Rick Barnes previews Tennessee-Appalachian State

On how he can evaluate Keon Johnson and Jaden Springer:
“I think sometimes as coaches we can overthink it. Going into it, Colorado is a tough opener. We knew it was going to be a high level, high stakes game. You don’t want to put those guys in a position where they don’t have success early, because you don’t want to lose them for a week with them keeping it in the back of their minds. I think what we learned about those guys is that they have short memories which is a good thing and the second thing is just the second game. You have to look at me for this, but I think we should have subbed earlier. I knew going into the game the other night against Cincinnati that we were going to get two or three guys in before the 16-minute mark. I think you’ll see that pattern continuing. Unless I change my mind from now until tomorrow we’ll start the same way, but that doesn’t mean that the game after that we won’t start another way and the game after that another way. We’re still searching through some of these things. Again, that was my decision during the first game not necessarily to baby them, but just to try to make sure—we didn’t want to get them on the floor together. We wanted to get some young guys with older guys. Then, the other night we just said, ‘Hey, we’ll put two guys out there at one time and go.’ And try to get three guys in before the 16-minute mark. Normally that means Fulkerson will come out. We’re going to try to use the timeouts. We’ll get him out at the 16:30 or 16:45 mark and let him use that and the timeout and get him back in and work him down like that. The whole thing is so we can be the freshest and most competitive team we can be in the last six minutes of the game. We don’t want to be tired. We want to be running full speed then. We want to be guarding at a high level then and if we want to do that, we need to manage the minutes in the first half and the first part of the second half.”