The Official #4 Tennessee vs. #15 Missouri Game Thread, 7:00 PM ET, SEC Network

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Did anybody at the game notice the Mizzou intimidation antics? Bates was the ringleader, but a couple of their bigs were doing questionable things.
 
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Redheads said:
With 4 minutes to go we were trying to run clock and they just wouldn’t allow it, fouling us after they couldn’t get a steal. On the other end, they just put their head down and ran straight at anyone in a white jersey near the basket, totally out of control. Refs gave it to them every time. I’m not sure how to defend a guy who runs straight at you and jumps into you while you stand with your arms in the air.
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We weren’t shooting FTs until about 1:30 minutes left in the game. We went 3 minutes without scoring a bucket because we sat on the ball. And Missouri was allowed back in the game. Didn’t execute at all on offensive end during that time period.

Again good win obviously but can’t be out scored 20-10 in 4 minutes to close out a game against anyone. It will cost us down the road when we stop executing. With an older team this shouldn’t happen.
 
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Redheads said:
With 4 minutes to go we were trying to run clock and they just wouldn’t allow it, fouling us after they couldn’t get a steal. On the other end, they just put their head down and ran straight at anyone in a white jersey near the basket, totally out of control. Refs gave it to them every time. I’m not sure how to defend a guy who runs straight at you and jumps into you while you stand with your arms in the air.
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I love Coach Barnes, but this is one aspect of his game I hate. With a lead, instead of just becoming more conservative, he lets his point guard hold the ball til 12 seconds then starts the offense. You milk the clock by running the offense but not taking the first open shot.
 
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Namorto1 said:
We weren’t shooting FTs until about 1:30 minutes left in the game. We went 3 minutes without scoring a bucket because we sat on the ball. And Missouri was allowed back in the game. Didn’t execute at all on offensive end during that time period.

Again good win obviously but can’t be out scored 20-10 in 4 minutes to close out a game against anyone. It will cost us down the road when we stop executing. With an older team this shouldn’t happen.
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I agree it shouldn’t happen in a perfect world and agree we shouldn’t have stopped running our offense as it was working beautifully and Mizzou can really score. It does happen to everyone though and the better teams find a way to win anyway. I watched the end of Auburn and UGA and that game looked over several times yet UGA almost found a way to send that game to OT. Their player missed a short put back that was wide open. Auburn held on but they have 5 5th year seniors including a possible POY and almost let that one get away.
 
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Rick Barnes wasn’t happy. The Tennessee basketball coach tramped into the locker room at halftime with 15 minutes to vent. He chose to pull up four minutes of film.

It was the first four minutes against Missouri on Wednesday. It was four minutes of Tennessee not doing what the coaches talked about. It was four minutes of showing the Vols winning was flashing in their faces and they were blind to it. “Everything that Coach Barnes told us that was there, was there,” guard Zakai Zeigler said.

Barnes used the time wisely and well — and it worked. No. 4 Tennessee had 28 points when it entered the locker room. It scored 57 after leaving it, crushing No. 16 Missouri 85-81 at Food City Center with a sensational offensive half brought about by Tennessee's best offensive lineup deploying the film's teaching points.
How Tennessee basketball used a halftime film session to beat Missouri
 
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Good win. Played an excellent 2nd half with the exception of the last 3.5 minutes.

Vols really stepped up.

Glad to see the Milc Man come to the party.

We need that from him every game.
 
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kamoshika said:
Rick Barnes wasn’t happy. The Tennessee basketball coach tramped into the locker room at halftime with 15 minutes to vent. He chose to pull up four minutes of film.

It was the first four minutes against Missouri on Wednesday. It was four minutes of Tennessee not doing what the coaches talked about. It was four minutes of showing the Vols winning was flashing in their faces and they were blind to it. “Everything that Coach Barnes told us that was there, was there,” guard Zakai Zeigler said.

Barnes used the time wisely and well — and it worked. No. 4 Tennessee had 28 points when it entered the locker room. It scored 57 after leaving it, crushing No. 16 Missouri 85-81 at Food City Center with a sensational offensive half brought about by Tennessee's best offensive lineup deploying the film's teaching points.
How Tennessee basketball used a halftime film session to beat Missouri
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That plus not playing Dubar whole second half.
 
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Col_Cathcart said:
But it would make for a pretty boring game thread if everyone waited to say anything until after the game was over
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Just me personally, everyone being emotional during the game doesn't bother me. What I don't understand is directing it at our team. I mean I get, "what's wrong with us, we can't throw it in the ocean?" but firing coaches, rescinding players scholarships, specifically insulting/attacking them in the heat of battle doesn't make good sense to me.

We have two enemies during any game, opposition & refs, that all of our anger and malice can be heaped upon. Call them every single name in the book. Question their mother's favorite farm animal. Ask your representative or senator to have them nuked when they return home. Organize a mob to show up at the arena during halftime and turn over their travel busses. Whatever!! But while our guys are fighting it seems to me all our wrath should be directed at the enemy(s).
 
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sami said:
But without reactionary takes in the moment this board would be a ghost town.
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Seriously? Displays of lack of character cannot ever be a positive, not a break even either. Discretion is a terrible thing to waste. Fortunately the players did not try to justify THEIR early execution.
 
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GUNTERSVOL said:
Seriously? Displays of lack of character cannot ever be a positive, not a break even either. Discretion is a terrible thing to waste. Fortunately the players did not try to justify THEIR early execution.
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It’s funny that you think character is defined by not thinking your favorite team will lose when they are struggling.
 
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