to be.
Will GA girl, Kamera 5 be an immediate contributor?
Is it Meme 10's year to stun us with her Moriah Jefferson speed?
Will Alexa 33 become the combo guard that I think she will become?
Will Jaime 31 take it to the hoop right through a defender?
Is Shaquilla 4 going to blossom when she finally gets to play in the bigs?
Is Jordan 0 the missing ingredient?
Will Mercedes 21 get mad?......Finally!

My guess is it will be Shaquilla...I know the programs out in Alpharetta. She played with an AAU org called "FBC" that competed toe to toe with the Pistols.

I think she is going to blossom in this environment.
Second choice is A\M.
MIddleton sees how wide the door has opened.
I think she will jump at this opportunity to shine.
 

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Coach Jumper said:
I say the door is open for all of em.

http://www.volnation.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=122841&stc=1&d=1478215730

Will 11 Diamond shine as bright as she (and I) think she will?
Will Dunbar 13 be the lights out shooter we need her to be.
Will GA girl, Kamera 5 be an immediate contributor?
Is it Meme 10's year to stun us with her Moriah Jefferson speed?
Will Alexa 33 become the combo guard that I think she will become?
Will Jaime 31 take it to the hoop right through a defender?
Is Shaquilla 4 going to blossom when she finally get to play in the bigs?
Is Jordan 0 the missing ingredient?
Will Mercedes 21 get mad?......Finally!

My guess is it will be Shaquilla...I know the programs out in Alpharetta. She played with an AAU org called "FBC" that competed toe to toe with the Pistols.

I think she is going to blossom in this environment.
Second choice is A\M.
MIddleton sees how wide the door has opened.
I think she will jump at this opportunity to shine.
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Jordan Reynolds is the player on my radar who I think will stun me. Her words and demeanor this preseason has me thinking she means business. This her final season as a Lady Vol.

My thinking is her viewing of The L.A. Sparks championship should had given her a positive outlook on how an offensive point guard with her size should perform. If Reynolds took away Chelsea Gray's performance than I think she could be the best that she's ever been since her freshman season.

She would certainly stun ME if she plays the way I think she's capable of.

By the way, Jamie Nared and Mercedes Russell are a close 2nd in the stun department. :)
 
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0, Jordan Reynolds, 11, Diamond DeShields, 31, Jaime Nared, 4, Schaquilla Nunn, and 21, Mercedes Russell, with 33, Alexa Middleton 1st off the bench.
 
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Ladyvol777 said:
13, Kortney Dunbar, 11, Diamond DeShields, 31, Jaime Nared, 4, Schaquilla Nunn, and 21, Mercedes Russell, with 33, Alexa Middleton 1st off the bench.
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Not a line up!

Who is the player you think will perform above expectations?
 
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Coach Jumper said:
Not a line up!

Who is the player you think will perform above expectations?
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Meant to have 0, Jordan Reynolds, not Kortney Dunbar, These 5 will suprise everyone with there play, I'll pick 21, Mercedes Russell to be the #1 pick they she was in high school she looks to be much stronger then last year.
 
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Ladyvol777 said:
Meant to have 0, Jordan Reynolds, not Kortney Dunbar, These 5 will suprise everyone with there play, I'll pick 21, Mercedes Russell to be the #1 pick they she was in high school she looks to be much stronger then last year.
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I hope you're right.
I would love to see her play like she did in the playoffs, night in and night out.
 
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All of the returning Vols better be 20 percent better or we could be in for a long year. And we need Nunn and our three backups to be good too---especially on the offensive end. Nunn will be moving up in class. I foresee problems: Our outside shooting looks weak--and we have precious little depth. Harris, a true freshman who was not highly recruited, may have to play major minutes this year, and Dunbar, too--as who is going to spell Nunn and Russell when they get tired? Reynolds will have to carry a huge load. She has qualities but she's neither a natural point guard nor a shooting guard but rather a little of both. It is hard to overstate how disastrous our recruiting was last year--and the year before was bad, too, as we only signed two guards! We've signed one wing player in three years, got another (DD) via transfer. That's it. Warlick needs to find and sign a couple of scorers or the Vols will be in deep doo-doo in a year or two.
 
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armchair said:
All of the returning Vols better be 20 percent better or we could be in for a long year. And we need Nunn and our three backups to be good too---especially on the offensive end. Nunn will be moving up in class. I foresee problems: Our outside shooting looks weak--and we have precious little depth. Harris, a true freshman who was not highly recruited, may have to play major minutes this year, and Dunbar, too--as who is going to spell Nunn and Russell when they get tired? Reynolds will have to carry a huge load. She has qualities but she's neither a natural point guard nor a shooting guard but rather a little of both. It is hard to overstate how disastrous our recruiting was last year--and the year before was bad, too, as we only signed two guards! We've signed one wing player in three years, got another (DD) via transfer. That's it. Warlick needs to find and sign a couple of scorers or the Vols will be in deep doo-doo in a year or two.
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Yes, the truth hurts.

I feel that Nunn will play well and the others will feed off of her experience.

Tennessee must limit the offensive fouls. Teams know we are limited in numbers and will try and draw fouls.
 
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armchair said:
All of the returning Vols better be 20 percent better or we could be in for a long year...
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A 20% improvement isn't going to happen, forget that. The team shot 40.8% from the field last season. A more realistic goal is to improve that to 43-45%. The real problem though isn't the 40.8% which includes layups and five-footers, it's the shooting from 15 feet and out that was so awful. The team shot 25% from the three-point line. That needs to improve to 33%. If they can get the turnovers down to 12-14 per game coupled with the shooting improvements, they can squeeze out 8-10 more points a game.
 
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armchair said:
..Reynolds will have to carry a huge load. She has qualities but she's neither a natural point guard nor a shooting guard but rather a little of both...
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I have wondered for years what the fascination is on the part of LV coaches with combo guards. A combo guard is a nice addition as your first sub off the bench - she can sub for either the one or two position, but your two starters need to be a natural point guard and a shooter.
 
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LVJeff said:
I have wondered for years what the fascination is on the part of LV coaches with combo guards. A combo guard is a nice addition as your first sub off the bench - she can sub for either the one or two position, but your two starters need to be a natural point guard and a shooter.
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I couldn't agree with you more. I think the player I think is going to provide us with what we have been missing is Nunn! We haven't had a "Nasty" (I'm talking a mean, ferocious, don't take no crap) player imo since Nicky Anosike (I think Jasmine Jones had a lot of that in her but she never fully got to display it as Holly imo focused more on trying to play her on the wing than in the post). I would like to see that from our 6'6" Center but I think she is too much of a good girl! I think the last 3 post we brought in (Harris, Green, and Nunn) all have that and I can't wait to see it the next 3/4 years because I think that is what truly has been missing. I think Diamond, MeMe, and Te'a all have some of it but I think a player like Nunn is going to bring that out of them/the team.
 
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LVJeff said:
I have wondered for years what the fascination is on the part of LV coaches with combo guards. A combo guard is a nice addition as your first sub off the bench - she can sub for either the one or two position, but your two starters need to be a natural point guard and a shooter.
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It depends on the qualities of the combo guard. Kara Lawson and Alexis Hornbuckle are LV examples of combo guards that were excellent at either guard position, and they are probably the best LV guards in the past 20 years or so. Even Ariel Massengale was able to play some SG with some success (although that wasted her talents IMO). If you can have someone play either spot and not have a drop off in quality, then that is golden. UConn is another school that likes to load up combo guards.

The LVs last few guards (Reynolds and Carter) strike me more as tweeners than combo guards. They're not really a PG or SG, and didn't excel at either position.
 
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LVJeff said:
I have wondered for years what the fascination is on the part of LV coaches with combo guards. A combo guard is a nice addition as your first sub off the bench - she can sub for either the one or two position, but your two starters need to be a natural point guard and a shooter.
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I am forcing myself to learn as much on development of this position as I can. (While I : hate it!). I am a firm believer in five positions with defined parameters and responsibilities.

What has been lost in the winged offense is each player's ability to define their role. If you think about it, it has rolled over to the bench too. You don't hear the term 6th man as much anymore because multiple position players are of the norm now.

The teams that experience success on the top levels have five position players and 2-3 first-off-the benchers. As do the teams of the past lady vols. There are exceptions. But the rule seems to be, five position players take you deeper.

The newer wing-offense has more of feel of a C a PF and 3 SF's, each with their innate position-skills.
 
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Coach Jumper said:
I am forcing myself to learn as much on development of this position as I can. (While I : hate it!). I am a firm believer in five positions with defined parameters and responsibilities.
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I sense you are too young to be a dinosaur but you just labeled yourself as one regarding the future of WBB

Mercedes will be the one who shines consistently this season, IMO
 
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PointGuard said:
I sense you are too young to be a dinosaur but you just labeled yourself as one regarding the future of WBB

Mercedes will be the one who shines consistently this season, IMO
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Mercedes needs a go-to move with a complimentary alter-move. I would teach her the sky-hook (pivot left) and the reverse pivot fadeaway (right pivot). That way she can pivot either way with go to moves each way.

True I am a traditionalist in my offense. But by no means am I prehistoric in my game. A coach can nil afford to be one-focused on offense. If I have three towers in the post, it dictates my offense just the same as if I had nine great guards and a weak post, or only had nine to play with. Each situation dictates change in both offense and defense. Press ALL game with nine and you will finish with maybe 5-6. Can't play a "throw it to the post" game if you don't have a tree in there.

All I am saying is if i can run a traditional offense and win with it, I enjoy it because it allows me to mold players for tasks. Right now it seems that the coaches put them in wihtout a directive as to what they want out of them and "hope" they will be the causation of change.
 
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I hope we're stunned by either Reynolds or Middleton having developed into a stellar PG over the summer. We've been missing that since Bobbitt.
 
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FrozenLVFan said:
I hope we're stunned by either Reynolds or Middleton having developed into a stellar PG over the summer. We've been missing that since Bobbitt.
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Middleton is on my watch list. SHe has the credentials, Mc D AA, 3-pt shooting champion, skills champ... And her work ethic is off the chart.

Look for things out of her.
 
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