re: Basketball Recruiting Thread: 6’8 G/F Elyjah Freeman commits!!!

I'm convinced the refs are instructed (or bribed) to give significant help to the home team in SEC play. It does make the game almost unwatchable, but it seems to be an understood arrangement among SEC coaches.

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I somewhat agree. I like the big rotation and keeping the minutes down until March. That's the time we need to find our 7 or 8 best and roll them out.

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Let the BMOCs cook!

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I really like the idea tbh especially against teams who are just averge to below average shooting the 3. Thats 2 big dudes at the rim to score over on defense .

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What happens when both get into early foul trouble on the court together?

Again, I think people are not understanding my stance on the depth issue. Yes, depth is great to have, everyone knows that. It’s good to have players come in and not skip a beat and wear out opponents. That’s not what I’m discussing about though. I’m talking about, especially in basketball, how it affects your team chemistry late in games when you don’t have those top players used to being on the floor for a long period of time. Look at what happens to us in the past few years when it comes to our records in February and March. We struggle down the stretch, and my hunch is because we rely too much on depth and our top players lack the chemistry you need to win those big games down the stretch. There’s no reason Moore needed to play last year those last two months unless someone was in foul trouble or hurt. Same goes with Aden, he was a liability on offense and defense. But Pearl continues to disrupt many times the rhythm of our team chemistry just to build that depth. As I’ve said before, in basketball, you really only need 6/7, maybe 8, players down the stretch getting around 30 minutes of playing time each. It’s why you see time and again the best teams play only their best players unless emergencies arise in late February into March.

That’s fine! I just wanted to make sure if people understood what I was saying, haha.

Yea, not going to sugarcoat this, losing to Yale was embarrassing and unacceptable, not because they were a 13 seed. That Yale team was mediocre at best for an Ivy League school. I watched alot of basketball last year, as usual, and they were probably the 3rd or 4th best team in the freaking IVY LEAGUE! That is what irritates me the most when I think about that game. I very rarely feel comfortable when it comes to the tournament and who you play in the opening round, but honestly, we got one of the easiest teams to play to start and we blew it. That game should have never been close, I don’t care CBM got ejected. That Yale team was pretty mediocre the whole year and got lucky to win their conference tournament to get in the first place. This wasn’t some great mid major who was underrated and coming in with ALOT of momentum. No, Yale was lucky to qualify for their tournament and they had some really bad losses throughout the season. There was a reason we were favored by double digits. I’m not trying to bash Pearl, but that was one of the most poorly coached games I’ve seen from him since he’s been here. I don’t care about the excuses some Auburn fans have made, we still should have won that game by double digits.

They made some tough shots for sure. First game of the tourney is always the hardest to win. CBM would have been guarding that Greek dude. Ref show.

It is what it is. We should have won regardless but that's the beauty of the tournament.

Yep! You could tell Bruce was really bothered by the flow of the game after the ejection.

Yeah, I know probably not the best place to post this but it doesn't warrant a thread by itself...UVA coach Tony Bennett is retiring immediately?!? 15 year coach and you decide now is the time with the season right around the corner, something seems off.