Lincoln Memorial at Tennessee Volunteers: open game thread

by Joel Hollingsworth on Nov 4, 2009 7:24 PM EST in Tennessee Volunteer Basketball

Quick and dirty version of the open game thread tonight. The opponent? Lincoln Memorial? Time? In eight minutes (7:30 EST). TV? Uh, don't think so.

So go here.

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it's on tv somewhere

cuz i’m watching it online, but it has bob kesling audio.

lincoln memorial are apparently the “rail splitters”. nice.

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by hal41605 on Nov 4, 2009 7:40 PM EST reply actions

I'm wondering if that's just the scoreboard video feed

Cuz they keep showing the kissing cam and stuff.

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by Joel Hollingsworth on Nov 4, 2009 8:33 PM EST up reply actions

ha

by golfballs03 on Nov 4, 2009 10:08 PM EST up reply actions

Wow

We started out down 9-7 and have outscored them 18-2 since.

by Incipient_Senescence on Nov 4, 2009 7:59 PM EST reply actions

Well, we haven't shot many threes

And have only made one. I’m glad we’re more ready to get inside, but I hope that can continue with success against bigger teams. We need at least the threat of 3 pt shooting. Also, the press is working, but will it work against D-I opponents? Also, Kenny Hall is really, really impressive.

by Incipient_Senescence on Nov 4, 2009 8:20 PM EST reply actions

Yeah, I like Hall a lot

He’s very tall and very wing-y.

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by Joel Hollingsworth on Nov 4, 2009 8:34 PM EST up reply actions

At half we've made 3 threes

The last two were by McBee. Shocker.

by Incipient_Senescence on Nov 4, 2009 8:30 PM EST reply actions

They're looking pretty good

Thought they got off to a slow start, but it’s good to see the press and a bunch of turnovers.

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by Joel Hollingsworth on Nov 4, 2009 8:34 PM EST reply actions

I was able to catch the first half live.

A couple of quick notes. One is that fouls in succession seem to mess up the team’s chemistry. It doesn’t even have to be fouls on Tennessee; that string of early fouls in the game was mostly on LMU, but UT had a hard time finding a rhythm until after the fouls settled down.

Two is that Bruce is quick to turn mistakes into teachable moments. Very early in the game, a UT player (Goins?) committed a technical. LMU was doing one of those OOB-to-OOB passes to try to break the press after UT had scored, and the UT player got too aggressive and contacted the second OOB player. As soon as it was called, Pearl turned around and made sure all the bench players knew what the rule was and that they needed to be careful about it.

by David Hooper on Nov 4, 2009 9:25 PM EST reply actions