Tennessee basketball seeks counter for big men
by Joel Hollingsworth on Feb 11, 2010 7:23 AM EST
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- J.P. Prince says that the Vols are taking too long to adjust when opponents stop their bread and butter offensive sets. There are always correlative weaknesses to a counter, but we're apparently slow to find and exploit them. Could that be one of the main reasons we're a notoriously slow-starting team? Maybe, but Bruce Pearl is focused on matchups, saying they struggle with size, athleticism, and balance:
We struggled against Georgia and Vanderbilt, with their big front lines, and we'll have a tough game with Kentucky because of the way they're built, too.
Kentucky's front line is bigger and better than Vandy's and consists of senior Patrick Patterson (6'9", 235), who's been good against Wayne Chism in the past, and freshman DeMarcus Cousins (6'11", 260), who's even better than Patterson. Conclusion: uh-oh. And yeah, the Orange Blazer could be looking at 0-4 this season. - Tennessee's not the only team that will be breaking in a new quarterback in 2010. In fact, with the exception of three teams from the West (Alabama, Arkansas, and LSU) and South Carolina, Nick Stephens is one of the most "experienced" QBs in the league.
- Did you know that two of the last three Thorpe Award winners won the Super Bowl the following year? Eric Berry knows.
- Dr. Saturday says that a new NCAA regulation that imposes on coaches-in-waiting the same limits on contact between recruits and head coaches may kill off the in-waiting concept altogether.
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I was thinking the same thing...
Our half-court offense for most of the year has been horrible. It’s basically swing it around the 3 point line, hope someone is open underneath and when all else fails just throw up a prayer…we’ve also GOT to start games better or our post-season will be very short..
by Solid Orange on Feb 11, 2010 11:52 AM EST up reply actions
I don't think the new rule change will kill the head-coach in waiting concept
it will just kill the “publicly named” head-coach in waiting concept. They’ll get named under the table.
I'm not very comforted by this quote:
“Ain’t nothing about it. It’s just one loss. You can’t look too much into it.”
Don’t you think they should look into the loss and try learn from it?
By his comments in the article...
he seems to be pointing out exactly what happened. To me, this would seem to indicate he is learning something from it. I think he’s saying you can’t dwell on the fact that they lost and let that get in your head.
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
Patterson is a junior
First time I shot her, shot her in the side.
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died...
You're right
I got that from GVX and didn’t fact check it, so thanks.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Feb 11, 2010 10:14 AM EST up reply actions
Is this the thread...
…where we denigrate our own basketball team for no apparent reason?
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
You mean extremely apparent reason
Or did you not watch Tuesday’s game?
I, contra Solid Orange, think that we’ve actually done better in the half-court set this year than we’ve ever done before, but it’s impossible to deny how slowly this team starts. This absolutely HAS to change, and soon.
by Incipient_Senescence on Feb 11, 2010 3:05 PM EST up reply actions
We're not running this year, and we're still scoring
Look at the Carolina game. Sure, it took forever to get things going, but for the last 30 minutes we played at a 100 point pace despite a fairly slow tempo. We have had a couple truly ugly half-court games, but compare this to past years, where every single game in which we were forced to play half-court was ugly and an almost sure loss.
by Incipient_Senescence on Feb 11, 2010 4:20 PM EST up reply actions
according to pomeroy
our offensive efficiency is the lowest it’s been in the bruce pearl era. is purely based on the # of points per possession and it’s adjusted according to the strength of our schedule.
2006: 117.5
2007: 118.1
2008: 117.1
2009: 115.0
2010: 108.1
i think it would be interesting to see the standard deviation
i would say this year it is pretty high. sometimes we have it clicking on offense, and other times, it’s downright miserable
But that's not what we're talking about
Pomeroy doesn’t measure half-court efficiency, it measures offensive efficiency. When you take into account how down our transition scoring is, my guess is that the half-court numbers would actually be better.
I would agree that the standard deviation is probably crazy high.
by Incipient_Senescence on Feb 11, 2010 6:52 PM EST up reply actions
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