re: Auburn vs South Carolina

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I ask someone to please tell me how you feel about this team now?

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Human performance varies.

We held them scoreless the last 5 minutes of game time.

I wish we would win all sportsball games by 40, but the other teams have paid coaches and players.

Maybe we will see some lineups with Denver, Pettiford, Kelly, Cardwell, CBM
With Jakhi getting sub minutes for CBM and Kelly. Obviously Chaney will need to play more and foul less. J’heim/Moore will play a little more.

We are better with Broome, but we can win some games without him. Hopefully JB is back sooner rather than later.

To your questions I would say today’s performance with Broome was our worst of the season. A lot of it was on Broome just not bringing it on either end. His focus and intensity wasn’t there. SC didn’t do anything special on him defensively, he was missing easy looks in 1 on 1 situations and/or forcing awful shots. He’s too good of a player not get back to himself though. I will say his defense in the second half was definitely looking better before the injury

I continue to be happy with the Missouri and Texas wins so I don’t see the same “trend” you and Jang are seeing

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And again, I want to hear a valid argument how we almost lost to one of the worst teams in the conference who was playing without two of their starters and only 6 of their players played more than 10 minutes with Broome playing the majority of the game? Please someone explain to me how that doesn’t concern you for the near future?

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Jesus. It’s college basketball. Even the best teams of all time struggle with inferior opponents and lose games. We are a very good team but not perfect by any means. Just win games and add to our already outstanding resume.

They sky is falling routine after close road games in college basketball is insane and shows you either 1) don’t know anything about college basketball or 2) just want to be miserable and just a drama queen.

We are going to lose games. It’s basketball

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I’ve personally dealt with ankle sprains in my past and it usually took about a month to fully recover.

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Here we go again.

I've dealt with them and they've taken 5 min. to recover. You, nor I, have any idea how bad his is or how long it will take him to recover. You literally just did this with the shoulder thing like two weeks ago and here you are again doom casting worst case scenario based on absolutely nothing.

Also, yes clearly we aren't playing as well as we were in November and December. We were never going to continue to be that dominant. Are we going some all time great team? No. Can we still make a deep tournament run if we stay healthy and peak/get hot at the right time? Absolutely. Conference play was always going to be a grind and it has been so far.

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I also think teams are taking Broome out of our offense and making others beat them

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I don't know if it is what other teams are doing or just him being too comfortable catching the ball way too far from the goal or not being aggressive/patient enough to get better shots. He's forced some terrible shots the last couple of games. Hopefully this injury will give him a chance to reset.

Petitford can. He is just young

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Biggest problem I see with your lineup, and with this team in general, is that we don't have a guard that can consistently iso and get penetration for the kickouts you're looking for. Same problem we've had for like 5 years now.

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This is true. Pettiford did it once yesterday. He can do it if he wants. He really just looks to create for himself though. If he can flip that switch it will make a big difference in our offense.

It's going to be interesting to watch.

Come Monday we are the #1 team in the nation. 1st in SEC.

The sky screaming is glorious to watch. It’s a trait all people have….I want more, more, more….

Enjoy the team that is obviously really good and better than just 1 player. As Bruce said, we will lose some games in SEC season. Broome down will probably make this team better by end of year. Looking forward to see what kind of lineup we go with. Who steps up…

This. We are most likely going to be #1 tomorrow and we have earned it with our play on the court. Road wins are hard and back to back road games are even harder. Broome will be back by Tennessee. Teams have peaks and valleys during the season. We're in a valley right now but we're still stacking wins and i for one am going to enjoy it

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Any update on Johni?

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According to tRant and Bama board visitation at the funeral,home is Tuesday from 6-9.