This team is easily one of the worst teams Barnes has had in the last several years. Nate Ament may be a great player some day but he is not at all the guy he was hyped up to be yet. Soft, not aggressive, and puts no fear in any opponent.

This team…..is not good. At all.

Two must win home games this week against two pretty bad teams. One double OT survival and one 17-point lead choked away. This team simply never ever shows up big when it counts. May not make the tourney.

So I love Nate Ament now that he’s finally decided he wants to score. This team, however, still finds a way at times to go ages without scoring. It is just something that Vols fans deal with every year. Hurts them in the regular season and knocks them out in March.

Like every other person on #Vol twitter, I watched the basketball game today while checking to see what folks on here thought about what they were seeing. Noticeably missing was Wes Rucker commentary on the awful refs at times, and the nerds jokes that came against VU. Sad.

As much as I have enjoyed watching Nate Ament come of age, the rest of this team finds so many ways to be unclutch. It will be the reason they go home early in March.

This Vols team turns the ball over with such little care, it is shocking at times. They don’t even make the other team make incredible plays. Just dribble right into them or let them take a dribble handoff.

Pretty lifeless performance so far from the Vols. Lucky to only be down 7. May get boat raced here in embarrassing fashion yet again in Nashville

Still a half to go, but, how many times can we watch a Tennessee team struggle to put the ball in the basket in March before that just becomes the expectation? Vols would be losing to every team in the league after that half. This is just what they do.

Is there a team in the country with a worse FG% inside of 5 feet than the Vols? Occasionally they will make a tough one, but they miss about 4X more easy ones. Honestly, I think it pads their offensive rebound stats because they are rebounding missed layups

That foul on Gillespie was absolutely laughable.

This second half has been some of the worst officiated ball I’ve seen this year. So many phantom fouls on the Tennessee defensive end

Honestly, we are about to watch about 4-5 months of baseball that won’t be anywhere near as fun as these last two weeks. I really hope everyone sees this and opts in for the next one. These guys that just played will never forget it.

I don’t think I’ve seen Ament that fired up on defense all season. Could be the spark for him to get going

Also, has anyone ever seen Jaylen Carey dunk? Do we know if he can? He attempts 95% of his shots inside 5 feet and never tries to dunk

There may be a player I’m forgetting that could be in the mix for this, but Felix Okapra has to be the career leader in alley-oop dunks. Between Ziegler and now Gillespie feeding him, it has to be 60% of his points.

So much in this stat, actually really impressive. It means that most of the time, his teams are seeded pretty high. Also means they never overachieve when it matters. Problem for him has been, when you are a 1 or 2 seed, the expectation is Final Four

Incredible how awful the Vols have been all year from inside 3 feet. Easily the worst in the country.

Take. Care. Of. The. Basketball

Like I have said all along, this is clearly a Final Four caliber team