The Official Tennessee vs. Florida Game Thread, 2:00 PM ET, ESPN2

[434VOL]

Always good to beat the turds!

 

[captainfalcon777]

Barnes needs to answer for our lack of bench production (can't really fault him for the free throw disaster), but I sure am glad to walk away from this one with a win.

Our guys coulda made those free throws if they had their legs. I’m completely baffled by Barnes decision to not play our bench a single minute in the 2nd half.

 

[Caz]

Pons will only get better. He’s a helluva Athlete!

 

[gainesvol82]

Thank you Fulkerson! Vescovi and JJJ played well too.

 

[Freak]

Fulk may have missed a couple of front ends, but he made two HUGE plays down the stretch that gave us a chance to win.

Go Vols!

 

[orbs son]

I just don’t understand why people off the bench aren’t getting minutes when we have a 15+ lead for a big part of the half.

 

[Ace]

We needed this game. Great coaching by Barnes to shorten bench in 2nd half. They can rest tonight and tomorrow.

 

[sechamp2012]

Piece a Cake
Fulky now a 50% 3 pointer man
1of 2
Sweeet stroke on that 3 I say he tactics a 100 a day over summer would change how D plays him.

 

[GBO18]

Great win. Kentucky your next.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

I just don’t understand why people off the bench aren’t getting minutes when we have a 15+ lead for a big part of the half.

The guys on the bench just arent that good. Barnes did what he thought would win the game, which we did.

 

[Lankykong]

Piece a Cake
Fulky now a 50% 3 pointer man
1of 2
Sweeet stroke on that 3 I say he tactics a 100 a day over summer would change how D plays him.

I think he can really improve over the offseason. His mechanics are consistent on jumpshots, he just doesn’t take them

 

[StarRaider]

[dwight yoakam voice on] Fulk-a-delic [voice off]

 

[tnvols72]

Bowden and JJJ just disappeared in the 2nd half

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

Love it when we get a win over Florida anytime of sport..... GBO !!!

 

[Volfan2012]

Love beating Florida hopefully we keep owning them. Missing all those one and ones were painful but we did enough to hold on.

 

[Lankykong]

Bowden and JJJ just disappeared in the 2nd half

I think it’s more like JJJ appeared in the first half. He made some good passes in the early second half that led to dunks too.

He had a good game, had a clutch block on Glover late when it mattered. Bowden was pretty key to our late run too.

 

[I4Vols]

Victory beer time

 

[Ace]

The guys on the bench just arent that good. Barnes did what he thought would win the game, which we did.

Exactly - it was must win

 

[GBO18]

Mike White continues to impress at Florida.

 

[VolGee4]

We almost had Tre Mann. Could use him

Yea, but he is a 5 star with worse stats than JJJ. Kind of ironic.

 

[Kicker82]

Great win. Kentucky your next.

You better hope Kentucky beats auburn today so they can have a letdown vs us

 

[mr.checkerboards]

I just don’t understand why people off the bench aren’t getting minutes when we have a 15+ lead for a big part of the half.

Barnes barely trusts the starters. No way he is trusting the bench guys late in a must win

 

[orbs son]

Exactly - it was must win

A must win? We aren’t going anywhere this year regardless if we win that game or not.

 

[Kicker82]

A must win? We aren’t going anywhere this year regardless if we win that game or not.

It was a must win if we want to at least have some postseason play

 

[vavolfan6]

Can we agree James had a decent game. 12 points, 6 assists, and a key 8 rebounds?