Tennessee Volunteers at Kentucky Wildcats: Open Game Thread

Let’s get a win today. Man up. Do it.

My schedule for the past week:

Monday: fly to Palm Beach. Meetings until 8:30.
Tuesday: Meetings all day, including flight back to Tri Cities arriving at 9:00-ish.
Wednesday: drive 11 hours to Little Rock.
Thursday: Fly to Des Moines early via . . . Dallas. Two hour drive to Richland, IA. Visitation. Eat. Sleep.
Friday: Funeral. Two hour drive back to Des Moines. Fly to Little Rock via . . . Chicago. Sleep.
Saturday: CompletelyTotallyUtterly exhausted.

I may watch this one the old fashioned way — with my dad and without a computer. Unless something extraordinarily exciting happens and I can’t help myself.

Wanted to say hey to everyone, though, and give a woo to get things started.

Woo!

But I’ve got to serve as Girl-Unit Transportation around 2:00 so she can get to her game (which STARTS at 3)

First possession, we throw the ball around the top of the key for 30 seconds and then launch a 23 footer.

man….

Not good.

I know UT looks bad on both ends and they should be down, but the Blue and White whistle is starting to blow really early in this one. Come on….

He’s obviously not wanting to play basketball today.

He’s playing better defense on us than on UK.

Guys this is bad. Want money back. Sweet 2.

Looks like I’ll be buying tickets to Thursday SEC tourney games.

Can anyone tell me?

Williams lost 100+ pounds?

… it’s tough!

You can’t do that — whatever Hopson just did on that dunk — and win.

I keep telling myself I’ll stop posting from my phone and watch the game but I can’t bear to watch.

holy crap, we’re IN this game? o.O

They had the right idea there. GET THE BALL INSIDE. Then they start throwing it around the perimeter again.

let’s just go home. Thats a joke

Was a clean block.

In that SEC commercial, the Florida fans were all alone…

I like the effort inside on offense. Defense can’t get a stop.

Can’t go down by 15 like on Wednesday.

Not to be pessimistic, but that just might be game/set/match.

Unless somebody gets as tenacious on D as he is.

I don’t blame Bruce for the T. Can’t wait to hear the postgame comments.

Do we have to win the SEC tournament to get into the NCAA tournament?

And still down 19…Arg

what in the world….

Number of Bobby Maze shots blocked. Make your pick.

to Chism this game and kick out. Really a disjointed scheme.

I hate living in this state on days like today.

Maze sucks. Chism thinks he is a shooting guard, Tyler Smith is becoming a weak old man.

At the beginning of the year we needed Williams, Hopson, and Prince to become better to make a complete team. The only problem with that is the guys that were supposed to be the dependable one Smith, Chism, and Mays have turned into the most undependable and often times liabilities.

Just a thought.

Rightly so in my opinion.

He’s said it all in the locker room, but he thought it needed to be aired publicly.

I’m glad I fired up the radio broadcast. I was a little leery of Bob and Bert making excuses for the team and giving Pearl an easy out, but Pearl wasn’t gonna sugar-coat it.

He said Maze and Tabb did well defensively on Meeks, but were not good on offense right from the start. He said he had a play called for their first possession of the game and basically Tabb either forgot or didn’t understand and ran something else.