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Rick Barnes was sending a message to Chaz Lanier. Tennessee’s transfer guard was stuck on the bench in the closing minutes of Sunday’s charity exhibition game against Indiana and it had nothing to do with his 13 missed shots. “His job, if he is open, we want him to shoot the ball,” Barnes said after Tennessee’s 66-62 loss to the visiting Hoosiers at Food City Center. “You use these games to sometimes let guys understand, hey, we have talked about it, we have done it, you have got to play hard. “At the end of the game, we went with our team that we thought gave us the best chance defensively.” …