Tennessee is proud of defense, but coach Rick Barnes urges the volunteers to lead the “confrontation” mentality for the regular season finale on Saturday afternoon.
After a defeat of 78-76 on Ole Miss, No. 4-Disturb must (24-6, 11-6 Southeastern Conference) beat South Place South Carolina in Knoxville, Tenn.
“It’s ridiculous,” Barnes said after Rebels’ Jaemyn Brakefield scored all 19 points in the last 10:24 pm and was undeniable in color.
“We’re talking about having confrontation. We play as we were – it’s soft, honest. It’s soft. It’s not really trying to go in and play on the ball.”
During the last 20 minutes Tennessee built an eight-point lead but beat it with almost 16 minutes left before Brakefield happened.
“They were shot at us,” said Barnes, whose team lost the point in the painting fight 46-20 and the offensive rebound Tussle 15-8.
“But again you let a team become comfortable and you are not as aggressive and you do not play smart. Offensive rebounding can only take the wind out of your sail.”
Although its hopes for a No. 1 national seed were critically injured, Tennessee can guarantee a double village in the Sec tournament in Nashville by defeating the flounder Gamecocks (12-18, 2-15).
Vol’s leading goal scorer Jordan Gainey netted 19 points on Wednesday to Eclipse 1500 career points. Team leader Chaz Lanier (17.7 points) swung 3 out of 8 from a distance to put him on 102 made 3 and joined the northern Florida transmission with Chris Loon and Santiago Vescovi as the only volunteers who broke the century during a season.
The Rocky Top program 2017-18 has won 11 out of 13 against South Carolina and is 31-10 all the time at home.
Regardless of the results in Appalachian Mountains, South Carolina knows her situation in the music city next week.
GameCocks is locked in the last place of the conference after Tuesday’s loss 73-64 to Georgia and will open the tour by meeting the No. 9 seed in Wednesday’s first matchup. A subsequent setback ends the season for Lamont Paris’s crew.
Against Bulldogs in his home final on Senior Night, GameCocks put just something of a threat to open the second half while they beat 40-29.
The home team stormed out on a 12-4 run to get the deficit to within three and then later until two at 9:24 at Nick Pringle’s free throw. But it could not maintain the driving force for the entire comeback.
Paris understands his team’s playing style and what happens in the 20 minutes halves.
“I thought we were better defensively during the second half,” Paris said. “It’s hard. Our recipe for winning usually doesn’t involve 40 points in half. I don’t know many people do, but ours really don’t. We dug a hole that way and thought the guys did a good job in the second half.”
Sophomore Sensation Collin Murray-Boyles continues to be a one-man-fluctuated ball in the Paris post.
Average 28.7 points during the last three excursions generate the hometown product 17 points, 8.3 returns and 2.5 assists while they broke down 58.9 percent from the floor.
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