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
ball consistency point question
Consistency. I've said to this team, 'If we've got to get a basket, what would we do?' There's no question that at some point we'll put the ball in his hands.
ball basket drive law
We just didn't want (Law) to drive the ball to the basket or get a foul.
ball good push quickly switch top transition
I told them that we were going to switch everything. And if they score, we've got to get the ball back out in transition as quickly as they can and push it right on top of them. We got as good a look as we could probably get.
ball daniel game nights percent shoot shot
Daniel will be fine. There's going to be nights you're not going to shoot the ball well. We still shot 50 percent for the game and scored 90 points.
ball creating defense easy great handle job offense result
They do a great job of creating offense with their defense. Out front, if you don't handle the ball well, those turnovers usually result in easy baskets at the other end.
ball bottom line played shot
The bottom line is we shot the ball well. We played well. We really did.
ball good job minutes played rotation smarter
I thought the first 20 minutes we were outstanding defensively. I thought we played smarter defensively, and I thought we did a good job of corralling to the ball and rotation was pretty good for the most part.
allowed ball understand whether
J.J. was terrific. He got comfortable and whether we allowed him to or not, he got going and they understand to get the ball in his hands.
ball both defense intensity man teams throwing zone
Our man defense was good, but we used a lot more zone than I thought we would. Both teams were throwing the ball around because of the intensity of the game.
ball passes team turn veteran
Some of our passes were ridiculous. To turn the ball over as many times as we did and win, we were fortunate. They're an older, veteran team in midseason form.
ball passes team turn veteran
Some of our passes were ridiculous, ... To turn the ball over as many times as we did and win, we were fortunate. They're an older, veteran team in midseason form.
ball guys handle job taking tremendous
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.
aggressive attacking ball knew needed
I didn't think we were aggressive enough. I didn't think we were attacking the ball like we needed to. We knew they were going to come with pressure.
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We tried to keep two guys down around the block. Every now and then we would float somebody into the high post. We felt like if we could take care of the ball, get it on the rim, that we could do some damage there. We ended with 17 of them (offensive rebounds) and that gave us 17 more opportunities.