I've said that I'm skeptical of how fatigued we are, but Bucky seems to think it was true of at least the last game so I was wrong on that apparently. He mentioned the turnaround from playing the late game Wednesday to traveling for the early game Saturday as a potential reason.
If you haven't listened to his interview that's pinned above you should go listen to it, he mentioned going lighter on practice and if that doesn't work potentially going the other way.
Summaries from the interview:
- They were off Sunday, doing a walk-through today, and then only 45-50 minute practice tomorrow before playing Wednesday.
- If that doesn't work, then we'll have to go the other way after this game and maybe we need to turn it up in practice
- multiple guys mentioned having a hard time getting their legs going Saturday, but didn't feel like that against Alabama, Missouri or Florida, just Vandy, could be as simple as that Wednesday-to-travel-Saturday
- But every game will have a couple of games like that, that's just the gauntlet of the SEC
- Had hard time getting into our quick sets on offense also, wasn't just defense
- Clemence has looked fresh and is playing his basketball of the season
- Every season has ebbs and flows, have to figure out a way to get some confidence back in a couple of guys, "would rather be going through this now than at the end of the season, because we can get back to that, and when we get back to that we're pretty dang good"
- Sitting here with Kyle Keller and he told me that in 2016 when we won the SEC, they lost five games in a row before winning a ton in a row and winning the SEC. "They didn't look like they'd ever win again and then went on the biggest run there is"
If you haven't listened to his interview that's pinned above you should go listen to it, he mentioned going lighter on practice and if that doesn't work potentially going the other way.
Summaries from the interview:
- They were off Sunday, doing a walk-through today, and then only 45-50 minute practice tomorrow before playing Wednesday.
- If that doesn't work, then we'll have to go the other way after this game and maybe we need to turn it up in practice
- multiple guys mentioned having a hard time getting their legs going Saturday, but didn't feel like that against Alabama, Missouri or Florida, just Vandy, could be as simple as that Wednesday-to-travel-Saturday
- But every game will have a couple of games like that, that's just the gauntlet of the SEC
- Had hard time getting into our quick sets on offense also, wasn't just defense
- Clemence has looked fresh and is playing his basketball of the season
- Every season has ebbs and flows, have to figure out a way to get some confidence back in a couple of guys, "would rather be going through this now than at the end of the season, because we can get back to that, and when we get back to that we're pretty dang good"
- Sitting here with Kyle Keller and he told me that in 2016 when we won the SEC, they lost five games in a row before winning a ton in a row and winning the SEC. "They didn't look like they'd ever win again and then went on the biggest run there is"
