re: Alabama basketball lost to small Canadian college basketball team

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the Crimson Tide has great individual talent. But they don't play defence like Carleton does. Nobody does. Carleton played like a team, Alabama played like a group of talented individuals.

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This is good to hear. Defense was literally their only strength last year, they were God awful on the offensive end.

They have one guy, Sexton, that's a projected top 5-10 draft pick. They had some other high rated recruits signed this year too. Avery Johnson had problems as a coach with his teams not playing as a team and the stars playing as individuals. I was hoping that would be the case with Bama this year.
Sounds like they'll have a case of Simmons/LSU and Fultz/Washington syndrome this year.

Auburn has the exact opposite going on this year. We had a lot of freshmen and first year guys playing last year and we really struggled with defense and chemistry, but could score as well as anybody. By all accounts this off-season Auburn is really coming together and playing as a team and doing very well on defense. We won our first scrimmage against an Italian squad 87-29 a couple nights ago, and almost half of that teams 29 points came against our walk ons at the very end. That same Italian team scored 59 on Kansas recently...
Sounds like Auburn and Pearl will sweep Bama and Avery once again.