You’ve got to love Rick Barnes. It doesn’t matter if his team is coming off of a five win season or a thirty win season. Tennessee’s head coach just wants to get better at everything. That’s the exact message he delivered during his latest media availability.
“We still think we’ve got to be better defensively,” Barnes said in typical Barnes form. “We didn’t reach the goals that we set for ourselves last year from a defensive standpoint. We were close, but we didn’t get them all, so we want to get better there — we think we can be better there.