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Str8_Butta
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| It's painful to watch this team, Holly needs to be on the first thing smoking out of here. How do you have DDD sitting all of that time? How is it the best shooter on your team hardly ever plays except for the end of the game when you needs 3's? Both of those players should be playing major minutes!
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| Posted: 02/26/16 1:23 pm ::: |
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| Str8_Butta wrote: |
| It's painful to watch this team, Holly needs to be on the first thing smoking out of here. How do you have DDD sitting all of that time? How is it the best shooter on your team hardly ever plays except for the end of the game when you needs 3's? Both of those players should be playing major minutes! |
DeShields and Dunbar can never get going because Holly is always, in Diamond's case, pulling her out and with Dunbar, only puts her in with a couple minutes to go! Players have to get a feel for the game, get warmed up, get loose. Warlick can never find a good lineup, she seems to choose at random and is always substituting, even when a player is hot!
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FrozenLVFan
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| Posted: 02/26/16 2:21 pm ::: |
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| DD is not the best shooter on the team, although she is the most shooter, as well as the most TO-prone, and one of the worst defenders. Putting her in the game to throw up a ton of shots results in giving up TO's and easy baskets. This team doesn't need more flash, they need better fundamentals, better ball movement, better defense, and more toughness.
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| Posted: 02/26/16 5:39 pm ::: |
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| DD is not the best shooter on the team, although she is the most shooter, as well as the most TO-prone, and one of the worst defenders. Putting her in the game to throw up a ton of shots results in giving up TO's and easy baskets. This team doesn't need more flash, they need better fundamentals, better ball movement, better defense, and more toughness. |
Totally agree with you. DD has potential but she makes lot TOs and her family has involved too much. If Holly stays she will have to go otherwise Holly will bench her all year.
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| Posted: 02/26/16 6:34 pm ::: |
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| DD is the most athletic player. That does not equate to best player, though she and her family apparently think so.
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| Posted: 02/26/16 9:19 pm ::: |
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| DD is the most athletic player. That does not equate to best player, though she and her family apparently think so. |
There is a lot going on with DD. If her family would butt out and leave her alone she could develop into a very good player. I've seen this kind of thing play out before. It's not easy to be the Golden Child, to be the focus of your parents' expectations (in this case I think it's her dad) and to try to live up to it all the time. I saw a difference in her body language when he was in the crowd, and it wasn't good. The Man says he doesn't think she's had a chance to really be herself, or to just *be*, which is a valid observation, IMO, given what I've seen in cases like this before. I think she's actually very insecure and there's a layer of bravado over the top of that.
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| Posted: 02/27/16 2:18 pm ::: |
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I just read the SI report on Tennessee and Dave Hart -- pretty damning. And Cheek doesn't look good either.
So any chance of either or both getting fired/"resigning"? Do the people in Tennessee take this seriously enough to demand action or is it like the North Carolina scandal, which seems to bother everyone but UNC?
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Generally speaking, nobody likes Jimmy the Cheek. Heartless Dave isn't too popular either, except among *some* football fans. But both serve at the pleasure of Gov. Bill Haslam, who, despite some questionable business dealings, remains fairly popular--Cheek pretty much directly, and Hart by Cheek's appointment. So getting rid of either is fairly unlikely, unfortunately, unless the voters get rid of Haslam, which doesn't seem likely either. Hart *could* be got rid of if there was enough of a groundswell, I think, but it hasn't built up yet.
It might behoove you to remember, Clay, that ESPN and SI by extension, have had kind of a mad on at Tennessee ever since their last crusade, spurred on by a fired English instructor, failed to get anywhere. So they'll take anything. Also, UT is but one of *124* (as of last July---I recently read the number has now increased to 169) colleges and universities facing sexual assault investigations. This is not to excuse UT but to point out that they are far from unique and that the problem may be far worse elsewhere. So keep that box of salt handy.
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| summertime blues wrote: |
Generally speaking, nobody likes Jimmy the Cheek. Heartless Dave isn't too popular either, except among *some* football fans. But both serve at the pleasure of Gov. Bill Haslam, who, despite some questionable business dealings, remains fairly popular--Cheek pretty much directly, and Hart by Cheek's appointment. So getting rid of either is fairly unlikely, unfortunately, unless the voters get rid of Haslam, which doesn't seem likely either. Hart *could* be got rid of if there was enough of a groundswell, I think, but it hasn't built up yet.
It might behoove you to remember, Clay, that ESPN and SI by extension, have had kind of a mad on at Tennessee ever since their last crusade, spurred on by a fired English instructor, failed to get anywhere. So they'll take anything. Also, UT is but one of *124* (as of last July---I recently read the number has now increased to 169) colleges and universities facing sexual assault investigations. This is not to excuse UT but to point out that they are far from unique and that the problem may be far worse elsewhere. So keep that box of salt handy. |
Good point ... but when you add the Title IX complaints to the sexual assaults you add some spice to the stew.
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| Posted: 02/28/16 3:26 pm ::: |
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| summertime blues wrote: |
Generally speaking, nobody likes Jimmy the Cheek. Heartless Dave isn't too popular either, except among *some* football fans. But both serve at the pleasure of Gov. Bill Haslam, who, despite some questionable business dealings, remains fairly popular--Cheek pretty much directly, and Hart by Cheek's appointment. So getting rid of either is fairly unlikely, unfortunately, unless the voters get rid of Haslam, which doesn't seem likely either. Hart *could* be got rid of if there was enough of a groundswell, I think, but it hasn't built up yet.
It might behoove you to remember, Clay, that ESPN and SI by extension, have had kind of a mad on at Tennessee ever since their last crusade, spurred on by a fired English instructor, failed to get anywhere. So they'll take anything. Also, UT is but one of *124* (as of last July---I recently read the number has now increased to 169) colleges and universities facing sexual assault investigations. This is not to excuse UT but to point out that they are far from unique and that the problem may be far worse elsewhere. So keep that box of salt handy. |
Good point ... but when you add the Title IX complaints to the sexual assaults you add some spice to the stew. |
The Title IX actions piggy back on top of a civil rights action by the plaintiffs and act as a way to get paid. They are all born from the assault allegations, regardless of the validity of any one particular allegation itself. If Plaintiffs lawyers would allow Title IX to work the way it should instead of figuring out how to personally profit from press clippings, the world would be a better place.
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| Posted: 02/28/16 3:37 pm ::: |
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| ClayK wrote: |
| summertime blues wrote: |
Generally speaking, nobody likes Jimmy the Cheek. Heartless Dave isn't too popular either, except among *some* football fans. But both serve at the pleasure of Gov. Bill Haslam, who, despite some questionable business dealings, remains fairly popular--Cheek pretty much directly, and Hart by Cheek's appointment. So getting rid of either is fairly unlikely, unfortunately, unless the voters get rid of Haslam, which doesn't seem likely either. Hart *could* be got rid of if there was enough of a groundswell, I think, but it hasn't built up yet.
It might behoove you to remember, Clay, that ESPN and SI by extension, have had kind of a mad on at Tennessee ever since their last crusade, spurred on by a fired English instructor, failed to get anywhere. So they'll take anything. Also, UT is but one of *124* (as of last July---I recently read the number has now increased to 169) colleges and universities facing sexual assault investigations. This is not to excuse UT but to point out that they are far from unique and that the problem may be far worse elsewhere. So keep that box of salt handy. |
Good point ... but when you add the Title IX complaints to the sexual assaults you add some spice to the stew. |
The Title IX actions piggy back on top of a civil rights action by the plaintiffs and act as a way to get paid. They are all born from the assault allegations, regardless of the validity of any one particular allegation itself. If Plaintiffs lawyers would allow Title IX to work the way it should instead of figuring out how to personally profit from press clippings, the world would be a better place. |
If you need any more proof that this is just a typical plaintiff's lawyer get rich quick scheme you need look no further than the paragraph about Peyton Manning.
The lawyer admits the suit has nothing to do with Manning and claims the Manning stuff is just two decade old "background." Classic publicity stunt. I guess it worked. Predictably the celebrity driven media lapped it up.
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