re: Alabama Basketball 2012-13 Season Thread

In case someone missed it.... Future is bright for present Alabama team

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In the fourth season under Grant, Alabama has won 20 games for a third consecutive year for the first time since 1990-92, when Wimp Sanderson was the coach.

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This is why Grant's seat is not even warm, imo.

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Former Alabama coach C.M. Newton thinks the state of the program is solid. “This team is probably lacking an inside player or two,” he said. “If the big kid from Sweden hadn’t gotten hurt, I’d really like to see how they would’ve progressed.

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“They’ve had the injury, and (Nick) Jacobs has got to play the way he’s been playing,” Sanderson said, referring to the sophomore forward. “If he’ll do that – the injury hurt them a lot. The Jacobs kid is a good player. He’s just got to go a little harder, the way Coach wants him to go. He’s a gifted kid.”

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Engstrom is one of three foreign players among Alabama’s 10 players on scholarship.

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Could Johnson’s teams from the mid-80’s have beaten this Alabama team? “I think we, on the inside, had the advantage,” he said. :That’s what we’re missing this year on this team is somebody that we can throw that ball into on the inside and get a basket when we need one. We’ve had that for years and years and years. We had somebody that you could count on inside to get buckets. That’s what we’re missing. I think we’d beat them on the inside.”

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All the guys say the same thing basically, need more talent, depth and a couple of inside guys. There has obviously been some missteps along the way for Grant and his roster management and recruiting. Hopefully he is learning and improving while getting those things in better shape.






ETA: Buck was being nice in his comments, his teams would crush this current Bama team ten times out of ten. Johnson made it to at least the SEC title game three of his four years.
His firtst couple of years he had guys like Mike Davis, Whatley, Bobby Lee Hurt and Terry Williams. His last couple of years the front line was Hurt, Johnson, and McKey with Terry Coner, Gottfried, Farmer and JJ Jackson on the outside. That frontline would brutalize this current team.

The '85 and '86 teams were two of the best Bama has ever put on the court. Just a bit unlucky when it came tourney time. One year, had the misfortune of running into a Worthy/Jordan/Perkins UNC team and lost by five or six. The other year was the year they had to play UK four times. UK matched up well and beat them once again in NCAA tourney. NCAA committee messed up that year by putting too many SEC teams in one bracket. I think they had four in one, along with UK facing Bama for the fourth time in the second round.