re: Avery Johnson OFFICIALLY hired as Alabama MBB coach

So now that it's official, what do we have to look forward to next with basketball?

1. Johnson assembling his assistant coaches
2. Filling up the recruiting class as best as possible
3. Off season workouts/practice?

This will be the first time I have ever paid attention to our MBB program, so I'm not to familiar with the timeline.

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Pipe dream, but can you imagine if we landed him? The NCAA would immediately swoop into town

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Shock and Awe.

There will be a press conference soon (I think I saw Wednesday). The staff should follow along shortly because Signing day is the 15th. Not sure when JUCO guys have to make a decision.

I think they can have sort of workouts/practice during the upcoming months for a week or two. Only with the guys on campus already of course.

Then you would basically have to hope to hear things from some insiders about pick up games over the summer.

I assume we will see a ton of CAJ sitting court side at AAU games over the summer.

Bryant will have to help me on this. Every 4 years a team is allowed to travel overseas and play exhibition games. I wouldn't be surprised if that is something CAJ would like to do, depending on if Grant used that option within the last couple of years.

Then practice starts and you have Midnight Madness before the exhibition games tipoff.

Maybe he will see how desperately we need a big and consider it

here's a list of the transfers
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and LOL at #9 on the list.

Yeah I have gone out of my way to defend his time with the Nets. Considering what we know now about the regression of Deron Williams and the up and downmess of Brook Lopez it makes less sense. Deron Williams went bitching to the press about Avery's system and wanted it to be more like Utah's, which makes a ton of sense considering how much his time in Utah inflated his career.

I saw a video of Chuck discussing the firing and he said it made sense because they should have been a top 3 team in the East at the time. Looking back that is just ludicrous. They weren't even close to that after adding KG and Pierce.

Jason Kidd basically forced his way out of Brooklyn because of their FO and he will likely finish 3rd in COY this season.

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Every 4 years a team is allowed to travel overseas and play exhibition games. I wouldn't be surprised if that is something CAJ would like to do, depending on if Grant used that option within the last couple of years.

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Bama went to Europe a couple of months before the '13-'14 season.

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Then practice starts and you have Midnight Madness before the exhibition games tipoff.

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I think practice starts 10/15. Midnight Madness normally is at 12:00am on that date or the first Friday after the 15th.

Another thing I haven't thought about is that we may be getting a 30 second shot clock next season. Probably an easier adjustment for a guy coming from the NBA.

I was thinking of a new shot clock with less time after an O rebound just last night

I would like to see 30 second shot clock and then a 20 second new shot clock after an O rebound. Speed the damn game up and see more scoring

Also from that link:

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"I've talked to a lot of the parents on the AAU circuit over the past several years so a lot of the kids that are 2015 kids, I saw a lot of those kids when they were in 10th grade," Johnson said. "I saw a lot of those kids when they were eighth, ninth and 10th grade when my son was in the 11th grade on the circuit."

Relationships were formed.

"I've probably taken pictures with their parents," Johnson said. "And I've probably heard from half of those parents 'You would make a great college coach,' or 'If you ever coach in college, I'm sending my son to you.'

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