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

We are gonna have to win in College Station on the last day of the season to clinch the SEC

I don’t know man...we just need to win the next 4 and have A&M lose 1 game. That’s all. Then it won’t matter what happens in Aggy land.

Our next 4 should all be wins tbh. Anything can happen but on paper those games should be Ws. Georgia, at S Car, Arky and Auburn.

Texas A&M plays at Missouri, Tennessee and at Miss St next. They should lose at least 1 of those games.

Maybe we can clinch the conf title at home vs Auburn...

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I mean me being right doesn't mean we don't lose, my point is that you are saying you see "no way" we get past the Sweet 16.

I don't agree with that

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But hes watched, like, 3.5 games this season. And even though we were an underdog in a road rivalry game, this is obviously just a sweet 16 team.

I think we need to calm down and see the big picture.

Without the turnovers we win by 10… but I’m willing to give the guys a pass because they were getting tackled.

JQ is great when he plays his role… it’s when he goes back into hero mode he needs to be pulled. His play tonight was similar to a lot of games last season because he’s trying to do too much.

We need more sets to get Brandon open looks… same for Sears.

But overall we’re fine..

I predict we see these orange turds again in SEC tournament… and beat the breaks off them

The game last night in a nutshell.

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We have to able to adjust when it’s a physical game. It was the same thing against Oklahoma

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Seems this teams weakness is playing physical. Hopefully, no physical teams will match up with Bama in the tournament. If OU can beat this team with physicality, Bama isn't safe in any round of the tournament.

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Quinerly feels he should be in the NBA alongside Jones and those guys so whenever and wherever he gets the ball it's look what I can do Punchinello and so far that has been turn the damn ball over to the opponents time after time. The ATM is probably one of the most gifted dribblers in college basketball when he's not being guarded by anyone. From the moment he stepped on the court this year he's been handing out passes for the other team to get in fast break transition. Maybe he's gonna play like a veteran down the stretch, who knows but I wouldn't put my bank card in that ATM. Absolutely not!

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He definitely tries to make too many spectacular plays. But, I think that's just how he learned to play. I don't think he's consciously thinking, "Now I'm going to wow everyone with this 70 ft pass through traffic." I think that's how he grew up playing. I think the guy really wants to win, and is trying. I'm not saying that makes the results better.

BUT, in his defense, he's been playing very well lately, and I haven't seen pages and pages of people singing his praises. And, last night, several of his turnovers were because we couldn't get a guy open for an inbounds pass. When Oats got to Bama, I was so happy to see us run actual plays that got our guys open on inbounds plays. For whatever reason, we seem to have regressed to Grant-era inbounds plays this year. The staff needs to work on that.

But, as far as Quinerly, yes, he's way too loose with his passes oftentimes. The turnovers killed us last night. JQ had some very bad ones, but about half of his should go to the team.

Anyway, upward and onward. That was the stretch in the season we were all worried about. We made it through with one conference loss. I'll take it.

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I think the turnovers were a much bigger issue than the whistle. It was a physical game, both ways. At the end of the day, they shot 25 free throws, we shot 20. We only got called for three more fouls than they did. And we were trying to foul at the end. That’s about all you can ask for in a conference road game.

We have to able to adjust when it’s a physical game. It was the same thing against Oklahoma. We didn’t do a good job with the physicality of the game.

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The turnovers were a big problem, and the officiating is not something we should blame. However, it was far from a fair whistle. UT was far more physical than we were. FT discrepancy isn't useless when determining how favorable a whistle was, but when a team takes full advantage of the whistle like UT did (props to them and Barnes) the FT discrepancy doesn't mean much. Did we get away with a few hand checks? Absolutely. Were we throwing dudes to the floor with no call? Not at all. The game was called in a way that favored their style of play and what each team was allowed to get away with wasn't the same. That being said, that is life on the road in the SEC.

I see my decision not to even look in here during games and for several hours after losses is still a good one. All the fricktard window lickers come out of the woodwork every single time. They aren't basketball fans. They don't know shite about basketball. But goddammit they're going to let us know just how much a 22-4 team sucks and has no chance to win in March because of the lack of a midrange game and inability to contend with literally getting tackled in the paint.

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Can Bama win 6 in a row to win the dance.. Yes

Will they? I dont think so. And games like last night prove that they/Oats does not know how to adjust. The same mistakes we made in the first half were made in the second. Horrible inbound plays under the basket. Sloppy turnovers by the same people. And guards dribbling in circles expecting players to come open but they dont because they are standing stationary in their 3 point shot spots.

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As far as teams go this year, Alabama has proven that they can win 6 games in a row against solid to great competition more than any other team in the NCAA. Will they? Probably not. But that's the case for pretty much every 1-seed in the past 20-30 years.