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
basketball coming games good lost team
(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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Teams may look at A.J.'s baby face and slight build and not take him seriously. Well, they won't anymore.
guard guys matter smaller worried
Our big guys will have to guard their smaller players, so it?s a matter of defense. I?m not worried about us offensively.
anywhere terrific
He's a terrific guard. He can play anywhere at any level.
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J.J. was terrific. He got comfortable and whether we allowed him to or not, he got going and they understand to get the ball in his hands.
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.
august due last middle next year
He went over in August last year and he was due back over here the middle of next month.
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It is a fine line between where you don't want him to not be aggressive. But then again, I don't mind if he leaves his feet. As long as he goes up in his area. Where he has been getting in trouble is he is jumping in to people. He just has to slow down.
tight time
This is what it is this time of year. For us to do what we did today, in a tight game, it was terrific.
plays
It's pretty simple. They made the plays they had to make. We didn't make the plays we had to make.
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.
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.
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I am obviously a better-looking guy than he is. If we play basketball he wasn't very good; but the reason he does all the loose-ball drills is because that's how he had to get on the court as a player. But if it got down to he and I playing, it won't be a rivalry. To have a rivalry you have got to split some games, and he would never win a game from me.
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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.