re: Tide Hoops | 31-6 (16-2)

Those rims were the worst I have seen at the college level in a long time, both teams had a ton of shots that were halfway down and then shot out of the cylinder. I will probably watch their next home game to see if their rims are the same as last night's or they just made them extra stiff since we are known as a team that shoots a ton of threes.

A little seasoning on offense and he will be a star. He's already looking like he's going to be a beast on the glass and protecting the rim.

Though we played pretty well last night for our first road game against a contrasting style/older opponent for the first 33 minutes of the game. At the 7 minute mark we pretty clearly, as a group, let our guard down. South immediately capitalized on it and we were unable to turn our competitive edge back on (because you can very rarely do that). Glad we had a big cushion or that could have gotten scary in the last 90 seconds.

Should be a good lesson for a bunch of young guys moving forward.

- Miller is a slightly shorter Jabari Smith. He's going to be a Top 5 pick and has the highest ceiling of any player we've had in my lifetime.

- Clowney is such a good all around player that brings so much to the floor. He defends without fouling very well, attacks the glass on both ends and is incredibly athletic.

- Sears is a good player and a great addition - he does have a slight tendency to kind of go into hero ball mode if we get down to about 15 or 12 in the shot clock.

- Great to see JQ back and moving around well. Throw him into this guard rotation and wow. Bradley didn't have a great game last night. Kind of had a "welcome to college basketball" game with that crafty D2 guy backing him down repeatedly. Still love what he brings to the table.

- Tired of watching Gurley. Looking forward to Welch getting back and bumping him out of rotation. I just don't see how he keeps getting minutes.


Kick the shite out of Jax State and head out west at 4-0

I like Miller a lot. He makes the game look so easy for him. With all the talent on this team and the way they play with so much effort especially on defense and rebounding..it's hard to not be really excited about this team!!

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Tired of watching Gurley. Looking forward to Welch getting back and bumping him out of rotation. I just don't see how he keeps getting minutes.

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I'm starting to get the sense that "gritty but mostly untalented upperclassman who gets more minutes than his production warrants" is going to be a common theme with Oats. I think his 3 favorite players at Alabama have been Herb, Rojas, and Gurley. Obviously one of those ain't like the others though.

Alabama Women’s Basketball Signs No. 12 Recruiting Class

Essence Cody, Reychel Douglas and Naomi Jones will join the Tide in the fall of 2023

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama women's basketball head coach Kristy Curry signed three student-athletes to the class of 2023, inking Essence Cody, Reychel Douglas and Naomi Jones to National Letters of Intent.  ESPNW ranked the Crimson Tide's incoming class at No. 12 nationally for the early signing period.

Nate made a mistake putting JQ in when he did. It made our guys feel like the game was over and we lost our intensity. We win that game by 30 if that doesn’t happen. He should have waited until Friday and naturally worked JQ into the flow of the game

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Nate made a mistake putting JQ in when he did. It made our guys feel like the game was over and we lost our intensity. We win that game by 30 if that doesn’t happen. He should have waited until Friday and naturally worked JQ into the flow of the game

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Disagree immensely. The game was over. The monkey of his first game is off his back now. I thought it was an excellent coaching decision.

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Nate made a mistake putting JQ in when he did. It made our guys feel like the game was over and we lost our intensity. We win that game by 30 if that doesn’t happen. He should have waited until Friday and naturally worked JQ into the flow of the game

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We won. Did you have money on Bama to cover the spread or something? JQ didn't play good. It is something to learn from and something to work on for next time. Oats wanted to get him in while the bullets were still flying. I'm glad he saw real action and got the feedback for where he is.