bleedingTNorange
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1. Tennessee was once again absolutely dominating in the first half, Vols have outscored their first 2 opponents 98-27 in the first half, pretty impressive regardless of opponent.
2. You saw the versatility tonight that Barnes has with this team, very early on he made the change to go smaller and it was very effective, nice move. With a team that has so much talent at guard and wing this isn't a bad strategy at all, was also pretty fun to watch as well.
3. Won't go too much into individual players but thought Daniel played extremely well, and I applaud him for seemingly buying in 100%. He had 10ast 0to's and only took 4 shots, while also playing very solid defense, great to see. Also thought Turner brought a nice spark off the bench, Darrington showed some flashes and Fulk appears to be getting closer to the person we saw last year.
4. Definitely would appear the main 9 guys are set, and that 10-13 will be Walker, Pons, Kent and Johnson. Walker will likely be the guy that is odd man out when we go small like we did tonight, and Pons was nursing an ankle which is why he didn't get out there. In any regard, it appears this team is extremely deep and versatile, nice problem to have.
5. Biggest negative I would take from tonight is the turnovers...we once again shared the ball very well 20ast on 27 made shots, but we had 17 turnovers. Bone. Had 6 of those himself which can't happen, have to take better care of the ball.
6. Purdue is going to be a massive step up in competition, in all honestly part of me wishes we had the Furman or Mercer game before B4A to hopefully ramp up the competition a bit. I am interested to see the Vols have to play a full game though and to go with their best 9-10 for 40 minutes, really looking forward to it.
2. You saw the versatility tonight that Barnes has with this team, very early on he made the change to go smaller and it was very effective, nice move. With a team that has so much talent at guard and wing this isn't a bad strategy at all, was also pretty fun to watch as well.
3. Won't go too much into individual players but thought Daniel played extremely well, and I applaud him for seemingly buying in 100%. He had 10ast 0to's and only took 4 shots, while also playing very solid defense, great to see. Also thought Turner brought a nice spark off the bench, Darrington showed some flashes and Fulk appears to be getting closer to the person we saw last year.
4. Definitely would appear the main 9 guys are set, and that 10-13 will be Walker, Pons, Kent and Johnson. Walker will likely be the guy that is odd man out when we go small like we did tonight, and Pons was nursing an ankle which is why he didn't get out there. In any regard, it appears this team is extremely deep and versatile, nice problem to have.
5. Biggest negative I would take from tonight is the turnovers...we once again shared the ball very well 20ast on 27 made shots, but we had 17 turnovers. Bone. Had 6 of those himself which can't happen, have to take better care of the ball.
6. Purdue is going to be a massive step up in competition, in all honestly part of me wishes we had the Furman or Mercer game before B4A to hopefully ramp up the competition a bit. I am interested to see the Vols have to play a full game though and to go with their best 9-10 for 40 minutes, really looking forward to it.