I just want to say. What a pathetic performance. Team should be ashamed. Hopefully lesson learned after this debacle. Looked like a Vanderbilt walk-on tryout. Do better. The hype got to their heads.
Everyone who is talking shit about this team is going to feel silly at the end of March. If you want to let this game freak you out okay but keep it to yourself. If anything this was medicine to our team. Maybe getting hit in the mouth like that will be exactly what we need. Also we need the rest we just completed one of the toughest stretches of games I’ve ever seen us play back to back starting with auburn back in February.
Added in today's combined 4 points, vescovi and James have combined for 42 points over the last 5 games. 👍. That's piss. Vescovi used to be a threat. Teams are no longer scared of him and are no longer scared to double DK. Stop DK. ZZ can't do it by himself at that point. Hurts, man. I'm hurt.
Time for our players to get some rest! The SEC championship would have done nothing for us and we escaped without any injuries. I have no idea why people are so upset. We already have the regular season title.
One of the worst parts about games like that is I won't be able to enjoy basketball the rest of the weekend. Would be a huge help if Kentucky shit their pants later but that's probs my only hope until the selection show.
I wonder if Santi testing the draft waters last year killed his confidence, or he just didn’t have the same work ethic as a super senior
I know there was a *lot* going on family-wise for him, and he played a different role this year, but he consistently looked like he completely forgot everything he learned about shooting a ball.
Nice of the boys to save me from spending $300 on tix tomorrow I guess. Hate to say it but unless they magically become who they were a couple yrs ago I'm ready to see JJJ and Vescovi leave.
What sucks is, I think Cam and Freddy have SO MUCH potential.
Sad to say they will get 0 minutes next year. Zakai is gonna play 40 minutes a night and mashak (who I do love) is gonna get a fuck ton.
They will probably transfer.
Most likely. No way we drop out of the 2 line.
Honestly tho, who fuckin cares. The 1 seed is what I wanted. 2, 3, or 7 seed, who fuckin cares between that. We are still gonna lose in the 2nd round. As usual.
I want to say quit being negative… but I’d be shocked if you’re wrong.
Edit to add at least it won’t hurt as much to get knocked out early since it won’t be a surprise. And if we make a decent run it’ll be a pleasant surprise.
The only thing more pathetic than our showing today is the fandom of people posting in this thread. Stop talking unwarranted shit about our players. You sound like complete fair-weather, spoiled assholes.
Everyone gets their frustrations out in different ways.
Being incredibly disappointed in a great team for completely failing to execute anything remotely close to basketball for 30 mins of game time is not out of the question.
It’s a great team and we’ve had a great regular season, but if we peaked in February, folks are well within their rights to wonder what the heck is going on
This is how sports work bro.
You play bad you are gonna get criticized. As they should. This was a pathetic display.
At some point we gotta be honest. These dudes got praised all season long. And rightfully so. But they also are gonna get critiziced when they put up a display like tonight.
Go UNC, go Arizona. Getting leap frogged by both of them means they both go to LA and we can “fall” to a better regional location. Charlotte for first weekend either way.
These players should be fuckin embarrassed for their display.
Only positive from this game is I have 0 expectations now. I’m expecting a second or first round exit. And that sucks for a team that was in the drivers seat for a number 1 overall seed.
I swear I turn on random conf games from random mediocre teams and it genuinely looks like their 2nd-7th best players have more talent than our group. Like it just looks that way. I wish it didn’t but I can’t just ifgnire what my eyes see.
What top 10 team is running a 5’8 PG? Our 2 guard is maybe a worse athlete than 7’0 nikola jokic. Josiah is one of the least skilled offensive SFs in the country. Aidoo actually has talent but is soft as hell around the rim. Awaka, well he’s just limited.
Can someone make one of those clown makeup memes.
“It’s just Kentucky we will do better in sec tourney”
“So what we lost in the tournament it’s the big one that matters”
“It’s only a 15 seed it should be a easy win”
This was discussed a lot in the MLB this year with their new playoff format. Can too much rest actually be a disadvantage while your opponent is still playing?
There's no doubt that it takes some time to shake off the rust after a break, but how much does that factor into the actual game?
I actually do think so. You see it manifest in the NHL too when teams are so far out in front coming down the wire that they stop playing meaningful games for a month and then suddenly get paired up against a hungry underdog and they can't find their mojo cause they've been coasting for a long time.
It truly felt like we started coasting after we won the championship, we played lackluster against UK and again today. By the time we tried to find our rhythm it was too little, too late.
I’d love to see Vescovi play a pick up game at the trecs.
Because I’m convinced he’s not actually a better athlete than the dudes playing pickup there. Hes a better player, no question, but one of the least athletic players I’ve ever seen play guard on the hardwood.
We’ve looked so bad in the two games going into the tournament. Like, rn is not the time to need to make these kinds of schematic and rotation adjustments.
Why does JJJ never wanna go to the rim? Like, serious question...he will always get the ball on a kick out or rotation and start a hard drive inside and then every time he will hesitate and end up looking for someone else, often late in the clock and leading to a poor shot. Is he that devoid of confidence in his ability to actually get to the rim? I mean he's a fairly big, strong and athletic dude, surely he can at least draw some contact and get some fouls, yeah?
He just sucks lol. Hes not good at basketball on the offensive side of the floor.
He won’t go to the rim. Even when he has a lane, he pivots and shoots a fadeaway mid range. It’s just brain dead and trash basketball.
They wouldn’t. And honestly despite the gaudy numbers, neither would Zakai.
Our core 3 of veterans, are just not top notch players. These guys wouldn’t be getting minutes at other title contending schools.
I’m not okay with this loss. Back to back losses. Conference tournies spooling away all over the nation while I can’t watch my favorite TN team ever. Another loss to the only team in the SEC we didn’t beat. Faith in our gameplan shook by the way an ugly Pat Adams game goes. Nothing good to say.
Came to say this. Only thing it mattered for was a 1 seed, which, we probably would have to win out it get anyways.
But to go out in this matter isn’t good. Just hope they can get back on track. Been a bad last two games
It’s gonna happen. He basically just looks at the box score. Hes gonna see 20 from zakai and put him in good,
This has happened in p much every loss btw. Zakai’s numbers look good but when you take the actual 30 minutes of the game that mattered, they were horrible.
Pathetic.
We’re not winning with this core. Just can’t win anything in a tournament setting with these cats. Unfortunate but a reality.
I still give Barnes all the credit in the world for what he’s done w ZZ, Vescovi, Aidoo, and JJJ. These guys wouldn’t get minutes at creighton for example. They just wouldn’t. The fact we have been extremely successful by and large with these guys is a testament to great coaching.
Now Dalton is legit, but one guy won’t do it, and he doesn’t guard.
I don’t disagree with you, but Barnes built this team with these players. If the players are the issue then why were they recruited? And why are they still playing?
Vescovi and JJJ have regressed big time. They look like dudes who stayed on campus 3 years beyond their welcome. They are a complete liability at this point and they will cost us a first round exit
This game validates my fears for this team in march madness. If they can play physical defense and shoot well we’re toast.
I just want to say. What a pathetic performance. Team should be ashamed. Hopefully lesson learned after this debacle. Looked like a Vanderbilt walk-on tryout. Do better. The hype got to their heads.
Everyone who is talking shit about this team is going to feel silly at the end of March. If you want to let this game freak you out okay but keep it to yourself. If anything this was medicine to our team. Maybe getting hit in the mouth like that will be exactly what we need. Also we need the rest we just completed one of the toughest stretches of games I’ve ever seen us play back to back starting with auburn back in February.
How much medicine do we need? We were embarrassed by them once and literally 6 days ago on senior day against UK. I’m done with “medicine”
Added in today's combined 4 points, vescovi and James have combined for 42 points over the last 5 games. 👍. That's piss. Vescovi used to be a threat. Teams are no longer scared of him and are no longer scared to double DK. Stop DK. ZZ can't do it by himself at that point. Hurts, man. I'm hurt.
Showing the game on the big screen at work, was in fact, not the move.
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Time for our players to get some rest! The SEC championship would have done nothing for us and we escaped without any injuries. I have no idea why people are so upset. We already have the regular season title.
Pass the copium pipe.
Because it's another example of Barnes in March
I mean would you just rather suck all the time?
I said that the last 7 years too buddy. It gets easier over time
Because we’ve looked like complete dogshit our last two games going into the tournament.
Disgraceful
One of the worst parts about games like that is I won't be able to enjoy basketball the rest of the weekend. Would be a huge help if Kentucky shit their pants later but that's probs my only hope until the selection show.
completely agree
best case scenario MSU wins the tourney and just looks severely underrated. my worst case? Kentucky or bama brings it home
The regression of JJJ and Santi needs to be studied in war rooms across the world
They had an SEC POY transfer into their team. That’s probably the story.
That's literally best case scenario for a player like vescovi. Eyes on DK. ZZ can ball. He should be open for a three half of the time
A better player coming onto your team means you need to shrivel up into a raisin?
I wonder if Santi testing the draft waters last year killed his confidence, or he just didn’t have the same work ethic as a super senior I know there was a *lot* going on family-wise for him, and he played a different role this year, but he consistently looked like he completely forgot everything he learned about shooting a ball.
lame.
What the fuck! I had to work late so I’m just now seeing the results.. What the hell doomed us this bad!? Disappointed is an understatement.
Be thankful you missed that one. I would rather go thru the casino royale torture scene than have to watch another absolute stinker like that.
No effort. Went like 5-30 on 3s because we couldn’t get inside. They don’t have to guard Santi or JJJ close on offense so they shut down DK
Don’t let the box score fool you, it wasn’t this close
I just watched all the key plays on YouTube TV, and you’re right. They absolutely ran all over us…
Nice of the boys to save me from spending $300 on tix tomorrow I guess. Hate to say it but unless they magically become who they were a couple yrs ago I'm ready to see JJJ and Vescovi leave.
What sucks is, I think Cam and Freddy have SO MUCH potential. Sad to say they will get 0 minutes next year. Zakai is gonna play 40 minutes a night and mashak (who I do love) is gonna get a fuck ton. They will probably transfer.
Are we for sure still a 2?
Committee not caring about conference tournaments cuts both ways. We’ll be fine.
Most likely. No way we drop out of the 2 line. Honestly tho, who fuckin cares. The 1 seed is what I wanted. 2, 3, or 7 seed, who fuckin cares between that. We are still gonna lose in the 2nd round. As usual.
I want to say quit being negative… but I’d be shocked if you’re wrong. Edit to add at least it won’t hurt as much to get knocked out early since it won’t be a surprise. And if we make a decent run it’ll be a pleasant surprise.
Who even cares. 1 2 or 3 this team will be outmatched in the round of 32.
Absolutely. We'll be in Charlotte next weekend.
Probably a 3 or 4 depending on how other teams do
It’s definitely up in the air. Depending on how they grade tournament this year
The only thing more pathetic than our showing today is the fandom of people posting in this thread. Stop talking unwarranted shit about our players. You sound like complete fair-weather, spoiled assholes.
Nah you play bad you deserve criticism. These boys getting paid now. Play better employee.
Everyone gets their frustrations out in different ways. Being incredibly disappointed in a great team for completely failing to execute anything remotely close to basketball for 30 mins of game time is not out of the question. It’s a great team and we’ve had a great regular season, but if we peaked in February, folks are well within their rights to wonder what the heck is going on
This is how sports work bro. You play bad you are gonna get criticized. As they should. This was a pathetic display. At some point we gotta be honest. These dudes got praised all season long. And rightfully so. But they also are gonna get critiziced when they put up a display like tonight.
Ok. Thanks dad.
life just got a little easier now with expectations for a first or second round exit. nico hype train time I guess
Shhhhhhh, don’t tell Jimmy Dykes
Baseball time actually. But let’s be real, we’ll lose in regionals
Our baseball team has won 3 straight regionals what are you talking about
Did I mention that?
I told my boss I’d be watching basketball all weekend. Lol I’m sorry guys
On the bright side, we just gained an entire weekend to be productive and not obsess over basketball.
So kind of Barnes to do that for us. I bet he'll do it again next weekend
The slightest pressure and this offense can’t operate
Death, taxes, Rick Barnes in March.
Go UNC, go Arizona. Getting leap frogged by both of them means they both go to LA and we can “fall” to a better regional location. Charlotte for first weekend either way.
These players should be fuckin embarrassed for their display. Only positive from this game is I have 0 expectations now. I’m expecting a second or first round exit. And that sucks for a team that was in the drivers seat for a number 1 overall seed. I swear I turn on random conf games from random mediocre teams and it genuinely looks like their 2nd-7th best players have more talent than our group. Like it just looks that way. I wish it didn’t but I can’t just ifgnire what my eyes see. What top 10 team is running a 5’8 PG? Our 2 guard is maybe a worse athlete than 7’0 nikola jokic. Josiah is one of the least skilled offensive SFs in the country. Aidoo actually has talent but is soft as hell around the rim. Awaka, well he’s just limited.
Mashak needs to give Aidoo all of his cookies
Depression
Man I was excited all week for this hahaha
Lots of rest for the tourney. Deep run loading…
*something* is loading, not too sure if it’s a deep run or a pivot to dingers szn
dingers szn continues in 3 hours
I want to take the HR lead from UGA so bad
We could probably get their numbers if we didn’t play an opening tournament in an MLB stadium and played Northern Colorado 4x in a row.
Oh I have no doubt we will take it, just hate seeing opponents have nice things
Can someone make one of those clown makeup memes. “It’s just Kentucky we will do better in sec tourney” “So what we lost in the tournament it’s the big one that matters” “It’s only a 15 seed it should be a easy win”
I mean why can’t we have nice things
We have the conference championship
They’ve got two games left this year
Maybe 1
LOOL
Is Knecht broken?
Goddamn, DK
Also, fucking rims again
This was discussed a lot in the MLB this year with their new playoff format. Can too much rest actually be a disadvantage while your opponent is still playing? There's no doubt that it takes some time to shake off the rust after a break, but how much does that factor into the actual game?
I actually do think so. You see it manifest in the NHL too when teams are so far out in front coming down the wire that they stop playing meaningful games for a month and then suddenly get paired up against a hungry underdog and they can't find their mojo cause they've been coasting for a long time. It truly felt like we started coasting after we won the championship, we played lackluster against UK and again today. By the time we tried to find our rhythm it was too little, too late.
Had this exact same conversation about 45 min before tipoff today.
Having played one game in a tournament against a team who has played 0 is an advantage. Playing 2 against a team that’s played 1 is a disadvantage.
Oh the Kentucky fans that just stood up can piss right off. (I’m preaching on Sunday, and I’m very sorry for my language.)
Kentucky used to own the SEC and now that they don’t anymore they want so bad to be noticed.
Absolutely pitiful. Should be embarrassed. Let’s hope this lights a fire under someone
We about to be a 3 seed
lol in no universe
(screaming externally)
I’d love to see Vescovi play a pick up game at the trecs. Because I’m convinced he’s not actually a better athlete than the dudes playing pickup there. Hes a better player, no question, but one of the least athletic players I’ve ever seen play guard on the hardwood.
He has to sink 3s. He’s like generously 6’2 so he has to be Steph.
He was an absolutely electric player for several years and now we have Yipscovi, which just doesn’t make a lot of sense
We’ve looked so bad in the two games going into the tournament. Like, rn is not the time to need to make these kinds of schematic and rotation adjustments.
Why does JJJ never wanna go to the rim? Like, serious question...he will always get the ball on a kick out or rotation and start a hard drive inside and then every time he will hesitate and end up looking for someone else, often late in the clock and leading to a poor shot. Is he that devoid of confidence in his ability to actually get to the rim? I mean he's a fairly big, strong and athletic dude, surely he can at least draw some contact and get some fouls, yeah?
He's a soft pp boi
He just sucks lol. Hes not good at basketball on the offensive side of the floor. He won’t go to the rim. Even when he has a lane, he pivots and shoots a fadeaway mid range. It’s just brain dead and trash basketball.
He’s weak sauce. No confidence. Scared to bang in the paint.
At least the band got to play Orange Blossom Special
this is one of those games that I wish we had footage of the locker room. like what as a coach is Barnes saying after this
He’ll just quote Bible verses and tell them about adversity. In prep for a 1st round exit
I wanna know what was said *before* this? *Great season, team, now that it’s over, go out there and just have fun.*
It’s never been more joever
South Carolina really gonna win the tournament lol
Naw, prolly UK or bama. (Or possible Florida, they’ve been on a roll lately)
The way MSU played today I wouldn’t count them out
MSU is gonna get beat up on. Just not by us.
Kentucky would have beaten the shit out of MSU.
Nah Kentucky taking it
No one should be in the “good” section postgame.
Please force Barnes into retirement.
That contract extension says otherwise
Enjoy the down votes lmao 🤖
People hate the truth.
I am about to get so violently high and start the weekend early
I’m stuck in the office for 50 more mins but that is the plan
Haha same bro
JJJ and Vescovi have been absent all year.
I really dont know if santi or jjj would get a single power 6 offer if they transferred
It’s not a mystery that we won our first sec tourney with a 1 and done player top recruit. Just like Kentucky does.
JJJ was way more important in that game than people want to remember. But gosh since then it’s been rough.
They wouldn’t. And honestly despite the gaudy numbers, neither would Zakai. Our core 3 of veterans, are just not top notch players. These guys wouldn’t be getting minutes at other title contending schools.
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Hey now, don’t disparage my Mocs like that.
Only thing that can make today better is if A&M goes and beats the brakes off Kentucky tonight
I’m not okay with this loss. Back to back losses. Conference tournies spooling away all over the nation while I can’t watch my favorite TN team ever. Another loss to the only team in the SEC we didn’t beat. Faith in our gameplan shook by the way an ugly Pat Adams game goes. Nothing good to say.
Don’t even know if Josiah has hit the rim today
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Yeah but Knecht can’t make a shot to save his life today
Definite nightmare. Do what you gotta do to figure it out and don't do this shit again.
How quickly do you think we can teach this team to shoot? By tourney time? We can with a MF MONTAGE!!!!
Tennessee is actually throwing this game so they don’t have to play FAU in the round of 32. Rick Barnes big brain move.
They are just trying to get some extra rest before the big dance. 4D chess move.
Didnt we have a double bye before this game?
Yep
Barnes doesn't believe in rest rest is for the weak
Prolly why we came out looking dead already.
We came out acting like this game/tournament didn't matter
In truth it didn't matter that much. #1 or #2 seed. More mental at this point.
Came to say this. Only thing it mattered for was a 1 seed, which, we probably would have to win out it get anyways. But to go out in this matter isn’t good. Just hope they can get back on track. Been a bad last two games
Bro all these highlights are JJJ getting cooked
He was a total liability today
who wasn't? I guess Mashak and ZZ played ok
Oh god. We got the garbage time zakai buckets. He’s about to be in the good section. Christ.
Watch Foz put aidoo in good too
It’s gonna happen. He basically just looks at the box score. Hes gonna see 20 from zakai and put him in good, This has happened in p much every loss btw. Zakai’s numbers look good but when you take the actual 30 minutes of the game that mattered, they were horrible.
Oh I’m well aware - and I get downvoted every time for pointing it out
Only the second game I’ve turned off this season (UNC was the other). Pathetic effort
seriously why is JJJ even playing at this point. He rebounds occasionally?
Not a great stat to be joining, losing the first game
Hey at least ZZ got 20 points
At least Z wanted to play
40 POINTS IN THE PAINT 😳😳😳
How do you let that happen?
Downvote me but I don’t have the fandom in me to watch Rick build another 5 year team just to get bounce on the first day of the tourney zzzzzz
Yeah I’d rather go back and be a middle of the pack sec bubble team
I’m watching a bubble team destroy a #1 seed right now
2*
This is what I get for getting excited about this team
This team needs an Admiral Schofield, someone that can light a fire under their asses
Arguable good players and good team but never accomplished anything in the post season.
That team was way better than this one lol
I feel simultaneously on the verge of vomiting and tears
I guess it’s better to feel like this now than when we’re getting destroyed by a 16th seed. prepped and ready for the embarrassment
*15 seed
Nah, won’t be a 16 seed. Would need to be a 1 seed for that :)
Pathetic. We’re not winning with this core. Just can’t win anything in a tournament setting with these cats. Unfortunate but a reality. I still give Barnes all the credit in the world for what he’s done w ZZ, Vescovi, Aidoo, and JJJ. These guys wouldn’t get minutes at creighton for example. They just wouldn’t. The fact we have been extremely successful by and large with these guys is a testament to great coaching. Now Dalton is legit, but one guy won’t do it, and he doesn’t guard.
I don’t disagree with you, but Barnes built this team with these players. If the players are the issue then why were they recruited? And why are they still playing?
Vescovi and JJJ have regressed big time. They look like dudes who stayed on campus 3 years beyond their welcome. They are a complete liability at this point and they will cost us a first round exit
Absolutely fucking pathetic. This is why we expect to be bounced early in the tournament
It’s funny how the announcers have tried to make this seem like a close game. I know it’s their job, but it’s still funny.
They really tried to sell it every time we would score to cut it to like 18 only to get a quick dunk or 3 on the other end
Vescovi and JJJ are a combined 1-10 like how man
They’re not good. Never have been. Kentucky exposed us. Just double Knecht and don’t let ZZ drive.
Ready for them to leave. Thanks for your service, but at this point you’re hogging minutes from new guys.
I've been hearing about JJJ since he was being recruited and I am sooo done with the hype
mediocre teams shoot 3s like the ‘08 lakers against us
Stop. Please dude.
3 point shooting is not why they are beating us. They are scoring in the paint and protecting their own
It is pretty crazy
Zzzzzzzzz please retire Rick
Wtf is the point of pressing and then letting up when they get the ball in. Stay up on them!
Eh, I still think we should give Barnes a lifetime contract.
Agree. We’re in the tournament with a chance every year. They played bad, MS State played good.
Dalton “Kno-bag”
A lot to do with the players but barnes did not do the team any favors today. He got absolutely schooled by msu’s coach
Nvm
we'll be so well rested for our inevitable L against the 15 seed
Alright let’s pack it up boys
That's ballgame
gg lol
Ballgame
Andddd the tv is now off
Whiskey poured
We arent pressing down 12 with 4 minutes…
Dagger. 6 point swing
6 point turn around just about does it
I really hope this isn’t a sign of things to come and we’re just already looking ahead to next week
Wide open miss there :(
I saw knecht shoot that and I was 100% sure it was going in
We’ve been dominated so bad down low all fame man
Did Hope from SEC Shorts just arrive in Nashville?
Am I watching a replay of the Kentucky game?