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
fine goes jumping leaves line mind slow trouble
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.
capable shoot
You know they're probably going to shoot 25 threes, and they're capable of making more than half.
anytime played road win
We've played better than we've played tonight. (But) anytime you go on the road and win in this league, it's good.
daniel playing team thinking
We have to have Daniel playing and thinking that way for this team to play to its potential.
conference middle race realize
We realize we're in the middle of a conference race. We're not going to take anything for granted.
settle
We didn't want him to settle for that.
aggressive allowed dictate hit needed style
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.
aggressive night offensive open taking team turned
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.
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.
night shooting tough
We had a tough night shooting the ball.
bench bring deal mike small whether williams
Whether we bring Mike Williams off the bench or go small like we did, we have got to deal with those situations.
continue group played
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.