The Official #10 Tennessee @ Kentucky Game Thread, 1:00 PM ET, CBS

#852
#852
DeepSpringsVol said:
Well documented that Barnes and Calipari are friends. Perhaps these 2 games are Barnes way of making sure Calipari doesn't get fired.😒
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That’s possible, however I doubt it mainly because I think the friendship is removed from the square during a College Basketball game.
 
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#854
vavolfan6 said:
Some backup that doesn't play and had one good game against us. If anything, mathematically, it would favor us for him to play and go back to playing his average..
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You have no clue what youre talking about.
Hes a starter. He plays nearly 30minutes a game.
 
#855
#855
I’m gonna be optimistic and say we pull out an amazing win.
We come out aggressive and go on a 7-0 run.
Down 13 w/ about 10-12 minutes is doable.
Cut it down to 8 with 6 minutes left.
Get KY in foul trouble we go double bonus at 4 minutes.
We tie the game up at 1 minute. KY doesn’t want to foul but does somehow.
Vescovi hits clutch free throws and we end up winning by 4 ! Go Vols
 
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berryvol said:
The sky is falling!!
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I didn't think the team was top 10 this year. They have surprised me being able to win big games. I would be perfectly fine attributing these bad losses to being out 2 starters. But they freaking had a fantastic showing against Bama and so now I'm just back to being confused as to if they're actually a good team or not lol
 
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#859
I haven’t watched the last few games. It’s better for my health that way. Not sure what the issues are, but they seem more complicated then the coaching staff can figure out. Hopefully it gets sorted. If not, they’ll just keep doing the same stuff and be home after the first round … again.
 
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#862
TheMookieMonster said:
I just think it’s unfair to try and say fans should be okay with losing by 20 at half to a bad Kentucky team, which feels like what half this board is doing. That’s a loser mentality. Anyone that is upset with this pretty putrid performance is immediately labeled a nega-Vol or told their expectations are unreasonable.

I’m under no illusion that today was going to be easy. The line was -2 for a reason. This was going to be a dogfight. I even thought we might lose! It should be an evenly matched fight. But, this team has completely no-shown on both offense and defense.

We need to get healthy obviously, but it’s just not acceptable to be getting clobbered like this and anyone trying to explain it away as not a big deal is just gaslighting people.
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I don’t think anyone would call you a negavol, you’re a very reasonable poster who’s around for good times and bad. But idk, I also think the whole idea that fans have to stomp and scream when the team doesn’t play well, else they have a “loser mentality”, is childish. I’m not a coach nor a player for Tennessee basketball. My outlook affects the team’s performance 0%. So why force myself to be super angry and upset?

And again, I agree that this kind of performance is unacceptable for a contender. I’ve just never thought us a contender. And for a top 20ish team like I think we are, a dud like this isn’t completely outlandish given all the circumstances. Again, especially when we’re without what I would consider our 2nd and 3rd most important players. I’m not trying to gaslight anyone, if people want to be upset sure, but it’s just simply not the surprise people are treating it as
 
#863
#863
VOLSDB said:
I just don't understand how every player on the team has suddenly become terrible offensively. 3-4 weeks ago we were absolutely crushing teams. Scoring 70+ each game. Now it's a struggle to get to 50. Can't throw it in the ocean.
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There is more to that this, but our two highest rated players are out today, and our best scorer gets even more attention while he is still coming off the shoulder injury. Key is steaky and today is not his good streak. They have hit some really good shots and all their rim bouncers have gone in and ours bounced off. The refs have given them several touch fouls and we may have gotten 1, but not a typical Rupperee impact by a long shot. Mashack has had way more contact than several of the fouls blown on us, but still not a ref deal. Play for pride and no injuries and head home. Simply show more moral fiber than the low hanging fruit in social media everywhere get ready for next game.


EDITTED TO ADD...... 7-0 is a good start.
 
#865
#865
VolunteerCeltic said:
I think collectively most fans have felt that in February regarding Vol basketball. With the loss today, they will be 2-4 with every loss coming to an unranked team. There is no light at the end of the tunnel.
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If there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, why are you here? Why are you watching at all? I’d simply not tune in if I thought this team wasn’t winning another game all year.
 
#866
#866
hUTch2002 said:
How do you figure we’re top 5 in talent and depth? And you’re really suggesting a 20-6 team with the wins we have shouldn’t be ranked? Those are two impressively bad statements, no offense.
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It's more about how we play. Top teams don't get blown out like this imo and to your rival. We do have top 5 talent and depth imo but that doesn't make you a top 10 team. We have a few good wins on paper but I personally think Bama is overrated.
 
#868
#868
PC Jr. said:
I haven’t watched the last few games. It’s better for my health that way. Not sure what the issues are, but they seem more complicated then the coaching staff can figure out. Hopefully it gets sorted. If not, they’ll just keep doing the same stuff and be home after the first round … again.
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You cant coach lack of size. UK is just playing over ZZ and SV, have posted SV up several times. We just dont have the length to play with this UK team. If we had JJJ today hed be on Wallace and it would make a huge difference.
 
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Other_Guy said:
I didn't think the team was top 10 this year. They have surprised me being able to win big games. I would be perfectly fine attributing these bad losses to being out 2 starters. But they freaking had a fantastic showing against Bama and so now I'm just back to being confused as to if they're actually a good team or not lol
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Probably because winning on the road this year has been extremely hard for most teams.

It wasn’t that long ago Bama got embarrassed by Oklahoma and Purdue got smoked by Maryland.
 
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Vol49er said:
I don’t think anyone would call you a negavol, you’re a very reasonable poster who’s around for good times and bad. But idk, I also think the whole idea that fans have to stomp and scream when the team doesn’t play well, else they have a “loser mentality”, is childish. I’m not a coach nor a player for Tennessee basketball. My outlook affects the team’s performance 0%. So why force myself to be super angry and upset?

And again, I agree that this kind of performance is unacceptable for a contender. I’ve just never thought us a contender. And for a top 20ish team like I think we are, a dud like this isn’t completely outlandish given all the circumstances. Again, especially when we’re without what I would consider our 2nd and 3rd most important players. I’m not trying to gaslight anyone, if people want to be upset sure, but it’s just simply not the surprise people are treating it as
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I would agree that losing isn’t a surprise. I actually expected to lose today. But, getting pounded by 20 is a surprise. It just is. Did you really think this team after beating Alabama was going to come into Rupp score 19 points in one half and give up 40?
 
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