The Official #25 Tennessee @ Auburn Game Thread, 12:00 PM ET, ESPN

[GBO18]

Can’t rebound and get stops when needed.

 

[Border Vol]

The BasketVols are flat again...................................very effing frustrating!

 

[zjcvols]

What the hell kind of spacing is this? How can you function as an offense when your spacing and floor balance is this?

 

[C-south]

But his coiffure is on point,lol.

Yep. The albino skunk.

 

[RAVOL]

pathetic play once again... like watching key-stone cops ... seems like more turnovers than baskets ... how can we possibly being playing this bad and inconsistent at this point in the season?

Because in conference play against physical athletic D and you have No PG you struggle. It is simple.

 

[tnvols72]

Hes pretty bad. No feet on defense what so ever, and his shot is so slowwww.

he is slow even when he thinks he is moving fast

 

[1985Vols]

If you cant put away bad teams especially when they are missing their player/players then you know you are in trouble.

O, we would be losing by 20 if Auburn had Cooper today. Basically we are showing we are worse than an 11-13 team without their best player. Almost happened at Vandy without their best two players. Basically this team just isn’t good

 

[cwbytruckers]

Worst rebounding team ive seen

 

[NO SIR EEE]

Welp, going into the SEC tourney unranked, bounced in the ncaa tourney in the 1st round is def not how I saw this season going but it’s reality

 

[mccrackb]

Vescovi has no business playing ball at this level. By this level I mean for any college. Maybe an intramural team at a D3 school.

Best shooter by far on the team

 

[mr.checkerboards]

This

They just nuked the football program because of the same toothless tiger. New faces, but some things never change.

 

[turnuptheVOLtage]

Will be a 7 seed and get bounced by a mid level B10 team by 20pts in the 2nd round

 

[JRVOL11]

Because he's out there playing?

Pretty sure it has something to do with coaching too.

 

[Jackjon90]

How many threes do you think Auburn will make today? My guess? A lot.

They don’t have to shoot that many. They can just drive to the bucket.

 

[ndubvols]

What the hell kind of spacing is this? How can you function as an offense when your spacing and floor balance is this?

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Well in this picture pons and Keon are open/about to crash the boards. He just made a terrible decision and should’ve shot it.

 

[cobbwebb0710]

That’s the difference between us and other teams . They have guys who can take over

Was literally just thinking this.
GBO!!

 

[Border Vol]

If you expected anything else from Barnes that’s your own fault. He’s a great coach and mentor but he’ll never win big.

The most Tennessee fans can realistically expect out of their men's basketball team is to make the NCAA Tournament every season and the Sweet 16 every once in a while.

 

[Lankykong]

This was pretty terrible from Barnes I think. Needed to figure out JJJ couldn’t play and let him rest. Lost the game by trying to play small ball with Pons too much solely for offense when our defense is what was keeping us close this game, and Pons has rebounded horribly. Offense was actually okay with the two bigs this game. Should have kept playing Fulk in the second half as the 5 once he got hot because at least he can kind of rebound.

 

[OrngeJuiceJones]

My god Fulk

 

[tnvols72]

Fulk is horrible

 

[JRVOL11]

Will be a 7 seed and get bounced by a mid level B10 team by 20pts in the 2nd round

They will get bounced first round if they are a 7 seed. Will play a 10 seed and get shot out

 

[Kicker82]

This team has way more talent than auburn...but they are getting out coached in every way possible

 

[1985Vols]

I will say it One last time: no inside game...... it kills us. All the D has to do is hang outside and dump Down for a pass

Bad coaching and bad recruiting, gets you beat everything

 

[vols 30]

JJJ - 0 points, 0-5 FG, 2 turnover

Might as well play Gaines

 

[roberthunter]

We're down 9 to an awful Auburn team and Barnes has not called a single time out except for that garbage first half one that hurt us.