Vols still unable to win a "Meaningful" game.

[utfantilidie]

Yet another game of real importance slips away.....again.

17 seconds remaining and that's the best we can do?Thanks coach. Nice 3 attempt (senior) Wayne.

[Hens67]

Piss poor clock management....we had a TO but didn't use it.... Hopson is killing us, he needs to refocus...Woolridge should never see the floor....... good guards are going to kill us all year.....we still lack that lock up defender

[westtnvol]

Hopson, Prince, and Woolridge all have a lot of work to do to be decent ball players. We found out who the real Scotty Hopson is in the past two games.

[volfanjustin]

I never understand why shoot a 3 when down 1 freaking point. Pearl lets the players do pretty much whatever they want.

[Special Ed]

In spite of a valiant effort and Tyler Smith's pre-tournament vow, the Vols still couldn't pull out the first tournament title in the Bruce Pearl era. Losing to a top-10 team that didn't even have it's starting point guard on the floor doesn't bode well for the Vols' chances in the post-season. We still don't have the level of point-guard play we're going to need. Just how much of a bribe does Josh Selby need anyway? I could contribute a first-born child, if necessary.

[Jake Tate]

Originally Posted by utfantilidie

Yet another game of real importance slips away.....again.

17 seconds remaining and that's the best we can do?Thanks coach. Nice 3 attempt (senior) Wayne.

Quit being an anti-Pearl for no reason. He's had 4 years at TN, with this being the 5th, he's 102-38, with 1 SEC championship, 3 division championships, he's positive against every SEC team except KY and LSU, whom he's 3-5 and 2-3 with respectively. The only coach to ever get TN to a #1 ranking, 4 NCAA tourney spots, two Sweet 16, one 2nd rounder and one 1st rounder. I mean That's a great record so far, why do you think Memphis tried to steal him?

Are you ever going to be happy or do you really just hate everything orange.

[PineyBluff Vol]

The last 17 tics did not lose this game. The rotation of players is the reason. Some of these guys need to be spectators!

[MikeHamiltonFan]

It was not wrong when Dean Smith did it and it is not wrong now. If you watched the game you saw that after timeouts, Purdue looked very strong defensively. By running down in a scramble they were denied the opportunity. We were not going for the 3, the senior PG was supposed to make another layup which is exactly what we all wanted after seeing the previous one he scored. Because he drew their entire team into the lane, it made sense for a wide open Wayne Chism who is a pretty good 3 point shooter especially uncontested, to take that shot.

[volfan4evr]

I am not a big basketball fan, and I don't know much about it, but......I was surprised that a #9 team played like they did. I expected more than I saw. Just another goofy fan here I guess!

[volfanjustin]

Originally Posted by Jake Tate

Quit being an anti-Pearl for no reason. He's had 4 years at TN, with this being the 5th, he's 102-38, with 1 SEC championship, 3 division championships, he's positive against every SEC team except KY and LSU, whom he's 3-5 and 2-3 with respectively. The only coach to ever get TN to a #1 ranking, 4 NCAA tourney spots, two Sweet 16, one 2nd rounder and one 1st rounder. I mean That's a great record so far, why do you think Memphis tried to steal him?

Are you ever going to be happy or do you really just hate everything orange.

Quit being such a homer. There is room for criticizm here. This team has little to no discipline, we pretty much just roll the ball out on the floor as say go play guys, looks like basketball I see at the parks. If we don't hit 15 3s a game we lose. And there are guys on this team who are playing that need to be so far down the bench they can't see the court.

[VolDad]

Originally Posted by Jake Tate

Quit being an anti-Pearl for no reason. He's had 4 years at TN, with this being the 5th, he's 102-38, with 1 SEC championship, 3 division championships, he's positive against every SEC team except KY and LSU, whom he's 3-5 and 2-3 with respectively. The only coach to ever get TN to a #1 ranking, 4 NCAA tourney spots, two Sweet 16, one 2nd rounder and one 1st rounder. I mean That's a great record so far, why do you think Memphis tried to steal him?

Are you ever going to be happy or do you really just hate everything orange.

What do you see that you like so much (i.e., player development, half court offense, team play, pg play, discipline, ability to draw up and have his team execute plays when the game in on the line and you absolutely must make the basket, etc.)?

[NYYVol]

Originally Posted by Jake Tate

Quit being an anti-Pearl for no reason. He's had 4 years at TN, with this being the 5th, he's 102-38, with 1 SEC championship, 3 division championships, he's positive against every SEC team except KY and LSU, whom he's 3-5 and 2-3 with respectively. The only coach to ever get TN to a #1 ranking, 4 NCAA tourney spots, two Sweet 16, one 2nd rounder and one 1st rounder. I mean That's a great record so far, why do you think Memphis tried to steal him?

Are you ever going to be happy or do you really just hate everything orange.

I had the same chance Pearl did of getting the Memphis job. Zero.
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[goooooovols]

Really doesn't bball just fill time til next football season anyways!!!!!!!!! GOVOLS

[Hens67]

Goins/Maze
McBee/Hopson
Tatum/Prince
Smith/Hall
Chism/Hall

That should be our 9 man rotation..... Woolridge and Williams add nothing to this team other than some fouls

[utvolinbama]

Hopson didn't show up last night. He misses a few shots and has 0 confidence. Goins didn't do much but turn the ball over. I'm not sure why Woolridge is even in the game except to maybe give T Smith a rest. CBP needs to forbid Woolridge from taking 3's.