The Official #5 Tennessee @ Missouri Game Thread, 7:00 PM ET, SEC Network

[vols 30]

DK is 0-6 from the floor

Unbelievable

 

[KnoxtotheBoro20]

Just leave JJJ in the locker room at this point.

Him missing that easy put back was embarrassing enough to bench for the week

 

[KnoxtotheBoro20]

DK is 0-6 from the floor

Unbelievable

He is getting bumped every time he touches the ball.

 

[TN1111]

Because halftime scores matter.

Duh genius

 

[Volnbeers]

Scratch and claw back to #5, gets some #1 seed love only to absolutely **** your pants. It’s the Rick barnes way

 

[cgrish]

Why are Santi and JJJ so passive? Drive the darn ball!!!

James passed up a dunk to pass out for a 3

 

[ALStateLineVol]

Thank goodness that half is over. It can't get any worse than that and we are only down 3. Against anyone else, we would be down 10+. A good a$$ chewing at half and come out a different team in 2nd half.

Go Vols!!

 

[Hbg]

Let's just hope the second half is better.

Wouldn’t take much to be better but I wouldn’t expect much. Watched every game this year. When they start this way they finish this way.

 

[barney]

can we haz basketball

 

[vols 30]

Our bench outscored the starters.

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

Especially since he's the only one to show up

He sat with two fouls. He only has two.

 

[ColinS]

We brought bad JJJ to Missouri. I have never in my life seen an athlete as inconsistant and it's not even close. He will pump 35 in next game. Might even do it in the second half of this one. Who knows and who could even try to guess?

 

[2EastTnVols]

If we lose to this team we deserve it regardless of the refs.

 

[BisonVol]

CRB better chew some ass in the locker room at halftime.

He will. Whether or not it wakes his team up or not…time will tell. They looked flat out lazy that half.

Frankly, he needs to wake up too. He didn’t look like he had a sense of urgency from the bench for a good portion of the half.

 

[firestorm]

Competitive game in the Show Me State

 

[jbr82]

James passed up a dunk to pass out for a 3

He does that some. It’s dumb

 

[TN1111]

Let's just hope the second half is better.

Yep. They'll turn it around. Seems we're playing too fast. Just need to slow down a little.

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

Well we have 20 minutes left to decide if we want to stay in the sec race or not. The lack of composure from our starters that half is completely unacceptable at this stage in the season

We should probably decide early in the twenty minutes.

 

[RAVOL]

I remember, he missed a few of them, too. Did we get into the Moonshine before the game?

Maybe brought some from Sugarland.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

4 of Mizzou’s starters have 2 fouls & they love pushing. I’d have DK, Gainey, Mashack driving downhill every time they get a chance.

 

[YankeeVol]

This is why we have pause for march. Better dig deep.

Round of 32 at best.

 

[Chaz-Vol]

If vols simply stop turning the ball over and ZZ calms down they should win. Don't do those things then we are in for another 20 minutes of pain.

 

[Namorto1]

We need to play with pace, attack paint and try to get some rhythm. Our perimeter shot will fall if we start playing inside/out. These first 4 minutes out of the half are going to be huge. Would be an embarrassing loss. Guys can't expect to be able to turn it on whenever they want. They weren't ready to play from on the jump and it showed. Never should happen with an experienced team.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Feels like when we shoot like puke in the 1st half, we rarely magically turn it on in the 2nd. Just headed towards one of those 40 minute mud fight.

 

[VOLinAL]

Some of these threes have to fall eventually.