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.
guy improved player thomas tough
Thomas Gardner has probably improved as much as any player in the league. He's a guy that can make some really tough shots.
knew obvious pain tough worried year
It's obvious he's been in pain. I've been worried all year just watching. I knew he was having a tough time.
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.
night shooting tough
We had a tough night shooting the ball.
beginning finish knew looking schedule season tough
Back in the beginning of the season when I was looking at the schedule I knew it was going to be a tough finish for us.
basketball doubted good guys kept tough tremendous
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.
happened tougher year
He's been through tougher things. What he went through a year ago, what happened (against A&M) pales to that.
proud situation step took tough
He had to step back and look at a lot of things. I'm proud of him, because he took a tough situation and got the most out of it.
time tough
He had it going. They were having a tough time with him.
anyone coaches love stress tough understand until
I don't know if anyone can really understand the stress of coaches until you go through it. I love this business, as we all do, but it's a tough profession. There's a lot of stress.
care damage ended felt float gave guys high somebody tried
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.
anybody changed seen themselves
I've never seen anybody who changed themselves around the way P.J. did.
players pride seen
I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.