Rick Barnes
Rick Barnes
Richard Dale Barnesis the current head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers men's basketball team, a post he has held since 2015...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth17 July 1954
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That's college basketball. I just told them they needed to finish the game. An 18-point lead is nothing that can't be overcome and in February you expect teams to play hard.
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Their guys are quick. If you don?t handle the ball well, they do a tremendous job of taking it away and capitalizing on it.
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I'm glad they said something like that. I'll be using that for the next few years. I guess we wanted it more during the regular season since we beat them and came into the tournament as the No. 1 seed. I don't doubt my players' desire one bit.
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I'm not going to take anything away from them because I thought they beat us in every way you could be beaten today. From looking at my team out there, I thought they acted like it was going to be (like the first game) again.
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If we turn it over 24 times now, we won't have a chance.
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In some ways, winning a game like this might be better for us than if we won by eight or nine points. We had to work.
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I remember getting beat and getting thrown out of the game. I guess you will ask me why I got thrown out of the game. Is that what you want to get into?
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I knew he'd make it back, ... He never pouted.
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I just want to win the next game we play, and then the next one after that. All I know is, we can't let down.
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I have no problem with Daniel attempting to find out what his status may be in the upcoming draft. This is a good rule put in place for players to explore their draft status.
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If you want me to be quite blunt, I've got one of the best jobs in America. I have no desire to coach in the Atlantic Coast Conference or any other part of the country.
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Anyone close to our program knows the kind of kid and person he is. He knew a lot of the things that happened were his fault. He said he would fix it, and he did. I'm not sure I ever coached a player that spent as much time improving the kind of person he is as he did improving his basketball game.
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The bottom line is you could have done a lot more. Regardless of what the world throws at you, you're responsible for yourself. From that day on, he's been terrific.
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The bottom line is we shot the ball well. We played well. We really did.