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Posted on 2/8/23 at 10:42 pm to cmayes56
Posted on 2/8/23 at 10:42 pm to cmayes56
Either way this wasn't about singular team, it was about 3 year stretch. And it was more about to just comparing our best 3 year stretches.
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Posted on 2/8/23 at 10:51 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Last year ended ugly but we beat Gonzaga in Seattle, Baylor and Houston. Those are the type of programs we never beat before Oats. Now it occurs on the regular.
6 seed being a down season is how we now we’ve finally arrived as a program. The come up happened so fast. Seems like just yesterday I was watching us implode in February and fully accepting we were cursed.
6 seed being a down season is how we now we’ve finally arrived as a program. The come up happened so fast. Seems like just yesterday I was watching us implode in February and fully accepting we were cursed.
Posted on 2/8/23 at 11:07 pm to SummerOfGeorge
I’m not throwing shade at this years team.. I love this team and I think they have a chance to win it all.
But I keep reading and hearing that this is Bama’s greatest team or your argument that this is the greatest 3 year run.
The 3 year (really 4) run by CM’s teams in the 70’s is a high high bar.
If you aren’t old enough to have seen them play, I wish you had. Because you would have loved them. They avg 88 pts a game and held their opponents to 69.
Remember, that’s with no shot clock and no 3 pt line. This years team avg 84 and 68.. with a shot clock and 3s. Take away the arc, this team is down to 73 a game.
Had the tournament been seeded then, we play Indiana in the final 4 or possibly the finals.
They crushed Dean Smiths ACC Champ NC team in the first round. Then had our hopes dashed by an overruled block/charge call from the ref at mid court.
They were fabulous!
But I keep reading and hearing that this is Bama’s greatest team or your argument that this is the greatest 3 year run.
The 3 year (really 4) run by CM’s teams in the 70’s is a high high bar.
If you aren’t old enough to have seen them play, I wish you had. Because you would have loved them. They avg 88 pts a game and held their opponents to 69.
Remember, that’s with no shot clock and no 3 pt line. This years team avg 84 and 68.. with a shot clock and 3s. Take away the arc, this team is down to 73 a game.
Had the tournament been seeded then, we play Indiana in the final 4 or possibly the finals.
They crushed Dean Smiths ACC Champ NC team in the first round. Then had our hopes dashed by an overruled block/charge call from the ref at mid court.
They were fabulous!
This post was edited on 2/8/23 at 11:09 pm
Posted on 2/8/23 at 11:09 pm to cmayes56
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But I keep reading and hearing that this is Bama’s greatest team or your argument that this is the greatest 3 year run.
Oh I'm not saying it is. For one last year kind of makes it a hard sell since they were a dud (in the context of this discussion), especially when looking at CMs run and Wimps last 80s/early 90s stretch.
Alabama having great teams in an era where you had to win the league (which included Kentucky) is a perfect image of the unluckiness of the program as a whole.
This post was edited on 2/8/23 at 11:13 pm
Posted on 2/9/23 at 10:18 am to SummerOfGeorge
quote:I've been around for all of these periods (even played city league with a hand full of these guys in years past, starting with Jack Kubiszyn of the Rocket Eight..
Best 3 Year Stretches in Alabama Basketball History
Imo, the '75 C.M. Newton team was the best (so far) Tide team ever. I watched them go toe-to-toe with the undefeated nat'l champ Indiana team in Baton Rouge, and have the lead with under 2 minutes to go. Coach Bobby Knight came into the Tide locker room after the game and told them that Alabama was the best team they had played..period!
The mid-80s Sanderson teams with Derrick McKey and Buck Johnson probably were 2nd, and Johnny Dee's Rocket Eight teams in the mid-50s were, for that period, special teams.
I would have loved to have seen them be able to play in the national year-end tourneys (NCAA and NIT), but due to the segregation policies in the South, it was forbidden.
I honestly believe that this year's team can supplant the past teams, IF our improvement and good fortune continue.
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