re: 2017-18 Alabama Basketball Season Thread: 20-16 (10-11)

Yeah I agree with that. It takes me about an hour and 20 minutes to get there, and then it’s usually about another 20 minutes to find a parking spot and walk to the Coliseum. That’s almost 2 hours just getting from my house to my seat at the game just to watch 2 hours of sloppy basketball and a likely loss against any decent team. I’ve been going to games for years, and I still will when I can. But I won’t be as eager to go until I see the staff make some serious changes

Call me eternally optimistic, but I'm still very excited about the potential of this team.

Our Non-Conference schedule has turned out to be even harder than anyone expected. We've played 7 currently projected tournament teams (excluding BYU and UCF who are still very much alive). Even after that loss we're 25th in RPI (Yes, Gene, I know they're supposed to be fading it out, but it's still going to be the most looked at metric ).

Outside of Hall, Sexton, and sometimes Jones (when he isn't turning the ball over) the rest of our players have not lived up to expectations. Petty has had 2 or 3 good games and a lot of underwhelming performances. Norris is clearly still getting back into the swing of things. We haven't had our best player from last year until the last 2 games and he's been straight garbage in those 2 games (clearly rusty). Giddens is never not in foul trouble. Ingram's aggressiveness still disappears for long stretches of the game. My point here isn't that these players are bad, but that the potential for massive improvement is still there. I mean I don't see ANY of those players being any worse than they have been during the non-conference stretch.

8-4 is disappointing considering preseason expectations, but with this schedule that's still the mark of a tournament team. Keeping in mind that we are also an extremely young team and that young teams typically improve as the year goes on, there's still plenty of hope here.

Merry Christmas guys! Hope everyone has a great day tomorrow. Hopefully the new year brings in a new Bama hoops team and a lot of wins. Don’t give up yet!!! RTR! #BuckleUp

I think people are too hard on Petty. He makes some pretty dumb plays, but he's our second leading scorer. He was never going to be Sexton's level and maybe people got fooled by his Canada performance. I'm not really disappointed in any of the freshmen. The older guys outside of Hall and the coaching is a different story.

Ingram is the best in the bunch and it isn't even close

He has played well since the Arizona game.

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I'd say Hall has been the best of the non-freshmen, but regardless I'm not dissing Ingram. He's still one of our best players. I'm just saying he's the only one I'd say hasn't improved (barring the injured players and Junior who shouldn't be playing IMO). He's a player that is capable of playing at a much higher and consistent level than what he's currently producing. He just goes into passive mode too often.

I'm just going to watch individual games from here out and hope we win. I can't think about it much more than that without getting intensely frustrated.

I just see a lot of hate for Ingram on this board and some say he needs to be out and it just triggers me a bit because he is far from our biggest problem.

Not just ranting at you but you gave me a chance to voice my opinion on him.

I think the point guard role he had plays into his mindset by not being a aggressive scorer. You can see it in him at times though. Other than sexton if I had to pick someone to get me a bucket at the end I'd pick Ingram. He is a good driver and finishes or draws the foul.