The Official “Regular Posters of the Basketball Forum” Thread

[omghulkhands]

The game thread is just filled with sky is falling nonsense. Laughable how stupid much of it is.

 

[Lankykong]

The game thread is just filled with sky is falling nonsense. Laughable how stupid much of it is.

Thank you for being reasonable. That’s why I don’t take the game thread too seriously because guys see us lose in a game we shoot 32% and think we should be in Division 2 or something

 

[nirwin]

Yeah, it was nice while it lasted, but the negative nellies are gonna come out now and nitpick this team to death even in the (somewhat likely IMO) event that we cruise to an SEC championship. Every loss will be a disaster and proof that we're doomed because our entire fanbase is completely incapable of watching a sport and not reacting to it like it's football. Fun times.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

The game thread is just filled with sky is falling nonsense. Laughable how stupid much of it is.

 

[ndubvols]

I thought he should have stayed in the game instead of Pember/Nkamhoua. Those two cost us a few baskets due to lack of quickness

I agree with this. I think Bama was the game he played really well in last year and helped lead a comeback (could be wrong). Either way we needed to go small in order to guard them, we did that late when we took fulky out and made it harder on them.

I think we won this game if we had springer tbh. He’s clearly our best playmaker offensively IMO.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Barnes is ripping the team’s effort to bits. He mad.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Barnes is ripping the team’s effort to bits. He mad.

He should be, that was pathetic. And him getting a T didn't seem to have the effect he wanted.

 

[ColinS]

The ref blaming is the most laughable part of the game thread. We are getting owned in every faze of the game yet it's the ref's fault.

 

[omghulkhands]

Yeah, it was nice while it lasted, but the negative nellies are gonna come out now and nitpick this team to death even in the (somewhat likely IMO) event that we cruise to an SEC championship. Every loss will be a disaster and proof that we're doomed because our entire fanbase is completely incapable of watching a sport and not reacting to it like it's football. Fun times.

100%

It’s also a bunch of Dunning-Kruger, low information “fans”

They’ve watched two or 3 games this year, see this one and come to all kinds of wild conclusions based off 1 loss.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

He should be, that was pathetic. And him getting a T didn't seem to have the effect he wanted.

He said Fulk was “exposed”. Called out Vescovi’s bad decisions without naming him directly. Gave Bama a lot of credit too.

 

[Dallasbowlin]

They can always go root for their loser football team.

 

[VolArmy74]

Apparently people don't realize there hasn't been an unbeaten NCAA team since 1975. Losing games in a basketball season is a part of the journey and literally every team except one is guaranteed to lose at least one game.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

100%

It’s also a bunch of Dunning-Kruger, low information “fans”

They’ve watched two or 3 games this year, see this one and come to all kinds of wild conclusions based off 1 loss.

I think you're being kind calling them fans. They come in a with a football mentality that one loss kills you; which is dumb since 1 loss in football really doesn't even kill your season.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

The ref blaming is the most laughable part of the game thread. We are getting owned in every faze of the game yet it's the ref's fault.

It just takes a couple of questionable whistles to completely change a game. Pons’ 2nd and especially the 3rd foul completely changed this game.

 

[omghulkhands]

He said Fulk was “exposed”. Called out Vescovi’s bad decisions without naming him directly. Gave Bama a lot of credit too.

I hope there is some personal responsibility taken too, because I thought there were two or even three opportunities he needed to take a timeout and didn’t.

Particularly where we kept getting lost defensively around the middle of the half where they made that first big run. And then again later when we stopped them from scoring for 5+ minutes and didn’t score any ourselves. Really needed some offense drawn up there.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Apparently people don't realize there hasn't been an unbeaten NCAA team since 1975. Losing games in a basketball season is a part of the journey and literally every team except one is guaranteed to lose at least one game.

Close. It was 1975-76.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

I think you're being kind calling them fans. They come in a with a football mentality that one loss kills you; which is dumb since 1 loss in football really doesn't even kill your season.

Those fans are the ones you need to ignore.

The reality is, it’s rare you ever see a college basketball team go undefeated. Sometimes the ball doesn’t bounce your way nor the ball goes into the basket.

It is what it is but it’s not the end of the world.

 

[calban]

It's Basketball boys. Probably lose 3 or 4 more for it's over. Just, a wake up call for those who thought we weren't human.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

I hope there is some personal responsibility taken too, because I thought there were two or even three opportunities he needed to take a timeout and didn’t.

Particularly where we kept getting lost defensively around the middle of the half where they made that first big run. And then again later when we stopped them from scoring for 5+ minutes and didn’t score any ourselves. Really needed some offense drawn up there.

He saves TOs. Always has.

 

[VolArmy74]

It just takes a couple of questionable whistles to completely change a game. Pons’ 2nd and especially the 3rd foul completely changed this game.

The awful call on Pons to start the half spurred a Bama run. Rick is as calm as any coach I've ever seen and he spent a good portion of the half ripping the officials before his technical. I never understand why people completely dismiss the officials on the outcome. They were a massive factor tonignt because they denied UT it's best overall player for a large portion of the game with two bad calls.

 

[The Dog]

The last team to go undefeated and win the National Championship in basket was Indiana in 1976. 45 years ago. I hate losing to Bama, more than anybody else, but every basketball team loses and we will probably lose, again. I just hope Springer isn't out for the season and/or any games, really. Now, I'm sure Springer is the best player on the team

 

[Catbone]

Double digit favorite tho

 

[omghulkhands]

He saves TOs. Always has.

I know hindsight is 20/20, but saving them didn’t help us. Honestly, he half acted like he wanted to lose this game with the errant technical and the way he has talked post game.

I’m not saying he was intentionally trying to lose. But I bet some part of him recognized that a loss here might be more valuable than a win.

 

[nirwin]

The ref blaming is the most laughable part of the game thread. We are getting owned in every faze of the game yet it's the ref's fault.

I thought there were a couple of really bad calls either side of halftime. The foul on Fulkerson at the end of the half and the third foul on Pons were both complete crap IMO. I wasn't watching with the sound on so I wasn't sure what Barnes was all worked up about when he got his technical foul.

That having been said, there wasn't anything wrong with the refs after that and we had ample opportunity to get back into the game. The reason we lost is that we couldn't have thrown the ball into the ocean if we'd been standing on the end of a pier. And that included from the free throw line. Shoot free throws well and that game becomes a toss-up at worst, even with the crap shooting from the field.

 

[ndubvols]

Hopefully springer’s injury is just an ankle sprain that he can come back from quickly.

I think JJJ is going to need to be more assertive offensively in springer’s absence to make up for his scoring impact. May help us long term if JJJ or Keon can gain more confidence offensively while he’s out.