The Official #2 Tennessee vs. #25 Auburn Game Thread, 2:00 PM ET, ESPN

[Voltrapnbama]

Great bounce back. Could have easily folded after going down 8. Excited for the 2nd half.

Nice edit

 

[C-south]

No sorry

Was saying our offensive woes are due to players not having any “legs” and they need to rest.

 

[sportsnut624]

At some point phillips is going to have to emerge. He’s the only other guy on this team that has the talent to be able to take over games.

 

[BallerVolFan]

I’m serious when I say this… everyone in attendance should get their money back for having to watch that.

 

[Caz]

At some point phillips is going to have to emerge. He’s the only other guy on this team that has the talent to be able to take over games.

He’s been MIA for way too long. He and Key

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Until the last few minutes I thought this team tried to be smart at least. Most of the second half they were going inside. That's a good change from some other games.

We had some beautiful looks from deep, just not falling.

Really wish Uros would stop taking himself out of games with stupid taunting. It’s clear the officials have it out for him, he gets no rope. Soon as he gets things going he makes dumb mistakes and then he’s riding pine.

 

[UTFanHades]

I’m aware. I’m also aware of the extremely high variability in outcome of basketball games. So the fact that he’s yet to win the entire tournament is not a knock on him as a coach. We see massive variability every day in college basketball

Are the fans expecting to cut down the nets or is the expectation to get out of the first weekend and see more than one sweet 16. I’m thinking it’s that.

 

[DowntownVol]

I would have wanted that foul called if it were the other way around.

that's just it. If this situation were reversed, we would be losing our minds right now and demanding an official inquiry into the officiating.

 

[Voltrapnbama]

started down 0-8, so it’s still a +10 (was plus +12) point differential. Will be interesting to see how quickly we pull away in the 2nd.

Great call. Just a small question, did we in fact pull away? Or are you the only one that can hate on someone’s opinion?

 

[turbovol]

Great tough-it-out win. One has to laugh at the 3-point shooting in this game--we were under 10 percent! 9.5 percent--has to be an all-time Vol low. Auburn at 11 percent. Comical.

 

[OrangeBoro]

I guess you should just tune out at tourney time

Like Barnes does?

 

[jmcarr33]

Has anyone mentioned the screen set by Broome?

Good catch

 

[Dadof2Vols]

IMO, he was shooting a 3 while moving causing his legs to be out to help square his shoulders to the basket. ON ran up onto him causing his legs to look “wrapped” around him and ON definitely didn’t give him room to land.

That’s talented. He was doing a moving toward the basket 3 and quickly changed direction to doing a fall away 3. Wow. If he was moving to basket which he was his legs would have naturally been behind not in front unless he threw his legs forward

 

[mr.checkerboards]

We had some beautiful looks from deep, just not falling.

Really wish Uros would stop taking himself out of games with stupid taunting. It’s clear the officials have it out for him, he gets no rope. Soon as he gets things going he makes dumb mistakes and then he’s riding pine.

Yeah he was starting to get in a rhythm and then that taunt. Personally I think it's a weak call but like you said the refs have a target on him.

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

Vescovi fell out of bounds untouched. Phillips pass trapped him and put him in trouble

NOPE.... just ran the replay and Big #4 solidly used his left hand on Santi's hip. When was the last time you saw him just fall out of bounds?

 

[orangemadam]

Our offense is even uglier that the Texas Tech offense of 2 yrs ago!

Did we bring our offense down to #75 yet in the metrics?

 

[2EastTnVols]

We had some beautiful looks from deep, just not falling.

Really wish Uros would stop taking himself out of games with stupid taunting. It’s clear the officials have it out for him, he gets no rope. Soon as he gets things going he makes dumb mistakes and then he’s riding pine.

Agree. And once the other team's in the bonus he has to sit due to abysmal ft shooting.

 

[Volstylexx]

You haven't looked at his record in March apparently. It is a verifiable fact. In fact, its the reason he got fired at Texas.

how many active coaches in Division 1 have won championships? I know the answer but I’ll give you time to answer.

ok. Time is up. Only 5 active coaches in ncaa basketball have won it all. Should schools fire every one else?

 

[Volinnooga]

This team is not as talented as last years team. Too many games where we can’t score enough.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Yeah he was starting to get in a rhythm and then that taunt. Personally I think it's a weak call but like you said the refs have a target on him.

I mean the officials in SEC play haven’t been inconsistent, they always call **** on him so he just has to stop giving them any potential ammunition.

 

[Volstylexx]

Great call. Just a small question, did we in fact pull away? Or are you the only one that can hate on someone’s opinion?

Volstradamus, it’s called being positive. Speak it into existence. Try it sometime.

 

[SGMVols]

Bring Back Broooose

 

[mr.checkerboards]

I mean the officials in SEC play haven’t been inconsistent, they always call **** on him so he just has to stop giving them any potential ammunition.

His timing was awful two though. The refs had just broken up 2-3 scrums. He got the Tech so they could keep control.

 

[Volinlife]

Different attitude in this thread if they just make open shots and layups

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

What was the delay between ZZ's free throws? Did AU use their last TO?