re: Tide Hoops | Please Anchor

Think about how far ahead of last year we are at this point. We were one day removed from losing to Western Kentucky and were 4-3.

Perspective.

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Nate Oats said assistant coach Antoine Pettway (medical issue) will not be able to rejoin #Alabama basketball until after Christmas

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Covid?

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2020-2021 : 13-7

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Last years group was tough enough to win games when the 3 didn’t fall. I’m scared this group won’t be

TORVIK OOC OPPONENTS PROJECTIONS AS OF 12-20-21

- Louisiana Tech (22-8, 13-5)

- South Dakota State (24-7, 15-3)

- South Alabama (21-10, 12-6)

- Oakland (23-8, 18-4)

- Iona (24-6, 16-4)

- Drake (20-11, 11-7)

- Miami (17-14, 9-11)

- Gonzaga (25-4, 14-2)

- Houston (27-4, 16-2)

- Memphis (19-9, 13-5)

- Jacksonville State (19-11, 11-5)

- Davidson (20-9, 12-6)

- Baylor (26-5, 13-5)

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Anyone know what the best /most convenient place to park for the BJCC is?

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I haven’t been since the renovation but I have typically parked in the “purple” or “orange” ( ) surface lots on the map below. The ‘Uptown’ area on the other side has parking if you plan to go early and maybe have something to eat or drink.

The blue and the gold are parking decks with ample parking as well.

I think this group just needs to find their identity as much as anything. Last season, when shite was headed south and shots weren’t falling, they played amazing team defense to stay energized and hold on until the game came back to them.

I’m not sure this group is capable of executing the same level of defense as last year’s (most certainly better than we’ve seen though), but they have to find something they can fall back to… when it’s not going their way, backs against the wall, what’s their “go to”? We have to do something well enough to hang around with good teams until the tide turns, so to speak, but I’m not sure what that is yet.

We haven’t been horrible at anything, but we haven’t executed anything well enough or consistently enough to be able to confidently say “that’s who we are” or “that’s what we do”. We’ll need that in conference play this year. If not, instead of fighting out way out of the corner, we’re going to get kicked while we’re down.

I still have a lot of hope and high expectations for this team. It’s easy to forget after the SECC run, but we looked like a JV team against bad competition until this point last season. Let’s hope we can find something similar this year, because it might be the difference between being good or winning the conference.

Thank you