The Official #3 Tennessee @ Memphis Game Thread, 12:00 PM ET, ESPN2

#577
#577
SJAVol32 said:
On the late technicals

Lomax drove the ball and scored a lay-up and called a timeout, and I heard him say something,” Bone said. “I retaliated. I shouldn’t have. We were winning the game, and we’re supposed to walk out of here with class, but I kind of allowed that to get to me. I know a couple of those guys. I played AAU with ‘em back in the day, and I kind of lost my focus.
“But then I got back level-headed, and we walked out of here the way we were supposed to.”

Penny Hardaway

Hardaway — who has coached Lomax at the middle school, high school and college levels — said he’s never seen Lomax “talk trash,” and that his freshman guard simply “protected himself” by responding.
“Alex is a kid that’s not gonna talk trash, so obviously Jordan Bone said something to him disrespectfully,” said Hardaway, a former Memphis and NBA star. “He protected himself by, you know, saying something back. Then Jeremiah jumped in and said something to Jordan Bone, and the referee teched Jeremiah.”

“I said [to the official] that the entire Tennessee team ran over to fight,” Hardaway said. “You know, their entire team emptied the bench to run over. They weren’t coming over because it was a timeout. You could visibly see guys with their fists balled, talking trash to our guys or whatever. It was almost like a standoff, and I was asking the referee why they were able to come across the line into our area and not get a technical. We got one for Jeremiah? OK. That’s fine. But why don’t they get a technical for leaving their bench to come over?
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SJAVol32 said:
Basically Penny is a whiny b****
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So, "obviously, Jordan Bone said something disrespectful". Yeah, Penny is a whiney b!tch
 
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#580
#580
UT's resume will be fine come March regardless of how Memphis ends up this year. They are 5-5 and I hope they lose 20 games. Penny is a coach but talks and acts like he's still a player. I hope to see him fail miserably after watching this crap show.
 
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#582
#582
JacketVol said:
UT's resume will be fine come March regardless of how Memphis ends up this year. They are 5-5 and I hope they lose 20 games. Penny is a coach but talks and acts like he's still a player. I hope to see him fail miserably after watching this crap show.
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Yeah, UT doesn't have to worry about their resume, but I still want Memphis to finish strong, hopefully even go undefeated the rest of the year, at home. Just because, I like it when Tiger High is good and we more or less dominate them, plus clock 100 at their "House"
 
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#592
#592
JacketVol said:
UT's resume will be fine come March regardless of how Memphis ends up this year. They are 5-5 and I hope they lose 20 games. Penny is a coach but talks and acts like he's still a player. I hope to see him fail miserably after watching this crap show.
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It's like taking the problem kid in high school and making him principle.
 
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#597
#597
Blake25p said:
Didn’t get to watch the game but did we really have 46FT attempts? Crazy high number.
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Amazingly high number of fouls. Comes to a foul every 42 seconds. Add to that the time-outs, out-of-bounds. Really messes with game flow.

Regarding the technical. Who's to say? I'm sure it was back and forth talk all game and someone finally said something or made a gesture that crossed the line. I'd have to watch a replay to see, but if the whole Vol team came off the bench and across midcourt, then I would think Hardaway has a point about there not being an opposing and offsetting technical on the Vols. Its easy to see that happening - emotions running high. Crazy fouls being called. Seriously, those superfluous foul calls are just frustrating and who are you gonna take it out on? Bad-mouth the refs in the game? I don't think so. So it heats up the emotion between the teams.

Rick Barnes is right to complain about the officiating. And he's a fairly big name in college b-ball so maybe some note will be taken. The officials were absurd this game. And it seems to have ended up helping the Vols if you look at the free throw points. But who's to say how things would have gone if they'd just let them play. I think it would have still been a Vol victory, but who knows? The officials were awful.
 
#599
#599
I loved the game and the passion. Memphis embarrassed themselves with all the flops. This was a key rebound game coming off the Gonzaga win. This team is legit and can definitely go far in the tournament.
 
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