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and won't even seek Saban's input for anything related to the program

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How do you know this?

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Plus he thinks Grubb is the answer at OC.

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Saban did as well. He tried to hire him. Twice.

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Deboer will never take Bama to championship levels.

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Playing in the SEC championship game and playoffs in year 2 isn't a championship level?

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Especially now that he has gutted the program from anything Saban left behind

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There are literally still assistant, and strength/conditioning coaches on staff that were employed by Saban along with still having the team go through the 4th quarter program.

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I’d love for him to be back but I really hope that’s not the case. I don’t see how an Oats system works with just one guard, who’s not naturally a PG, bringing the ball up for us all year. Think about all our prior teams. Every team had multiple veteran guards we could plug and play.

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Barring another PG transfer, the roster construction seems more similar to the 20-21 team.

The PGs were basically Herb and JQ with the team having a 30 ORTG, but 3 DRTG that season. I think they can surpass that duo offensively, but you're still banking on production from Samuels and Bouie.

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I truly think that if we could have stuck with Bediako off the bench and our 2nd leading scorer didn't get caught smokin da weeduh then we'd probably played ourselves up to the 3 line and gotten to a regional final with a puncher's chance. 

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Neither of these things prevented Bama getting a 3 seed, tho. Shitting the bed against UGA and Ole Miss was the issue.

Oats has been able to generally get production out of his backcourt and Hannah leaving actually makes me feel even better about the incoming freshmen + Cloer.

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How did he do against Arizona, Purdue, Gonzaga, Florida, Michigan?

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Near season averages, so solid: 11.2 pts/4.8reb/2.4blk(I forgot he had 8 blocks against Arizona!)/2.2ast

I was looking forward to the leap he'd take next year, but I think moving back to a more athletic, rim running 5 could help overall.

I think the idea of TBB is great, but I'm not sure if he's capable of actually reaching the idea.

He's underweight, lacks an understanding of boxing out/attacking rebounds, lacks physicality, hasn't shown the ability to attack closeouts on slower 4/5s, and hasn't consistently shown effort when he's played.

Not sure corner threes and occasional weak side shot blocking make up for that.

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Whole lot of ink over a BB player. I missed the part of his parent's comments about their son's situation.

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What's the appropriate amount of ink?

And let us know what comments his parents should have added.

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Well damn. I retract my statements on it being a misdemeanor. From what I could find just based on weight it was a misdemeanor so I wonder if there’s more to it

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It's the weight plus paraphernalia so I'm assuming he had baggies/a scale.

The Duke game felt less about interior post threats and more about length bothering small guards who couldn't create off the bounce.

I think that's why Philon was the only one who was able to create consistently (Sears struggled a lot with this which resulted in paint touches with nowhere to go; Biz was much less decisive when driving and probed more last year).

I think Pierre and ZB start the season as 1A/1B

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He had no problems catching last year. And he is trying to catch with his body on a lot of the deep balls and his hands have been no where near the ball.

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He had the exact same issues last year, but our fans/media didn't focus on it; even one of his highlight plays from the UGA game last year was off a bobble.

He had 7 drops on 87 targets and that's without accounting for him playing inside more due to the OC.


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