JJeff Injury Updates
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were you also in your early 20s, receiving daily treatment, multiple times a day, from D1 athletic trainers, with access to the best technology, during that entire year your ankle hurt after your severe ankle sprains?
Nope but that ain't shaving off 11 months of recovery though but I was in my 20s.
Travis left out much of what TJ shared. What I’m skeptical of is Travis’ reporting when doesn’t just say ‘TJ says he’s a Cyclone and looks forward to working with President Cook and AD Jamie Pollard in the future.’
No the MRI cut his foot off cause he wore an anklet.
Tennessee is ranked #202 in turnovers at 11.7 per game.
In the tournament they’re averaging 13 per game (10 against UVA, 16 against Miami-Ohio). Neither of those teams is very good at forcing turnovers.
Turnovers have apparently been a problem in many of their losses:
Why turnovers and missed free throws keep Tennessee basketball from ‘being a contender’
Tennessee basketball time traveled back to the past. The Vols committed 15 turnovers in their 73-69 loss to Missouri, breaking a streak of three consecutive games where they kept themselves out of double figures in the giveaway department. Tennessee made eight of its 14 free throw attempts...
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I watched game summaries from their home game against Alabama and both games against Kentucky today. They had a lot of similarities:Tennessee is ranked #202 in turnovers at 11.7 per game.
In the tournament they’re averaging 13 per game (10 against UVA, 16 against Miami-Ohio). Neither of those teams is very good at forcing turnovers.
Turnovers have apparently been a problem in many of their losses:
Why turnovers and missed free throws keep Tennessee basketball from ‘being a contender’
Tennessee basketball time traveled back to the past. The Vols committed 15 turnovers in their 73-69 loss to Missouri, breaking a streak of three consecutive games where they kept themselves out of double figures in the giveaway department. Tennessee made eight of its 14 free throw attempts...utdailybeacon.com
In all three games, Gillispe swished a 3 on Tennessee's opening possession
In all three games, Tennessee had a double-digit lead in the second half
And in all of the games they blew the lead and lost the game.
They really struggled on both ends of the court in crunch time. Their defense seemed to give up a lot of drives to the rim (albeit from Oweh, Aberdeen and Philon) without any help defense. And then they tended to rush and make bad decisions, commit costly turnover, etc. And their go-to in crunch time is a drive from tiny Gillispe or a 15-18ft contested jumper from Ament. While Ament can get that off over almost anyone, it is not a high percentage shot (yet).
They do beat Houston, but then lost to Syracuse a few weeks later (turning it over 17 times).
Obviously this is grossly simplistic, but a team that struggles with turnovers can’t be terribly confident going up against ISU.
That Houston game looks like one of those weird Vegas non-conference tourney games that just go sideways. It was the middle game of that Vegas tourney and Houston has just beaten Syracuse in OT the day before.
They were even on the boards and both turned the ball over 9 times, which is crazy for Houston. Gillispe had 4 assists and 0 turnovers in 38 minutes. But the game was won at the FT line, Tenn shot 29 FTs and Houston only shot 11.
That's what scares me though. If the refs have a quick whistle it could be that kind of game. FTs are our worst team metric. Rebounding fouls, fouls called instead of steals, fouls on double teams, etc. That's the easiest way I can see us losing to Tennessee. We are not going to win a free throw contest.
Typically, I repeat, Typically
these Sweet 16 and beyond games are called fairly well and allow the teams to play the game…. to a point.
A tight whistle and 29 FTs for Tenn would be very detrimental.
Edit.
Sorry I missed the poster’s sarcasm.
My bad.
“First I’d just like to start by saying any speculation with me and any other Jobs or Opportunities is not true…”
He also didn’t say he wasn’t going to sign a lifetime contract with Iowa state either.
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We easily could have been foul fckd in the Kentucky game, saw a lot of times we could have been called of stuff. I don't think we'll be as lucky the next game. But we'll have to adjust.
