re: #tAuburnBasketball Thread

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We went through a funk last year too. Same issue. Players trying to do too much instead of playing through each other and sharing the ball. We'll be alright but it's hard to watch in the meantime.

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Team is so different than last year, its going to be harder for them to come back. Not having the outside and 3 point shooting, they need to stay up in games. Just dont have that come back power as last years team

They are a solid team but not a great team. They will lose a lot of games this year. its just starting.

I think we lose 7 in regular season personally, give or take a game

Any clues as to how we will tweak the team moving into next year? Recruit more pure shooters ?!?

He signed a pure shooter out of KY... Powell.... cooper can also shoot better than any guard we have on the roster right now.

Without Harper and Chuma, this year was always gonna be a transition season... just gotta gut it out and see what happens.

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I’m curious if Bruce will try to recruit another true center that is extremely physical or move towards running a three forward type setup

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The main ones we appear to be after look like slimmer guys that can run and shoot. Fact of the matter is that Bruce’s offense works best when you can spread the floor.

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Any clues as to how we will tweak the team moving into next year? Recruit more pure shooters ?!?

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Not a one. Who knows what will happen

Cooper is the kind of talent that makes every semi-talented team make sense. We will be good next year basically no matter what our roster looks like beyond what we already know.

He isn’t the typical one and done type talent though in that short point guards typically aren’t the flavor of the NBA. I’ve been telling everyone for two years I’m more excited about him than any recruit ever

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And we did struggle last year and made adjustments. Different players doesn’t mean they can’t adjust especially w an experienced group like we have.

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Problem now is there's no Harper or Brown. Those guys would routinely go for 20+ on any given night. They scored in spurts too which dug us out of holes and extended leads.

We win when Doughty goes off. If you look at the box scores from our losses and games we've struggled in he's been kept silent

In the overtime win vs Furman he had 13 in 41 minutes.

Vs Vandy 6 points in 33 minutes

Averaged 10ppg in our losses to Bama and UF.


For someone that has 7 or 8 20+ games this season that hurts when they only score 8 or so points.

I wouldn't be surprised if we see some new sets to get him back involved heavily.

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Any clues as to how we will tweak the team moving into next year? Recruit more pure shooters ?!?

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We have 2 spots left. They are going to 2 bigs or 1 big & 1 wing. If Okoro leaves we are leaning to looking to then add a PG via the Grad Transfer route. Of the guys committed Powell is supposedly a really good shooter. Sharife should give more consistent PG play than we are getting this year at the point.

JGT has said several times he thinks the staff now views Turbo as a 2 and not a 1.