Rick Barnes recaps Tennessee's win against Radford
12th-year Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes discussed the Vols' performance after the game.
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- 9 Tennessee (2-0) defeated Radford (0-3), 70-47, Monday at Food City Center.
- "Did a pretty good job not fouling overall, but offensively the execution is not even close to what I know we're capable of, and looks like we've got too many guys that are too anxious to shoot the ball as opposed to.
"Radford, good basketball team, the tape we shown, we showed our guys a lot like Wofford, very well coached team that's going to run their stuff, do the things they need to do, but I thought defensively our communication was better.
"I thought, defensively, you know, we've worked hard for a long time, but we're starting to communicate better defensively," Barnes said.
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- I just think that we got guys that have to understand that what we do works and we'll make it work, but we're just a little bit too hyper offensively." The Vols will next play Tennessee State.
- I thought we had some really good individual plays tonight where they tried to isolate and get by us, and for the most part we we did a pretty good job.
- We knew we had, again, they're the type of team that wants to get to the to the rim or shoot threes.
- I don't think we've got a selfish guy on our team.
- EST on Friday at Food City Center (SEC Network+).
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