The Official #9 Tennessee vs. Mississippi State Game Thread, 6:00 PM ET, SEC Network

[patrick]

Feels like a year since JJJ picked up his 2nd foul.

Was about 6 1/2 minute mark.

 

[omghulkhands]

Chandler played amazing. His passing was on another level. I don’t know if anyone else noticed

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Powell is awful

I take it you’re a glass half empty kind of guy.

 

[Volfan2012]

Miss St shot 62 percent from the field. Hopefully that come back down to normal.

 

[VolGee4]

Nice play call to get Powell a 3. Just need to make it.

 

[hUTch2002]

Well I think that’s the best first half out of Miss St we’ll see. I’m hoping we can just close this out in the second half

Shhh…don’t say that.

 

[vavolfan6]

I would say there is no way Miss St plays as well on offense as they currently are, but in actuality it is status quo for teams to over-perform on offense against us when it's tourney time..

 

[Voltime123]

Need to turn up the heat on defense simple as that

 

[VolsAgainstTheWorld15]

Gotta tighten up the defense in the second half. Forced 11 to's but State shot 57% from the floor. Can't let that happen.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Offense didn't push the lead when we had a chance, and the defense then didn't keep the lead.

I'll take a 2 point lead but right now this game doesn't feel very good.

 

[Vol49er]

Kennedy has been great though I agree that he looks a bit hampered speed wise. SV needs to assert himself, don’t need Uros to put up more shots then him (4 to 3 right now in favor of Uros)

 

[tnvols72]

Shocker, Powell misses a wide open 3. Pretty uninspiring half of basketball. You know Rick ain’t going to be happy with that defense.

hope he lights them up

 

[RAVOL]

State shooting well. Getting contributions from all. Tn played well enough. 1st game of tournament for us got feet wet on this court. In CHRIST Alone

 

[Delmar]

Now here’s how bad Plav is as a rebounder. He seven feet tall with inside position on Ivan Molinar who is 6-3. Molinar cleanly took a rebound off Plav’s right shoulder. HTF does that happen? I guess when you don’t leave the ground……

 

[VolPack22]

I am shocked that we have a lead with as bad as we have been playing on defense. Gotta clamp down in the 2nd half.

 

[VolArmy74]

Chandler played amazing. His passing was on another level. I don’t know if anyone else noticed

His assists would be 3 a game higher with a competent post.

 

[tnvols72]

Tn hardly ever looks good in this tourney

 

[GhostVol]

I've seen worse halves out of this team......

State's playing better than they usually do and TN's still up.

I'll take it for now....

 

[Big Orange Rock]

I don’t complain much about officiating however this year the Vols look at someone wrong and get whistled. Then we have a guy driving or penetrating with the ball and they get completely knocked off course and swallowed whistles. It just makes no sense. They either hate UT or they hate Barnes. No other explanation for it.

 

[VolPack22]

Chandler played amazing. His passing was on another level. I don’t know if anyone else noticed

He has been far and away the best player on the court.

 

[wmcovol]

I take it you’re a glass half empty kind of guy.

People don’t realize how difficult it is to sit the 40 minutes, then go in and hit a 25 fter.

 

[vol94]

Uros plays so weak for a 7 footer. He is very strong and has the physique to pound inside and finish at the rim with a dunk, blocked shots etc. But he seldom dunks the ball, fumbles it, loses the ball in traffic by bringing the ball down to his waist and/or doesn’t give the team many 2nd chance shots.

Some will say he rebounds but again, he is 7’1! Play with some physicality and stop chirping.

 

[Switch 625]

Hopefully, MSU will tire a bit in the second half since they played last night.

 

[Kicker82]

Need james to stay out there so we can go 4 guards and fulky the last 10 or so minutes.

 

[VolPack22]

People don’t realize how difficult it is to sit the 40 minutes, then go in and hit a 25 fter.

Yeah I know he had two fouls but I would’ve preferred he just keep ZZ in there if the other option was bringing in a guy that’s been sitting that long.