The Official Tennessee @ Missouri Game Thread, 4:00pm ET, ESPN2

[YankeeVol]

down 4 at the half

 

[SCowlsVOL]

Bounce pass. Great pass to make there. Good lord! what were you thinking?

 

[Daloth]

We called that timeout and I tweeted "They get a timeout for an oop, we'll get a turnover for transition points."

thirty seconds later I'm proven right.

 

[MAD]

He must have thought it was the end of the game.

 

[GAVol]

Way to take a knee at the end of the half. Bizarre.

 

[DeepSpringsVol]

rrr.

Im sorry I dont understand. Whats rrr short for?

 

[sonofUT62]

Impressed with the comeback but the play out of the TO was predictably garbage.

 

[RikidyBones]

Im sorry I dont understand. Whats rrr short for?

RIP Rich Rollin.

 

[mustbeAmoocow]

How many times have we fumbled away the final possession this season? Christ.

Regardless, we're in a good position. With some adjustments, we can come out with the W.

 

[gunner]

This is as bad a half defensively that UT has played all season.

 

[patrick]

Than was pathetic.

That about sums up CCM's coaching prowess - much like the CCM timeout last game when Jordan made the three ball in the final mins of that game.

 

[Boca Vol]

Ignore is a good function

For wimps!

 

[GBO97]

Ugh..... Not anti Cuonzo but that is classic UT: call a TO to "set up" a final poss then a lazy pass by 52 leads to a big Mizzou slam.

 

[Persian Vol]

Watching them gash us in transition was like watching A Bruce pearl team against us

 

[SGMVols]

Are there really people pledging undying support for Cuonzo Martin? I don't know any.

Anyone who opposes #BringBackBroocePurl is labeled a "CCM lover" by the orange overall wearers. #VNlogic

 

[DoubleA]

Martin cracks me up. He has to have taken more time outs in the last 20 seconds of the first half than any coach in the country

Yes, and it seems he always sets up a play where we turn the ball over.:lolabove:

 

[Boca Vol]

Well, I'm glad to see the refs swallow the whistle and let them play but damn! There were some serious non-calls in that half.

 

[patrick]

I don't get why people won't support the team. Rooting for the team to win gets confused with being a CCM supporter. Just want to win and make the dance.

I root for the team as well - the team which is lead by CCM who has the VOls on the bubble when they should be playing for seeding.

 

[HCVolsFan4Life]

How many times have we fumbled away the final possession this season? Christ.

Regardless, we're in a good position. With some adjustments, we can come out with the W.

Adjustments. Have we had any of those this year? Maybe when 1 3 1 D was working, we switch to man against Florida and they go on a run to finish us off. Nice adjustment there.

 

[Plecoptera]

The Vols did a good job of fighting back and making it a two possession game at the half. They need to keep playing aggressive and play better transition defense in the second half.

 

[VolGee4]

Anyone who opposes #BringBackBroocePurl is labeled a "CCM lover" by the orange overall wearers. #VNlogic

And anybody who roots for us to win is also a CCM supporter.

 

[Persian Vol]

A part of me feels like we should be up ten if we played better transition defense but another pay of me is thankful we aren't down 20.

 

[VolGee4]

I root for the team as well - the team which is lead by CCM who has the VOls on the bubble when they should be playing for seeding.

I have absolutely no control over what happens. So....I root for them to win. Amazing concept as a fan. But somehow we get labeled as a CCM supporter. Simply amazes me.

 

[Vol-in-Bham]

Missouri Shooting: 61.5%
Average on the season: 46.1%

UT Shooting: 44.8%
Average on the season: 44.7%

There's your ballgame. Then again it's easy to shoot 61.5% when seemingly 25% or more of your shots are dunks from poor transition defense.

If we can actually play some defense and get them back down to average, we have a shot.

 

[bjsvols1]

That was a heck of an effort by TN to get back in the game. Missouri can't play much better. Still, TN has to keep it going.

Cuonzo is just awful. I've supported CM until the past few weeks but he's done an awful job with this team. Really it's amazing what the players are doing with neither coaching nor emotion coming from the bench.

The officials were just awful on several fronts in the first half which actually fired up McRae, but still nothing from the statue on the sidelines. Imagine what CM actually having his players back with the officials would do for them. Too bad we'll never know.