'22 SC SF Julian Phillips (Tennessee commit)

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Weezer said:
I love all of the major sports. When it's football season, I'm all football. When football ends, I'm all basketball. Now, I'm all baseball. I love seeing UT win. If we had competitive chess, I'd be cheering for UT to win that too. I love UT. There's no reason Spyre shouldn't be able to make this work across all the revenue sports.
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One point you and others seem to be ignoring is that money is a finite resource. We don’t have some billionaire donor that is willing to throw 50 million a year towards NIL to recruit. If there were unlimited funds then yeah we could literally buy the best recruiting classes in all sports. But it’s not and you have to pick and choose where you spend that money and who you spend it on.

Football will always be king here so every other sport is playing for second. Well unfortunately for basketball, baseball is absolutely killing it right now and it’s super difficult to say no to Vitello and that program with the way they are playing and when the head coach is young enough to be here for 2 decades.

If it were me and basketball recruiting, I would just blow my budget on the top kid every year and round out the rest of my roster with elite level competitors and elite role players. One elite stud in basketball is akin to an elite QB in football. I know Barnes doesn’t like this entire auction market that is recruiting right now, but you have to adapt or die. He doesn’t have to like it but just figure out how to best work it.
 
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cncchris33 said:
I'm honestly concerned about where we go to get a bucket in crunch time, right now. I think we desperately need JJJ to develop into a guy that can get to the rim at will, or recruit someone who can. Chandler was our best option, last year, and not a great one, at that.
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We criticize the guards every year since Jordan Bone about not being able to get to the rim at will. The truth is that is hard unless you can dish it to a teammate that can throw down in somebody's grill after an assist on a consistent basis. That's been the biggest problem. Yves was the last of the high risers over the last several years. Who was going to dunk on somone last year besides Fulky every now and then? No threat to finish strong in the post if the opponents sold out on our guards to the basket.
 
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BreatheUT said:
We criticize the guards every year since Jordan Bone about not being able to get to the rim at will. The truth is that is hard unless you can dish it to a teammate that can throw down in somebody's grill after an assist on a consistent basis. That's been the biggest problem. Yves was the last of the high risers over the last several years. Who was going to dunk on somone last year besides Fulky every now and then? No threat to finish strong in the post if the opponents sold out on our guards to the basket.
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What about the elite athlete BHH?
 
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BreatheUT said:
We criticize the guards every year since Jordan Bone about not being able to get to the rim at will. The truth is that is hard unless you can dish it to a teammate that can throw down in somebody's grill after an assist on a consistent basis. That's been the biggest problem. Yves was the last of the high risers over the last several years. Who was going to dunk on somone last year besides Fulky every now and then? No threat to finish strong in the post if the opponents sold out on our guards to the basket.
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In theory, our increase in three point shooting should create a lot of space as teams come out to defend. Oddly, even when we were shooting well outside, we didn’t get to the rim often. Santi driving leads to a pass, JJJ driving leads to a ten foot jumper, and we lost the high post drive that Fulky used to take. This left us with Chandler and ZZ as the only two who would take it to the rim. Neither had the height or strength to make it a regular part of our game. Chandler’s creativity helped, but we need someone who can attack with strength and get fouled regularly.
 
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Stoerner Fumbles said:
In theory, our increase in three point shooting should create a lot of space as teams come out to defend. Oddly, even when we were shooting well outside, we didn’t get to the rim often. Santi driving leads to a pass, JJJ driving leads to a ten foot jumper, and we lost the high post drive that Fulky used to take. This left us with Chandler and ZZ as the only two who would take it to the rim. Neither had the height or strength to make it a regular part of our game. Chandler’s creativity helped, but we need someone who can attack with strength and get fouled regularly.
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Someone like Admiral
 
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cncchris33 said:
I'm honestly concerned about where we go to get a bucket in crunch time, right now. I think we desperately need JJJ to develop into a guy that can get to the rim at will, or recruit someone who can. Chandler was our best option, last year, and not a great one, at that.
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JJJ is what he is at this point. An elite 3&D player.

He’s never going to develop into a player that can get a bucket whenever he wants. Not a strong enough ball handler nor is he explosive enough to get around that.
 
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Stoerner Fumbles said:
In theory, our increase in three point shooting should create a lot of space as teams come out to defend. Oddly, even when we were shooting well outside, we didn’t get to the rim often. Santi driving leads to a pass, JJJ driving leads to a ten foot jumper, and we lost the high post drive that Fulky used to take. This left us with Chandler and ZZ as the only two who would take it to the rim. Neither had the height or strength to make it a regular part of our game. Chandler’s creativity helped, but we need someone who can attack with strength and get fouled regularly.
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BreatheUT said:
Someone like Admiral
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That is exactly the type I'm talking about, and I've used him by name in similar discussions. Keon Johnson could have been that guy this year had he not left early. Springer could have been a less explosive version of that player. Add either one of those guys to this past year's team, and we have an entirely different dimension that we were missing.
 
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Vol49er said:
I mean regardless of your opinion of Uros, he played a lot. If Aidoo plays those same minutes and gives even a little bit more than Uros did, thats having an impact by any reasonable definition of the phrase
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When Uros got the ball deep in the paint for a shot he actually did very well. I never felt like he took a bad shot. His hook is pretty good. I think he really got better this year and he played with good pace on offense. You could say Uros was as important by seasons end as Fulky. That’s not a shot a Fulk (I love the guy) but a testament to how much Uros improved. He’s not going to be All SEC but he going to be a big piece for us this next year. All of TNs big guys have to have better hands in the paint—that was a big problem this past season. Our bigs had too many turnovers in the paint because of bad/weak hands. I hope that’s something Barnes will hammer Aidoo and Uros about this offseason.
 
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TC 83 said:
When Uros got the ball deep in the paint for a shot he actually did very well. I never felt like he took a bad shot. His hook is pretty good. I think he really got better this year and he played with good pace on offense. You could say Uros was as important by seasons end as Fulky. That’s not a shot a Fulk (I love the guy) but a testament to how much Uros improved. He’s not going to be All SEC but he going to be a big piece for us this next year. All of TNs big guys have to have better hands in the paint—that was a big problem this past season. Our bigs had too many turnovers in the paint because of bad/weak hands. I hope that’s something Barnes will hammer Aidoo and Uros about this offseason.
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Uros's issue is defense not really his offense. Although he did miss way too many point-blank shots he should've dunked.
 
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cncchris33 said:
I'm honestly concerned about where we go to get a bucket in crunch time, right now. I think we desperately need JJJ to develop into a guy that can get to the rim at will, or recruit someone who can. Chandler was our best option, last year, and not a great one, at that.
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I would like to see Nkamhoua and Aidoo become beasts on the inside next season.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
……I’m sorry I love Tennessee Basketball but there is not a scenario in this universe where Tennessee Basketball is ever bigger than Tennessee Football. Our fanbase vastly prefers football. Even mediocre football. It’s just the truth.
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Mears and Pearl and Barnes have had years when Tennessee basketball was bigger than football and that was when Dickey, Majors and Fulmer were the faces of the football program.
 
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Volfan1000 said:
Mears and Pearl and Barnes have had years when Tennessee basketball was bigger than football and that was when Dickey, Majors and Fulmer were the faces of the football program.
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I guess you’ll have to define “bigger” first. Bigger in revenue, attendance, donations, etc?
 
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I care way more about basketball than I do football. Basketball will never ever reach the popularity, donations, passion levels, etc, etc, etc all day and night long, that football gets at UT. Anyone who says otherwise is just lying to themselves or does not look at anything Tennessee-related outside of the basketball forum.
 
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berryvol said:
I care way more about basketball than I do football. Basketball will never ever reach the popularity, donations, passion levels, etc, etc, etc all day and night long, that football gets at UT. Anyone who says otherwise is just lying to themselves or does not look at anything Tennessee-related outside of the basketball forum.
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You don’t need near the amount of $$$ to lure top talent NIL wise due to the size of the rosters.
 
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