re: Alabama 77 @ Florida 100 Final - ABC

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I kind of agree with posters here saying it's how the defense is being coached.

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Agreed and I will say again, when we are high pressing Xavian Lee and Boogie Fland we are either really bad at scouting defense or our defensive coach has to much nba in him and doesn't understand college defense. There is no illegal defense in college, you don't have to cover big guys on islands and you don't have to extend coverage on poor perimeter shooters.

Pack it in and make them beat you at the weakest part of their game. We actually did it for the first 10 minutes and looked fine, but we were in this unbelievable hurry to turn the ball over on offense it didn't translate into momentum

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We shot 41% from 3 today. The 5 out offense isn't a modified form of street ball. Duke runs a 5 out offense. Hurley won 2 titles at Uconn with his own version of the same offense.

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Duke certainly dumps the ball into the post to Boozer and UConn does as well. We don't even present the mystery of it

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when we are high pressing Xavian Lee and Boogie Fland we are either really bad at scouting defense or our defensive coach has to much nba in him and doesn't understand college defense.

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The fouls we have committed near half court with Holloway or someone else playing high press 45ft from the basket are infuriating (especially at the end of games with the team already in bonus). There’s literally no reason to pick up a guy that far away unless all 3 of these things are true (or we’re losing by 20 with limited time):

1) our defender is elite at picking a guy’s pocket
2) their dribbler is a little suspect at TOs when pressured
3) getting a foul isn’t a major issue

Generally if all 3 of those aren’t true, there’s no reason to be playing press man defense on the logo.

I believe Oats is doing the best he can with the basketball budget that’s allotted. He’s trying to find hidden talent in lower division and using the best economical value he can afford.

Yes he needs to do better getting tougher in the paint and finding some Big Brutal MF’ers that can be featured more to score and dominate.

Any time there’s blood in the water the shite stirring sharks always show up. Don’t let them bother you, ignore them… they will go away eventually.

Call me stupid but I think we’re closer to figuring out the next big step for our program with Oats than without him. I’ll be critical but the things that are hurting us now are correctable in the offseason. Need changes with the assistants and what we target in our bigs

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Duke certainly dumps the ball into the post to Boozer and UConn does as well. We don't even present the mystery of it

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Maybe it's what you mean but I don't see our offense as so black and white in terms of never getting the ball to the post players in the paint.

Florida never runs any type of old fashioned post up style either. They beat players off the dribble, get the defense moving and then pass to a lot of height mismatches in the lane or their bigs also just drive/back the ball down on us.

Sherell is coming along in terms of finding some openings in the lane and our guards do pass him the ball for him to go to work in the paint. But, that's a skill set he's learning more than one he came to campus with last year.

It just seems to me that Florida isn't doing something we purposely try to ignore. They just have four bigs that are excellent passing and scoring around the basket --and shoot very poorly from outside-- more than they play a radically different style like Purdue, for example.

I think that we struggle stopping guards from picking out any pass they want makes it seem more different in design than it is.

I was being fecicious you dumb bitch. We suck. Here’s some actual stats for you.

They led 90% of the game, and 60% of the game was by more than double digits.

Keep telling yourself we’re a great, efficient basketball team, that’s coached well and be thankful it wasn’t by more. They took it easy on us.

You’re probably a bama fan that actually thinks we’ll be good as long as we have DeBust at the helm.

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fecicious

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Facetious. Who's the dumb bitch?

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Fland entered today shooting 19% from 3 for the season and Lee was at 23% for the year. Why in the hell are we trying to force them into dribble penetration by high pressing???? It makes absolutely zero logical sense. We want the ball in their hands 25 feet from the basket. Teams that have beaten UF this year or played them close have all forced them to make perimeter shots or long 2s.

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Yep, and some teams have even used a 2/3 zone to make it happen. A concept we couldn’t execute even if we wanted to.