re: Tide Hoops | Please Anchor

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y’all will start to come around.

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None of us will “come around” even if we do beat Gonzaga because none of us doubt we can beat them. Most of us believe we have the potential to beat any team in the country, but there’s literally no benefit to declare your team better or say you’re going to win before you do it. It does make you look like a fool if you’re wrong though. Saban has never once declared his team better than an opponent before they played in the game so they could prove it, but I don’t think anyone would accuse him of not believing in his teams. He has turned lots of folks into fools for saying it against his teams though.


I hope at the end of the season we’re both as satisfied in what happened this season, but I have a feeling that anything less than a National championship will prove that not to be true on your end. Im all for having high hopes for a team, but setting up crazy expectations just sets the team up for failure and isn’t fair to them. Lets just enjoy the season and the great team and leadership we have whatever happens, it’s going to be an awesome ride. The players and coaches deserve that from us as fans.

Meanwhile, as we argue about exactly where Bama sits as a national contender, Missouri the "Basketball school" is waking up this morning to having been blown out at home by Missouri-Kansas City.

Great times we're living in fellas.

From Seth Davis at the athletic...

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Alabama

This was the week that it really hit home for coach Nate Oats that Herb Jones, last year’s SEC player and defensive player of the year, is no longer in the program. The Tide stomped two pretty good mid-majors in Louisiana Tech and South Dakota State at home, but after watching his team give up 88 points to the Jackrabbits on Friday, Oats devoted all of Sunday’s two-plus hours of practice to defense. “Herb really set the tone for us at that end,” Oats told me. “We know we can score, but sometimes our offense is going so well that they just play as hard (on defense) as they need to. The scoreboard should never dictate your effort.”
That’s to be expected from a team that is breaking in a new frontcourt in 7-foot freshman center Charles Bediako and 6-8 senior forward Noah Gurley, a transfer from Furman. The Tide also got a promising start from heralded freshman guard JD Davison. He averaged 9.0 points in the two wins, and though he was frustrated that he shot 1 of 6 from 3, he had 11 assists to four turnovers and really excelled in the open court. In Davison, 6-1 junior Jahvon Quinerly, 6-3 junior Jaden Shackelford and 6-6 senior Keon Ellis, the Tide has one of the top perimeter quartets in the country. “If you look at all those guards, one of them is going to be going up against the other team’s third-best perimeter defender,” Oats said. “That’s going to be a problem for them.”
Alabama has three more not-easy/not-hard games before it hits its brutal early December stretch against Gonzaga, Houston and Memphis. Those will be a highly entertaining game, to say the least. Then again, Alabama is entertaining no matter whom it plays. If this group gets equally committed to playing defense, this will be another special season in Tuscaloosa.

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Gonzaga, Houston and Memphis

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Looking forward to seeing how Bama holds up. Taking any 2 of the 3 would be tremendous.

Coach K's grandson got popped for DWI and Paolo Banchero charged with aiding and abetting.

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Paolo Banchero charged with aiding and abetting.

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I wonder how you aid and abet a DUI? He driving Banchero’s car?


ETA - just read a longer story and that’s it. Banchero appears to have been sober and was letting the drunk grandson drive.

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Coach K's grandson got popped for DWI and Paolo Banchero charged with aiding and abetting.

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I can't find anything that goes into exactly what happened, so I'm curious to see how be aided and abetted a DWI. Can't say I've ever seen that one. Sharing an open container maybe?