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
seem trend
It does seem like there's a trend of doing that.
anyone basketball close coached fix happened improving kid knew knows player program spent sure time
Anyone close to our program knows the kind of kid and person he is. He knew a lot of the things that happened were his fault. He said he would fix it, and he did. I'm not sure I ever coached a player that spent as much time improving the kind of person he is as he did improving his basketball game.
emotional
He's very quiet, not a very emotional person.
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 good playing time year
You're not playing this time of year if you're not a good basketball team.
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.
clean saw talk
I saw it. It was a clean block. There's no need to talk any more about it.
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.
beginning goal handled knew looking obviously proud start target team
Obviously it was a goal we had at the beginning of the season. At the start of the year, looking at our schedule, we knew we had a target on our backs, and I am proud of the way the team handled it.
against brought needs played pressure team
The team needs to keep getting smarter. And I think they played well against a team that brought out a lot of pressure all over the floor.
confidence couple knowing last number
Because of what we've been able to do the last couple of weeks, I think they've got confidence knowing we can play a number of different ways.
finding played row won
They were young and finding their way. They've won 10 in a row and played great.
basketball good penn
There's no question. They're not going to take Penn lightly. They know better than that, and they know they're going to have to play good basketball to be successful.
anybody changed seen themselves
I've never seen anybody who changed themselves around the way P.J. did.