re: Auburn Basketball 2021 - 2022 28- 6 (15-3) SEC CHAMPS!

He's a senior, I think.

Yeah there's not as big of a drop off from the first 5 to the next 5 like you see with most teams.

Gonzaga lost to bama. I ain’t too worried. Stop always being such a downer bro. It’ll be ok

Um, he was already going off on Walker and Walker was in foul trouble because he couldn't guard him.

I really like this team but I'm still not sure I trust Kessler against top end competition. Also worry about our offense getting too wild sometimes. This team has everything it needs to make the Final 4 but there are definitely some things we have to tighten up. This team has more talent and is deeper than 2019 but I don't know if we have the killers that team had.

Was a good team win. I thought Jaylin and KD made the difference tonight and that’s fine. UF is a pretty danged good bball team being at home helped but this team as young as some of the guys are need to be pushed.

I think if we make to the Oklahoma game with 1 or no conference losses we have a good shot at winning the regular season. But still way to early to think about. Gotta keep getting better.

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Gotta keep getting better.

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I think tonight was probably the 2nd maybe 3rd worst performance of the year. Games like tonight will happen but thankfully the bench came through again and the team can learn from it and keep getting better as you said.

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I really like this team but I'm still not sure I trust Kessler against top end competition.

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He had the game of his life against the best team we’ve played that has a legit front court.

Walker did a great job on him in the first half but Castelton got the better of him in the second half. Castelton is a legit big man who is a senior. Their whole offense is built around him, not surprising that he got things going. Fouls got us in a rough spot and once our bigs were in foul trouble White did what any smart coach would do and attacked them with his best player.

There are definitely still areas for this team to improve but a double digit win against a solid conference opponent when we played one of our worst games is no reason to hit the panic button.

I am trying to prepare myself for disappointment on Tuesday. Just seems like we are due and bama is Jekyll and Hyde. Never know if they'll show up world-beaters or trash.

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It felt like Florida was allowed to play and we were handcuffed by the refs. The refs also made several calls in key situations that prevented us from blowing the game open. I definitely felt like they protected the Florida big.

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Not really.
I was at game and being home you tend to be more aggressive. The refs were definitely inconsistent and there is this one ref we have had many times who wants to let u know he’s in charge.
There definitely some phantom calls on Jabari and Walker that allows Fla’s big man to score some easy baskets. Fla did a good job of knowing Kessler was out and kept finding ways to get it inside. Cardwell actually played smart and held is ground his ground causing the big guy to miss some inside shots.
Franklin kept us in the lead in first half w his offensive aggressiveness and KD definitely helped us win the gsme with his spark in 3nd half.
We still struggle w big athletic guards on the perimeter w Green and Zep not able to blow by them or shoot open perimeter shots.
We definitely struggled at the end with floridas traps. Wendell and Flanigan have to get out of that trouble better. They threw terrible passes down court but luckily Florida couldn’t hit them or we had a good enough cushion to over come it.
But we are so solid 10 deep defensively and even offensively.