re: Alabama Basketball Recruiting and Offseason Talk

Yea, I don't know how well we will do, but we better not regress. There's no excuse for that

Hearing that Key is likely gone. Possibly as soon as next week.

He also made a cryptic Instagram post saying something like “My next move better be my last”.

Yep. He would’ve made a really big impact this year if he hadn’t fallen behind due to injury. Now he’s all healed up and is gonna end up being a star somewhere else while we give his scholarship to Norris smh

I bet he ends up at Memphis

Pittsburgh

Is it official yet?

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it's also not a stretch to think that one player who accounted for a third of the offense when he was on the floor and somehow was by far the most efficient non-Hall player on the roster will be harder to replace than the average guy, especially when the replacements for him are either inexperienced or aren't very dynamic.

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We lost Retin Obasohan who was relied even more heavily on, replaced him with zero great offensive talent, and basically had the same year.

Don't get me wrong Sexton was a great talent and may end up being the best pro we've ever had, but great talent will always hide good/great talent. When Green/Mitchell were here, Releford was solid, but didn't start blowing it up until Green/Mitchell were gone. When Releford was dominating the SEC, Randolph was solid, but didn't look like a stud until Releford left. When Randolph was our stud, Obasohan was solid, but didn't explode until his senior year after Randolph left. The only year we haven't had a stud in the past several years was the aforementioned year after Retin, and we turned out just as good as the year prior.

Regressing isn't out of the question, but there's a lot of potential studs on the roster (more than any off-season in recent memory) to replace Sexton next year. If I had to make a prediction I'd say, we end up winning more games and aren't on the bad side of the bubble going into the tournament, but in the same breath won't be as explosive as we were this year.

On a sidenote: Keep an eye on Patrick Belein, son of Michigan HC. He'll def. be a star hc one day.

Releford/Randolph/Retin would have all been stars at the same time if they had a competent coach who knew how to use them. That's the key for Avery. There's a lot of talent, but he needs to be able to put the pieces together.