Tennessee vs South Carolina Official game thread (6:30 SECN)

[keckjm]

Tennessee had an off night but South Carolina is also legit.

They’re pretty awful offensively. TN just s@@@ the bed, and DK is about all we had on offense. Playing James is basically handicapping this team offensively. He’s been awful lately.

 

[landscapingvol]

Why does JJJ basically play the entire game.
Every game?

Great question, he provides nothing offensively and teams barely even guard him. I just do not understand Barnes infatuation with him

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Disagree with both points, personally. We just had an off night. Sky isn’t falling.

As far as winning the conference I think that was a pretty big blow. Now makes Saturday almost a must win imo.

 

[jbr82]

We lost and the band immediately started playing Rocky Top…fitting

Their way of pumping some shine

 

[vols 30]

Pathetic -

Aidoo - 6 points
JJJ - 2 points
ZZ- 2 points

Bench - 8 points

 

[DukeDaisySam]

Hard for others to stay engaged when the entire offense consists of one guy dominating the ball as much as Knecht does. That’s just a fact.

 

[D3Athlete]

5-2 in conference and should be 7-0. Absolutely freaking maddening

 

[JCP201]

Knecht was off and had 31, would have been nice if someone else would have showed up to play for us tonight.

I felt like Tobe played well, but yeah, this wasn't fun tonight.

 

[tnvols72]

Why does JJJ basically play the entire game.
Every game?

He has pictures of Barnes or somebody. He needs to ride the bench period.

 

[vavolfan6]

Have we really even been that great? We have been slightly above .500 against good teams.

Yes, we have been good particularly at home. But not tonight

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

If only Rick Barnes had figured this out by now

Yeah, I can't believe he told half he team to miss 2 footers.... BAD BAD Coach....

 

[jbr82]

Not trying to dog on the kid whatsoever, but barring an unforeseen comeback, Vescovi's fiery offense days were over way before the season started.

I agree

 

[ColinS]

So is it still alright to have players score 2 points in 35 minutes because they do "the little things"? This has to change. Knecht can't do it all every night. Too little too late tonight.

 

[rocketskates]

Pathetic -

Aidoo - 6 points
JJJ - 2 points
ZZ- 2 points

Bench - 8 points

Don’t win many when one player has over half of your points.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

USC just kicked our butts….we out of top 20 with that performance. Bad from start to finish. When you don’t score…you lose.

Talk about an overreaction...I'd be surprised if we drop outta top 10.

Mississippi State & South Carolina both played really good defense and beat us. This one stings because we also had a terrible offensive night from everyone but Santi/Dalton

 

[Namorto1]

Bad loss on home especially having to go on the road against the Cats this weekend. Lost with so many missed bunnies at the rim and missed FTs. Heck even DK missed 4 FTs. South Carolina deserved the win. Need others to help carry some load offensively and can't continue to be a one man show.

 

[25vol]

Bunch of freaking frauds(besides Knecht ofc). So tired of watching this team give up so many rebounds and watching ZZ little ass give up 3 pointers all day because my 3 year old could make a shot over his short ass

 

[amaralfan1]

Dalton and Santi are the only reason we hung in this game.

ZZ: 0-6
JJJ: 1-3
Aidoo: 2-8
Gainey: 0-3
Mashack: 0-0

But just hit the FTs and we likely force OT, knew this was a trap game and their defense is as good as advertised.

Their defense was legit in the sense that the refs swallowed their whistles all game. Tennessee would hold teams to under 50 every game if we got that kind of help from the refs.

 

[TrapVol]

Missed 7 layups and 8 FTs at home. Deserved to lose

This. South Carolina is a very good team, but we were our own worst enemy tonight.

 

[joevols89]

Extremely disappointing. Double digit favorites at home.

 

[OrngeJuiceJones]

Between Gainey, ZZ, JJ and Aidoo 3 for 20....

 

[OrangeInKy]

Why pull Mashack? I don’t get it

I can’t understand any of it my man .

 

[Itsnotatumor]

SC just beat us. They’re good, but we’re so much better than them that it’s laughable that we found a way to lose this game to them. Missed layups. Missed free throws. Miscommunication on defense. Pat Adams being best pals with Lamont Paris. Everything that could go wrong went wrong, most of it things that were absolutely in our control.

They make teams play ugly

 

[LVol]

Hopefully they remember Stute running that trap when we meet up with them again

Punk*** I hope they do.

 

[tnvols72]

Hard for others to stay engaged when the entire offense consists of one guy dominating the ball as much as Knecht does. That’s just a fact.

Well DK is all we have on offense. He even knows that