re: tOfficial Alabama Basketball Season Thread | 19-15 (10-8) | #BuckleUp

also the term Buckle up means to me now. NOt when he gets the kids in. There should be enough of his kids in to push the tempo. If he meant buckle up after 3 recruiting classes he should have coined that phrase in a year or two. My two cents. i am hoping to get a chance to watch more games soon.

@ Teague

Agreed. I guess the comment equating bitching about the program to not knowing anything about hoops sort of turned me off.



Certainly plenty of room for improvement but we are better at this point than we were last year.

Roll Tide!

Oregon got drilled last night by the way.

Shannon Hale needs to play better. His shooting has been bad, he doesn't rebound, he doesn't create, he doesn't hustle.

We aren't very deep if Hale, Davis, & King are playing like garbage.

Our starting 5 talent is much better this year, but there's a fall off after that.

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If he meant buckle up after 3 recruiting classes

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Counting Avery's first recruiting class is a little suspect. Very few coaches recruit successfully when hired at the late signing period. Add in Avery's limited contacts in recruiting (NBA not CBB experience), it only gets more unlikely to sign multiple talented players

Bruce Pearl had a similar situation at Auburn, his only two recruits in the late period were players whose scholarships got pulled by other schools (3* TJ Lang/JUCO Cinmeon Bowers)

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There should be enough of his kids in to push the tempo. To push the tempo, you need a reliable 8-10 rotational players.

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You need 8-10 reliable options with minimal drop off to go uptempo all game.

Unless you are a Duke/UK/UNC/Zona type program, you aren't going to bring in 8 quality players in only 1.5 recruiting classes

Any team with a quality big man should park him under the hoop and over-play the perimeter. Florida used to kill us with this D begging us to shoot mid-range jumpers. We couldn't do it.

Hopefully, Hall can continue to develop in this area. Love his athleticism.

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Any team with a quality big man should park him under the hoop and over-play the perimeter

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A good passing team that dishes off the dribble would have non stop open layups/post shots.

Aren't many good passing teams though

Maybe to get fans excited? I promise you Avery's goal is to make the NCAAT right now and not wait until his classes are in.

So, you were expecting a dominant team in the first two years because AJ said "buckle up"? Come on, man. That's ridiculous. Avery said from the beginning it would take a little time. Not a LOT of time, but obviously not in the first couple of years.

That said, this team will be pretty good, and I'm betting they make the tournament.

not expecting a damn thing but he did say this team would be more up tempo. I hope to see it.

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You can look at LSU, MSU or UF last year who had top flight talent and looked promising but never put it together

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LSU had a great 2015 class, but Trent Johnson is an absolutely terrible head coach.

MSU only had one top 100 player in their class (Newman) and he had very little support from the returning players. Granted Weatherspoon (#104 on 247 comp) did outplay his ranking.

UF had no top 50 players and just 2 in the top 100 in the 2015 class

Alabama has 2 top 30 players, one of which is top 10, and another top 100 player to add to that list. We also have a highly-touted transfer who will be eligible next year and what should be a very solid returning group.

I understand hesitation in having high hopes for what seems to be a previously snake-bitten program, but the difference in those situations is enormous.