The Official Tennessee @ #13 Auburn Game Thread, 12:00 PM ET, CBS

[roberthunter]

Vescovi finished without fouling out!!!!!

We finished with time outs left in the bank!!!!!

That's the point of playing right? To make sure that no one fouls out and we don't use all of our timeouts? I mean, there's no other reason to play the game, right?

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Let the Fahr Barnes crowd come out and start fantazing about how we’re going to make a splash hire to replace him.

Right on cue with the deflection. Noone in their right mind wants to fire Barnes but it's fair to point out he was outcoached today

 

[sechamp2012]

Guys and maybe Gal, we lose a 17 point lead, we deserve to lose. They have let Auburn lay all over us defensively but geez

min hindsight maybe should have got a TO when they got it under DIuble digit.
Then the crowd that was asleep got back in it & the refs knew what gym they were in.., makes a difference their all human.

 

[OrngeJuiceJones]

If i added correctly, Vesco plays 25 mins, Fulk 23.. Refs SUCK. Wiley allowed to shove everyone all night.. 1 foul.

 

[RAVOL]

I’d take an average PG.

I believe we have average. But two Freshmen on the road with aggressive D that gets up in your body.

 

[Dougie_D]

Don’t bash JJJ. He’s a pass first guy and not that aggressive. Hopefully he’ll get out of that mentality

 

[GBO18]

The total lack of urgency JJJ plays with is very concerning. How do the coaches not see that.

 

[OrngeJuiceJones]

Wiley won this game by pushing

1 foul on him

 

[lostsheep]

Barnes didn’t make 24 turnovers or make fulk and vesc get on foul trouble

True. But he is responsible for preparation of the team.

 

[vavolfan6]

I'm not the one to whine about JJJ, but 1 assist to 6 turnovers is a gane to forget

 

[BisonVol]

This one is on Barnes. He had multiple opportunities to call a timeout while we still had a double figure lead and didn't.

 

[A-RodWiLks]

If i added correctly, Vesco plays 25 mins, Fulk 23.. Refs SUCK. Wiley allowed to shove everyone all night.. 1 foul.

That is just crazy...he was pushing from the first whistle

 

[golfballs]

/season

 

[brubaker]

I love Barnes as a coach, but it just seems he hasn't had his head in the games this year...

 

[vols 30]

It’s nice to recruit athletes but we kinda need a few players that have some semblance of a basketball IQ and maybe 1 or 2 that can dribble.

No point guard on the roster

 

[VolunteerCeltic]

Beginning of losing streak

 

[C-south]

We've been so spoiled the last couple of years

I disagree. Nobody should accept the product on the court and losing games like this.

 

[Putbacks]

Untimely turnovers and Pons and Fulkerson left too much at the rim. JJJ was magical: total disappearing act.

 

[ejvols4]

Josiah-Jordan James is the next Robert Hubbs III

 

[golfballs]

Yeah, but he will just foul out. That last foul he got was not smart at all.

If you are able to maintain this level of play for several more minutes you probably wouldn’t even need him at the end of the game. Once we started falling apart he should have come in.

 

[Delmar]

This is what happens when your point guard gets in foul trouble and plays only a few minutes in the second half and you don’t have another one on the roster. Most of the Auburn run occurred due to turnovers when Vescovi was on the bench. Hard to have 26 turnovers on the road and beat anybody. Also had two 4 minute stretches in the second half without a basket. Several lapses that will get you beat.

 

[SGMVols]

Let the Fahr Barnes crowd come out and start fantazing about how we’re going to make a splash hire to replace him.

We would be worse than Texas is now under Shaka Dumb. And we would deserve it.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

I disagree. Nobody should accept the product on the court and losing games like this.

You’re acting like Tennessee has magically become a basketball school.

Football has always came first.

 

[SandyO]

Don’t bash JJJ. He’s a pass first guy and not that aggressive. Hopefully he’ll get out of that mentality

Oh I’m gonna bash him. The rankings are bogus. He’s a 5* like KK is a 5* on the women’s team. JJ single handidly lost that game.

 

[JohnD13]

Typical VN meltdown. Never change