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re: Tide Hoops | 31-6 (16-2)
Posted on 3/24/23 at 10:58 pm to mistaken4193
Posted on 3/24/23 at 10:58 pm to mistaken4193
Haven’t been on here in a while and figured I’d share my thoughts on the season and tonight.
1. Best Bama basketball team in my lifetime. Enjoyed the ride.
2. The better team won tonight. They were better prepared, controlled the game, got to more loose balls, etc. Highly disappointing to see how unprepared we looked from the start.
3. This team’s mental fortitude was impacted by the Miles incident. I even question if Miller was actually injured and wasn’t actually struggling mentally from all the stress. That’s a LOT on an 18 year old. At this point though it doesn’t matter.
4. Watched the game with a. Friend that refs high school games. He made an interesting comment on ref bias. Not bias towards one team or another, but towards their style of play. SDSU came into the game with a reputation for physical defense. His point was refs subconsciously give those teams the benefit of the doubt when it comes to foul calls. He was clear that he wasn’t blaming the loss on the refs, but mentioned that had it been called tighter early on, it might have been a different game. He thought the turning point of the game was when Sears got raked across the face on a rebound and no foul was called. I mostly thought the game was called fairly evenly.
5. Our guard play has been a strength all season, but has been spotty the past month or so. JQ has had some huge games, but he struggled tonight. Pretty sure over half of their blocks were on him. Sears had a decent game, but struggled again from beyond the arc. You have to have good guard play to win the NCAA tournament.
6. Gonna harp again on just how unprepared this team looked tonight. Maybe the stage was just too big for a young team. It didn’t look like a team that used the week tk scout their opponent. Our early 2nd half run was all athleticism and talent. SDSU took Oats and our staff to school on their counter run that sealed the game. That’s two Sweet 16 appearances for Oats where he’s been outclassed by the opposing coaching staff. UCLA was a hot team in 2021 so I’ll give him a pass there, but tonight was inexcusable. SDSU is a solid team but they should not have exerted their will on us like they did, and that’s on the coaches.
Fun season though. Hopefully we can regroup and get back here next year.
1. Best Bama basketball team in my lifetime. Enjoyed the ride.
2. The better team won tonight. They were better prepared, controlled the game, got to more loose balls, etc. Highly disappointing to see how unprepared we looked from the start.
3. This team’s mental fortitude was impacted by the Miles incident. I even question if Miller was actually injured and wasn’t actually struggling mentally from all the stress. That’s a LOT on an 18 year old. At this point though it doesn’t matter.
4. Watched the game with a. Friend that refs high school games. He made an interesting comment on ref bias. Not bias towards one team or another, but towards their style of play. SDSU came into the game with a reputation for physical defense. His point was refs subconsciously give those teams the benefit of the doubt when it comes to foul calls. He was clear that he wasn’t blaming the loss on the refs, but mentioned that had it been called tighter early on, it might have been a different game. He thought the turning point of the game was when Sears got raked across the face on a rebound and no foul was called. I mostly thought the game was called fairly evenly.
5. Our guard play has been a strength all season, but has been spotty the past month or so. JQ has had some huge games, but he struggled tonight. Pretty sure over half of their blocks were on him. Sears had a decent game, but struggled again from beyond the arc. You have to have good guard play to win the NCAA tournament.
6. Gonna harp again on just how unprepared this team looked tonight. Maybe the stage was just too big for a young team. It didn’t look like a team that used the week tk scout their opponent. Our early 2nd half run was all athleticism and talent. SDSU took Oats and our staff to school on their counter run that sealed the game. That’s two Sweet 16 appearances for Oats where he’s been outclassed by the opposing coaching staff. UCLA was a hot team in 2021 so I’ll give him a pass there, but tonight was inexcusable. SDSU is a solid team but they should not have exerted their will on us like they did, and that’s on the coaches.
Fun season though. Hopefully we can regroup and get back here next year.
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Posted on 3/24/23 at 11:09 pm to The Spleen
You’re right on most of your post, and everybody is right in most stuff in here, but I just can’t shake getting that 9 point lead with like 11:30 left and just wilting. We weren’t playing well when we got that lead. We weren’t shooting well. The refs were letting SDSU be physical. Yet we were so good defensively and being aggressive after rebounds and loose balls that it didn’t matter. And then suddenly we weren’t. We should’ve been able to ride that 9 point lead against a bad offensive team with our elite defense, but our defense was awful the rest of the way and that’s hard to handle. 32 points allowed in the last 1130.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 11:17 pm to The Spleen
3/27 on mostly wide open 3s is not having someone else’s will imposed on you. They fouled us on every rebound, can’t do anything about the refs not calling it.
Your post had some good points, but he didn’t get out coached the whole game. The opening play showed we were prepared and well coached. Things changed in the first half with Brandon and Clowney in foul trouble on poor officiating. When have you ever seen a team that is intentionally being physical called for less fouls than a team that plays pure basketball? You don’t. You might see the physical team win even with 2x the fouls called, but not get less fouls called due to bias.
We also came out strong in the 2nd half and built a 9 point lead. Please tell me how that showed our bad halftime adjustments and bad coaching? Oats made a couple minor mistakes on TOs and letting us foul with over 40 seconds down 2. The team wasn’t unprepared…that’s a an uninformed take by someone who doesn’t understand the game.
Your post had some good points, but he didn’t get out coached the whole game. The opening play showed we were prepared and well coached. Things changed in the first half with Brandon and Clowney in foul trouble on poor officiating. When have you ever seen a team that is intentionally being physical called for less fouls than a team that plays pure basketball? You don’t. You might see the physical team win even with 2x the fouls called, but not get less fouls called due to bias.
We also came out strong in the 2nd half and built a 9 point lead. Please tell me how that showed our bad halftime adjustments and bad coaching? Oats made a couple minor mistakes on TOs and letting us foul with over 40 seconds down 2. The team wasn’t unprepared…that’s a an uninformed take by someone who doesn’t understand the game.
This post was edited on 3/25/23 at 8:10 am
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