The Official #17 Tennessee vs. #5 Villanova Game Thread, 1:00 PM ET, ESPN News

[Jravol78]

Think about the Tenn fans that were in attendance today. God bless them

Tubbs family gonna be tired come Monday . They gotta hustle to get that flight back to Knoxville for the football game tonight and then have a quick turnaround for TLV’s game in TBA tomorrow . It will be hard for them to simultaneously attend that game and the men’s consolation game back in Connecticut at the same time but I am confident they’ll somehow manage .

 

[BreatheUT]

Thats fine too. Im just annoyed with James right now.

I'd give JJJ 10 minutes on the bench.

 

[SGMVols]

35 minutes on Fulk and he’d be dead after a game and a half. Give JJJ those 10 minutes at the 4 and then I’d be satisfied with what you laid out

When the guys who we need to make shots are making shots, we don’t need anyone to play 35. Just didn’t happen today obviously.

 

[Smokey123]

Chandler 30/ Ziegler 10
Vescovi 30/ Powell 10
James 15/Powell 20/Mashack 10
BHH 25/ Fulk 10/ORN 10
Fulk 25/Aidoo/10/Uros 5
This is honestly my rotation moving forward.

35 minutes is too much for Fulk rn. James will never get only 15 minutes, he’s by far our best defender and one of our best rebounders, he’s a solid passer and one of our leaders, just in a slump shooting rn

 

[youcancallmeAl]

A one and done that wont be here next year. Has that been an excuse for Cal?

What has Cal done lately with his one and dones?

 

[Smokey123]

Today was very disappointing but this is basketball not football. Very long season to go we’ll see how we play tomorrow

 

[Unconditional Surrender]

Fulkerson is average. Nkamhoua is average. JJJ is average. Vescovi is average.

 

[youcancallmeAl]

I'd give JJJ 10 minutes on the bench.

It's obvious to me that he ought to be a 4, not a three, cause he can't shoot from outside. Maybe Powell should get more time at the three. He looked pretty good today.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Fulkerson is average. Nkamhoua is average. JJJ is average. Vescovi is average.

I agree on all but Vescovi

 

[HarsinVol]

Fulkerson is average. Nkamhoua is average. JJJ is average. Vescovi is average.

And Bailey ought to be picking plastic out of his ass.

 

[SGMVols]

Fulkerson is average. Nkamhoua is average. JJJ is average. Vescovi is average.

SV is why we didn’t lose by 40 today…

 

[Vols8086]

The most sobering thing for me… Fulkerson looks like the same guy from last year.

Fulky has been the same guy for 4.5 years. He had half a season where he looked like something more than a high level role player. Time to accept that was a hot streak and outlier rather than some breakthrough.

 

[Bigorange123]

@RobDauster

Josiah-Jordan James is 4-22 from the floor this season. He's 1-15 from three. At some point, Tennessee is going to have to find a way to get spacing/shooting for Kennedy Chandler to be effective, and playing two bigs with JJJ is not the answer.

 

[LeannaVol]

Only positive for me coming out of this game is Mashack is a competitor who was playing hard at the end and he has elite athleticism.

 

[Vols8086]

@RobDauster

Josiah-Jordan James is 4-22 from the floor this season. He's 1-15 from three. At some point, Tennessee is going to have to find a way to get spacing/shooting for Kennedy Chandler to be effective, and playing two bigs with JJJ is not the answer.

I said after game 1 or 2 that I would like to see them go small with JJJ at the 5. Today would have been a nice opportunity to see that lineup. But that might be way too contemporary for Barnes to try.

 

[Bigorange123]

@wesrucker247

#Vols coach Rick Barnes: The biggest factors in that game were [Villanova] winning all the 50-50 balls and our turnovers. Any time you play those guys, you learn a lot about yourself. We learned a lot about ourselves today.

 

[Smokey123]

I wanna see more small ball line ups with JJJ at the 4. KC, Vescovi, Powell, JJJ, Fulk. No reason why we shouldn’t see this lineup at least some point in each game

 

[Smokey123]

Only positive for me coming out of this game is Mashack is a competitor who was playing hard at the end and he has elite athleticism.

He’s very similar to pons but I think he’s a little shorter. He’ll be a contributor in a couple years for sure

 

[BigBadVol]

You guy are such losers! Can’t take a loss without criticizing like your some kind of experts.

 

[HarsinVol]

Fulky has been the same guy for 4.5 years. He had half a season where he looked like something more than a high level role player. Time to accept that was a hot streak and outlier rather than some breakthrough.

But, but he cried...

 

[Unconditional Surrender]

SV is why we didn’t lose by 40 today…

He did his best. He's very average.

 

[LeannaVol]

He’s very similar to pons but I think he’s a little shorter. He’ll be a contributor in a couple years for sure

Mashack is aggressive in the boards. Never really saw that is Pons. I think Mashack will be much better.

 

[1985Vols]

The offense was bad today because the quarterback is a FRESHMAN.

Not an excuse in basketball as much as football

 

[Bigorange123]

@wesrucker247

#Vols coach Rick Barnes: The scouting report on Kennedy, Santi and Zakai is simple. Teams want to post up and attack those guys and get them in foul trouble because they don’t want them on the floor.

 

[1985Vols]

You've said that about around 7 players. We can only play with 5 at a time.

Huh? I was talking about 1 player that is the best shooter on the team but our coach refused to play him when He might have helped keep us in the game