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Posted on 4/2/20 at 9:47 pm to GenesChin
Posted on 4/2/20 at 9:47 pm to GenesChin
We get your “analytics guy” takes. All people are saying is you need people on your team to be physical, rebound, and protect the rim in order to win. Height be damn but you need this to win.
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Posted on 4/2/20 at 10:32 pm to WDE_315
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need people on your team to be physical, rebound, and protect the rim in order to win.
You don't need height for this is the only point I'm making.
I'd take a pre injury McLemore or Horace Spencer who can shoot over another Wiley
Posted on 4/2/20 at 11:40 pm to GenesChin
nm
. . . the sarcasm of height and basketball has already exceeded someone's grasp.
. . . the sarcasm of height and basketball has already exceeded someone's grasp.
This post was edited on 4/3/20 at 10:34 am
Posted on 4/2/20 at 11:40 pm to GenesChin
Just seems like it’s probably easier to find big guys that play big than small guys that play big
Posted on 4/4/20 at 3:12 am to TheJones
K.T. Harrell close to joining Bruce Pearl's staff
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Former Auburn star K.T. Harrell is headed back to the Plains to begin his coaching career.
The former guard expects to join coach Bruce Pearl's staff as a graduate assistant, he revealed Friday on The Lunch Break on WGZZ-FM in Auburn.
Harrell has not yet been hired and must complete paperwork and other hiring procedures before he is part of the staff, but that is expected to happen soon, a source said.
Harrell, 27, spent four years playing overseas in Turkey, Italy and Belgium. He averaged 16.4 points and 2.2 assists per game in Italy during the 2018-19 season.
“Having my son out in Italy and traveling all over the world it just didn’t seem like the type of life I wanted for my family, especially having a little man,” Harrell said. “Now I want to be able to give him some stability. “I actually went to talk to B.P. and he asked me what my plan was after playing and I told him I wanted to get into coaching. He offered me a position to be on as a grad assistant, so I’m actually going to be coming back down to Auburn. I’m looking forward to that.”
Harrell led Auburn in scoring in his two seasons playing for the Tigers, including his final season in which he averaged a career-high 18.5 points in Pearl’s first season as the head coach in 2014-15. Harrell will forever be remembered for leading the Tigers to an improbable trip to the SEC Tournament semifinals in Pearl’s first season as the head coach. He scored a career-high 29 points and scored 15 straight points, including a game-tying 3-pointer near the end of regulation, to force overtime in a 73-70 victory against LSU in the quarterfinals.
Auburn entered the SEC Tournament losing 12 of its last 14 games, but won three straight in the postseason before losing to No. 1 seed Kentucky in the semifinals.
“We really lit the match as far as what Pearl and the rest of the coaching staff and those players have been able to do the last couple of years,” Harrell said. “It’s an amazing thing and to feel like I was part of the group that lit the match for it, is something special and something I’ll always carry with me.”
Four years after Harrell led the Tigers on a deep run in the SEC Tournament, Pearl coached the Tigers to their first Final Four appearance in 2019. The Tigers finished with a 25-6 record and had its season cut short when the novel coronavirus pandemic forced conferences and the NCAA to cancel postseason tournaments in March.
Harrell could become the third former Auburn player on Pearl’s staff. Wes Flanigan is an assistant coach and Marquis Daniels serves as the program’s director of player development.
“If you can leave an impact on one (player), at least one, I think it’s a job well done,” Harrell said.
Posted on 4/4/20 at 8:00 am to AUFan2015
That’s great news. Bruce is the GOAT.
Posted on 4/4/20 at 9:51 am to AUFan2015
Loved me some KT Harrell
Posted on 4/4/20 at 2:12 pm to HailToTheChiz
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Loved me some KT Harrell
We were a #KTHarrellSchool one glorious March. Honestly, one of the most fun runs of Auburn basketball
If we could put out a lineup of 4 KT Harrells and Chuma Okeke as stretch 5, we'd go 40-0.
This post was edited on 4/4/20 at 2:18 pm
Posted on 4/4/20 at 2:33 pm to GenesChin
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If we could put out a lineup of 4 KT Harrells and Chuma Okeke as stretch 5, we'd go 40-0.
3 KTs, one Chuma at stretch 5, and give me either Jared Harper or Chris Denson running the point
GOATest team ever
Posted on 4/4/20 at 2:34 pm to BowlJackson
We’d give up 80 points a game 
Posted on 4/4/20 at 2:36 pm to lowspark12
But we'd score 100 
Posted on 4/4/20 at 3:06 pm to GenesChin
Looking back.. those were solid jerseys
Posted on 4/4/20 at 3:11 pm to Rig
I rewatched last years elite eight win on dvr... those 2019 jerseys are the GOAT.
Posted on 4/4/20 at 3:22 pm to lowspark12
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2019 jerseys are the GOAT.
100% agree
But yeah, the ones we had in that gif when Pearl first got here were a huge improvement on the Barbee/ Lebo era trash. We had some god awful uniforms in the 00s and early 10s
Posted on 4/4/20 at 3:32 pm to BowlJackson
2019 jerseys are are a nod to the late 90s jerseys
Posted on 4/4/20 at 3:48 pm to lowspark12
I was upset that we ventured away from last years jerseys
Posted on 4/4/20 at 3:49 pm to lowspark12
Definitely an improved version though. Late 90s were good looking for the most part, but then you had the tiger stripe trim 
That eye of the tiger where the belt buckle would be is pretty bad too
But this one right here is
That eye of the tiger where the belt buckle would be is pretty bad too
But this one right here is
Posted on 4/4/20 at 3:54 pm to BowlJackson
I love the tiger stripes
Posted on 4/4/20 at 3:55 pm to Rig
Great article on Okeke
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Also found this interesting because I remember during the season a poster felt like the absence of the rifleman was the reason why we weren’t shooting well.
#FreetheRifleman
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Also found this interesting because I remember during the season a poster felt like the absence of the rifleman was the reason why we weren’t shooting well.
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Former Auburn assistant coach Chuck Person, who was known as “The Rifleman” in the NBA, was instrumental in fixing Chuma’s three-point shot. With that added range, he raised his scoring average from 7.5 points as a freshman to 12 points as a sophomore, while shooting nearly 40 percent from beyond the arc.
#FreetheRifleman
This post was edited on 4/4/20 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 4/4/20 at 5:16 pm to jangalang
He shot a higher % as a freshman though
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