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
basketball good
I still think we should be a good basketball team.
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We just didn't want (Law) to drive the ball to the basket or get a foul.
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What you like about opening the tournament in Dallas is the travel. Everyone's had to do a lot of traveling at this point of the year. It's nice to just take a bus trip up I-35.
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You know they're probably going to shoot 25 threes, and they're capable of making more than half.
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I don't know what you guys expect. This is the NCAA tournament. If you think there are going to be blowouts, they're not.
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I don't know what you guys expect; it's the NCAA Tournament. If you guys are thinking we're going to blow teams out, you're not watching basketball. ... You kidding me? I'm glad we're going to play one more time. I'm not disappointed.
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If we're stepping backward, there's a lot of people who would like to do the Texas two-step with us.
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If the season was over today, you could make a case. There's too many games to speculate. It depends on what we do these next couple of games.
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I don't know a freshman who has had more put on him. He's had a big target on him. He has handled things extremely well.
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Obviously it was a goal we had at the beginning of the season. At the start of the year, looking at our schedule, we knew we had a target on our backs, and I am proud of the way the team handled it.
handling sixteen time year
Right now, if there's any one thing I can change, it's handling the basketball. Sixteen turnovers at this time of year just kills you.
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Mike Williams gave us by far and away his best game since he's been at Texas.
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One thing about Daniel is he does take a lot of pride in wanting to guard people. If I called a time out, say someone is playing really well, and I say 'who wants to guard them?' There's no doubt he puts his hand up quicker than anybody.
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One thing we knew about this tournament is, when you're wearing the white jersey, other than your team's fans everyone else in the building is cheering for the dark jersey.