The Official #6 Tennessee @ Florida Game Thread, 7:00 PM ET, ESPN

[beachvol23]

Bailey is leading scorer and shooting 1-10 most of them WIDE OPEN. Defense has been horrible. It drives me nuts for the posts to hedge out high then get beat back into lane. UF has at least 4 layups because of this.

 

[HoptownVol]

That was painful to watch.

 

[JCP201]

And pons had two fouls with 8+ left in the half. Take away 3 of our top 7 and this is what it looks like.

Also, Bailey is off-- Hopefully Pons will be able to play most of the second half.

 

[Freak]

Also, Bailey is off-- Hopefully Pons will be able to play most of the second half.

We have to keep him out of foul trouble for sure.

 

[Volfan2012]

Bailey can't make a shot and he is the worst defender of all the guards. Not having Springer is painful making Bailey get way to much time on the floor.

 

[feathersax]

Its annoying how the game threads where we play poorly end up twice as long as the ones we play well

It's a BVS thing

 

[alvinkamara]

Dickie V has lost it

 

[SGMVols]

With Springer out for the game, if Vescovi can’t return to the game I’m not sure we have the offense to win this game. Who is going to make the shots? Bailey? Keon? Fulky hasn’t been the same Fulky all year. Pons isn’t exactly a guy who takes over games.

Think the basketball gods have told us loud and clear that this won’t be our night. Get home, get healthy, and move on

 

[Power T-Rev]

Fulkerson has to be the alpha in the second half. He lets thr defense push him around too easy

 

[BigSteve09]

Smelling salts in the locker room I hope. Yeesh

 

[VolFreakJosh]

You have to agree Barnes inability to recruit and keep a post player has kept us from being a great team

Y’all are acting like Barnes doesn’t try to recruit big men.

 

[vavolfan6]

One of Pons fouls was bogus where he got a clear rebound....can't remember the other one

 

[VOLifornia]

Not switching appropriately on the defensive end, not rubbing off and picking up leaving the entire baseline and glass open. All this face paced hand motion and happy feet stuff from Floriduh on the offensive end causing confusion. Boys look lost.

Offensively no ball motion, no one flashing and no one knows who the hell is supposed to set the picks and screen. A nightmare all around ladies and gents.
Gotta get the ball to the basket aggressively and get some folks in foul trouble, they are thin.

Hope they settle down the second half.

 

[Switch 625]

By chance, did anyone time the minutes the two knucklehead announcers actually talked about this game?
One can only imagine the fear of being a passenger in a car driven by Vitale

The espn app has the option to watch this game in Spanish. I almost chose it so I wouldn’t have to listen to Dicky V

 

[Phil-A-Man Jaro]

Pons needed to come back in at the under 4. This is what happened against bama. We kept sitting him. I get it, but it didn't work then. Not working now.

 

[RAVOL]

We don’t have a true point guard. Watching us on offense is painful.

True statement. Are biggest weakness. If Chandler was on this team we would compete for Natty. In CHRIST Alone

 

[Rylee_Vol18]

We suck.

 

[ndubvols]

Also, Bailey is off-- Hopefully Pons will be able to play most of the second half.

Gotta leave him out there even if he picks up an early one.

 

[UT_Dutchman]

I thought you were done.

I was thinking that same thing, he has no consistency.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

With Springer out for the game, if Vescovi can’t return to the game I’m not sure we have the offense to win this game. Who is going to make the shots? Bailey? Keon? Fulky hasn’t been the same Fulky all year. Pons isn’t exactly a guy who takes over games.

Fulky has 8 points on 3-4 FGs, he’s doing fine. Bailey is 1-10 right now and we’re shooting in the 20% in FGs & 3pt right now.

James, Bailey, Keon, & Gaines need to step it up with Santi and Springer out.

 

[volfan__18]

True statement. Are biggest weakness. If Chandler was on this team we would compete for Natty. In CHRIST Alone

Our biggest weakness is not having a true big man. There killing us on the bored and beating fulky around.

 

[vavolfan6]

For those that are calling us overrated and suck..I think that is an overexxageration. We aren't having a good game and UF has a real good defensive game plan on us. Also we are missing Springer who adds alot to our offense when its not clicking .

 

[cncchris33]

Trolls have made their way to the forum I see

Every game thread is like this. Idiots come out of the woodwork to make absolute statements like emotional 13 year old girls.

That said, that might be least inspired half of basketball I've seen us play in Barnes's Tennessee tenure. I can't even blame it on Spronger and Vescovi being out because this is an absolutely neutered Florida team that is still coached by Mike White.

We aren't playing with a lick of passion.

Florida is killing us on the boards, 26-11. They have 11 ORebs...in one half! We only have 6 DRebs.

This is a carbon copy of the Alabama game and we act like we didn't learn a thing from that game.

Bailey thinks he has to shoot it every time down the floor, and sadly, maybe he does.

And I'm usually quick to defend Barnes, but watching him stand on the sideline with his arms folded as his defense gets shredded and outrebounded by a second-rate Florida team just runs all over me. I wouldn't have taken a single TO into the half if that were me. I'd have called one every single time Plavsic or Anosike got outrebounded or lost defensively and chewed their face off.

Just an inexcusable half of basketball for a team masquerading as a top-10 team, instead looking like a team that figured they could just roll the ball out there and win.

 

[VOLED]

Fulkerson has to be the alpha in the second half. He lets thr defense push him around too easy

And passes up so many open shots.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

We suck.

Please, explain since you’re a basketball expert.