re: Tide Hoops | 31-6 (16-2)

This need to be an assistant coach at Bama

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a single elimination tournament

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Which is why March Madness is fun and exciting but absolutely the worst way to crown the best team in the country. Anybody think we wouldn't win a 5 or even 3 game series against San Diego St.? Not me.

Just look at our performances coming off a loss this year. I'd take us against any team in the country in a best-of series. But single elimination allows for way more upsets.

Haven’t been on here in a while and figured I’d share my thoughts on the season and tonight.

1. Best Bama basketball team in my lifetime. Enjoyed the ride.

2. The better team won tonight. They were better prepared, controlled the game, got to more loose balls, etc. Highly disappointing to see how unprepared we looked from the start.

3. This team’s mental fortitude was impacted by the Miles incident. I even question if Miller was actually injured and wasn’t actually struggling mentally from all the stress. That’s a LOT on an 18 year old. At this point though it doesn’t matter.

4. Watched the game with a. Friend that refs high school games. He made an interesting comment on ref bias. Not bias towards one team or another, but towards their style of play. SDSU came into the game with a reputation for physical defense. His point was refs subconsciously give those teams the benefit of the doubt when it comes to foul calls. He was clear that he wasn’t blaming the loss on the refs, but mentioned that had it been called tighter early on, it might have been a different game. He thought the turning point of the game was when Sears got raked across the face on a rebound and no foul was called. I mostly thought the game was called fairly evenly.

5. Our guard play has been a strength all season, but has been spotty the past month or so. JQ has had some huge games, but he struggled tonight. Pretty sure over half of their blocks were on him. Sears had a decent game, but struggled again from beyond the arc. You have to have good guard play to win the NCAA tournament.

6. Gonna harp again on just how unprepared this team looked tonight. Maybe the stage was just too big for a young team. It didn’t look like a team that used the week tk scout their opponent. Our early 2nd half run was all athleticism and talent. SDSU took Oats and our staff to school on their counter run that sealed the game. That’s two Sweet 16 appearances for Oats where he’s been outclassed by the opposing coaching staff. UCLA was a hot team in 2021 so I’ll give him a pass there, but tonight was inexcusable. SDSU is a solid team but they should not have exerted their will on us like they did, and that’s on the coaches.


Fun season though. Hopefully we can regroup and get back here next year.

3/27 on mostly wide open 3s is not having someone else’s will imposed on you. They fouled us on every rebound, can’t do anything about the refs not calling it.

Your post had some good points, but he didn’t get out coached the whole game. The opening play showed we were prepared and well coached. Things changed in the first half with Brandon and Clowney in foul trouble on poor officiating. When have you ever seen a team that is intentionally being physical called for less fouls than a team that plays pure basketball? You don’t. You might see the physical team win even with 2x the fouls called, but not get less fouls called due to bias.

We also came out strong in the 2nd half and built a 9 point lead. Please tell me how that showed our bad halftime adjustments and bad coaching? Oats made a couple minor mistakes on TOs and letting us foul with over 40 seconds down 2. The team wasn’t unprepared…that’s a an uninformed take by someone who doesn’t understand the game.

Honestly don’t think he was telling them to foul. He didn’t call TO to set the defense and they were still in foul mode. Don’t think that was a coach decision from what I could tell from my seat. Think Oats wanted our guys to trap, but no one came to help

I could see that too. Especially not their best offensive player immediately without at least trying for a steal for a few seconds. Everybody just made it seem like they meant to foul. I hated it, especially who we fouled, but I don’t get paid the big bucks for that stuff

Was our 2004 8 seeded team, the only one of 10, to win a Sweet 16 game, the lowest seeded team of Bamas that has ever even played in a sweet 16 game?

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Im in the hottub with a bicycle helmet on and there’s tornado warnings. This is what happens when we lose.

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Two things that we can guarantee will happen each March: tornadoes and Alabama Basketball disappointing us.

Woke up this morning and still can’t believe we lost that game. Unreal.

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Woke up this morning and still can’t believe we lost that game. Unreal.

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I'm more pissed and disgusted than I am surprised. Even after sleeping on it I have absolutely nothing positive to say about anything or anyone associated with this joke of a program. Oats has taken it to its ceiling. He's going to leave in a couple of years and we will probably hire another Grant or Avery. Downvote me, tell me I'm stupid, I don't care. This is what Alabama basketball is and it will never change.