re: #tAuburnBasketball Thread

BTW, tonight on the SECN at 9:30 is the Auburn basketball edition of SEC Inside.

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Just imagine if Kareem Canty had played on this team

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He’d incredibly slow down the offense while pretending that he plays for the Harlem Globetrotters. His handles were great but never did he cross the defenders over much less blow by them.

I wasn't implying it as a good thing but just as a funny side note of how far we've come. If you needed a circus 3 from quarter court, he was money though

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shooting 475% from 3 the last 5 games.

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Strong AF

I respect this.

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Bruce Pearl hopes the fans to be classy toward Barbee if he makes the trip.

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I hope we make a Tony Barbee fat head

The fact that we ever hired Barbee is a testament to the incompetence of Jay Jacobs. UTEP was very open to Auburn people about Barbee and all his red flags, but Jacobs just saw the 20+ win seasons and NCAAT berth and connection to Calipari and hired him anyway.
I remember initially being excited about the Barbee hire for those same reasons, but right away there were articles about the warnings from UTEP people, and everything they said about him foreshadowed all of his issues at Auburn. They talked about how outside of practice and games the only time he would interact or talk to his players was having them go through his assistants. They talked about how he acted like he was better than everybody else, his personality drove away players and assistants, which is exactly what he did to players at Auburn. He actually signed some decent classes and some good players, but without fail he drove away every player worth a shite. The better the player, the faster they were gone. 4* and signed to Auburn under Barber? If you even made it to campus, then you would show a good promising freshmen season and then without fail be gone the next off-season. Shaq Johnson, Josh Price, Cedrick McAfee, Luke Cothran, Josh Langford, Willy Kouassi... Everybody he recruited out of HS that was highly ranked or showed promise on the court, not one of them lasted more than 2 years at AU... Probably foreshadowing that the first thing Barbee did after his first year was over was run off our best player, Earnest Ross.

But every single player that was worth a shite in the Barbee era and actually made it to their senior year here fall into 3 categories.
Leftovers from Lebo: (Kenny Gabriel, Frankie Sullivan)
Transfers: (Noel Johnson, KT Harrell)
Unranked recruit with no hype: (Chris Denson)

If even a few of those good players that Barbee recruited from HS actually lasted at Auburn then maybe Barbee would have actually broken .500 here at least once and madr himself look half decent.

The one and only highlight of the Barbee era is rhe opening of Auburn Arena. But even that he inherited from Lebo and wasn't his own accomplishment.







Sorry for the rant, but I hate Barbee with a passion. He made Auburn basketball during my college years a beyond awful experience and I'll never forgive him or Jacobs for that.

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Bryce Brown Notes:
He's shooting in the gym. No brace. Says he's "almost ready." Was doing some light weightlifting before that. Practicing today but no contact.
Video of Bryce dribbling and shooting: LINK

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good to hear, the video of him shooting FT's at UGA looked rough.

It seems like early last year and to some degree of success we would get Mustapha the ball on the block against smaller guards when we really needed a bucket. Maybe I'm misremembering the success rate but I wonder why we got away from that? Now, quite frankly, idgaf because we are playing elite offense anyways..

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My only critique now is that he needs to get better at playing off screens. If you watch him on flex screens he frequently is going through the motions and not aggressively taking screens and/or cutting that would free him up more (a la Bryce Brown's awesome backdoor cuts)

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I wonder if he was the guy Bruce was yelling at in practice about that last night on the SEC Inside show about Auburn?