re: ***Official Fire Anthony Grant Thread***

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Anything less than a Sweet 16 next year should probably cost him his job. Preferably as a 4 or 5 seed instead of a bubble team that gets hot at the right time.

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If he bubbles out this year and then does the same next year while finishing top four in SEC, I believe he will have not shot of getting fired. Not that I personally agree with the call, but I don't see the admin making a change.

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Would you say we are in better or worst shape than the Mark Gottfried days?

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Push.

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and look how Mark has NCstate playing

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The same way he had us playing, but with a little more talent. They always play like shite on the road, just like his Alabama teams did. Once he gets lazy and has 2 bad classes in a row it will get bad for them too.

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but with the talent and none shooting team we have AG has done a good job

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Once again...we aren't THAT bad from outside. We are below average, but not so bad that it cripples us. Releford and Lacey are both good outside shooters, and Cooper and Retin are capable of knocking down a handful if they get hot. Shooting isn't our problem. Pace and a lack of complete post players are our problems.

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if you can win 20 plus games with this bball team then your a good coach

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The SEC is just as shitty this year as it was last year. Winning 20 games really isn't that impressive. And we haven't won 20 games yet anyway.

We have the talent to play much, much better than we do. We have a roster full of 4 and 5 stars who play like 3 stars. To me, that's on the coach not the players.

Bump

I guarantee you, next year we'll be saying the same thing. A small majority who actually watches basketball will be calling for a change and the majority will be saying "give him one more year, he's doing a fine job". We're stuck.

absolutely laughable. some of you need to get a grip.

really stupid comment. our fanbase doesn't know shot about basketball.

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Losing to teams like Mercer, Tulane, and Auburn got us in a must-win situation.

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Exactly. People seem to think just because we're on the bubble means we overachieved. That's not true at all. We're on the bubble because we massively underachieved.

(Also remember that Tennessee game where we didn't even get a shot off at the end and Grant stood there laughing like an idiot)

that's just not true. if you look at the roster, we don't have a single complete forward or center on the roster. that we were this close at all is a testament to how hard the team plays and how well coached we are on defense. you can criticize grant's roster management as it relates to that but most of the people doing that are spoiled football fans with an embarrassing lack of perspective of where the program was when grant inherited it and where it has been historically. we'll see if it's a continuing problem going forward but this was the first season we have not improved under grant and anyone saying its time for him to be fired or giving up hope on next year already or saying we should release Jacobs when he's our only offensive post threat on the roster or ignoring engstrom's injury or saying Lacey is a shitty player or whining about how we just stand around on the perimeter on offense (which isn't true and anyone who thinks it is knows dick about basketball) or whatever all you idiots have been whining about all year even though we went 12-6 in the conference, well those people are all fricking morons. making the tournament is like finishing on the top 25 in football, not just making a bowl game. and alabama basketball is not alabama football, it never will be. I've held my to tongue while you morons have cried like spoiled children all season, even after we won games, which is pretty hilarious to me, but I'll just put it this way: if you think grant needs to be fired, and if you think thats a defensible position, you are dumb as frick, no exceptions.

there are very, very few programs that make the NCAA every year. Alabama has never been one of them.