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

I’m not assuming anything about us until our offense shows me they can fix their problems. We won’t get blown out in any game tho because of our defense.

I saw something out there late today which might be the way this team should play the rest of the way.

Missouri had the pace the way they wanted most of the game and we could not match up with them half court,but once Bama went with the pressing and trapping, and the tempo sped up, Missouri was out of their comfort zone and Bama got back in the game in a hurry. It opens up the floor.

When they play these teams with big guys, play them that way and make the big men a liability out there. Bama seemed to play much better at that pace also, because the other team could not get set on defense.

Sort of like the old Nolan Richardson Forty Minutes of Hell, this team plays a lot of people and can do it. Pressure the hell out of the ball and speed up the game even more.

They were killing us in the conventional half court game. Mississippi State gave us a bad time.

Make them play the way we want.

I don't think any game in SEC basketball is a given , for any team. Almost ever.
Petty needs to start hitting some more 3s , in fact everyone does. It will cure everything.
Heck, even as bad as they played this weekend and last weekend, we had chances at the end.
Should have been shooting 2 free throws for the lead this afternoon.
Lol. Probably wouldn't have made them.
We were a garbage level 12 of 21 from the FT line.

I think the SEC is way too inconsistent and Missouri for that matter for them to finish the season without another loss.

The next few games for Alabama look pretty good to be able to finish strong. The goal is to win the SEC, not to look good in a February Bracket. The hard work is done but much to be done to finish strong.

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but they have tiebreaker.

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As SoG pointed out the other day, no tiebreaker for the SEC regular season. You share it if you have the same record.

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I trust Oats to work things out as best he can but believe our lack of a consistent PG will ultimately be our downfall.

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Yep. It's becoming even more of a glaring weakness without Bruner out there. Driving to the basket is the only way we can play inside out, but there's no one on this roster defenses are scared of allowing near the basket.

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Haven't seen the official word but that seems inconceivable. They almost surely go by winning %. 15-3 is certainly better than 13-3.

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Alabama won an SEC football title one year by scheduling/playing and winning one more conference game, so.....

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I trust Oats to work things out as best he can but believe our lack of a consistent PG will ultimately be our downfall.

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I agree, plus our defensive rebounding.
I'm afraid that Quinerly just lacks the skills and perception of a really fine point guard. They're hard to find!

I think the best way to go forward is to be extremely happy about the run we had, understand that our accomplishments to date are impressive and any ranking we have has been earned, but also realize that at this moment we are not playing like a Top 10 team and it's possible we never reach that level again. However, we are still playing like an NCAA Tournament team and borderline Top 25 team, which is something I think we all would have been happy with on December 31st. That great run over a 3 weeks period gave us a legitimate shot to win the SEC Title and get a nice seed in the NCAA Tournament. And then at that point, we'll just hope that we find our stoke and put together some solid games.

Comparing the current team to the heights of their unreal run is really not fair to them. We have 4 games here to figure things out, fix some things, get back in a groove and hopefully get our big man back.