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

[bigdaddy]

I do t take too much out of this. Just shows we are soft which we knew. I mean K7 lost to west Va on the road. Be a top 4 seed and see what we get.

 

[JCP201]

A&M was picked 2nd in preseason SEC poll behind Tennessee. They are legit, just haven’t uncorked like they did tonight. Granted we played flat with the exception of ZZ and Mashack, the officiating was one-sided. They are still allowing the bigger, physical teams rough us up. It’s like it’s our payback for our physical teams a few years back.

Didn't announcer say they had a few players hurt at the beginning?

 

[RockyTop140]

Damn what an idiot this guy was. We instead got his 9,764,231 pump fakes

It’s crazy how far he’s fallen off. We could count on him to come up big in conference play every year outside of this one. Very disappointing

 

[charleyhorse]

This crew should never call another game.

Not calling the T was the worst non call I have ever seen in my life in 50 years of watching CBB and I’ve seen a bunch of bad missed calls.

If you can see the coach to give him the timeout then you can see him to call the T. They could have called the T anytime during the timeout. Just plan terrible ref job.

Coach knows better. He should be punished by AEC office for going to mid court in live ball _ Automatic Texhnical. No ezcuae Goober

 

[bigdaddy]

You said we weren’t even making the tournament after the Miss State loss. Maybe sit this one out.

Yeah I did in a drunken rage so whatever vol elite.

 

[D3Athlete]

Yep and we didn't change how we defended them the entire game. They owned us.

A&M being white hot from 3 made it difficult, especially when A&M is a driving team. Just opened everything up and couldn’t afford to help the on ball defender because of the shooting

 

[GiveHim6InSC]

Forget rankings
Forget first place in SEC
Forget whether or not you’re a 1 seed
Get on the plane and check your guts, your desire to win.
Remove your heads from your rectums and quit playing like a bunch of p&$$!es.
Attack the opponent and take the fight to them, instead of the other way around.
Blows my mind that they can play like they did against KY and Bama and then get punked like they did tonight.
The talent and leadership is there. They just have to find a way to bring it consistently.

 

[BreatheUT]

James with 4, Santi with 5, Aidoo with 6. Not gonna cut it when Knecht is having an off night.

Even with an off night Knecht finished with a respectable night. Those guys were basically no shows. Barnes just took Aidoo out for good.

 

[VolsAgainstTheWorld15]

Nah more humiliating calling it with 11 seconds to go to chew him out. That way everyone realized why he was calling the timeout.

True. There is a public humiliation aspect to call the timeout when he did.

 

[bigdaddy]

Yeah I did in a drunken rage so whatever vol elite.

I still owe Volfreak a meal so take solice in that. Eff off

 

[BreatheUT]

Bold statement there

BVS

 

[charleyhorse]

SEC should punish the coach. Fine Goober

 

[rocketskates]

I am going to start scouting for a team I'd be ok with winning the entire thing. It won't be this one.

Ask Troy Fleming who his favorite CBB is…

 

[Bryan1]

Don’t expect much in the tournament. Play a physical team we melt. Fun to watch DK. Who knows matchups may go our way.

Funny thing about that is when we played Perdue earlier in the year that's all they talked about was how physical of a team Tn was.

 

[GBO18]

I do t take too much out of this. Just shows we are soft which we knew. I mean K7 lost to west Va on the road. Be a top 4 seed and see what we get.

Oh you are drunk. Never mind.

 

[TNVOLFN]

The whole student body looks like confused yell leaders.

At least we have some hot cheerleaders!

 

[Voltopia]

Every year, Barnes’ teams hit the wall right before the tournament. Every. Year.

He runs them hard, and if they don't do well enough, he runs them harder. Team can keep up with it early in the year, but the bill comes due. A lot of his former players have talked about how intense his practices and his coaching is. That podcast interview with Grant Williams where he talked about the brutal practices comes to mind.

 

[djohnnyg]

Every year, Barnes’ teams hit the wall right before the tournament. Every. Year.

I call it the "Barnes Wall" and yes it happens every year....but he can recruit so it's this vicious cycle. Get rid of Barnes can we still recruit?

 

[TNVOLFN]

The crowd has not given Texas AM a good look. Booing extremely obvious fouls on Texas AM, oooing and awing everytime a ball handler reversed his dribble for some reason, now that. Did the air ball chant with Z which I always hate but also I don’t even recall him airballing (I could be wrong about that one) Clearly not a basketball school

That’s called home court advantage, what should they have done, golf clapped?

 

[johnboyhunter]

I’m honestly surprised Barnes didn’t take the opportunity around the two or three minute mark when it was clear the game was over to really give Pat the business and pick up a couple of techs to head to the locker room early.

The officiating was far from our biggest issue tonight, but seems like there is always a highly questionable call (or two or three or more) that go against us when Pat Adams is present. Barnes obviously recognizes it.

I don’t think getting a T is the way to make your point. It basically discredits you as unsportsmanlike. Doesn’t make sense, hey Pat you didn’t call a technical so let me give you a reason to call a technical on me.

 

[walkenvol]

Well that sucked - hate it for the Vol fans that attended the game. I said before the game that it would be a tough game if we struggled to stay in front of their guards and we did. Add their three pointers that were way above their average and we didn’t have any answers. I’m not sure how we’re going to stop their guards from driving the lane in 2 weeks either. Guess we’ll see what Barnes draws up before then. Credit to the Aggies as they simply kicked our tails tonight.

 

[Vol49er]

That’s called home court advantage, what should they have done, golf clapped?

This is too dumb of a response to warrant a longer response than this

 

[SGMVols]

I call it the "Barnes Wall" and yes it happens every year....but he can recruit so it's this vicious cycle. Get rid of Barnes can we still recruit?

No, these recruits are only coming here because of Barnes.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

That’s called home court advantage, what should they have done, golf clapped?

Chanting overrated pretty much signifies that their win over us wasn’t impressive.

It’s just a dumb thing for students to chant.

 

[JCP201]

Barnes made the right adjusments, it was just too late to make a difference. I don't think he took Knecht out as punishment-- it was just he had four fouls.