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re: War Damn Eagle ... SEC Basketball Champs
Posted on 3/4/18 at 9:39 am to beatbammer
Posted on 3/4/18 at 9:39 am to beatbammer
To me, it actually speaks to our depth/development that we were able to go 25-6 with 2 starters suspended before the season.
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Posted on 3/4/18 at 9:55 am to beatbammer
I did, but I thought the second paragraph was contradictory to the first. 
Posted on 3/4/18 at 10:43 am to beatbammer
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still don't think the team roster is constructed as well as it should be or could be after 4 years of roster management and recruiting.
You are going to have to explain this. Outside of an unexpected FBI investigation we had an amazing roster on paper
We had elite depth of 11 man rotation that could match up against any team
We could field big long pretty athletic lineups that could shoot like Heron at SG 6'5 220, Purifoy at SF 6'9 and Okeke 6'7 PF and Wiley at C
Or we could go small ball ultra athletic shooting lineups w Brown, Heron, Murray and McElmore/Spencer
Posted on 3/4/18 at 10:50 am to beatbammer
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Why did you both stop reading at the first sentence?
Why did the rest of your post debunk the first sentence?
Posted on 3/4/18 at 11:20 am to Smoke7024
How could our roster management be any better? What are we missing (when we have a full roster)
Posted on 3/4/18 at 12:00 pm to beatbammer
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Why did you both stop reading at the first sentence?
I didn't...the 2nd sentence doesn't cancel out the illogical statement you made in the post.
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I still don't think the team roster is constructed as well as it should be or could be after 4 years of roster management and recruiting.
Still, suspending 2 players for an entire year has to be taken into consideration and not being appreciative of an SEC regular season championship would be ungrateful.
It was a well constructed roster that allowed Bruce to win the SEC in-spite of 3 key loses.
Posted on 3/4/18 at 4:49 pm to GenesChin
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ou are going to have to explain this. Outside of an unexpected FBI investigation we had an amazing roster on paper
OK, I guess my comment before comes down to this... I think a well-built roster should actually have more than 1 player who is competent to compete and pound in the post and, by losing that one player, become vulnerable (particularly when the other team is on offense) to teams that do have a competent big or bigs.
We lost Wiley and we had zilch to fill that role. Now you don't have to have multiple 5-star bigs, but it would seem like you do NOT want, as a roster, to be "one of the smallest teams in the NCAA".
When you know you're going to go up against multiple quality teams that have quality big post players and you're "one of the smallest teams in the NCAA", I'm sorry, I don't think that the best of roster preparation. Hell, I'm pulling for Bama vs. A&M on Thursday because I know we can beat Bama but I have serious doubts going up against A&M's bigs again.
You guys act like I'm cussing Bruce's children and condemning them to hell with this opinion of mine.
Posted on 3/4/18 at 5:55 pm to beatbammer
Are we still projected to be a 3 seed in the NCAA tournament?
This post was edited on 3/4/18 at 5:56 pm
Posted on 3/4/18 at 5:56 pm to beatbammer
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You guys act like I'm cussing Bruce's children and condemning them to hell with this opinion of mine.
Bitch you are not allowed to have anything negative to say about Bruce. Only Gus who took 3-9 tea to the Natty the next year.\
But Im on board these days. frick Gus. POS
And frick Beatbammer just so I can fit it
Posted on 3/4/18 at 6:03 pm to beatbammer
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Hell, I'm pulling for Bama vs. A&M on Thursday because I know we can beat Bama but I have serious doubts going up against A&M's bigs again.
Nah. Would love to condemn Bama to the NIT.
Posted on 3/4/18 at 7:40 pm to beatbammer
I think Wiley is a great talent, but most big men won’t really work with Bruce’s scheme. McLemore was built for his system. He’s big enough and plays bigger than his height. He can get off the floor so fast. I think Wiley, McLemore, Spencer was fine at the 5 with the way Bruce likes to play. We just unfortunately lost two of those guys.
Posted on 3/4/18 at 11:37 pm to beatbammer
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think a well-built roster should actually have more than 1 player who is competent to compete and pound in the post
Our D focuses on reducing big man usage and not defending big men. It's easy to look at a stat line and think AU gets eaten alive by big men.
For example @UGA Maten went 20pts 8-8 2FG + 4 FT. What you don't see is that it was his lowest usage rate in SEC play as Maten poss% was 17% vs season avg 28.5%. This is crippling for a team that relies on Maten and was one of UGA 10 worst O efficiency games despite a ridiculous efficiency game from. Their star
The issue w a team like TAMU is Robert Williams is one of the only bigs who can regularly beat Spencer/McLemore on jump ball lobs + they shot lights out to start the game then rebounded when that stopped
This post was edited on 3/5/18 at 12:07 am
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