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Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:07 pm to RollTide33
Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:07 pm to RollTide33
Michigan is shooting 7% from 3 and up almost 10 in the NC game with 4 to go. UConn/Illini game in 2nd half was brick after brick from 3, and they eventually just attacked the paint and used post ups to get buckets.
People don’t want to listen, but there’s only been 1 team that I can remember that bombed their way from 3 to a NC…it was Villanova. In a high pressure game, against very physical defense, your legs don’t have it in the 2nd half. I hadn’t finished my research, but out of about 20 2nd half 3pt shots with around 12-15 min to go between our Michigan and Duke games the last 2 years, Philon is the only one to make one. He hit 2 this year and 1 last year. The rest of the team was 0 for about 15. Oats has to be more versatile on offense if he wants to win a NC. He doesn’t have to completely go away from his system, but he has to develop a half court game that can score when legs are tired.
ETA: it was worse than I thought. 3-23 combined when including the last 15 min of Duke and last 12 minutes of Michigan (all 3 made by Philon). I’m pretty sure we went cold from 3 in the last 12 minutes of the UConn game in 2024 and I know we went 3-30 for the full game against SDSU in 2023, so the 2nd half was a disaster for sure. That’s 4 straight years of not having good shooting from 3 for the last 10-15 minutes of the game (and it happens in the regular season as well…you can generally see it coming when we’re playing a team that is physically wearing us down. Our only hope is that the other team shoots even worse, which Tennessee sometimes will).
People don’t want to listen, but there’s only been 1 team that I can remember that bombed their way from 3 to a NC…it was Villanova. In a high pressure game, against very physical defense, your legs don’t have it in the 2nd half. I hadn’t finished my research, but out of about 20 2nd half 3pt shots with around 12-15 min to go between our Michigan and Duke games the last 2 years, Philon is the only one to make one. He hit 2 this year and 1 last year. The rest of the team was 0 for about 15. Oats has to be more versatile on offense if he wants to win a NC. He doesn’t have to completely go away from his system, but he has to develop a half court game that can score when legs are tired.
ETA: it was worse than I thought. 3-23 combined when including the last 15 min of Duke and last 12 minutes of Michigan (all 3 made by Philon). I’m pretty sure we went cold from 3 in the last 12 minutes of the UConn game in 2024 and I know we went 3-30 for the full game against SDSU in 2023, so the 2nd half was a disaster for sure. That’s 4 straight years of not having good shooting from 3 for the last 10-15 minutes of the game (and it happens in the regular season as well…you can generally see it coming when we’re playing a team that is physically wearing us down. Our only hope is that the other team shoots even worse, which Tennessee sometimes will).
This post was edited on 4/6/26 at 10:29 pm
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Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:49 pm to BamaBravesPackers
Maybe he should adopt Arizona’s low-post style of play…seemed to work very well vs Michigan. Why can’t you just accept that CNO has Bama in contention every year? The Darius Miles situation, the Holloway situation along with several other injuries have hurt them in these Elite 8/Final 4 games. At the end of the day no “offensive system” is going to overcome historically good UConn, Michigan, Duke and Florida teams. Bama led at half vs Hurley’s best UConn team imo, and same vs Michigan. Michigan embarrassed everyone they played, much like UConn did 2 years ago. You might be the most obstinate stuff-necked poster on this board. Also, Estrada and Griffin both hit multiple 3’s vs UConn in the 2nd half. Oats’ arguably least talented team is the one that went the farthest. If he keeps Bama in the hunt every single season then eventually health, injuries, matchups, etc will fall their way and he will win a Natty.
This post was edited on 4/6/26 at 10:59 pm
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:10 pm to Sandkhan
Good one! After watching Michigan bigs leap above the rim all night I’d love to see Alabama have a big guy with over a 12” vertical jump.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 2:45 am to BamaBravesPackers
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Michigan is shooting 7% from 3
if they did that in the bama game they lose by 20 easily, and that was with bama having an off night from 3.
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People don’t want to listen, but there’s only been 1 team that I can remember that bombed their way from 3 to a NC…it was Villanova
as irrelevant as that point was it got me curious. you dont have to look that far back at all to see multiple other champion teams making 10+ threes in the final game, not that it would matter.
also its damn near impossible for top level athletes to be that torn down after a game in your 20s, esp when outside of the conference tourney youre not even playing back to backs, nevermind just the second half of an elite 8 game against good D. fatigue really has little to nothing to do with why some teams make threes and others do not.
as for the rest of your rant the point you should be making is how bamas D needs to be better, but putting the blame on shooting threes against one of the most dominant interior college teams in history is just silly. you simply lost the plot on this one sir. i would just suggest to try better at not losing faith and just dont forget, you really dont know more about basketball than oats, so heres to him not transitioning the style of play to the 90s knicks when we get back to the final four.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 8:11 am to rushball
Hopefully this isn’t the starting lineup next year
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If tweet fails to load, click here.Posted on 4/7/26 at 8:18 am to Allthatfades
I wouldn’t blame Allen for transferring if that was actually going to be the starting 5… I know it won’t but woof, that looks like 10th place in conference
Posted on 4/7/26 at 8:20 am to Allthatfades
Well at what point can we trust Nate and his staff? Seems like he earned it.
During the Avery days I was begging for a sweet sixteen appearance. We’ve now had four in a row.
Trust the process.
During the Avery days I was begging for a sweet sixteen appearance. We’ve now had four in a row.
Trust the process.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 9:50 am to Roll3sRoll
I mean I'm going to miss Sherrell too but it would be nice to have a 7 footer that can go dunk the ball from the under the basket.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 10:04 am to McGregor
What sucks about losing Sherrell is there seems to be more of a learning curve for big men in our system.
Guards pick it up pretty well, but the bigs usually see tremendous growth year 1 to year 2.
Even experienced big men like Cliff struggled defensively early on.
Guards pick it up pretty well, but the bigs usually see tremendous growth year 1 to year 2.
Even experienced big men like Cliff struggled defensively early on.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 10:19 am to Brodeur
quote:May not be gone just yet.
What sucks about losing Sherrell
Posted on 4/7/26 at 10:24 am to TideCPA
Posted on 4/7/26 at 10:26 am to BamaBravesPackers
quote:The system is fine, we have to get better defensively. Michigan suffocated everyone they played in the tournament, which is why they were able to win when they went cold.
Oats has to be more versatile on offense if he wants to win a NC. He doesn’t have to completely go away from his system, but he has to develop a half court game that can score when legs are tired.
The #1 overall seed team we had in 2023 was actually our worst team in the last 5 seasons from an offensive efficiency standpoint, but was the best equipped to win a title because they were top 3 in defensive efficiency. We beat a ton of good teams while shooting like crap that year. Have to get back to a place where our 3-point shooting largely dictates the margin of victory, not whether we win or lose.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 10:27 am to Allthatfades
The thing that hurts the most with Sherrell is you aren’t going to replace him with someone as good as him. He’s currently the fifth best player available in the portal according to ON3. Now, can you take the money you save on Sherrell and turn it to two or three other players and maybe end up with a net positive? Maybe and what we have to hope for.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 11:00 am to Allthatfades
If I could bring back 2 players from the recent past for next year it would be Donta and Herb.
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Posted on 4/7/26 at 1:38 pm to Allthatfades
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The thing that hurts the most with Sherrell is you aren’t going to replace him with someone as good as him. He’s currently the fifth best player available in the portal according to ON3. Now, can you take the money you save on Sherrell and turn it to two or three other players and maybe end up with a net positive? Maybe and what we have to hope for.
This is unfortunately where we are going to be for the foreseeable future. We aren't going to be in the hunt for the guys at the top of the market unless they are already our guys (Sherrell/Philon) and maybe willing to take a discount for that. I hate that this is how it's playing out, but I'm not going to hold it against someone like Sherrell. He's doing the same thing any adult would do if a competitor offered to double their pay for doing the same job.
We have to bank on picking up the best fits in the middle market. We have had great success there with Sears, Nelson, Wrightsell, Holloway, Youngblood, Mallette, Estrada, Pringle, Gurley, etc., just to name a few.
We just had a let down last year with none of the 4 guys we landed being impact players. The fact that we have 4 CNO assistants graduating to D1 jobs probably didn't help.
This post was edited on 4/7/26 at 1:40 pm
Posted on 4/7/26 at 1:49 pm to DLev45
Posted on 4/7/26 at 2:05 pm to DLev45
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We have to bank on picking up the best fits in the middle market. We have had great success there with Sears, Nelson, Wrightsell, Holloway, Youngblood, Mallette, Estrada, Pringle, Gurley, etc., just to name a few.
Sears, Nelson, Estrada, and Holloway were not middle market. Holloway was the lowest at 38th overall player in his portal class. Sears and Estrada were top 25. And Grant was 3rd overall. Big Cliff was top 15. We can pull top market guys if the fit is right.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 2:28 pm to RollTide33
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Sears, Nelson, Estrada, and Holloway were not middle market. Holloway was the lowest at 38th overall player in his portal class. Sears and Estrada were top 25. And Grant was 3rd overall. Big Cliff was top 15. We can pull top market guys if the fit is right.
We're an extremely desirable program and can certainly compete for almost any player if we get in the ballpark $ wise.
From Oats' comments about NIL, I think our strategy seems to be keeping the "salaries" somewhat in the same range though. He could always change as demands reach the stratosphere. However, his recent comments about NIL seem to mean passing on certain players that want significantly more than other starter level players are already getting.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 2:54 pm to mistaken4193
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He just got stuck behind Condon and Chinyelu
There's a huge drop off from Condon and Chinyelu to Handlogden.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 3:01 pm to TideCPA
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The system is fine, we have to get better defensively. Michigan suffocated everyone they played in the tournament
Which is interesting because Mich plays the same defensive system as what Nate likes to play. Switch 1-4 and play drop coverage with the 5. It just works better when you have bigger guards and you have a 7'2 guy at the 5.
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