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

Ohio State is a good team and will most likely be a tournament team, but I honestly think we'd beat them 7 out of 10 times, they played over their heads tonight and we played a lot worse than we're capable of. I'm more worried about this 3 game stretch coming up of Purdue, Creighton, and Arizona. If we don't play a lot better than we did tonight we will get blown out in those games. The good news is we are capable of playing a lot better than we did tonight.

Starting 5 should be

Sears
Estrada
Wrighsell
Nelson
Wague

And that is an older, experienced group. I agree that may be our finishing group.

They will get better.

I'm not going to panic. I did see some halfway decent defense in the second half...small sample size though.

Communication has to be better on that end.

I’m honestly not that confident. Although we have a decent roster. We clearly have some major deficiencies. There are also some issues with Oat’s philosophies which cause our losses to lopsided instead of nail biters. In a close game in the second half only down by five you should not be throwing up contested threes. We watched Ohio State take good looks and have movement on offense. In tight games we need to take better shots.

Sears is good against mid majors but he struggles against formidable opponents. Not a good dribbler and can’t finish around the basket. JQ is greatly missed from a penetration standpoint.

Pringle has been atrocious and ima huge Pringle fan. He looks nothing like the player he was last year. Numerous rebounds he looked disinterested in grabbing. He’s not blocking out or fighting for position.

Rylen needs to be moved to the second team. Can’t create a shot and has no handles.

I hope the coaches can correct some of this but this year I don’t think we have the jimmies and joes. We have to recruit more athletic players. Not one of our guards can play above the rim.

quote:

---

Sears is good against mid majors but he struggles against formidable opponents. Not a good dribbler and can’t finish around the basket. JQ is greatly missed from a penetration standpoint.

---

Except Sears has been significantly better than Q this season so far.

Looks like we get Oregon tomorrow. So just gotta show up and put this game behind us and move forward.

LETS BEAT THE frick OUT OF THEM!!

If we lose tomorrow with them missing their two best players then I will be freaking out with you. We should beat them.

Stevenson needs to communicate more on the floor.

Box out, man-to-man defense, outside defense, etc. I have a more positive view of defense than I thought. It's unfortunate that the rebound number is low, but seeing him box out means there's a chance that this too can go in a positive direction.
Team defense requires a lot of communication. In the process of going to help defense and returning, problems of overlapping with other players or missing moments in rotational defense sometimes occur, so we need to communicate a lot in defense.
Also, the referee is different every time. Soft calls and hard calls are different every time. Adapting to the referee's foul calls is also a challenge.

Youre probably right.

I was all here after Alabama proved they weren't a great team last year when OU ran them off the court.

Bama was a 1 seed with the easiest bracket ever and couldn't get past the Sweet 16.

Like I said, same old Alabama basketball.