The Official #18 Tennessee vs. Ole Miss Game Thread, 7:00 PM ET, SEC Network

[YankeeVol]

Yeah when you can’t score there is a pretty low ceiling for your team in March. Like first round exit ceiling. Some no-name mid major with some 30 year old white dudes bombing 3s will knock us out if we can’t shoot the ball more consistently.

That’s what Barnes does best

 

[Chris4Vols22]

Hope your right.

I know, hard to be optimistic right now. Tbh, even before tonight, I would not bet on us if I were a gambling man.

 

[vols 30]

You said LSU was going to kill us so I’m asking how you can predict the future?

Common sense?

 

[YankeeVol]

I am dumbfounded by this team, honestly. I'm not really sure how you fix this offense. It's not just a poor shooting night here or there. It's a lot of poor shooting nights. That isn't going to get it done in March. Not even a little bit.

They look lost half the time, like they don’t know what they’re trying to do

 

[cbrown]

Ye
Yeah, but it keeps happening. At some point it's obvious that it's systematic and something needs to be done to fix it. I think out guys play too tight.

Agree. Barnes’ recent teams feel like they are always playing tight/scared/hesitant on offense. I get and appreciate the need to play solid defense, but it looks like they spend 95% of practice on defense. Playing great defense will allow you to beat anyone on a given night, but won’t allow you to advance very far in the tournament without offensive production.

 

[The Dog]

Yeah, I think UT is up by 10 points before the under 8, media timeout

 

[SlyStone]

What I wouldn’t give for a Grant or Admiral type player right now that would take things into their own hands and rise above this putrid offense.

Barnes has recruited many, but come away empty handed.

 

[Mr French]

Common sense?

Wasting your time on this.

 

[Lankykong]

Yeah when you can’t score there is a pretty low ceiling for your team in March. Like first round exit ceiling. Some no-name mid major with some 30 year old white dudes bombing 3s will knock us out if we can’t shoot the ball more consistently.

I would argue that’s the floor rather than the ceiling based on some previous Wisconsin/Virginia teams.

 

[vols 30]

Wasting your time on this.

Apparently.

 

[gordonr24]

I doubt we lose this game, but man it's hard to watch when we play like this. If we're being optimistic, this team will gel and get hot toward the end of the season.

About the only thing we can hope for. Need that late season bloom

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Common sense?

Sounds like an opinion.

You can’t base this game off another game a week from now.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Hopefully the inexperience is the reason we play like this.

Arizona game we came out looking like we belong. Then we have a game like this.

 

[gordonr24]

Yeah, I think UT is up by 10 points before the under 8, media timeout

I can totally see that.

 

[The Dog]

My bad, Olivier had 5 points, still no rebounds

 

[TheBigOne10]

My bad, Olivier had 5 points, still no rebounds

A PF with zero rebounds. Makes sense.

 

[G0V0LS33]

They need to learn how to play together and soon. This is embarrassing

 

[vavolfan6]

Not really concerned with the offense. Sometimes you have bad streaks. Ole Miss does have a solid defensive team as well. As our guards grow with experience, ZZ, KC, even Powell, I think things will look better by end of SEC play

 

[Mr French]

Apparently.

Apparently 3 (so far) horrific shooting losses where we struggled to be in the 30% from the field, as well as questionable personnel decisions in late game aren't good enough data. We can surmise that by adding this game being another horrific shooting game there's a great chance we get beat handedly againt the number 1 scoring defense.

 

[cwbytruckers]

We need Bailey to get Hot

 

[The Dog]

As long as Chandler doesn't get a quick 3rd and 4th foul, I can see him playing 15 minutes in the 2nd half. Which should improve the offense

 

[SlyStone]

Matt Murrell was a recruit we were after out of Memphis also I believe.

 

[DooleyOrangePants]

Here’s to the second half.

 

[DocVOLiday]

Lol at the halftime announcer saying something like (paraphrasing):
JJJ doing his job… better than the refs in the music city bowl

 

[Bigorange123]

Ok. Let’s Smoke that azz