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
beginning effort finish game great inside knew season team tough
The whole team put in a great effort and our inside game was just great. Back in the beginning of the season ... I knew it was going to be a tough finish for us.
deal game mess teams
The teams that mess up are the ones that play not to lose. You don't want to be the first game of the tournament. You'd probably want to be in the middle, but you just have to deal with it.
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Every game in this league, as you know in any league, that night you've got to be ready to play. We've got to continue to improve. There are areas we definitely can improve in.
game good win
We have one game left. If we're good enough to win the league, we'll win it.
couple depends games next season
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.
best far game gave mike since williams
Mike Williams gave us by far and away his best game since he's been at Texas.
doubt game plays
When the game was in doubt, they made plays and we didn't.
game glimpse good team terrific
I told the team after the game they had a glimpse of how good we can be. We were terrific ... but we can still get better.
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.
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Daniel Gibson 's demeanor throughout the whole game was good. What he's done the last couple games is what he's capable of. Everyone's happy and proud of him.
games guys people six teams wanting
That's stupidity. ... We're six games in. You've got to think teams are going to get better. That's just people wanting to write something. Our guys never thought that.
games good people plenty six teams
That's stupidity. We're six games in. That's just something for people to write about. There are plenty of good teams in this conference.
areas best games helped scoring shooting tough
That may have been one of Brad's best games because he helped out in areas other than scoring on a tough shooting night.
against game knew next played team
It wasn't. That was a very hard-fought game against a team that played us the way we knew they'd play us. I think this next one will be no different.