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She had a bad matchup and she didn't look like she had the normal Rory energy tonight. It's been a long 2 weeks of tough games so it might have caught up to her given how much she put into the other games. She'll be back with vengeance if we face them again.

She wasn't guarding Galvan outside of a few switches. It was Lee getting juked by her and Blakes owning Rory. Just weird we matched up like that.

I'm disappointed in that performance. I don't think Vic and the coaching staff did a good job preparing the team for the game. We made some adjustments at half to spread it out and go inside to success but starting the game we had bad matchups on defense. Putting Rory on Blakes and Lee on Galvan didn't make sense to be me and they took advantage. It would have been better to put Lee on Blakes and Rory on Galvan give then the size and quickness matching up much better. We stayed that way much longer than we should. Later Preston and Maddie guarding the 2 stars with Sidberry playing PF was better in the second half but the damage had already been done. Also the refs were vastly favoring Vandy. They had 3x the FT we had which was ridiculous. Blakes and Galvan are special players but we didn't play like Texas today. We never really recovered from their first punch out of the gate. The attention to detail on defense and the focus on offense was not there at all in the 1st half. Way too many open shots and missed bunnies which is very unlike us. Rory looked tired today. It's been a tough schedule the last 2 weeks so just chalk it up to a bad game. We can beat them in a rematch on a neutral site.

Great win! We didn't get sped up this time around and Booker got going way earlier. Rory was a beast on defense tonight. She was determined and super focused. Matching her up with Williams was a key to winning this game. With Crump back, we can win some of these games Jordan Lee goes invisible. Lee better watch out because if she keeps struggling, Crump is going to take her starting spot. Imagine if Lee and Crump were both hitting shots. We'd be pretty unstoppable. Sidberry played really well in the 2nd half. She needs to move head of Judd on the depth chart.

Jeff you've pretty much summarized how the team has consistently played in the SEC schedule and what we should expect the rest of the year. It's matchup dependent to an extent but this team lives and dies by Swain shooting efficiently and Mark not having an off night. Matas will be in foul trouble (minus a bad game plan by the opponent not to attack him) every game and Pope will be invisible 50% of the time. We just got to hope that these hot nights by Pope or Heide pop up at the right times. That said, we look like we're tournament bound which is more than I could say a month ago which speaks to the job Miller has been doing of late.

Crump ultimately will replace Booker when she leaves and flourish but she'll start for Carlton when we play small ball and sub for Booker/Lee. The only other way for her is to beat Jordan Lee out of her spot and I don't see that happening.

Those 2 look like they have potential but Bjorn is better and there's no way Vic is going 13 deep. I think he'll go 9 max and he favors experience most of the time. The talent is immense though. A good problem to have.

There's been so many TV shows to date. Top 50 for me. Michael J Fox is a Top 15 sitcom lead though for me.

The scoring options next year are going to be incredible in the starting lineup and off the bench. Can you imagine: Starting 5 Booker Lee Carlton Preston Bjorn Bench Crump Crittendon Cunningham Spaight And that's not including any transfers. Everyone of these women can score efficiently and will put crazy pressure on the opponent's defense. You add Vic's defense and that's a championship looking team if I've seen one.

Most interested in seeing if Lee can get back on track. She’s been slumping the last few games now and we will not contend for a chip without her playing well with confidence. Also, I want to see Crump get integrated more into the offense off the bench.

CJ any news on offensive analyst hirings? I feel Sark could still use a few more eyes and data to help him game plan and understand our team better at times.

What I loved - Recruiting/Portal coverage, Tony Hills/Marcus Myers analysis, Watch with us, Lunch with Coach, Tailgates, guests from opponent's media, CJ's growth as a reporter and critic, Matt's added production What could improve or I could do without - Some redundancy in the shows (might be purposeful but just repetitive for folks that watch all the content), Grades shows Overall A+ as usual.

I disagree that he's not athletic, but yes there will be more athletic defenders that will give him problems. His issue is he's strong but he doesn't know how to use that strength with good footwork. His footwork is awful right now. That's why he travels so much when he throws his shoulder into the chest of the defender. If he just worked on mastering a strong drop step, he would be so much more dangerous. Same goes for defense. His footwork is just awful and always puts him in a bad position which usually results in a foul. He's still got a lot of development to undergo.

The Kentucky guy had a couple blocks on him but there were a number of times he had the guy pinned down or had the jump hook and just missed some easy shots. You have convert on those or draw a foul when you have the position which he did neither.

Once again defending the pick and roll killed us. We probably had 15+ fouls that results from trying to defend the PnR with Matas/Traore and Pope/Wilcher. Simeon Wilcher's +/- has got to be awful this season. He's a liability on defense and hasn't scored much for this team. I get Heide was sick but playing Wilcher a lot of minutes is not a recipe for success. Matas has to capitalize on some of those bunnies he missed in the 2nd half. That was the difference in the game. Swain was great but Pope was gun shy all night.

Miller didn't have the guys prepared well tonight. The zone completely slowed our offense down and at times the guys looked confused as to what to do and didn't even run an offensive set again it. Not going to win many games in the SEC scoring 70 points. Also I felt Miller maybe a pretty huge rotational mistake in the last 12 minutes of the game playing Heide and Welcher over Kendall Weaver more. Both guys were giving up buckets every time down the court when A&M ran pick and roll with them and Matas' man. Plus, they didn't contribute much on offense (which I think was why Miller chose to play them since we were down and needed buckets) at all so we were getting burned on both ends with them in the game. Either those 2 guys need to start getting ALOT better on defense or start hitting more outside shots or Miller needs to sit them more. In the end, the A&M guys made some tough shots to win but our roster should have scored much more than 70 pts against that team.

That would be *chef's kiss*

Should add Roschon to that list as well. The days of feel good development/loyalty stories are gone. Another good talking point would be the diminishing value culture has in regards to retention. If 30-40% of the roster is replaced every year, will Sark's team culture be cohesive enough in time to avoid 3 losses each season.

The women look tense and uncomfortable. LSU's affecting them even running their normal offensive sets. Hopefully they'll come with even more physicality soon but we're in foul trouble right now.

This is a big one! Let's go!

I guess Sean Miller finally got the guys to stop "walking across the street". LOL Good win. They were much more athletic on defense tonight especially with blocks and Pope and Mark show lights out. Hope they can build off this win and keep getting better.

Sure must be nice to be able to run up the middle on 3rd or 4th and short like Indiana and Miami do for first downs. Makes life much easier for the playcallers. Hopefully we can get there next year.

I think it's very possible that we underestimated regional pull for the players or even missing the playoffs this year. Allieggro and Peak stayed generally in the same region. The rest of the players stayed with their said team. Money has played a bigger role in retention than it has in acquisition which is something to note as well.

It's not the WR that's concerning as much as not getting the elite OL or LB in the portal which are arguably our 2 biggest needs. Either we have been pretty unlucky with targets or there is something else going on we aren't talking about. I'm not quite sure yet.

True but the cream of the crop will be gone in 2 weeks. We'll just be filling bodies after that.