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Tennessee Vols at Vanderbilt Commodores: Open Game Thread

Tennessee Volunteers at Vanderbilt Commodores, Jan 24, 2012 7:00 PM EST


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January 24, 2012
Memorial Gymcrapium, Nashville, TN
7:00 EST

TV: ESPNU
Live stats: UT Sports
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9-10 (1-3)
NR
14-5 (4-1)
NR
Jackson the Mule says . . .
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. . . This doesn't look wrong to you, Vandy fans?

Leave your pre-, in-, and post-game thoughts below.

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if anyone hasn't yet

listen to Coach Cuonzo’s press conference from yesterday (in kidbourbon’s thread from this morning). Really good stuff. He said he was 100% prepared to redshirt Jarnell Stokes depending on how he came in, but that Stokes was hungry, physical, and a quick-learner, so he played. I’ve heard elsewhere that a lot of people close to Jarnell thought that he needed a redshirt year. Proven. Wrong.

Great work, Jackson.
anyone know if this is streaming anywhere?

didn’t see it on espn3…

I doubt it

ESPN keeps the U games offline, for whatever reason. I have never understood this, but I’m sure they have something resembling an excuse

I'm sure they do

yet still, they can suck it

See, ESPN is a global company with a large online presence.

That’s why they can’t friggin’ put ANYTHING ONLINE THAT’S ON ESPNU. I don’t get it.

(read: nope.)

ESPNU: third-rate ads for a third-rate gym.
Hey! It looks like it is on ESPN3!

I clicked on “watch it now” on utsports.com, and it was under “upcoming”. I’m sorry I said mean things about u, espn :(

until you see the stream go live

I wouldn’t rest easy

you are correct

it ain’t working, dang it

Apparently Cuonzo is in the orange blazer tonight
interesting

didn’t wear it against Kentucky

!!!

(SBN doesn’t let you do just punctuation in posts)

Is my TV messed up?

Or does that shade of orange look a little… off?

it's a little dark

like our 80s football uniforms or something. but he wears it well

I would've gone to this game if I didn't have to open in the morning.

Should be a good one.

damn people needing their coffee at 5:30 am.
Right?

They suck. lol.

don't miss my Sbux days.
Eh, it's alright. Like the folks I work with, just stressful.
10 years did me in...super stressful as a SM

love the people.

My daughter-in-law is an SM. t
X-factor: Jarnell Stokes.

Y-factor: dependent variable.

I like this Whiparound pregame show ESPNU does

first time I’ve seen it

same lineup as last time
wow, Vandy's in for a serious fall next year

could potentially lose all five starters if Jenkins goes pro

I thought they called a foul on Stokes instead of the travel

I was about to get into murderin mood right quick

So this game IS NOT on ESPN3, right?
Gotta get those points in the paint.

Good board though!

damnit, Trae, NEVER TRY THE ALLEY FREAKING OOP
Well, we got the Trae Golden Stupid Pass of the Game out of the way early
Missed everything there, Jenky
This game is not on ESPN3.

And I don’t have the U. I’m furious.

try first row? hope and pray?
We're getting some good looks in the paint

but capitalizing on none of them

gotta kick that one out JRich.
3 turnovers on Tennessee in what? five possessions?
7-0

timeout Tennessee

gross

Any luck streaming this game?
Vanderbilt got the first touchdown

and we still can’t protect the ball on the road

Be really curious to see how Stokes reacts to this

he’s playing really poorly early

make that 4 turnovers in 6 possessions

looks like run out of the building early. hunker down, play smart basketball

All the turnovers?

All the turnovers.

Jeronne stops bleeding!
If Richardson can't guard Taylor, not sure who will
An offensive foul on TChaingang

and it’s our ball!

Urrbody luh Maymon
Here's Woolridge at the 3
"So we've got Skylar McBee and McRae in there to handle the basketball."

HUUUUURGH

Dammit, Kenny
must have barely moved that heel.
Renaldo drawing the foul.
McRae is the only one on the floor that can create
13-6, Woolridge shooting two.
Hits both!

That was a 4/9 shooter on the year from there.

Vandy locking us up right now.
Hey, have you heard Skylar can't shave until the end of the year?

Also, Brian Williams lost weight and Negedu speaks a dozen languages.

If I could get all of these on a timeline, that would be great.

OH, DID YOU HEAR about Jarnell's Size 20 shoes.

Poor kid doesn’t get shoe options.

Waiting…

You know what they say.....
Vandy's getting a lot of second chances
Six. SIX turnovers.

/ah ah ah

14-8 Vanderbilt.
wouldn't be Tennessee without illegal screens

Miller trying to take Maymon’s spot

Stokes draws a charge. Woo!
UGH.

I went to yell at Maymon for moving screen and it wasn’thim.

There we go

nice job by Stokes

Nice Charge, Jarnell.
Way to take the charge, young man!
7 Turnovers, 8 Points.
Can we stop turning the ball over now, please?
They've taken almost twice as many shots as we have (11-6)

gotta take better care of it

Now it's 12-11

But the score got worse.

how did Stokes miss all those shots?

aaaaaand UGH

Second and third chances.

still nothing…

We're at, what, 3-11 shooting?
And another turnover. 8.
20-8 Bad Guys.

7-0 Run.

They need to either keep going to Stokes every time until he scores

or get him out of there

This comment brought to you by the letter FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFf
Stokes looking young tonight.
Stokes is struggling.

At least I think that’s him.

9 turnovers, 8 points

about to be two separate 9-0 runs for Vandy

We have more turnovers than possessions with shots.
10 turnovers, 8 points
We'd lose to anybody playing like this
10 Turnovers.

Good god this is like a bad cycle that won’t break now.

So I kinda think this is already over.
So I kinda think you're right.
This statement

It is bold.

This is much sarcasm, yes?
looking like it.

Not having a real good time.

That was a really good defensive possession

which is nice to see despite our offensive struggles

I knew better than to feel good headed into this game.
I knew there was a reason I felt so bad going into this game
If you want to see something scary.

Check out the Gameflow.

11 turnovers
more than entire UCONN game.
And we step on the line after getting a defensive rebound.

bad voodoo goin on.

Ezeli doesn't appear to be capable of beating us inside

but obviously 8 points ain’t gonna get it done

one day, I'd like to play a good road game

can we do that sometime? please

One might say

We’re stuck in the Pitts.

I wish all games could be at TBA and on Saturday.
Is it bad to have significantly more turnovers than points?
So, multiplying by 3.33

On pace for 37 turnovers and 27 points?

So ..Vandy can't go into the half with more than what, 32?

30?

It's not just the turnovers though

we’ve got guys taking shots that just aren’t their shots at all, except for Maymon and Stokes, and Stokes can’t get the lid off

Richardson and Golden have been taking good shots

and just not coming close

Shooting under 25% and have 11 turnovers.
Vandy with a chance to stretch their run to 12-0
Hey, UT's in the bonus you guys!
Yay, a slam by Vandy and a Timeout.
This gym is stupid.

Vanderbilt is stupid.
Basketball is stupid.

/takesballandgoeshome
Somewhere someone is researching the largest combined margin of defeat by the Vols and Lady Vols in a 48 hour period
Jarnell has lifted lid.
DOUBLE DIGITS!

JARNELL!

and Golden gets blocked

run is 17-2

"It's a blowout, Bob."

Is it?

Golden, three, no.

good defense in the pain, no.

SETTLE.

Ezeli with a Flagrant?!
Get 'em right Cam.
remember how I keep saying not to talk about NCAA tournament?

see what happens when you do?

Short of winning 4 games in 4 days in NOLA in March

This team is not going to the NCAA tournament. Whoever keeps suggesting there’s a chance otherwise is silly.

I've been crusading against the belief for ages

this is the second time people have gotten the idea in our heads. The first time was before Georgia last week

Stay classy, 'dores.
Maymon then GOLDEN!
Vols on a quick 6-0 run.

So, I guess that’s good.

Behold, a pulse

thanks Festus

6-0 run

I AM NOT JOKING

I didn't know Trae had hops like that
Maymon to the line, methinks.
Yeah, that's 8

flagrant was 7

We get back in this with FTs

/hahahahaha

Thought there were 7 before the flagrant.
ESPN box says 8

but has been known to lie

So does Gametracker, but it ...eh, oh well.
So went from down 300%

To down 200%. Kay.

oh yeah, miss the front end of a one and one

that’s cool

No second chance points on our side. ugh.
FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Take note, these refs have no intention of calling over the back
This half. anyway.
Right.

It’ll get enforced with 10 minutes to go in the 2nd half.

Good defensive showing there.
0-5 from 3.

That’s not helping matters.

Vandy's shooting well over 40%.
even McBee is missing good looks
Stupid turnover and oh hey, we're down 22 points.
And we haven't scored in 3 minutes, now.
Maymon into double digits
We did this to them in '08 in Knoxville

just total domination on both ends. Sometimes it’s just your night.

GIVE IT TO MAYMON...REPEAT.

PLAY DEFENSE. REPEAT.

Vandy's posts are dirty man
The foul was for hugging

which is just stupid, which is what I’m pissed about. The collision just sort of happened

Vandy

Taking notes from the Saints.

As in.

Dirtier than a car mechanic.

Maymon is getting his ass kicked. He's fighting, but they are killing him.

and he’s on the floor.

Good Grief 2 nights in a row

LV’s with 18 pt half
Men with 19 ????

And ETSU was held to 12 in the first half last night....

Must be something in the water across the whole of East Tennessee

oh great, Vandy gets to choose who shoots
The tv guys said Cuonzo chooses?

I’ve never knew which.

tv guys always know what they're talking about
You have chosen.... poorly....
Richardson to the line shooting 2.
Vandy leads by 19 at the half.

21-40.

Richardson getting a dose of big boy ball too

Taylor is owning him. 15 points.

Yep.

Looking like a freshman tonight.

I guess he's only a freshman

but Richardson has gotten owned by baseline drives lately

Good Lord.

Maybe there was some bodysnatchers and they replace these guys with the Vols against UCONN.

Well, I'm not sure we can play worse, but we might find out

29.2% from the floor, 0 for 6 from the arc, 12 turnovers. Vandy shooting 48.5%

whenever we have a good game, people forget two things:

1. We’re a pretty bad ballhandling team

2. How many consistent shooters do we have?

When you have no consistent shooters, you will have games where you miss all your shots

Maymon 5 of 6

rest of team 2 of 18. That’s impressive.

11%.

You almost wonder if they’re trying. But they’re not, and the effort is there, I think. Just mental lapses and confusion. Were we away from Cuonzo that half?

Yep

I think it’ll get better in the second half, but again, it almost has to

our worst eFG% of the season so far is 40.5 @Memphis

lowest points per possession is .75 @Georgia

Maymon stinger: likely to return.
Well theres this

@vol_hoops: From locker room: @trainerchad reporting Jeronne Maymon suffered a stinger and is likely to return.

That's good news

Marquis Daniels from the Celtics had a similar play last year and missed the rest of the season. Very glad to hear Maymon is okay.

They're killing us on back door cuts

Need to adjust to that in the second half.

Hey guys hows it goi

Oh. Ouch.

Arsenal-Man U is on.

I kn—- /kidnapped by Joel

I was bemoaning my lack of ESPNU earlier.

I see I needn’t have been.

10 turnovers in the first 10 minutes

2 in the last ten

progress?

I think we were 9 in the first half, 1 in the second half against UConn
I remember the same stat
oh hey, foul on Stokes
quick foul by Stokes.

great start.

Forgot about that

Mississippi State had a 14-0 run to open the second half on Vandy. They’re going to be extra motivated to start well here.

the fact that we were unable to steal that just says it all
Maymon starts the 2nd, btw
Timeout Us after scramble on the floor.
So, trying to get caught up

Looks like the bright sides are Jeronne and FT% and…

our 5 FTs are really keeping us in the game
I love how every announcer can never figure out what TSSAA stands for

and always ends up calling it some form of “Tennessee…uh, high school association”

how do you even miss that badly?
squandered opp there.
D came to play this half.
Ezeli getting chippy with Stokes...

Stokes needs to not retaliate. Ugh.

we look so good in orange

until we start playing

Ezeli now has 3 fouls, Stokes has 2 this half
my guess is Cuonzo is not happy with Jarnell?
Gotta love Vandy fans

up 17 and pissed

no longer letting them play

mostly because people are about to kill each other

There is going to be violence.
we are so bad at 2nd chance points today

which is usually a strength

Maymon's going to get a charge against him very soon
3-2 now for the 2nd half
Trae has a lid

Maymon to the line though

Another strong defensive possession

and we’re flirting with the bonus already

We're looking at the bonus like, "Sup witchu girl?"
Didn't like that from Trae in transition, but good job by Maymon to clean up.
I didn't like it because he almost got it stolen about eight times in one drive

but he got off a nice shot. which he missed

Rucker on Twitter:

Freshman PG Wes Washpun — who likes to run fast, jump really high and fight people — checking in for the Vols. Get your popcorn ready.

that was just a hell of a shot by Jenkins
oh Skylar

oh oh Skylar

Maymon is fighting...

but he cannot do it alone. ugh.

chain gang made a three

just that kind of night

also, isn't chain gang like an 8th year senior by now?
Washpun hits McRae in the nose with a pass
What the crap is wrong with this team?

These are the dumbest turnovers I have ever seen.

Believe that was credited as a turnover and not a shot attempt by McBee

which puts us at 16 turnovers and still 0-7 from the arc

UGLY UGLY UGLY.

not bueno.

Stokes for the offensive foul

that’s his 3rd. and 17 turnovers

Jordan McRae wtf was that?
McRae needs to sit
so does Cam

and McBee

errrbody but maymon.
Trae is not AWFUL

just mediocre. Same with Stokes. Richardson just regular bad. Tatum, McBee, and McRae have been awful.

just makin a point that the only one playing well is maymon.

and half joking but, yeah,

yeah, I followed

I just wanted to single out our 2/3 guards

ah, yes, this.

all three of those are derp, derp, and derp tonight.

And I just turn on the game

why do we suck so incredibly badly on the road?

because we have one player who's ever started a road game before this season
(and he sucks on the road. always has)
That's a terrible call

he’s not a step slow, he was already on his back in position

I'm sure it's not the first terrible call

and probably won’t be the last

FIAR CRUMBZO FARTIN

/right-click

/save-as

Kenny's second airball of the game

add him to “awful” list

doubled us up again

54-27

add Yemi to the good list
Washpun and one wha?
misses the FT, of course

but Maymon boards, of course

Washpun And one

and Chain gang foul

I still really like Washpun

not afraid

Maymon with the rebound
ugh

so, Auburn game coming up…

TRAE MADE A BASKET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UT basketball 2011-12

Dad points out in a text

31 minutes before our first basket off anything other than a layup or FT

Cam tatum scores...
I do not normally complain about calls going against you guys, but yall nare taking some

serious shots on the chin that are not getting called…….ugh…..

get 'em all out of the way tonight
I become more and more impressed with your coach as the year goes on.....

same approach, same intensity…..winning or losing……demeanor and dealing with those kids one on one is impressive

thanks

while I have confidence in his future at Tennessee, it’s hard to find positives with tonight

positives are that Vandy is graduating a bunch of these guys,......lol....

some of them have been there 8 years……lol

chain gang has

but yeah, 4 of their starters are seniors, not sure if the other has NBA prospects though

besides, no one plays well at Vandy........I think even God dislikes the place
there's playing poorly

and there’s this. . .

would probably feel better had the same thing not happened at Georgia last Wednesday

yeah, but there are flashes of brilliance.....

take solace in that…..things will get better, remember, you were not supposed to be this good this quick according to the experts

true enough

I’d still love to make the NIT though, and that would require us to go 7-4 from here on out. looking unlikely

I hope you win all but 2 more this year.....lol
(I wasn't including SECT)
Cuonzo's good at bailing us out like that
so Yemi and Wes are actually playing pretty well
A THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Okay, something had to require a whistle in that sequence
and then they get Yemi in the air and make one over him
Richardson and McRae don't think things through at all

that was never going to work

how many freshmen in this lineup?

Washpun, Richardson, Stokes, and Yemi all out at once. Think Golden is the 5th though

Golden 2 of 10, 0 assists
Twin Draft Guard commercial writers seriously need to look up the definition of "literally"

/petpeeve

So they literally need to look up the definition of literally?
yes

they could even littorally look up the definition of literally if they wanted to, just as long as they looked it up

Here we go

a rubber door seal with an over-the-door ceramic hook thrown in for free. ESPNU still has the magic

This was the sort of game I was afraid of when we hired Martin.

I’m glad (hoping!) it isn’t (won’t be!) the norm.

is Yemi now our 2nd leading scorer?
Yep
I seriously think he can be a difference maker

just so much raw ability. even more so than Washpun. Yemi has basketball skills.Washpun is just an athlete. but it’ll take time

Don't mess with Yemi

Such a shame we don’t play these guys again until the season finale

I won't be able to see it either

on a plane to Montana

What the hell was that, Yemi?

Show some class.

What happened?
Yemi tried to clothesline Jenkins for no apparent reason
Well

That’s Yemi power for you.

I think he was stoping the transition, but still unacceptable.

Do you think CM will suspend him?

Also, Vandy is quickly becoming a much hated rival.

Becoming?
The number for the NIT is 8-8

that makes Auburn a must-win on Saturday

7-4 from here on out

yep, Auburn is must win

That also means winning a road game at some point.
undefeated at home

and one road win. for every home loss, another road win.

uhhhhh. . . yeeeeaaaaaah

weird stat of the night:

as bad as that was. . . we had three losses by this margin or worse in our Elite Eight season

and one was Vandy, right?
yep

other two were Kentucky and Southern Cal

(the latter of which didn't even make the tournament)

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