The Official #1 Tennessee @ #8 Florida Game Thread, 7:00 PM ET, ESPN2

[OrngeJuiceJones]

15 points at the half.

WTF

5 missed layups, 8 wide open 3s clanked. Plain and simple.

 

[whobethis16]

If we fall that much after UF barely fell then the POS do hate us. This league is blood bath on the road. Look at UK tonight. Down 10 to unranked UGA at half.

Losing by 7 on the road while scoring 100 is a lot different than getting run out with this... can't even call it an offense.

 

[87Vol]

Thoughts

1. There is an difference in effort.

2. There are going to be nights like this for everyone in the league with as many good teams as there are.

3. My biggest concern watching this would be that there doesn’t seem to be anywhere to go to stop the bleeding.

But, you’re the last undefeated team in the country. If the score holds, I would not freak out about losing to a top 10 team on the road

Losing is one thing. Getting the absolute crap beat out of you and not matching there intensity is unacceptable. We getting out hustled and out fought.

 

[tbones0711]

I know he won’t do it, but this may be one of those nights Rick needs to get a bit more animated with the officials. I doubt it changes much, and it’s not his style, but man why not try something. Nothing else is going well for this team so far.

I'm surprised CRB isn't in our players faces and trying to motivate the team. Oh sure, he'll lay into them in the locker room. I feel he should have used every time-out and tried to work the ball inside on about every play. I guess humiliation will be the teacher here simply because our coach doesn't seem to want to interject a change of pace. Likely too late now.

 

[tev.sm]

Even if we lose, I hope Rick Barnes makes adjustments in the 2nd half.

Igor, ZZ and Gainey need to drive the ball and either finish at the rim, alley to Okpara/Cade or get the foul call. Shots are clearly not falling from 3.

Lanier needs to also play smarter offensively. If he can hit the mid-range more consistently then he gotta shoot it from there.

 

[99gator]

League champ might lose 5+ games this year

 

[VOLinAL]

Sad thing is, every game in conference will be like this. Hard at home and harder on the road.

 

[GBO18]

Is Gainey ever going to take that next step? Thanks for Illinois game but time for some consistency. Same goes for Igor. Make some shots dudes.

 

[vol94]

No, but it's a fair question.

I assume a TN player (couldn’t tell who) touched the ball first on baseline.

 

[CornbreadVol]

At this point we just have to win each 4 minute segment. If we can win each segment by 3-5 points then it will be a game by the under 4.

 

[Vols All Day]

But seriously, if we don't make a run in first 5-8 minutes, we need to get the bench some PT.

He played the bench. The only guy left is Boswell.

 

[first time caller]

Vols need to start a fight in the second half!

 

[tnvols72]

If say we have to hold them under 25 points to have a shot in 2nd half

can Tn score 25 should be the bigger question

 

[HoptownVol]

Damn!

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Barnes probably wants a win in Austin on Saturday more than this one in Gainesville.

 

[Ernest T. Vol]

Didn't score last 6 minutes

 

[Orangeslide]

I'm surprised CRB isn't in our players faces and trying to motivate the team. Oh sure, he'll lay into them in the locker room. I feel he should have used every time-out and tried to work the ball inside on about every play. I guess humiliation will be the teacher here simply because our coach doesn't seem to want to interject a change of pace. Likely too late now.

We are not coming back from this deficit on the road. We could not match their physicality. We got puked in the paint.

 

[hUTch2002]

Igor hasn't shot that many. It's just a stinker. Flush it

He’s shot 2 too many though. He can’t shoot. Yeah, this one is done. Hopefully we will at least fight the second half. If not, this could hurt the confidence going on the road again Saturday.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Glad all the douchebags now decide to join the threads; since we’re losing of course the b**** contingent of this place shows up.

 

[DooleyOrangePants]

But seriously, if we don't make a run in first 5-8 minutes, we need to get the bench some PT.

Yep. Empty the bench and let the walk ons have a shot. Might as well if we can’t claw back a little bit.

 

[vavolfan6]

Florida is playing good defense. But so are we. Just losing the rebounding battle. As a result Florida has been able to shoot more shots.

But still, we have to switch it up offensively. No excuse to be 13% FG shooting and have yet to make a 3.

 

[VolsLFC]

There is just not enough thc in this pen

 

[wmcovol]

League champ might lose 5+ games this year

Auburn won’t lose 5 games. They’ve got a “meal ticket” (Broome) the rest of us don’t have.

 

[walkenvol]

This has nothing to do with JP. This is plain and simple a stinker shooting. An aberration from our first 14 games.

I disagree - both of Florida’s big men are out muscling our bigs and we don’t have a true post scoring threat. JP has the size to help negate they’re size advantage in the post.

Now it wouldn’t make the difference if we can’t shoot a lick tonight, but that occasionally happens in college basketball.

 

[TheBigOne10]

Estrella didn’t get punked by Edey last year in the E8, I think we are missing him in a big big way right now.

Yeah and Cade Phillips hasn’t gotten punked in several games this year, and he’s more physical than JP. Everyone is getting punked tonight.