re: Alabama Basketball Megathread | 26-7 (16-2)

I wouldn't say they sucked yesterday - they lost by 4 to a top 15 team. And they're currently down 3 to borderline Top 25 team.

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We only need 4 people shooting 3s:

Primo
Petty
Shack
Quinerly

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Allowing just 4 people to actually shoot threes is detrimental to the offense. There’s a reason why everyone is begging for players like Ben Simmons to shoot threes. It’s not that they think they’ll make them, but that even a 28% 3-pt shooter will be shown some level of attention beyond the arc.

As for Herb Jones, the dude has completely transformed his jump shot and it’s evident in his FTs and him being 2/5 from beyond the arc so far this season. I wouldn’t be shocked to see him end up with the 3rd highest 3pt% this year.

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I’m much more concerned with defense and taking care of the ball than I am with our shot selection*

Although Rojas is testing that a bit.

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Primo is also killing me. The dude comes in cold without any hesitation to pull the heat-check, stepback jumper. He needs to stick to catch and shoot for now. His stepback jumper is a push shot where the ball has zero rotation.

Be nice if Stanford could come back and win this game.

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Be nice if Stanford could come back and win this game.

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Yea........frick us

Early season losses to teams that were supposed to be pretty good but end up falling apart soon thereafter are a longstanding Alabama basketball tradition like no other.

If Ellis turns out to be the guy over Primo, so be it, but it needs to be one of them and it needs to be sooner rather than later imo. Ideally we can both of them more involved offensively, because we know that we guys on the roster that can be hot and cold from game to game.

Even Shack has had a pretty poor start to the season from a shooting perspective. We are going to need Primo and Ellis to take more shots so that guys like Reese and Rojas are taking fewer.

Rojas has the 5th most FGA on the team so far and Reese is 6th. They should 8th and 9th in all honesty.

Reese has taken 16 shots this season. 14 of them have been threes. He's made two of them. Two. Get him the hell off the floor unless we have a 20+ point lead. The guy is a Senior and he's still an absolute sieve defensively and has only made 22 of his last 100 three point attempts (I went back and counted).

Looks like Stanford will go 1-2 in this tournament.

If we don't beat Providence, which is by no means a lock and i'm kind of surprised we are even favored tbh, then this Maui tournament will be about as disappointing as it could have been imo.

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We need a list of these things

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1. 17-9 - no explanation needed
2. On the bubble, but not really
3. Oh you need 2 wins in the conference tournament? Lol frick you, here's Kentucky in the second round
4. A graphic at the bottom of the screen explaining that it has been 6:42 since Alabama's last made FG
5. Losing in Rupp by 8 points and congratulating ourselves over the moral victory
6. Losing to one of the 3 worst teams in the conference in late February with an 18-10 record
7. Giving up 13/24 3pt shooting to a team that has made 28% on the season.
8. Making unathletic white forwards from average mid-major programs look like peak Larry Bird
9. Shooting <40% from inside of 2 feet over the course of an entire game


Y'all feel free to add

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Army 39
Florida 31

Half

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Central Connecticut held Army to less points at half.....yikes