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
played totally
I don't think they played any different. I think they still did the same things, but I think we were a totally different team.
coach deserves herb poured
Herb hasn't been appreciated the way he should be appreciated. He deserves more than the way he's been treated. He has poured everything he has into the job. I don't think they could find a better coach for their program.
gotten hurt watched
If he hadn't gotten hurt, we wouldn't have watched him play tonight. I think he'd be in the NBA.
emotional fist gives pump
If he gives you a fist pump that's pretty emotional for him.
talk
I can't talk about it. I don't think it's official.
plays
It's pretty simple. They made the plays they had to make. We didn't make the plays we had to make.
capable couple daniel demeanor game games gibson happy last proud throughout
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.
great win
It's a great league, and if you can win it, you've accomplished something.
good guys playing win
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.
bogged came game great guys job key last offensive watched
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.
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.
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.