LEXINGTON, Ky. — What Rick Barnes said during his postgame press conference after No. 25 Tennessee gave up a 14-point lead in the 74-71 loss to Kentucky Saturday at Rupp Arena:
The difference for Tennessee offensively between the first and second halves
“Well, obviously, with the way we made shots in the first half, you knew they were going to put more emphasis on the perimeter with Ja’Kobi (Gillespie) and Nate (Ament). And we were getting what we wanted in the middle ball screen, we just didn’t finish it. And at that point in time, we needed more from our post guys. But I thought both teams played really hard. Not a lot of easy baskets out there in the second half. They drove the ball really hard at us in the last couple minutes. I thought we should have been doing that more, but still we were getting the looks out of the middle ball screen, but came up empty on them.”…