Should have been our ball on the sideline with

Because we shot 23% from the field....I have told you many times. You are too stupid to understand or maybe you cant read.

So answer these questions or shut the hell up

Where did you go to school? When did you get out?
Should we always shoot the ball great?
Did Pat's teams always shoot great?
Do you actually understand how competition works?
Has there ever been a team that has not been upset?

One more thing, I will add little buddy is that if you wanna try to make me shut up, let’s meet. I doubt you will though.
 
I’m not sure what you’re saying here. Yes, a great team may not win the whole thing. Look at the Houston Cougars versus the North Carolina State Wolfpack in 1983 for one example.
I am saying the 1990 Duke team was a great team and they got beat by 30 in the championship game
 
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I am.saying the 2000 Dyke team was a great team and they got beat by 30 in the championship game

And I don’t think Coach K thought it was great and so he took it the year after and they did a lot better if I’m not mistaken. Correct?
 
No sh**, Sherlock. I have a degree from that university.

If pretentious is not understanding why a great team should lose by 30 points and then just try to hold on against a not great. How are you team not too long thereafter, then I have to accept that so feel good about yourself and your status under your god about how great you are.

Does anybody in here speak gibberish that can translate what Biff is trying to say?
 
Trust me when I tell you this. The Ignore button is the greatest invention since sliced bread. It is especially handy after a loss. So much better when you don’t have to put up with rubes, fools and trolls.
Seems especially true after a loss! Think I will heed the advice
 
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In a game like that, I think if you polled the top 10 coaches doing it right now they’d be minimum 60-40 the other way. Especially a player with the experience of Z. Jmo
I think most would immediately sit him after the second foul at around 7:00. There might be an argument as far as whether to bring him back in at some point after the last media timeout.
 
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Dumbest post of the year so far on this site. And that’s saying something.
Thanks for the heads up. I figured it was worth unignoring at that point just to marvel at the troll. And to congratulate myself on my list.
 
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Sorry for gibberish. I was using siri and talking with others. siri picked it all up. All my fault so use it and have fun in disparaging remarks.

That being said, it boils down to the number 1 team should not lose by 30. Regardless of a loss, it should recover well. In this case, that did not happen against a huge rival.

Think what you want, but thinking a team this good would be doing that is not logical. Maybe it happens very rarely because it can happen, but that is not how I have seen championship type teams do it. A while back, a seemingly average type but highly ranked team got beat by its main rival and then stomped its way to the national championship in football as a solid favorite. That is a big time recovery whether they win or not. I happen to think our bball team has what it takes to recover and hope it does, but again, it should not have a 30 point defeat from which to recover and it has not recovered well at this point.

If you want, keep on liking getting to the tournament and then booted after 2 maybe 3 games. Living as a battered vol and being satisfied with being a top 16 or maybe 8 team each year is not for me. You can't win every year, but you can win it all if you work for it and maybe more than one. It's been done, even at UT.
 
We all feel terrible to lose to Vandy and to blame it all on one missed FT really isn’t fair seeing we just got our rears handed to us most of the day. No one feels any worse than Lanier which did hold the outcome on his hand.
That said, how many past games have we seen in recent years where we simply do not pull these type games out and lose on a last second shot or the way we did yesterday? The only exception would be against Illinois when Gainey hit one at the buzzer, but far too many times we end up feeling sick and have to just eat up another loss. I’ve even seen it with the Lady Vols too losing on a last second circus shot and against SC last year when they get beat on a last second bank shot three pointer.
I’m not at all blaming Barnes, but it would seem we could pull some of these type games out the way we did when Pearl did or even seems to do now with those criminal “war eagles”. I just had the feeling after a courageous come back we’d fall short and feel worse because of not being able to close out a last second victory
Since you mentioned Pearl, he lost in the 1st round of the NCAA tournament last year. How does that happen? Some of you have the affliction of conveniently being unable to remember things in an equitable fashion.
 
I think most would immediately sit him after the second foul at around 7:00. There might be an argument as far as whether to bring him back in at some point after the last media timeout.
Agreed. The other factor that no one mentions in this specific scenario is that the foul was assessed on a 3-pt shooter and Barnes hates that. I think these factors solidified the chances that Z would ride the pine the rest of the half.
 
I think most would immediately sit him after the second foul at around 7:00. There might be an argument as far as whether to bring him back in at some point after the last media timeout.
Yeah it would be different in my head if they didn’t almost immediately go on a big run. But as it was I’m thinking it’s still early in the conference season let’s trust our 4 yr pg. anything to stop the hemorrhage. 😆
 
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Since you mentioned Pearl, he lost in the 1st round of the NCAA tournament last year. How does that happen? Some of you have the affliction of conveniently being unable to remember things in an equitable fashion.
Fair point and I understand, but the point I was making is it’s just so hard to watch us lose on a last second shot which seems to happen more so then pulling one out with the exception of Illinois and Gainey last second. Although I have Pearl big time fatigue, I will acknowledge he’s a good coach and I hated seeing his team luck another one out when we fall short
 
Fair point and I understand, but the point I was making is it’s just so hard to watch us lose on a last second shot which seems to happen more so then pulling one out with the exception of Illinois and Gainey last second. Although I have Pearl big time fatigue, I will acknowledge he’s a good coach and I hated seeing his team luck another one out when we fall short
The big picture to all this angst about the Vol basketball program is this: we are talking about a perennial Top 10 team and you’ve got a subset of people, however small, raging war against our coach and our players. It’s lunacy.
 
Fair point and I understand, but the point I was making is it’s just so hard to watch us lose on a last second shot which seems to happen more so then pulling one out with the exception of Illinois and Gainey last second. Although I have Pearl big time fatigue, I will acknowledge he’s a good coach and I hated seeing his team luck another one out when we fall short
We have actually been so dominant the last few years that we've barely played in a bunch of close, one score games. In the last 3+ years, we are 14-4, 11-7, 14-4, and now 3-2 in conference play. Of 42 wins, we've won 27 by double digits. Another 10 games by 7+ points. So, that has offered very little times for last second shots.
 
We have actually been so dominant the last few years that we've barely played in a bunch of close, one score games. In the last 3+ years, we are 14-4, 11-7, 14-4, and now 3-2 in conference play. Of 42 wins, we've won 27 by double digits. Another 10 games by 7+ points. So, that has offered very little times for last second shots.
Don’t be bringing facts into this discussion. It doesn’t fit the narrative.
 
Now we’re into inability to understand. That’s on your shoulders dude not mine. You still haven’t explained nor has anyone else why we should lose by 30 points to Florida and get beat by Vanderbilt, who has an OK team.
Looks like that OK team just beat another top 10 team. Vandy loss doesn't look so bad now does it.

Understand how hard it is to win in Nashville before you think it is a bad loss.
 

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