re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)

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mistaken4193

Do you want to take the reins on the season thread next year?

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This is not good. If Chad’s had enough of the board and SOG is becoming disengaged, we collectively need to “get back in line.”

I never hate. I don't like his choices on the court but one thing I do like is his effort. I think there are better choices that Coach Oats could make with the available minutes.

Last night for sure when you have one man making shots and the rest heaving bricks.

As a freshman Nelson shot 35.6% for 3s and has declined every year since. This year to date 25%. Good chance he is doing something in his weight training that is bad technique for his shooting.

Grants form on these 3s is brutal to watch. He shoots like a 40 year old dude at the YMCA.

Let's hear some conference record predictions.

I'll go with 11-7, based on there are other SEC schools underperformed in the preseason non conference slate, too.

Grant’s form reminds me of Bradley from last year. You just know by watching them shoot that they will never be great shooters.

Whoever the shooting coach is...they need to make Grant Nelson shoot the ball like it's a free throw. Stand still and shoot it like a free throw then once the form stay consistent then you gradually elevate a little.

His free throw shooting form is phenomenal.

What do you guys think our record will be in these next 11 games? I say 8 and 3 with a good chance we could go 9 and 2.

I don't feel comfortable picking games with this team. The defense is so bad that it is largely going to depend on whether the opponent is cold.

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and we've proved that "not our best ball" can take down 3 top 10 teams (2 top 5) on a neutral floor.

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How does that translate to "not our best ball" is better than a top 5 team? "Not our best ball" is not good enough to beat fringe top 25 teams.

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Reading comprehension is a skill

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This is an insane statement. We lost all three of those games, two of them on a neutral floor.

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Hilarious that us losing by a combined 9 points in two of those games (one "neutral", one away) makes it "insane" to think we CAN take down either of those teams on a truly neutral floor. And that's leaving the officiating in those games out of it.

You can think differently about the Arizona game if you wish. But the truth is, despite playing our far and away worst offensive game of the year on that "neutral court" (in Phoenix, Arizona), it took Arizona until the final 3 minutes to put us away.

Keep in mind, that the worst matchup for us in the entire country is Purdue and the second is probably Arizona because of their size. Creighton is also a team predicated on playing through their bigs.

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And if your argument is that it wasn't entirely neutral, when you're playing a top 5 team in the NCAA tournament, the fan split ain't gonna be 50/50.

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50/50 split isn't what we're talking about here. There has never been a NCAAT crowd as hostile as the crowd in that Arizona game, and the Purdue game is about as unbalanced as you'll find in the NCAAT (at least in P5 matchups) and that's really only in certain matchups where a team gets lucky and gets a very proximal regional seeding.

I also love that you missed the whole point in my post, which is that the last 3 games are actually more encouraging to me than what we've seen prior to those games (like the Ohio State and Clemson matchups you mentioned). We don't have to pump sunshine and there is a lot to groan about, but some of y'all are so set in your misery that you can only think emotionally instead of logically. Is our record frustrating? Yes. Are we hanging with top 10 teams despite being capable of playing better ball (in some cases much better)? Also yes. This is why our advanced rankings are pretty solid despite our poor record. Almost all new players and coaches, so if any team in the country is capable of improving with more time to gel it's our guys. We'll see if that's the case or not in conference play.