The Official Tennessee vs Alabama Game Thread, 2:00pm ET, SEC Network

#455
#455
GatorsGators said:
They're balanced. That's the difference between them and the Bama teams of the past few years. Instead of relying on Releford or Lacey for 80% of their offensive production, they get scoring from a lot of sources. Today, it was Cooper, Tarrant, and Taylor. Randolph had an off-game, but he's usually their best player. Kessens and Hale are also capable of scoring in bunches (although Hale has struggled lately).

UT is similar to Bama's team last year. If Richardson doesn't go off, they're pretty much screwed. When Bama committed to shutting him down late in the second half, UT had no one else step up. That's where Punter and Hubbs need to step up.
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I agree for the most part, but Bama's strengths are 1-3. They have some size down low, but from what I saw, Taylor and Kessens are raw. Maybe I haven't seen enough of them. When you are balanced, I think that you can get inside scoring when their outside shots aren't falling. If a team had any size, they could play up on the outside shot and force them to win inside the arc. I just don't believe their inside game is strong enough if shots aren't falling. They have to rely on defense. JMO.
 
#460
#460
VolGee4 said:
I agree for the most part, but Bama's strengths are 1-3. They have some size down low, but from what I saw, Taylor and Kessens are raw. Maybe I haven't seen enough of them. When you are balanced, I think that you can get inside scoring when their outside shots aren't falling. If a team had any size, they could play up on the outside shot and force them to win inside the arc. I just don't believe their inside game is strong enough if shots aren't falling. They have to rely on defense. JMO.
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Taylor is raw. Kessens definitely isn't. He needs to play stronger with the ball, but he's skilled.
 
#463
#463
GatorsGators said:
Taylor is raw. Kessens definitely isn't. He needs to play stronger with the ball, but he's skilled.
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I can see that based on his moves and decisions. But any skilled big man should own us. We lost because of terrible offense and not closing out Cooper.
 
#464
#464
Volsfaninva917 said:
Why not? Why is it OK to defend CCM but not CDT? Everyone is calling this a terrible loss, no its really not UT is a bad basketball team there are some OVC schools with more talent than Tennessee.
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Going 14 minutes with only 2 points is terrible and no amount of excuse making will cover it.
 
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#469
#469
Volsfaninva917 said:
Why not? Why is it OK to defend CCM but not CDT? Everyone is calling this a terrible loss, no its really not UT is a bad basketball team there are some OVC schools with more talent than Tennessee.
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I can't agree with that. This Vols team is just as talented as any other team besides Kentucky. Unfortunately it's a young team with no real experience outside of JRich. This is their first year together and they've beaten Butler and K St. They then lose to some bad teams due to inexperience. Inexperience leads to scoring droughts. Inexperience leads to having to scratch and claw your way back in the 2nd half. But talent keeps you in games which this team has.
 
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#471
#471
Part of the equation is learning how to handle success and improving on it- not going backwards.
 
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