Same way as the close your account button, give it a try. This is a Uconn board you are welcome to post but the gloves are off when it comes to your beloved and flawed Lady Vols.
I actually think one of Geno's real strengths and one of Pat's real weaknesses was in the difference in recruiting philosophy. Geno has almost always been very selective in the players he recruits, making sure they fit his system and team concepts, and that there is not a log jam at any position. Pat always seemed to me to just recruit talent regardless of style or team make-up so she often ended up with too many forwards centers and not enough guards.
Bingo and the problem persists today. Pat said get me bigs who can rebound and put back. Geno said you can never have enough guards, who do you think gets the ball to where it needs to go!
Holly listened to Pat! LOL
More like 'your job is to collect all the misses from these really ill advised shots I am going to be taking.'. Looks sort of like the pre game shoot around where guards are bombing away and bigs are standing under the basket retrieving the balls and feeding them back out.
They don't realize it because they keep landing top level recruits. Like it or not, it was Holly who landed Russell. I'm unimpressed with their 2014 class, even tho some of their fans hail Nared as a star with as much potential as Russell (albeit a different type of player). And it was Holly who managed to get into Wilson's final 4. IF they miss out on A'ja, a LOT will depend on how they fare in 2015.
some fan you are
And it was down by about 7 rebounds going into TN's late surge.
Sorry if you took that the wrong way - Chiney was a monster in that game and was tough as nails and I agree a lot of the shots were highly contested, but they were all of the 3' lay-up variety and not jump shots. And I agree that she is filling a needed role in that the other height that Tara has plays better away from the basket for the most part. (I though Ruef had a great game by the way and showed more toughness than I expected around the basket. And the announcers (and refs) totally missed the close-line style box out she suffered on one rebound where she was decked - saying she 'lost her footing'.) What I do think though is that if Chiney took and made a few foul line jumpers in a game like yesterday, forcing the defense to guard her closely there, it would open up the lane for her drives and other cutters. Something her sister and players like Tina and Stef added to their games in college and made them even better.
I don't think regressed, rather not progressed - the indiscipline that you sort of expect from freshman has never been controlled. To be fair - TN coaching during her 3+ years has been a mess ... Pat's last real year, the three headed monster her sophomore year, and Holly's first year after the official retirement - not conducive to a players development.
Ucmiami is far from an LV apologist. I thought his possible reasons for Simmons lack of development makes some sense. I don't see another program that lost it's coach to a horrible disease in the manner that they did.
Even the most ardent UTenn dislikers should be more measured in these types of assessment statements. Clearly the Vols are not near the level they were at from 1995-1998, but with a high ranking going into the close road loss, the team appears much better off than the 2008-09 team that couldn't ball with Ball State. A few of the more recent transitional Pat years were at minimum trying and at maximum a mess as far as team dynamics, which is understandable whether Vol fans fessed up about it or not. UTenn has not been an FF-type team since 2008, but at this point any regression is from the NC-appearance years and not from anything the team has done in recent times. For the UTenn to really regress under Holly, they would have to fall back to a UTexas level. I don't think they've done that yet, or are all that likely to do so for at least a few years.
Thank DD - I love seeing TN lose like yesterday and I can hate on them with the best. I just tend to try to be a little gentler with individual players, and can see the big picture. So ...
To be fair, Simmons was ranked 24 by HG. That seems a TAD low but she is barely one of the top 20 kids in her class. I also believe Tennessee landed her late and given all they landed before that was a very over-rated Avant, Simmons was a huge get for Pat at that time.