Sad end to Lamonte Turner's Tennessee career
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🗓️ 22 December 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker and Grant Ramey convened courtside at Thompson-Boling Arena to discuss Turner’s shocking announcement that Saturday’s 75-53 win over Jacksonville State would be the final game of his college career.
Tennessee’s fifth-year senior point guard has battled shoulder injuries the past few years, and he and his family decided Friday night that he couldn’t continue to risk worsening the injury and needed to schedule season-ending surgery.
Some of the factors that led to Turner’s decision, the impact of Turner’s decision and a discussion on how the Vols can adjust to life without their leader are the main talking points in this episode.
(NOTE: The sound quality for parts of this episode isn’t great, and we apologize for that, but this is news that couldn’t wait.)
The next GoVols247 Podcast episode will be released Monday morning, unless breaking news occurs before that point.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi. |
| 0:00.5 | Good morning. Good morning, afternoon, afternoon, evening, brunch time, lunch time, |
| 0:18.0 | weird day in Tennessee time, didn't see this one coming time. Not sure how Tennessee will react to this one time. |
| 0:27.3 | Whatever time of day it is, boys and girls, it's the right time for the GoVall's 24-7 |
| 0:31.9 | podcast. Westrucker coming to you from Fort Rucker |
| 0:34.1 | studio here on a Saturday evening so happy Saturday evening out there for |
| 0:40.0 | everyone and unless of course it's Sunday morning or Sunday afternoon or |
| 0:43.6 | Sunday evening perhaps even Monday morning who knows who knows what day it is |
| 0:49.8 | wherever you are regardless we're happy that you're spending it with us here on the GoValls 24-7 podcast. |
| 0:56.2 | Even though this is not, perhaps not the best news podcast that will certainly have here on GoValls 24-7. |
| 1:04.0 | Grant Ramey and I just got back from Thompson Bowling Arena where Tennessee |
| 1:10.0 | outlasted, I guess you could say, Jacksonville State, 75 75 to 53 I don't know if outlast is the right word |
| 1:16.2 | It was kind of an ugly game there in the first half Tennessee pulled away took care of business in the second half and it seemed like business as usual but then it obviously was not because |
| 1:25.5 | the big news was that senior guard Lamontay Turner the heart and soul of this Tennessee basketball team |
| 1:30.8 | sort of the alpha male for the past couple of years. |
| 1:34.1 | His career at Tennessee is done. |
| 1:36.3 | He announced that after the game. |
| 1:37.8 | He said that after playing 31, 32 minutes and having 11 assists in 8 points and shooting 4 of 6 from the field, having 3 |
| 1:45.2 | rebounds, that he was done. |
| 1:48.6 | He's had some shoulder issues for a long time now and they found out what it was a couple weeks ago he had a shot |
| 1:55.3 | tried to get it better but it but it didn't work out so kind of shocking news there for |
| 2:00.5 | Tennessee and the reason that I'm coming to you from the studio here is that |
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