Rick Barnes recaps Vols’ loss to Alabama

On Jaden Springers injury:
“No, I’m not sure. I’ll find out when we walk back there in a bit.”
On what changes defensively when Yves Pons isn’t on the court:
“I think in a game like this or any game there are some times when you can throw out the scouting report. Guys just have to buck up and in a situation like this when they want to run a spread game as well as pick on guys that in some point in time you cannot get beat off the bounce. We can’t tackle somebody and keep them from shooting the ball, but we have to make them shoot as difficult of a shot as we can and we didn’t do a good enough job of that with guys we know that can stay in front of the ball. I told the coaches during the game, ‘this is good for us,’ and everything we have talked about during the last two weeks we haven’t gotten it done the way we needed to. When you play against a team like Alabama, you know you will have to guard the three-point line and you know they can be capable of getting it going. They got us in our rotations, whether it was getting beat off the bounce or post guys getting beat. We didn’t deserve to win and they did.”