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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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.
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Believe me, I'd prefer it not be this way. But one thing about our team is that we've had different guys all year finding different ways to win.
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We've got some guys who are comfortable scoring. Our team is not built around one player.
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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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Thomas Gardner has probably improved as much as any player in the league. He's a guy that can make some really tough shots.
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We ask him to be aggressive and block shots. He is just over anxious. He is a guy that really believes he can stop people from scoring.
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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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I told our guys that if we're going to be a good team, we've got to find a way to win when we're not playing well. We did that tonight.
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I told our guys before the game that the key would be what we got from our bench. I watched our last game (KSU) where we bogged down on the offensive end. Obviously, A.J. came up big. They did a great job of double-teaming the post.
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This is one of the better situations in the country. I know this, there are a lot of guys who would like to be sitting in my chair.
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I think that Rick would have to have upset a couple guys and have them quit,
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I thought our guys did a good job of staying aggressive the last couple of minutes. We probably didn't make as many good decisions as we needed to be making in that situation but, overall, when they made their run and got back in it, we stayed with it. We pushed it back out there and made some free throws at the end. I'm happy with the fact that we had only seven turnovers and the job we did on the boards.
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Our guys showed a tremendous will to win. We had some tough times, but we kept believing, and our guys never doubted they were a good basketball team.