The Official #5 Tennessee vs. Kentucky Game Thread, 12:00 PM ET, ESPN

[TennVols12]

Wouldn’t hurt my feelings if bilas got that dome rung on the way out

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[VolsAgainstTheWorld15]

They’ve also shot 20 more free throws than us

That too. Probably wouldn’t have mattered if we brought our A game, but can’t ignore how poor the officiating was

 

[jaguinn5]

We pressed bad. Just started jacking up stupid 3's.

We've done that for the last 2 or 3 years. There's just no offensive awareness. Again, that's coaching.

 

[walkenvol]

Wasted Uros’s career game by missed layups and lopsided free throws for KY

 

[johnfnkelly]

It was only a matter of time. Rick Barnes teams will always be two things: consistently good on defense, and inconsistent at best on offense.

Barnes isn’t out there shooting layups. These are D1 ball players. Hit the f****** layup.

 

[hUTch2002]

KY played rather avg - the Vols well below avg. You'll lose to a blue blood like that most of the time. My point - not sure KY should over celebrate their "emergence". The Vols just sucked.

Kentucky is average. They played like who they are, except from the FT line. Oh well, a lot of season left but I’d rather have lost to Vandy than UK.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

I had a bad feeling about this game all week. People called me crazy. People said Kentucky sucks. I knew that Kentucky would play their best game of the season. That loss to South Carolina was rock bottom and we didn’t play focused basketball.

 

[sportsnut624]

Lol yes bama will go undefeated in sec. Might as well be an nba team

They won’t go undefeated but neither will we. Losing a game like this at home puts you behind the 8 ball

 

[Mustng959]

I had to take the trash off ... Final score?

 

[BradstarVols]

There's a difference between missing bad shots and missing good shots. We took a lot of bad shots, especially at the end. Thats coaching.

Well had they not missed the easy shots throughout the game, it probably wouldn't have come down to the end. And I don't necessarily agree. If a play is called it's still up to the players to execute it properly.

 

[sportsnut624]

Did you miss the Colorado game?

This was worse for me. Colorado they at least were still trying to gel. This was just a **** show

 

[walkenvol]

We've done that for the last 2 or 3 years. There's just no offensive awareness. Again, that's coaching.

******** - Barnes can’t shoot the layups for them

 

[JCP201]

All the coach haters show up when we lose even though we were number 5 in the country.

 

[Switch 625]

Barnes will never win a natty. Just needed to remind myself so I can manage my expectations.

 

[johnfnkelly]

UK is terrible? Wow!

If UT hits their open layups and shoots better than 14% from 3 it’s a double digit win.

 

[Block Party]

This is whoever started the "Kentucky got beat" thread fault.

 

[ColinS]

The feeling had had down the stretch of this game will be revisited in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. I just knew what was coming

 

[volforlife15]

They won’t go undefeated but neither will we. Losing a game like this at home puts you behind the 8 ball

I can almost guarantee you both teams will lose more than two games in the sec. It’s basketball. Yes this was a bad loss. Alabama will have one too

 

[I4Vols]

Santi couldn’t have been worse when it mattered most

And ON played like a freshman girl in hi school. Phillips like frosh in college.
You know it's bad when Uros leads in pts

 

[amaralfan1]

Totally agree. I was making fun of the OP. But this felt like such a colorado performance. D was a little better but this looked like the same O

I think you are spot on. Similar effort, feel and loss to the Colorado game. It wouldn't surprise me if we blow them out at Rupp.

 

[D3Athlete]

We can’t miss layups like that. That the one of the main things. Open 3 just didn’t fall and when it looked good. It would just rim out. When officiating takes over the game, it took us out defensively. Pat Adams has zero business doing high caliber basketball games. The free throw disparity was an absolute joke. One of those days were if could have went wrong, by god it went wrong.

 

[TheBigOne10]

Vols gave me a stinker of a birthday gift today. Oh well, onto the next one!

 

[DowntownVol]

Phillips was an absolute non-factor, and that can't happen against a quality opponent (yes, UK is quality, I don't care what their record coming in was, they have tons of talent)

 

[DC_Vol]

This is whoever started the "Kentucky got beat" thread fault.

Nah, that’s one of my favorite threads

 

[jaguinn5]

Barnes isn’t out there shooting layups. These are D1 ball players. Hit the f****** layup.

If our players are trying to force bad shots up over and over, that is a coaching issue. Rick Barnes tends to have teams with very low offensive IQ. That Williams/Schofield/Bone year was the only exception, but even that team fell WAY short of expectations when it mattered most.