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cncchris33 said:
Never thought I'd say this, but we really can't afford to lose him if for no other reason, we may need his 5 fouls. If he misses time, hopefully it coincides with a return from Cam Carr.
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I can guarantee one thing, I bet Barnes never goes into a season with 2 open scholarships again lol. Our injury luck has been crap this year.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
I can guarantee one thing, I bet Barnes never goes into a season with 2 open scholarships again lol. Our injury luck has been crap this year.
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Really wish he landed Ja'Kobi Gillespie. No telling how landing him would affected who else we did land, but he's having a nice year. 14 ppg, 3.5 apg, 1.5 spg, shooting 42.6% from 3 and 95% from the FT line.

I do wonder if we circle back around to him for 2025-26.
 
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Golfprovol said:
Don't take people just to take people. Have to take the right people or the locker room goes nuts.
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Not sure about the locker room going nutz with a roll of the dice for 1 more warm ball handling body, especially with a core like ZZ, Mashack, Phillips and even Estrella. But I do agree with the first part enough to think that’s probably how we got here.
 
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Golfprovol said:
Don't take people just to take people. Have to take the right people or the locker room goes nuts.
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I don’t think the two are mutually exclusive. I’m not saying you just take any Jimmy or Joe off the street, but I’m not sure I agree that the locker room “would go nuts” if there were a few other depth pieces or young players on the team.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
I don’t think the two are mutually exclusive. I’m not saying you just take any Jimmy or Joe off the street, but I’m not sure I agree that the locker room “would go nuts” if there were a few other depth pieces or young players on the team.
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If he is taking the right people then great but I would imagine since he didn't take anyone, he didn't find the right people.

Put one cancer in the locker room and all hell breaks loose. See the UT defense vs USC in 2022.
 
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While the Vols have had a little bad luck with injuries, at least we are not worried about losing our best player. I just read that Auburn’s player-of-the-year candidate, Johni Broome, will miss Auburn’s next game, if not more, with his shoulder injury.
 
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Golfprovol said:
If he is taking the right people then great but I would imagine since he didn't take anyone, he didn't find the right people.

Put one cancer in the locker room and all hell breaks loose. See the UT defense vs USC in 2022.
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Turns out that was Michigan's scouting program giving them our signals.

But I trust Barnes to find players who aren't cancerous to team culture as a rule. There's been very little drama over his time here. Maybe some with Awaka vs Aidoo. But we had our best season ever with them last year.
 
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cardvolfan said:
It is concerning, no doubt. However, if you were to track his 3-point shooting over the entirety of his career, you would see each year where he has dips, then peaks. They really don’t correspond to the competition either. I believe his history tells us he will snap back for X number of games again, then will cool, which will alternate the rest of the year. It’s sort of been his DNA collegiately.
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Agree he has always been a bit streaky but I don't ever recall him going this long while shooting this poorly. In his last 7 games he only shot over 30% 1 time (3/8 or 38%) but, to your point, he shot real well in games 2 to 4 (10/15 or 67%). For reference, last year he had 3 games in a row under 33% early in the season but at no other point had 2 consecutive games where he shot below 33%. Also, last year he only had 7 games where he shot 30% or less with more than 1 attempt - this year he already has 6 of those games.

I love ZZ and I know he is working his tail off - I just hope this is not a trend and it means he is due to go on an extended heater where he shoots lights out. GBO
 
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MinisterofDef#92 said:
Agree he has always been a bit streaky but I don't ever recall him going this long while shooting this poorly. In his last 7 games he only shot over 30% 1 time (3/8 or 38%) but, to your point, he shot real well in games 2 to 4 (10/15 or 67%). For reference, last year he had 3 games in a row under 33% early in the season but at no other point had 2 consecutive games where he shot below 33%. Also, last year he only had 7 games where he shot 30% or less with more than 1 attempt - this year he already has 6 of those games.

I love ZZ and I know he is working his tail off - I just hope this is not a trend and it means he is due to go on an extended heater where he shoots lights out. GBO
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Good stuff. The numbers don’t lie. I hope he’s able to get it together and have a great 2025.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
KSR picked Kentucky to lose to Tennessee twice. Personally, I don’t see it. I think we split. But very funny reading the post comments and that being the thing that sticks out to everyone and pisses their fans off.

We are in that fanbases’ heads.

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Hanging 100 in Rupp last year at a critical time in the SEC race, was pretty special. Hated losing back at home, but at that time, we had clinched at least a tie for the SEC championship. Sweeping them is always a plus and isn't far fetched at all
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
KSR picked Kentucky to lose to Tennessee twice. Personally, I don’t see it. I think we split. But very funny reading the post comments and that being the thing that sticks out to everyone and pisses their fans off.

We are in that fanbases’ heads.

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Same. Last year was a bit disappointing that we kind of laid an egg against them on the last game but it also fell at a very weird time. We had just run an impossible gauntlet to win the SEC outright. I wanted to win it because sweeping UK is rare.
 
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