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Next year men's basketball

Big guys Aidoo and Estrella. Guards Zakai, Mashack, Carr, wing Phillips. It will be interesting where the coach goes into the portal to shore up next years team. We definitely need players that can hit threes. Next years team will be more balanced than this years team in my opinion. I think the inside game will do fine, but our outside game has not been consistent. Usually you have one player that has an off night, but we seem to have it where all the players are having an off night. I don't know how good Jefferson or Awaka would be with another year of coaching and experience, but that is now history.

VOL nation! IMO we are going to need a 2,3, and 4 in the portal this year...

IMO Gainey or Mashak are not good enough to start yet and are better suited for bench roles.

This is how my 2 deep would look

PG Z, Boswell
SG Portal, Gainey, Carr
SF Portal, Mashak, Carr
PF Portal, Phillips
C Aidoo, Estrella

We need to hope like heck Aidoo stays. Carr is still a project and doesn't deserve major minutes yet if he transfers so be it. The 3 guys I want in the portal are Chaz Lanier, Darlingston Dubar and Eric Dailey Jr. And of course we need Gainey and Mashak to be positive about their bench role neither deserves starter minutes IMO they are both liabilities on offense

Notebook: Tennessee football Spring Practice 4/9/2024

Tennessee football began its final week of practice before the Orange & White game this weekend.

The Vols practice today, Thursday and have a closed walk-through on Friday.

Here's my notebook:

Injuries
- Bru McCoy
- Elijah Herring
- Massai Reddick
- Javontez Spraggins
- Andrej Karic
- Garrett Young
- Christian Charles
- Peyton Lewis
- Arion Carter*
- Cam Seldon
- Kaleb Beasley
- Cooper Mays

* Carter still going through drills without pads or helmet

- Spraggins was moving really well
- Couldn't find Ethan Davis, intern for the team said they thought they saw him earlier, though

Quarterbacks
- Nico looked good, connected well with Brazzell
- Was coaching up freshman Merklinger

Defensive line
- Tyree Weathersby is someone to watch, looked explosive
- Elijah Simmons remains very large
- Jaxson Moi could provide some really nice depth

Defensive backs
- You can see the playmaking ability in Boo Carter

Recruits
- Not a big recruiting day

Zaay Green wants to return to the Lady Vols

Was on UT for her freshman and sophomore seasons (2018-20). Made the SEC All-Freshman team. Played in only two games as a sohpomore, though.

Transferred to Texas A&M then Arkansas Pinebluff.

Coming off a season where she averaged 16.7 points on 42.3% field goal shooting and 30% 3-point shooting. Also grabbed 7.6 rebounds and passed for 5.6 assists per game.

She's got one more year and is using Twitter to try to make her way back to Knoxville.
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