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Posted on 4/28/21 at 10:34 pm to Lee County Tiger
Posted on 4/28/21 at 10:34 pm to Lee County Tiger
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Trey now coming with the Notes apology
Is he coming or is that just an apology for his comment about Bruce?
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Posted on 4/29/21 at 12:12 am to AubieinNC2009
Guessing someone got in his ear about how that made Bruce appear. Pearl is putting kids in the NBA every year at Auburn. If Trey Alexander is a draft prospect down the road, they’re going to call Pearl. He needed to fix that. Shouldn’t think too much into it. He walked back his statements without anything needing to be said from Auburn.
He’s going somewhere else but doesn’t make Auburn out to be the bad guy — something most observers assumed after Auburn loaded up on guards.
These kids change high schools and AAU teams regularly. We can go back and forth about the merit of doing that but it’s the reality now and it’s getting easier. Trey Alexander will not be the last kid that has a change of heart when the road gets bumpier. Hell, he’s not even the first guard this off season to bolt after they figured out Auburn would load up at the position after what we experienced in 2020. Pearl is no fool. He’s not doing that again
He’s going somewhere else but doesn’t make Auburn out to be the bad guy — something most observers assumed after Auburn loaded up on guards.
These kids change high schools and AAU teams regularly. We can go back and forth about the merit of doing that but it’s the reality now and it’s getting easier. Trey Alexander will not be the last kid that has a change of heart when the road gets bumpier. Hell, he’s not even the first guard this off season to bolt after they figured out Auburn would load up at the position after what we experienced in 2020. Pearl is no fool. He’s not doing that again
Posted on 4/29/21 at 6:50 am to TheJones
No way in hell he wrote that. Apology not accepted. We need a SG now despite the “lies” and he should’ve been it.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 7:51 am to jangalang
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We need a SG now despite the “lies” and he should’ve been it.
Agreed, and I think he's hurting himself more than this will end up hurting Auburn. Really think we were the perfect fit for that guy.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 5:23 pm to Lee County Tiger
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Trey now coming with the Notes apology
I told y'all it was cap
Posted on 4/29/21 at 6:18 pm to GenesChin
Considering we pretty much have the team in place. What do y'all think should be the expectations for nxt season. What would be over achieving and what would be under achieving?
Posted on 4/29/21 at 8:50 pm to Scoper
I’m not convinced we are done. But I think worst case is middle of the pack SEC type team that goes 10-8 in league and just can never quite get over the hump, and loses in the 7-10 seed first round tourney game. Best case with this roster is a league title and elite 8 maybe?
Posted on 4/30/21 at 6:32 am to auburnnyc94
If we can find an outside shot we’ll be really good with Kessler and Smith as the horses. Guard play is so huge
This post was edited on 4/30/21 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 4/30/21 at 7:38 am to attalla
Yeah and I like the guards we ended up with, it just depends a lot on how they mesh and whether or not they can stay healthy
Posted on 4/30/21 at 7:50 am to Scoper
We definitely aren’t done. There’s another guard out there that’ll sign with us before the season
Posted on 4/30/21 at 12:22 pm to Scoper
Over achieving - SEC champs
Under achieving - Not making the tourney
Is put us preseason in the top 6 of the conference.
In no order it’s probably Auburn Alabama Arky UK MSU UF
Under achieving - Not making the tourney
Is put us preseason in the top 6 of the conference.
In no order it’s probably Auburn Alabama Arky UK MSU UF
Posted on 4/30/21 at 2:27 pm to CorchJay
This looks about right. The conference is going to be stacked next season with a lot of sec schools racking up big time transfers. I could see us projected 5th behind the turds, Hogs, UT, and UK. We will obviously have one of the best front courts in the land so we will go as far as our guards take us.
Oats has obviously tapped into the REC/Nick Saban school of recruiting and seems to be landing whoever he wants without any substantial attrition.
Oats has obviously tapped into the REC/Nick Saban school of recruiting and seems to be landing whoever he wants without any substantial attrition.
This post was edited on 4/30/21 at 2:32 pm
Posted on 4/30/21 at 4:11 pm to GenesChin
Emoni Bates #1 player im 2022 decommitted from Michigan state says he open to college and pros. Guessing pros
Posted on 4/30/21 at 4:15 pm to Scoper
Top 30 2021 prospect and elite shooter Nolan Hickman decommitted from Kentucky today.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 4:55 pm to attalla
quote:Superior guard play seemingly wins the Dance every single year.
If we can find an outside shot we’ll be really good with Kessler and Smith as the horses. Guard play is so huge
Posted on 5/4/21 at 8:57 pm to alpinetiger
Okoro with 32 and 6 tonight
Also had 2 clutch buckets in the final minute to force OT
Also had 2 clutch buckets in the final minute to force OT
This post was edited on 5/4/21 at 9:01 pm
Posted on 5/5/21 at 1:09 am to auburnnyc94
Sharife was at the game too.
CP3 posted this to his insta as well
CP3 posted this to his insta as well
Posted on 5/5/21 at 3:29 pm to auzach91
Anybody have a bone to throw my way for hoops news? I'm starving.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 4:33 pm to auburnnyc94
Sills signed today.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 4:55 pm to auburnnyc94
From thread on SEC rant. This is from an athletic article about winners of transfer portal season. I am SUPER pumped about Kessler now. Doesnt get more hype than this.
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5. AUBURN
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This is fundamentally the Walker Kessler ranking. If you rate Walker Kessler, you’ll agree. If you don’t, you won’t. We rate Walker Kessler very highly.
Admittedly, there was only sporadic evidence for this Kessler truthers in his first season at North Carolina. He didn’t play much, to be frank, and understandably so, considering both his youth and the number of quality frontcourt options available to Roy Williams (Day’Ron Sharpe, Armando Bacot, Garrison Brooks). Breaking in to that frontcourt was always going to be tough, but UNC has a long history of really good freshmen willing to wait their turn for a season, and you could understand why nobody (save maybe Kessler) was in a huge rush to force him on the floor.
By the end of the year, Kessler was beginning to show his potential, to the point where his lack of time felt like a missed opportunity. His Feb. 27 performance against Florida State — 20 points, 9-of-10 shooting, eight rebounds, four blocks — was the coming out party, or at least it seemed to be at the time. Jay Bilas’ call of that game was roughly 85 percent fawning over Kessler, and rightfully so. It was the kind of performance where you can almost see a player doing the Neo head-shaking thing as he downloads the entire college game into his brain in real time. I know … post play. But Kessler got more than 20 minutes in a game just once more before the end of the season, against Notre Dame, which had fewer than zero answers for a guy with Kessler’s size, skill and intuition down low. Kessler finished that ACC tournament game with 16 points, 12 rebounds and eight blocks. He looked like the best player on the floor, and he was still just getting started.
Can Kessler be a star as a sophomore at Auburn? The guess here is yes, although the good news for the Tigers is that he doesn’t necessarily need to dominate: Bruce Pearl also has five-star freshman Jabari Smith en route, plus some interesting transfer pieces in the likes of Charleston guard Zep Jasper and Eastern Kentucky transfer Wendell Green Jr., who blossomed quickly in an up-tempo attack and was All-OVC in his first year in Richmond. So Kessler may not have to fulfill all of that potential from the start, but we also kind of think can, which is mildly a scary thought for the rest of the SEC. Yes, it was just a couple of games, just splashes here and there. But we know what we saw.
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