re: 2022-23 Auburn basketball season thread- 21-13 (10-9) Season over

Yes he has been better the last few games, but last night reminded me how much he has struggled

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Because they made the sweet 16 two years ago? Jesus man I can’t tell if you’re trolling or just unhinged

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Did you miss them being ranked #2? Their team is a heck of a lot better than our team was last year. We were fake news.

I'm not happy about losing to a pretty mediocre team at home either but this melt was predictable.

All the posibarner basketball folks who were convinced this was the deepest and potentially best team Bruce had ever put on the court got a little down in the dumps early then sprung back to life when we feasted on bad teams. Now we're in the hard stretch and reality is going to come rushing back that this is a very flawed and limited team (albeit, still plenty competitive at times).

My only real gripe is that with the schedule we needed this one, we've got to hold serve at home in 50-50 type games. That part hurts a little, but otherwise this is just how it's going to be.

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I know Auburn's basketball history, and this is the most Auburn post ever.

Just like football, a coach beats bama and we give him a huge extension and buyout because of emotions. Then pay $18M in the buyout when we have to fire them.

Yep, the Auburn way.

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You are equating what Bruce has done with Auburn basketball as the Auburn way?

You think Bruce will need to be fired before he chooses to retire?

That is just off the mark like some of our shooting Tuesday night.

And it wasn’t even the offense. We played about how we play against decent teams. A&M just shot it well. We are gonna struggle against big physical guards. But even they shot better than expected per their average.

It’s always 1 game at a time. We have a chance each game to beat anyone but also to lose to anyone.

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Did you miss them being ranked #2?

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And we were ranked #1 last year. You keep moving the goalpost on what it means to be a successful program. First it’s making it to the sweet 16 despite what a team does in the regular season and suddenly bama being ranked #2 means they’ve surpassed Auburn, despite the fact that we are the winningest program in the conference over the past 5-6 years.

Again, it’s clear you’re either trolling or having some irrational melt so I’ll let you continue with whatever this is and bow out

You are correct and it goes deeper than that. I mentioned this awhile back and others have chimed in since last nights loss with some of the same points that are worth repeating for those that don't follow recruiting or roster management as much as some of us do.

Let's just pick one particular off season not that long ago, Auburn lost:
1. S. Cooper
2. J. Powell
3. JT Thor
4. J. Johnson
5. T. Alexander
6. D. Sills

Nobody, I mean nobody could or should have predicted all of the above would happen in a single off season. And for anybody following closely, all but one of those players were guards. And let's forget about that NCAA cloud that was hanging with no resolution at the time. Bruce made many forget about all that by bringing in two guys you might remember...Jabari Smith and Walker Kessler.

No, I don't think they are a complete team this year and that's okay...for this year. Circumstances can change rapidly in basketball as noted with the above. I'll get worried if Bruce & Co. make missing the tourney a habit. Check the SEC landscape, we've been holding our own and then some. Hell, I'd go as far as to say the Bruce hire changed many SEC AD's minds about basketball being a priority.

You’re outing yourself here. 1 year ago today (read: as far into the season as Bama is now) we were 19-1 and #1 in the country.

We didn't play our best ball in March but to call it a collapse is willful non-enjoyment. We lost 3 SEC games and won the league outright. I'm done here, I hope Hugh Freeze meets all your wildest expectations my friend. I don't even know what points you are trying to make.