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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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.
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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.
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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.
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That may have been one of Brad's best games because he helped out in areas other than scoring on a tough shooting night.
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That's just stupidity. It's like the Indianapolis Colts (who won their first 13 games). We're six games in; teams are going to get better.
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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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(Kelvin) lost some games when he didn't have his whole team there. Coming in (to the season) they were like us, a team that was up there. And they're a good basketball team.
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You could probably make a case today. (But) there's too many games this week. It's an important week for a lot of people. It depends on what we do these next couple of games.
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Whether we bring Mike Williams off the bench or go small like we did, we have got to deal with those situations.
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We're better than we played tonight. I've said all along, 'We've got to improve. We need to continue to get better.' I think this group has responded all year. I'll be disappointed if we don't try to improve.
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We want him to want the ball. He's going to have to demand it. ... The worst thing he can do is be passive this time of year.
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We're a better offensive team than we were the other night. We turned down some open shots, so we need to be aggressive. Being aggressive is taking an open shot.
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We hit them, they hit back and we didn't respond. We were not as aggressive as we needed to be, and allowed them to dictate to us our style of basketball.
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We didn't want him to settle for that.