The Official #7 Tennessee vs. #2 Purdue Game Thread, 8:00 PM ET, ESPN

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I want Purdue in March so we can end that one dimensional teams season. The favorable officiating in the first half and down the stretch was garbage.

Purdue got 4 points on Barnes tech which is what it took to get fair officiating for most of the end of first half and second half. Still had Awaka foul out on BS, Aidoo had a bad call against him and a couple of bad calls on Estrella to go with two bad fouls on Santi, an inbounds violation not called and a couple of balls that went off Purdue buy were called out on us.

With all that, if ZZ and Vescovi shoot hallway decent in the first half then we win solidly. Dalton got points but kept making the same bad moves into traffic. We are a top 3 team once we gel and are top 5 already.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Refs sucked, no question.

But the offense sucked worse. Vescovi didn't even show up. He hit 0 FGs. JJJ had 1 FG. Either of them show up we win.
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This is who James is offensively. Stretches of great play and you think it's finally happening and then a big game comes around and he is nowhere to be seen.
 
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pasadenavol said:
Since every armchair coach is giving their opinion, I think that what cost us the game is the fact that we were in the double bonus with 12+ mins left, but did not attack the basket. You have to draw up screens that allow our guards to take it to the hoop and draw fouls. Use the refs to your advantage by forcing them to call fouls.
Love the technical on Barnes...showed he was bought in for his team. Wish Heupel would learn to do the same...
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We have too many guys that are either short in stature or short on toughness to drive for contact.
 
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It was below average from us & Purdue. The ref called a mostly fair but inconsistent game. Purdue will win alot of games Edey is a stud.

Biggest concern is how we completely went away from Knecht after a few bad possessions in the second half.

JJJ has alot to prove on offense if he wants to play in the NBA.
 
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TheBigOne10 said:
No, you’re just being a drama queen because we lost a 4 point game to the #2 in the land in NOVEMBER. Holy cow. Come back and post when we make a deep run.
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How am I acting like a drama queen? Am I not allowed to be frustrated we lost? Geeze. I'm allowed to post after a loss and I will post every game for the season.
 
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BreatheUT said:
And all Shaq did was dunk. You utilize your strengths. The goal isn't to make it harder for yourself to prove you can do something else.
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It's a different NBA now. Edey will find that out.
It's like Tebow in football. In college, 1 player can carry you...but in the pros, nope.
 
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Well, it was a tough loss. The officials were terrible. They were terrible both ways. They seemed to give fouls out in “streaks” to try to appear ”even”. The annoying part for me was you knew (and many on here predicted it) that the minute Lurch came back in Aidoo and Awaka would quickly foul out and JJJ would be on Lurch. The officials totally killed the flow of the game.

That said, we could have won this game easily. Poor shooting (particularly in the clutch), getting out rebounded by 15 and giving up 30 flipping offensive rebounds did us in. Yet, we only lost by 4 to the number 2 team. This will make us stronger going forward. Shoot, if we win tomorrow, we won’t drop in the polls and could even move up.

I’m disappointed we lost but have lost zero hope this team can advance to the EE or FF. And I feel a sh!t ton better than after ANY football loss this year!

GBO!
 
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It's a long season rather keep improving our chemistry and peak around end of season. Z & Vescovi will keep getting in the groove, Zs injury & the Death in SVs family have made them a little behind right now, When DK & Gainey and the couple of Freshmen contributors all get their roles down, we will be good to go.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
I’m going to choose joy instead of frustration and just convince myself that at least this means we aren’t peaking too early this year. We have a lot of room to grow on offense. We were a mess there tonight.
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Just posted this in another thread, but still almost scored 70! Last year we would’ve been lucky to hit 55 in a game like this. We have more weapons that got hot in spurts, just a truly dreadful night on offense.
 
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white65 said:
It was below average from us & Purdue. The ref called a mostly fair but inconsistent game. Purdue will win alot of games Edey is a stud.

Biggest concern is how we completely went away from Knecht after a few bad possessions in the second half.

JJJ has alot to prove on offense if he wants to play in the NBA.
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Edey is anything but a stud. He’s an adult playing on an 8 foot goal in the biddy league with lots of favorable whistles while doing it.
 
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landscapingvol said:
You mean removing a team’s best player impacts the team?! What would Tennessee be without Knecht?
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We would still be a top 25 team as we have been in the past. In fact we move the ball better at times and he had some silluly turnovers tonight. He makes us better, but we are still a good team.

And its not about removing just their best player. It's about removing a guy who has 6 inches on everybody on the floor. If he was the same height as Awaka or Aidoo he would be average.
 
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D3Athlete said:
No it will not change. Seen enough from tonight to know they aren’t a top 25 without Edey. Take edey off that court. Tennessee smokes them.
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So we lost to a team that shouldn’t even be ranked???????? Think about this for a minute or two….you know what, don’t think. It’s for the best.

That team should be a 1 seed in March. We should be too.
 
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gainesvol82 said:
I want Purdue in March so we can end that one dimensional teams season. The favorable officiating in the first half and down the stretch was garbage.

Purdue got 4 points on Barnes tech which is what it took to get fair officiating for most of the end of first half and second half. Still had Awaka foul out on BS, Aidoo had a bad call against him and a couple of bad calls on Estrella to go with two bad fouls on Santi, an inbounds violation not called and a couple of balls that went off Purdue buy were called out on us.

With all that, if ZZ and Vescovi shoot hallway decent in the first half then we win solidly. Dalton got points but kept making the same bad moves into traffic. We are a top 3 team once we gel and are top 5 already.
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No thanks. I’m done with them. Purdue is a bad matchup for us. I would rather face a team without a 7’4” tree.
 
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