The Official #11 Tennessee vs. Colorado Game Thread, 2:00 PM ET, ESPN

[Cdywolfe]

Jesus… Stop fouling.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Over reaction to a bad loss.

Yes, this wasn't a good performance but this happens in basketball.

We just beat Gonzaga and Michigan state in closed/open scrimmages.

Almost every team each season has bad losses.

That doesn't mean much when A) those don't count and B) you turn around and lose to Colorado.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Over reaction to a bad loss.

Yes, this wasn't a good performance but this happens in basketball.

We just beat Gonzaga and Michigan state in closed/open scrimmages.

Almost every team each season has bad losses.

Great teams don’t lose to terrible teams. We were 20 point favorites. Not 2. 20. The Texas Tech and Texas losses last year were fine. Those are Top 25 teams with Top 10 defenses. Poor shooting nights happen against great defense.

Listen, I’m not saying the season is over or anything. It’s a long season. But there are enough red flags here to tell me that we should temper our expectations. We look like we figured we could just show up and win and not even play hard.

 

[DooleyOrangePants]

Will be interesting to see what happens in the Bahamas and whether we can throw it in the ocean while standing in the middle of it.

 

[nomads-11]

They didn’t run an offense today

Never saw much of any offense last year. Does Barnes just not learn?

 

[Brave Volunteer]

Sucks to be a perimeter shooting team with players who can't shoot from the perimeter.

 

[tnvols72]

Over reaction to a bad loss.

Yes, this wasn't a good performance but this happens in basketball.

We just beat Gonzaga and Michigan state in closed/open scrimmages.

Almost every team each season has bad losses.

The keyword

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Great teams don’t lose to terrible teams. We were 20 point favorites. Not 2. 20. The Texas Tech and Texas losses last year were fine. Those are Top 25 teams with Top 10 defenses. Poor shooting nights happen against great defense.

Listen, I’m not saying the season is over or anything. It’s a long season. But there are enough red flags here to tell me that we should temper our expectations. We look like we figured we could just show up and win and not even play hard.

The guy on the sideline shouldve made you do that.

 

[tnvols72]

Sucks to be a perimeter shooting team with players who can't shoot from the perimeter.

JJJ is a SR who still cant hit a layup

 

[TheMookieMonster]

The biggest question for this team is if they are capable of doing anything other than shooting the 3. So far, it doesn’t seem so. I’ve seen nothing from our scheme to tell me this team is trying to do anything other than shoot the 3. We didn’t even try to play inside out today.

 

[Volstylexx]

This was so bad the College Football Playoff Committee probably drops TN in their rankings.

 

[vols 30]

Great teams don’t lose to terrible teams. We were 20 point favorites. Not 2. 20. The Texas Tech and Texas losses last year were fine. Those are Top 25 teams with Top 10 defenses. Poor shooting nights happen against great defense.

Listen, I’m not saying the season is over or anything. It’s a long season. But there are enough red flags here to tell me that we should temper our expectations. We look like we figured we could just show up and win and not even play hard.

Yep. We didn't seem to play hard. Colorado definitely wanted it more

 

[lostsheep]

Nothing like having your a$$ handed to you by someone from the Jerry Green coaching tree. Good grief.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Yep. We didn't seem to play hard. Colorado definitely wanted it more

That was probably one of the two most surprising things. I didn’t see any urgency from this team till we were down 14 minutes with 3 to go. Just looked to be going through the motions.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Will be interesting to see what happens in the Bahamas and whether we can throw it in the ocean while standing in the middle of it.

More like it will be interesting what happens Wednesday night. FGCU already went to USC and won. We better show up for that game.

 

[Allvols1996]

That was ugly. And from a team coming from Ft a double digit loss to Grambling.

 

[therealitytheory]

Looked like the TX Tech game in NYC shooting-wise.

And CO was the more aggressive team from the jump.

 

[tnvols72]

Losing to Colorado who just got smacked by Grambling state....absolutely pathetic.

Some on VN will play it off as no big deal. But it really is

 

[VolunteerCeltic]

Yep. We didn't seem to play hard. Colorado definitely wanted it more

Tennessee played with zero effort, I guess they are in love with their ranking and felt that was enough to beat Colorado. This team better get their head out of their rears

 

[MoCo_Vol]

I just hate how some of you turn it to 11 to bash our team to other fans.

Ugly game, but it’s just one game. Team is young and will have some growing pains, just gotta hope they learn from it and get better.

 

[joevols89]

I just hate how some of you turn it to 11 to bash our team to other fans.

Ugly game, but it’s just one game. Team is young and will have some growing pains, just gotta hope they learn from it and get better.

Team is not young. Lol.

 

[tnvols72]

Tn has no shooters. Phillips plays out of control too much and usually ends up on the floor

 

[Tenacjim]

This was so bad the College Football Playoff Committee probably drops TN in their rankings.

Don’t even utter those words as a joke! ANY reason to screw us they will take!

 

[ColinS]

I guess they thrill of beating a top ten team in a defense optional exhibition game is gone now.

 

[VolunteerCeltic]

I just hate how some of you turn it to 11 to bash our team to other fans.

Ugly game, but it’s just one game. Team is young and will have some growing pains, just gotta hope they learn from it and get better.

There was nothing about Tennessee that led me to believe they were just young today, they got their butts handed to them due to lack of effort and defense.