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

Yeah, I wouldn't put that Houston game in the W column yet. They are solid again.

My observations: Byrne needs to make sure Nate has 2 throwaway games and 1 decent opponent to start each year to work things out and set his roster. Facing Stanford in game 2 was too much too soon. Stanford is a tourney team with Zaire, so not a bad loss.

Herb, Bruner, Reese, and Rojas should have 2 green lights per game from 3. If you make one, you get another. 2 misses and you're done shooting because if you do, find the pine. Instead, these guys need to take it to the hole and finish much more often. They need to work on going up strong in traffic and putting it down. And free throws. That's almost as good as the kickout 3 ball and we will get many more of those opportunities if the big men can throw a few down to make the defense collapse. Especially Bruner. He needs to find a mean streak.

More Primo, less Reese.

Love Shack, I think he's the heir apparent for the Herb Jones Hardhat award.

I hope Petty keeps up the games he had in games 2 and 3, not game one.

Until Petty, Herb, and Reese leave after the season, I don't expect huge strides. Next year will be addition by subtraction. Herb and Reese aren't really great fits for the system (although we can all agree Herb makes up for it a lot with effort) and Petty needs better handles to be truly great for this offense even though he's a big contributor.

Gotta get some depth at the PG position. Having one true guy there is just flirting with disaster.

Last night late, when Nate put the 2's in, it was horrible. I may be totally wrong, but I can't think our second 5 is that bad. They need more minutes to get acclimated. We could use some of those guys later, so can we try to get KAH, Gary, Ellis, etc, some meaningful minutes with the 1's to try and get them up to speed?

First impressions: I think 4th in the league may have been a bit generous as most people thought Bama would pick up where they left off in 2019 and build from there. We seem to have plateaued a bit which isn't totally bad but I don't think we are going to challenge for the league title or anything. I think we probably get 19-20 wins and an at large bid as probably a 10 seed. We aren't ready to challenge the Illinois and Baylors yet, but we are a decent team. I hope we can build from here next year with a complete Ballin' Oats roster.