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  1. they really did miss and incredible amount of wide open, in rhythm jumpers. they were terrible offensively.
  2. i can’t understand why weaver doesn’t get more minutes and more focus when he’s on the court. he’s our most consistent, maybe second most consistent olayer behind only disu. and even that’s a maybe.
  3. abmas and disu shooting a combined 5% tonight means that tennessee is fucked. bounce back for those guys incoming. eta: actually it could be st.peters who is fucked. it is barnes after all. 🤷🏼‍♂️
  4. weaver comes in and breaks our scoring drought. imagine that.
  5. my dad says we should shut it down now. 🤷🏼‍♂️
  6. these commercial breaks are much more tolerable when TJ Ford is involved.
  7. he’s the greatest coach in school history by a mile. if we don’t honor him in some way then who the hell are we ever going to honor on the coaching front?
  8. his best players have generally been really good at FTs at all points of he game. the whole “the team is worn down” thing simply isn’t true. barnes revolutionized basketball strength and conditioning. he has only worked with the best of the best. tj, and dj, and kd, and ziegler, and knecht, et al are all awesome in crunch time. team FT shooting is simply a casualty of the stiyle of play of coaches like barnes. if he played a different style it wouldn’t be team FT%, it would be a lack of TO’a forced, or a lack of rebounding, or being no.245 nationally/dead last in the league at three pint defense (*cough* RT *cough*). 99% of coaches have fatal flaws. this is not unique to rick barnes. he has fewer fatal flaws than most.
  9. it goes back to the post i made earlier about the composition of rick barnes and kelvin sampson teams. when you recruit a bunch of justin mason, damion james, doj balbay, and demarcus holland type players you get what you get. only the bluest of blue bloods get to have it all. everyone else has to pick their strengths and weaknesses. when you build teams based around physicality, athleticism, defense, and rebounding, you will very rarely have a team full of great shooters. you will rely on your best 2-3 FT shooters to hit the clutch FTs and you’ll take the falloff fr the rest of the guys because they collectively prevent more points on defense than they squander points at the FT line. it’s no surprise that when these teams also happen to be really good at FTs that they make deep tourney runs.
  10. the 16 seeds are really good small time teams, the 10 seeds are shitty-questionable teams from multi bid leagues.
  11. for me that’s one of his strategies where sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but you can understand why he believes in it as a strategy, similar to his belief in not calling a TO after a late miss by his opponent- sometimes you get kenton paulino vs wvu, sometimes you get j’covan brown from 26 feet. point is, when you’ve got a six point lead with three minutes left, and the strength of your team is its half court defense, you can understand why a coach would want to slow it down and reduce the number of possessions. in that scenario you probably need to score 4 points in the final 3:00 to secure the W if you do it correctly. did it come back to haunt us at times? it did. but it also worked plenty of times too. i just think that the decision got magnified whenever it didn’t work out.
  12. let’s go Grambling! shout out to my former student Jimel Cofer! big time second half so far!
  13. tennessee in the final four? ok i’ll vote for you.
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