Recruiting Football Talk VII

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Playing our team has to suuuuuuuck..but you can tell some guys relish the challenge.

 

[Nuctech777]

I didn't say Barnes lost us the game? Tf?

I was saying South Carolina was playing old Barnes ball.

That was for the Barnes haters.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Not sure how to feel about this. I mean, yes, that he was being tampered with is interesting and newsworthy, and he should name names. But it also seems like he had actual interest in coming back, and we didn't do enough to get him to come back. I know not everyone would agree, but having Jalin this year would have been really nice.

Would you rather have him or Nico?

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

It's why we struggled with South Carolina. They played old Barnes ball. Limit possessions and slow the game down.

We missed a ton of f'n point blank shots and FTs...that is why we lost...period.

It wasn't going to be a high scoring game, but we just had one of those weird shooting nights...and imo that had little to do with South Carolina...that's just basketball.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

We missed layups and free throws. If we make those we win. Barnes didn’t lose us that game.

It was just one of those games.

 

[Jackcrevol]

For all you West Tennesseans, ate at Bob's Chophouse tonite. Excellent fare. The best steak ive has since I entered W TN, yesterday after Campbell Station exit.

 

[drvenner]

I know I’m biased, but he is just a much better all around player than Zach Eady. I mean, 8ft tall and just stays in the paint. Knecht can score from anywhere and much more athletic.

Agreed. It shouldnt even be a question as to who deserves it more.

Sadly, I think Eady wins it going away.

 

[MemphisVol3]

For all you West Tennesseans, ate at Bob's Chophouse tonite. Excellent fare. The best steak ive has since I entered W TN, yesterday after Campbell Station exit.

What cut did you have?

 

[vols 30]

Sadly, I think Eady wins it going away.

Yep. Probably already over. Media has already crowned him.

DK would probably need to have four 50 point games and a quadruple double at this point

 

[Orange.]

Utah just missed a free throw to tie Arizona with 2 minutes left in double OT. If Utah gets the upset, we stay on the 1 Seed line, at least for today.

 

[Jackcrevol]

What cut did you have?

filet. Nashville and all W Tennessee are somethin' else.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I honestly think between just not dropping shots and looking ahead to Kentucky cost us that match up. If we go to South Carolina and get the dub that will prove that.

Kentucky did not have a dang thing to do with it..why does everybody always have to dig up a reason? Sometimes in basketball...shots just do not go down, it is a mathmatical certainty that it will happen.

If a team shoots 50% from the floor for the year, there will be several games when you shoot 60+%, but several games where you shoot 40-%...it all comes out in the wash.

The best yeams are usually the more consistent teams and have less variability than the lesser teams, but still have 2-3 games a year where they shoot less than 40%.

That is why so many "upsets" happen in college basketball...all that has to happen is for a lesser team to have a above average shooting night, while the better team has a below average shooting night.


Of course defense and rebounding have a lot to do with it also. Some times the ball just bounces weird...I was rewatching the LSU game and much was made of their rebounding...but it was mostly just a ton of funky long bounces and almost nothing to do with us not boxing out.


Point being...basketball is just a different game...anything can happen and does.

I will never forget watching little tiny Mississippi Valley State take the LOADED #1 Duke team to the wire in the first round of the 86 Dance...they lead for nearly 75% of the game and ultimately losing by 7 as their best players fouled out one by one down the stretch. The tallest guy they had was 6'5"...that game more than any other taught me that basketball is just a different animal.

Nothing surprises me about it.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Thread:

It is insane how much the world has changed in the last 120 years

 

[Orange.]

End of 2nd overtime: Utah 91, Aridzona 91.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

So, maybe Sankey isn't in our corner on this pending investigation?

SEC-Big Ten Union More Than Advisory, And Greg Sankey Criticizes Tennessee Lawsuit

SEC-Big Ten Leaders Want To Change NCAA, Not Just 'Advise,' And Greg Sankey Criticizes Tennessee Lawsuit

www.outkick.com

Scumbag

 

[SoilVol]

Triple OT in Utah and they still haven't eclipsed 100

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Read the article. It didn’t sound like Sankey said much of anything.

He is still a scumbag..but the po that wrote that article is the bacteria that eats the pus off of that scumbag.

 

[GoBigOrange86]

Looking like Zona will win.

 

[tnvols72]

AZ getting the calls right now

 

[knoxvol52]

Looking like Zona will win.

Really good game 3 overtimes..

 

[Adam Sandler]

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That’s a strange looking dog

 

[Weezer]

Would you rather have him or Nico?

Why would it need to be either/or?

 

[SoilVol]

We missed a ton of f'n point blank shots and FTs...that is why we lost...period.

It wasn't going to be a high scoring game, but we just had one of those weird shooting nights...and imo that had little to do with South Carolina...that's just basketball.

You're preaching to the choir buddy. I think you may also be reading more into what I wrote than what I meant, and maybe I worded it poorly.

I didn't say we lost because of it. I said it's "one of the reasons we struggled." We lost because we missed FTs and layups that would have won us the game, like you said. We struggled because of what SC was doing. I do think the opponent deserves some credit there. They played well and had a good game plan. We served up the rotten egg to match it. That's basketball and it happens.

We will get them back in Columbia.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Scumbag

what an *******. show your approval for gtfo

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Less poop in the streets back then even with the horses.......

That and the carboard-tent cities on every block with needles, baggies and empty liquor bottles laying all over the place, and mountains of garbage...oh and naked lunatics shouting at the sky and pissing all over themselves...or passed out in the road.

Don't forget the scum that will rush your car and try to smash and grab at a red light..and if you park in a ungated pay lot or a paid parking space, you're lucky if you don't comeback to find your window smashed and your car ransacked...