Vols collapse in second half at MissState
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🗓️ 2 February 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker convened courtside at Mississippi State’s Humphrey Coliseum to discuss the ugly second half that led to Tennessee’s 86-73 loss to the Bulldogs and where the Vols go from here.
The first segment of this episode is a quick breakdown of Saturday’s game and then a trio of interviews with Tennessee coach Rick Barnes, Tennessee freshman point guard Santiago Vescovi and Tennessee redshirt freshman forward Uros Plavsic. Vescovi and Plavsic scored 16 points apiece for the Vols in Plavsic’s first career start, but obviously more went wrong than right for the visitors on Saturday.
The second segment of this episode is a more thorough breakdown of Saturday’s game.
How did things change so drastically in the second half? Are these Vols physically overmatched or just not tough enough, or is it both? How long will James be out after re-tweaking the hip injury that cost him most of preseason camp? What were the pluses and minuses from Plavsic in his first career start? Is there anything these Vols can do to prevent teams from punishing them in the paint? Is this a blip or has this season gone into a rough place for good? Those are the primary points of discussion in this episode.
The next GoVols247 Podcast episode will be released in the coming days, unless major breaking news occurs before that point. With football National Signing Day and two big basketball games on the docket, it should be a busy week for the pod.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi. Good morning, afternoon, afternoon, evening, brunch time, lunch time, woof, second half time, Woth, |
| 0:25.0 | Wuth, Wuth basketball at the wrong time of the season time. |
| 0:28.0 | Whatever time of day it is, boys and girls, |
| 0:30.0 | it's the right time for the Go-valls 24-7 podcast West |
| 0:33.2 | Rucker and Grant Ramey coming to you live as we're speaking not live as |
| 0:36.9 | you're hearing this but live as we are speaking here from Humphrey |
| 0:40.3 | Coliseum aka the hump inville, Mississippi where Tennessee played a pretty nice first |
| 0:46.6 | half against the Mississippi State Bulldogs and then had one of the worst halves I've ever seen from the Vols in the second half. |
| 0:56.0 | Final scored Mississippi State 86 Tennessee 73 thanks to a second half that ended |
| 1:02.0 | with Mississippi State scoring 58 points and Tennessee |
| 1:04.9 | scoring 39. |
| 1:06.7 | Vols had a 34 to 28 lead at the break and then all hell sort of broke loose after that. |
| 1:12.6 | Tennessee playing with Josiah Jordan James, |
| 1:15.1 | which obviously made an impact on a team |
| 1:17.1 | that needs all the help I can get right now. |
| 1:19.5 | And Tennessee did a couple good things |
| 1:20.6 | for the first 20 minutes grant, |
| 1:21.8 | and then just everything |
| 1:23.6 | fell apart in the second half that was that was looked like big boys playing small |
| 1:29.2 | boys there in the second half that was not pretty no it wasn't and it was a it was kind of another step in the wrong direction for a team that's |
| 1:38.2 | been inconsistent all season but seems to take big steps back even after the smallest steps forward. |
| 1:45.0 | I mean, a week ago, Rick Barnes was talking about this team heading in the right direction |
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