The Official #6 Tennessee @ Texas A&M Game Thread, 8:00 PM ET, ESPN

[CornbreadVol]

Honestly get it to under 10 by half and I’ll feel alright

 

[TheBigOne10]

Aidoo does get worked by physical bigs. Mack from Carolina ate him up all night.

 

[DarkVolder]

This team is bi polar

 

[BigOrangeFanatic]

They are way over their season average percentage.

Sure, but you can't sit back and just wait for them to miss shots. You gotta contest. Right now, we're not.

 

[Vols2015]

We need to close in on the defense more. Unacceptable they are getting so much space.

 

[vol94]

our bigs just don't want to rebound lol

I’ve said all season that our post play is our weakness. I don’t understand how a 6’11 240 pound player be so soft. Yes he lacks strength but show some grit. Go after the damn ball. Rebound with two hands. He rarely gets a clean Cary in an entry pass. And he seems to juggle the ball in rebounds.

 

[Clad in Big Orange]

when we bring our nice guy mindset on the road, there just no chance.

 

[Vol737]

Get this down to a 5 or 6 pt deficit by half, and I’ll feel good for the 2nd.

Yep, we just gotta find a way to hang in and not let this get away from us.

 

[Franklin_Vol09]

We need TOBE in the game to rebound.

 

[barney]

Mashak and Awaka in Vescovi and JJ to the bench pls

 

[Switch 625]

Has A&M cloned Dillingham? Good grief.

Seems like every game is the same with someone going off that can’t miss.

 

[chuckb1448]

Absolutely terrible play. Pathetic.

It's Defense! Problem is they are hitting all the crap

 

[VolsAgainstTheWorld15]

Feels a lot like the Georgia game in the second half when they got scorching hot. The only difference is that this A&M is mentally tough enough to not blow it. We will have to man up and take this game from them. Starts with staying in Taylor’s jersey.

 

[Ernie McCracken]

We have 3 players with a rebound so far. One being ZZ. That’s just unacceptable.

Still a honest question..Where is Bert....This game is weird...No Wonder

 

[berryvol]

People keep saying “they can’t shoot like this forever”. Uh, they can. Plenty of examples of bad shooting teams going nuclear. We have to defend better and get our head out of our ass on offense.

We are not playing well, but TAMU is absolutely playing above their heads on offense. 8-12 is insane in-game, regardless of quality of look. I would hope we pick it up on both ends and make this a game, but at the current state this is definitely a “tip the cap” type of game. If they hit 70% of their threes all night, really nothing we can do.

 

[AthensVol2007]

Not really. Other than one shot, they're getting really good looks in the flow of the game. They have really good shooting guards and they're playing at home.

No they don’t. Radford shoots 26% from 3 and Taylor shoots 30%. Both are under 40% overall. They’re a terrible shooting team across the board.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Rebounding a problem

 

[Franklin_Vol09]

Sure, but you can't sit back and just wait for them to miss shots. You gotta contest. Right now, we're not.

Fair. But we have had wide open 3’s and missed them.

 

[volz2wallz]

Just keep it close and settle in...GBO!!

 

[BigOrangeFanatic]

Y’all said you wanted Barnes to be willing to sacrifice some emphasis on defense for more scoring. You got your wish

Whose yall?

 

[vavolfan6]

A team that averages 26% from 3 is currently shooting 66% lol..you just gotta laugh sometimes

 

[chuckb1448]

Seems like every game is the same with someone going off that can’t miss.

A team can be 2 for 48 on threes and hit 12 against us

 

[Hurley Mooncalf]

A and m is like 300 something in 3 pt shooting. Why us?

 

[RAVOL]

Why do you always end with that statement

Because being in CHRIST leads to Eternal life in Heaven and so I hope everyone has a relationship with CHRIST so they can be in Heaven.

 

[GBO18]

To be fair our defense has always been to let the other team shoot 3s rather than 2s thus we tend to over help a lot. That is happening right now and they are making except for Taylor. He is making them off the dribble.