The Official #11 Tennessee vs. Montana Game Thread, 7:00 PM ET, SEC Network+

[YankeeVol]

Not a very good first half.

 

[OrngeJuiceJones]

Okpara has to be better with the ball....

 

[TrippieRedd]

Working NIL terms at halftime. Jersey switch after.

Yayayayayay!

 

[Chris4Vols22]

Except for those lazy passes ugggghhhh

True. I still have to give him credit since I've been harsh on him in the past.

 

[tev.sm]

Gainey is a different player. Looks more confident on both ends.

 

[YankeeVol]

No we don’t want to see this against Montana lol

 

[volfanhill]

Dalton Milicic

 

[MoCo_Vol]

They cooled off & Money went broke when Shack or Bishop were on him.

A bit less turnovers inside by Felix and we’d be up 15+

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

Great to see Igor playing outside. He’s doing so much better with some space to operate.

 

[A-RodWiLks]

True. I still have to give him credit since I've been harsh on him in the past.

For sure... just needs to work on that mid range a bit but yeah looks much improved

 

[Chris4Vols22]

Dalton Milicic

Lol calm down. But I LOVED that sequence of the driving layup followed by the 3!!

 

[tev.sm]

Milicic showing some flashes of DK but getting his within the offense.

 

[JCP201]

Foul trouble

He is going to be hard to replace next year. Team went totally stagnant when he was out.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Yeah. Barnes is about the same age and personality as my high school coach. He called defenses like that gimmicks and said real men play man to man. I don’t see Coach Barnes trying anything like that.

I don’t think it’s stubbornness. I think that they invest so much time teaching the concept that it doesn’t make much sense to switch up to something different.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Chaz only took one shot. Him & ZZ had 2 fouls quick.

Barnes used it to get Carr, Bishop, & Cade more minutes

 

[knoxvol52]

How did Ja end up at Murray? It happens

Ja wasn't even ranked coming out of high School.

 

[DMcVol]

Okpara has to be better with the ball....

He’s been hurt and small sample size but I haven’t seen the guy who was impressive pre-season. To this point, I think Tobe was/is better.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Shooting 57% from field and 44% from deep.

Their style of offense ate clock so we didn’t take a ton of shots. Pretty good half after Money opened up on fire.

 

[therealitytheory]

Hulu live works...my ESPN+ doesnt.

 

[Jax_Vol]

Halftime speech:

Point 1: Guard the kid from Oakland, California.

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Point 2: Let Connor Dick shoot

 

[adam.vol]

I don’t think it’s stubbornness. I think that they invest so much time teaching the concept that it doesn’t make much sense to switch up to something different.

I don’t consider it stubbornness. It was confidence as you said, he believed that man should work in all scenarios. We might go to 2-3 if we were outsized or 1-3-1 trap if we needed to create turnovers. But help/man would work against anyone if we all did our jobs.

I see that in Barnes. He’ll question your manhood if you back down from the challenge and you won’t play for him after that.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Also, Barnes is teaching defensive principles that work at any level, comes down to execution.

 

[therealitytheory]

Dalton Milicic

Heh. He better get busy.

 

[YankeeVol]

Felix and 1

 

[YankeeVol]

Chaz!!!