The Official “Regular Posters of the Basketball Forum” Thread

[Volprofch05]

 

[berryvol]

Its still really early, but this season is starting to track similarly to the 2018-2019 season with Grant, Admiral, Bowden, Kyle Alexander, and Bone. They finished 15-3 in the SEC back then to win a share of the regular season title. We're currently 14-3, and won the regular season title outright.

I think if this team can find a way to also win the SEC Tournament championship and make it past the Sweet 16, then this team could measure as the best team in the CRB era.
Its still really hard to put this team above that 2018-2019 team though, that team holds a special place in TN history, given the transformational player development, growth, leadership, and balanced offense with that starting five under CRB.

What you just described would be, by far, the best UT team of all time, much less in the CRB era.

 

[VolArmy74]

I believe I read yesterday that this will be the first time, maybe ever, than an SEC team even finished the regular season vs four top twenty teams in a row. Let alone possibly went 4-0.

Edit: Just looked it up, it's only happened 1 time in 56 years that an SEC team had to play 4 top 20 teams in a row.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

This CBS Sports Radio host tried to dunk on Knecht for being happy about winning a conference championship. He got blasted by everyone, not just TN fans, and now he is saying he’s rooting against us in March because we are “too mean.”

 

[Stoked]

This CBS Sports Radio host tried to dunk on Knecht for being happy about winning a conference championship. He got blasted by everyone, not just TN fans, and now he is saying he’s rooting against us in March because we are “too mean.”

You gotta have a death wish to go after Vol Twitter. Pat Forde is still getting cooked for the dumb Tweet he had about us having a losing record at one point after firing Counzo.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

I mean that's just a dumbass take anyway. You do get a ring for winning the regular season title...I'm sure IF we win the Natty you'll see the same celebration again.

You can only celebrate your ACTUAL accomplishments when they happen.

 

[cncchris33]

This CBS Sports Radio host tried to dunk on Knecht for being happy about winning a conference championship. He got blasted by everyone, not just TN fans, and now he is saying he’s rooting against us in March because we are “too mean.”

Ohh, the sleep that we will lose.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Ohh, the sleep that we will lose.

Just find it ridiculous how some talking heads that supposedly love this sport continue to push this narrative that the ONLY thing that matters is the NCAA Tournament. Like, yeah, that’s the big one. We get it.

But this dumb narrative just spreads like wildfire when these supposed analysts spout it and contributes to so many fans saying “Check back with me in March” throughout the 4-month season.

I’m not sure how we have gotten to the point in this sport where the only thing that matters is how you perform in the Big Dance. It’s starting to become a thing in football, too, as the playoff expands.

Life is short. All championships are worth celebrating.

 

[cncchris33]

Just find it ridiculous how some talking heads that supposedly love this sport continue to push this narrative that the ONLY thing that matters is the NCAA Tournament. Like, yeah, that’s the big one. We get it.

But this dumb narrative just spreads like wildfire when these supposed analysts spout it and contributes to so many fans saying “Check back with me in March” throughout the 4-month season.

I’m not sure how we have gotten to the point in this sport where the only thing that matters is how you perform in the Big Dance. It’s starting to become a thing in football, too, as the playoff expands.

Life is short. All championships are worth celebrating.

You already know how I feel about it. Preaching to the choir, but yeah, there are things along the way worth celebrating. College basketball would be a boring sport if the ONLY thing that mattered was who won the NCAAT.

I get that is important, and is everyone's ultimate goal, but like you said, life is short...celebrate big moments and have fun.

 

[Vol49er]

Just find it ridiculous how some talking heads that supposedly love this sport continue to push this narrative that the ONLY thing that matters is the NCAA Tournament. Like, yeah, that’s the big one. We get it.

But this dumb narrative just spreads like wildfire when these supposed analysts spout it and contributes to so many fans saying “Check back with me in March” throughout the 4-month season.

I’m not sure how we have gotten to the point in this sport where the only thing that matters is how you perform in the Big Dance. It’s starting to become a thing in football, too, as the playoff expands.

Life is short. All championships are worth celebrating.

Something I’ve observed is the fans who harp on only March mattering most of the time aren’t even fans of programs that have done well in March. They’re fans of teams who don’t even make it and want to drag the perception of successful teams who happened to get upset in the tourney down to their level of ineptitude

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Just find it ridiculous how some talking heads that supposedly love this sport continue to push this narrative that the ONLY thing that matters is the NCAA Tournament. Like, yeah, that’s the big one. We get it.

But this dumb narrative just spreads like wildfire when these supposed analysts spout it and contributes to so many fans saying “Check back with me in March” throughout the 4-month season.

I’m not sure how we have gotten to the point in this sport where the only thing that matters is how you perform in the Big Dance. It’s starting to become a thing in football, too, as the playoff expands.

Life is short. All championships are worth celebrating.

The NCAA Tournament is a crap shoot.

80% of the time, you need a bit of luck on your side which hasn’t been too often.

If coaches were judged on their NCAA Tournament performances, they’d be getting fired every single year.

 

[berryvol]

Just find it ridiculous how some talking heads that supposedly love this sport continue to push this narrative that the ONLY thing that matters is the NCAA Tournament. Like, yeah, that’s the big one. We get it.

But this dumb narrative just spreads like wildfire when these supposed analysts spout it and contributes to so many fans saying “Check back with me in March” throughout the 4-month season.

I’m not sure how we have gotten to the point in this sport where the only thing that matters is how you perform in the Big Dance. It’s starting to become a thing in football, too, as the playoff expands.

Life is short. All championships are worth celebrating.

Spot on. This is one thing European football has over American sports (amongst several other things). Obviously a premier league team wants their team to win the champs league (European knockout champion:NCAAT equivalent), but they’re equally excited to win a premier league cup (regular season points winner:regular season conference title), and slightly less so, but still pumped about winning the EFL cup (league knockout winner:SECT tourney). There’s more than 1 way to define a successful season and I hate that we’ve gotten away from that mentality. I blame Saban’s dominance - everyone expects to be 2010s bama football now or you’re a “poverty program.”

 

[SoullessGinger32_]

This CBS Sports Radio host tried to dunk on Knecht for being happy about winning a conference championship. He got blasted by everyone, not just TN fans, and now he is saying he’s rooting against us in March because we are “too mean.”

This twerps profile pic is a sketch cartoon drawing of himself......enough said. Smack those goggles off his face

 

[omghulkhands]

This CBS Sports Radio host tried to dunk on Knecht for being happy about winning a conference championship. He got blasted by everyone, not just TN fans, and now he is saying he’s rooting against us in March because we are “too mean.”

This is beyond stupid

 

[Delmar]

This CBS Sports Radio host tried to dunk on Knecht for being happy about winning a conference championship. He got blasted by everyone, not just TN fans, and now he is saying he’s rooting against us in March because we are “too mean.”

Andrew looks like he was one of those kids that got stuffed in his locker frequently. I don’t know how we’ll make it through the week since he thinks we are mean.

 

[Just a VolinTears]

I just feel like I had to put this GIF on here to honor our title. (Unlike hers, ours was legit....)

 

[VolsSportsFan]

I just feel like I had to put this GIF on here to honor our title. (Unlike hers, ours was legit....)
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Take your political ******** to the politics forum Alex Jones.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Spot on. This is one thing European football has over American sports (amongst several other things). Obviously a premier league team wants their team to win the champs league (European knockout champion:NCAAT equivalent), but they’re equally excited to win a premier league cup (regular season points winner:regular season conference title), and slightly less so, but still pumped about winning the EFL cup (league knockout winner:SECT tourney). There’s more than 1 way to define a successful season and I hate that we’ve gotten away from that mentality. I blame Saban’s dominance - everyone expects to be 2010s bama football now or you’re a “poverty program.”

True. It’s a 4-month long regular season. We get 33% of an entire calendar year to watch college basketball and people want to nullify everything that doesn’t happen at the end of March. It will always been frustrating.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Lady Vols are destroying Bama. They’ll play in the semis tomorrow versus undefeated USC.

That should secure a spot in the NCAAWT.

 

[VolArmy74]

I swear the guys in sports talk on 990 in the late afternoon and early evening are not basketball minds to say the least. They were talking this evening about how good an idea it might be to rest the starters vs UK. One didn't agree but only because it was UK, and that they'd support resting them vs anyone else.

They all seemed to agree that a #1 seed wasn't worth playing for really and that we'd be better off as a two seed closer to home. Because "did you see the bracket we might draw as the #1 seed."

Every bracket as a #2 had us facing Houston, UConn or Purdue as the #1. Far better to have anyone else as our #2 than them as our #1.

Man, terrible to have that take and be a "sports expert" in this area. As as been posted here. 1 seeds fare dramatically better at every level of the tournament vs #2 seeds and the gap grows with each round.

 

[bag12day]

Just find it ridiculous how some talking heads that supposedly love this sport continue to push this narrative that the ONLY thing that matters is the NCAA Tournament. Like, yeah, that’s the big one. We get it.

But this dumb narrative just spreads like wildfire when these supposed analysts spout it and contributes to so many fans saying “Check back with me in March” throughout the 4-month season.

I’m not sure how we have gotten to the point in this sport where the only thing that matters is how you perform in the Big Dance. It’s starting to become a thing in football, too, as the playoff expands.

Life is short. All championships are worth celebrating.

Champions of life too? Asking for a friend I kid I kid it was too easy

 

[VolArmy74]

True. It’s a 4-month long regular season. We get 33% of an entire calendar year to watch college basketball and people want to nullify everything that doesn’t happen at the end of March. It will always been frustrating.

It's fun to watch every game, but everything that happens in the regular season is the build up to the grand finale in March. It's the same with the Super Bowl, the World Series etc. Legends are made in March.

 

[calban]

The NCAA Tournament is a crap shoot.

80% of the time, you need a bit of luck on your side which hasn’t been too often.

If coaches were judged on their NCAA Tournament performances, they’d be getting fired every single year.

Crap shoot. We see this all the time on here. Please explain. You know, there is a rhyme and reason to the Madness or the Blue Bloods wouldn't win a good percentage of the natties.

 

[calban]

Just find it ridiculous how some talking heads that supposedly love this sport continue to push this narrative that the ONLY thing that matters is the NCAA Tournament. Like, yeah, that’s the big one. We get it.

But this dumb narrative just spreads like wildfire when these supposed analysts spout it and contributes to so many fans saying “Check back with me in March” throughout the 4-month season.

I’m not sure how we have gotten to the point in this sport where the only thing that matters is how you perform in the Big Dance. It’s starting to become a thing in football, too, as the playoff expands.

Life is short. All championships are worth celebrating.

I'm sure Barnes couldn't care less if he wins a natty before he hangs it up. If you believe that, you don't know Barnes.

 

[berryvol]

Crap shoot. We see this all the time on here. Please explain. You know, there is a rhyme and reason to the Madness or the Blue Bloods wouldn't win a good percentage of the natties.

The rhyme or reason is that the blue bloods win more regular season games and are consistently better, so they win more in the tournament. Historically, 1-3 seeds win an overwhelming majority of champs and make an even more overwhelming amount of F4s. Consistent regular season success leads to tourney breakthroughs and consistent tourney success. George mason, USCjr, Auburn are the outliers that happen obviously, but if you want to go deep in the tourney, it starts with having good teams consistently winning from November to March.