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I thought we were told in the off season that Davion Hannah was some defensive savant. He didn't even play yesterday
i think just the odd man out since his offense is still pretty raw. i could see him crack the rotation again at some point depending on what happens. either way hope he sticks around as a sophomore.
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Amari Allen was a great get and I enjoy watching him play
same. knew hed be a versatile player but his fight on the glass has been a welcome surprise that we desperately need
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Houston Mallette is basically a non factor whenever he is in
as a playmaker but hes been pretty productive overrall as a glue guy. im probably more bullish on what hes brought than most on here. he plays damn hard. only issue is when the shot is off + the lineups with a lack of team size/toughness can get us into trouble against the top teams
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Whoever thought it was a good idea to snag Williamson needs his head examined
i think its more mental than anything. his skillset isnt all that bad for a guy that you would hope to give 10 or so minutes off the bench. def a miss but i can see how they made the mistake. hopefully the bag wasnt that big.
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I enjoy watching Bristow and believe he needs more playing time
not sold on that yet. decision making is too questionable at times but has clearly established himself as the backup center.
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Was the Johnson kid for Kennessaw State the same kid that was committed to us but we pushed away due to his legal issues? He was making everything
yes. rj is pretty good. i think pettway is the only reason he isnt at a high major right now.
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I thought the defense played with a lot of grit for the most part. Kennesaw St was making a lot of contested shots in the second half. Kennesaw was aggressive defensively and was impressive
in the first half the D was excellent. second half was not. kennesaw did look like a solid mid major who in the second half did do a good job of exposing our more awkward lineups. i could see them winning conf usa
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re: Arizona @ Alabama - ESPN 8:30 CST
Posted by rushball on 12/14/25 at 4:33 pm to BamaBravesPackers
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Oats took zero blame for the 28-6 run.
sad to hear. he usually owns it. will say no one is more competitive than oats which is a blessing but also a curse at times. hes better at swallowing his pride than he used to be and his improved in game adjustments in recent years have shown it but this one probably stung too much. i expect him to figure it out by conference play.
re: Arizona @ Alabama - ESPN 8:30 CST
Posted by rushball on 12/14/25 at 4:23 pm to GoodTalkRuss
zonas D does deserve alot of credit. that was probably the best ive seen from any team so far this year. that said i just cant go along with why many here are whining about our bigs taking those open threes. zonas gamble on that paid off some in the second half but lets not forget as of now both sherrell and bowen shoot better than 33% from 3. thats right around whats acceptable as its 50% from 2. them with bristow finished on 4 of 11, all of which were wide open looks. they did fine. bama lost by 20 because of all the TOs and offensive rebounds giving zona 30 extra possessions and that burries kid (a 30% three point shooter before the game) out shooting what seemed like the entire bama team in the second half.
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Holloway is an outright hustler. I just wish he would be a consistent shooter , which is his strength. Otherwise no complaints he is maximizing his potential, I feel.
aden was one of the most efficient guards in the country last season and so far is off to good start for this one, just on higher volume. i think esp with philon at the helm well continue to see good things from him.
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Bigs are getting a lot of the blame for the boards but there were countless times Mallette's man got the board or he was in a position to fight for the board and he just stood there. Weird game from him, as his effort is normally there.
exactly what happened. to be fair tyon grant foster seemed a far above average rebounder for a guard. good comment
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If Bristow is healthy, he needs to be playing the most minutes for our bigs. Bol Bowen and Sherrell (solid tonight) are just so inconsistent especially on the defensive end. People keep talking about Bristow as the Stevenson upgrade, but he's our Mo upgrade. 11 boards in 19 minutes. He needs to be playing 25+ minutes.
i think it will be more about matchups. all 3 have produced pretty well on a per minute basis so far. against faster teams sherrell wont play as much but against the ones like zaga its on him to step up and last night showed hes capable. he held his own against arguably the best lowpost scorer in the country. people should be encouraged by that, even if he did gas out towards the end.
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I really had doubts that we could win this game. It seemed like a repetition of the Purdue one. What a show we put on in the second half and how Philon came through
shouldve won by 20 really. between how terrible we were in transition and the dumb fouls (with no favors from the refs) we kept them in it. that said it was indeed great to see such fight from our guys. a little more polishing and this bama team can beat anyone.
re: Alabama @ St. John's - FS1 11 CST
Posted by rushball on 11/9/25 at 12:07 am to mistaken4193
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Sears is the Bama Basketball GOAT IMO. However I do think the offense will be better this year without him. A lot more sharing the ball with Philon and Holloway running the show
mark is the goat, hopefully everyone knows that. you dont take us to our first ever final four with an undersized center and rylen at the 4 if youre not. i personally thought last seasons issues on offense (which was still elite) had more to do with a lack of speed and spacing needed to free things up in oat's system, than an occasional forced drive on his part. this season though should be an improvement in those areas and yes, with the passing of the torch to a sophomore philon and a more seasoned aden, while still early a win like this one does look promising.
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This country went to shite in general when we quit enforcing monopoly regulations
i would say more like over a hundred years ago when in the dead of night wilson signed the federal reserve act of 1913. by the 1930s with its cause of the great depression and cost of living being doubled, americans finally retaliated by withdrawing their gold in mass. in order to stop this fdr, the original progressive decided by executive order to confiscate the gold in response. then by 1934 with the passing of the gold reserve act any real notion of actual economic freedom people had in america had pretty much become an illusion with the nail in the coffin being taken off the gold standard officially in the 70s by nixon. so yes, the illusion of capitalism we have today is every bit as fake as our currency and the fact people are still dumb enough to fall for it in todays america is a testament to just how effective theyve been at controlling the market over the decades. that said, by the early 2000s we did atleast still have honey buns for a quarter so theres that.
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hmmm. Someone on reddit is insisting we are 16th, not 9th, in kenpom average.
if you go by the past 6 seasons instead of 5 it would drop to 16.1. seems oats's first season still had some semblance of sanity in regards to scheduling, lol
got me curious so decided to look up average wins plus sos over the past 5 seasons and this is what i found
bama- 25.8 - 9.6
auburn- 24.2 - 33.2 lol
houston- 32 - 58.4
duke- 26.8 - 51.4
uconn- 26 - 39.8
zaga- 28.6 - 75.2
purdue- 26.8 - 18.4
kansas- 25.4 - 8.8
tenn- 25.4 - 24.2
zona- 25.8 - 40.8
not too shabby
bama- 25.8 - 9.6
auburn- 24.2 - 33.2 lol
houston- 32 - 58.4
duke- 26.8 - 51.4
uconn- 26 - 39.8
zaga- 28.6 - 75.2
purdue- 26.8 - 18.4
kansas- 25.4 - 8.8
tenn- 25.4 - 24.2
zona- 25.8 - 40.8
not too shabby
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That would be a great place to develop. Glad to see him doing well. Though it sucks we didn't get to see this Youngblood play due to recovering from injuries.
well he never really struck me as a potential nba guy but by the end of the year he had become a pretty invaluable piece. his added floor spacing, toughness, and general poise made him a life savior at times, esp at that position. i doubt many bama fans will ever forget the way he punked cbm for being the psychotic mental midget that he is to help get that auburn win. i think the fact chris does have that kind of old school mental edge about himself is what can give him a genuine chance despite whatever physical gifts he may be lacking in.
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Or Cuse, or Notre Dame, or SMU, or Virginia
I don’t need them to be great. Just mix things up
i guess they want a ''rivalry narrative'' kinda thing for choosing clemson again
re: Tide Hoops | Recruiting
Posted by rushball on 6/11/25 at 4:10 pm to BamaBravesPackers
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I also don’t think Oats would have paid what he did to get Cliff if he was only 6-9 (although a crazy wingspan can make up for some height differences).
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My main point was that there’s no way Oats is expecting a sophomore Sherell to be as good on defense as a senior Cliff
i would be surprised if oats thought a guy like sherrell didnt have the potential to become an above average defender as a sophomore.
re: Tide Hoops | Recruiting
Posted by rushball on 6/9/25 at 12:12 pm to BamaBravesPackers
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Huh? Maybe check their size and wingspan again.
One was an all conference defensive center heading into last year and the other struggled to stay out of foul trouble often. (Granted, Cliff’s performance was a little disappointing last year).
And all your championship examples were prior to the NIL and transfer portal heydays. The top 5-8 teams in the country are acquiring more proven and potential talent than ever before. The “rich have gotten richer”
you really shouldnt trust what those kind of sports sites list for anyones height, along with weight, position, strengths, weaknesses, so on. i can provide a link if you like but cliffs actual height was 6'9. i suppose its possible for sherrell to be 6'10 but he looked a little taller than that to me.
not that your point on the nil portal stuff is without validity but i would say floridas actually a good example of how theres still alot more to it than just buying championships. not that they didnt use the portal but the guys they got at the time were more just considered solid mid majors with some upside and chinyelu who as a freshman averaged 4.7 points a game at washington st. condon, haugh, and aberdeen were just 3 stars. much more nuance to it than just a guys a hype or what a teams willing to pay, just ask kansas, and thankfully i do believe bamas staff has alot better grasp on judging what we need than most.
re: Tide Hoops | Recruiting
Posted by rushball on 6/8/25 at 2:42 pm to BamaBravesPackers
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Beat Rutgers, they had 2 of the expected lottery picks in the backcourt. Handled OK, Texas, and Illinois who all had a projected lottery pick in the backcourt. Beat Houston and other teams that had good guard play but limited front court size.
FL and Duke were the ones that had extreme size in the front court. They dominated us in the paint and on the glass in all 3 matchups (the closest was the FL blowout in SEC tourney, because they played their scrubs for significant minutes in the 2nd half). We got out rebounded by double digits in the 1st FL game and Duke game, and that was with us having a larger and more proven front court last year than we have this year. Those are all just straight facts, not opinions.
Hopefully Sherell and others will step up this year, but I’ll be there watching and cheering either way.
while it certainly helps to have size at every position the premise that thats what it takes to win it all, esp in the frontcourt isnt nearly as set in stone as what youre implying. plenty of championship teams in recent memory didnt have that feature. baylor started essentially 3 pg's and their main center was 6'8. they beat the mess out of that undefeated gonzaga team who did have nba level skill and size at every position. virginia started 3 smaller guards, who werent even athletic and one was 5'9. neither of those villanova teams were very big, but ofcourse all of these teams were still very elite with talent, coaching, chemistry, and two way basketball.
bama last season did have good size but our team defense had struggles, mainly from rotations being a bit slow. mo was the only elite team defender we had, while philon, grant, and when cliff was awake was also solid. then against those teams like florida, duke, and auburn should be included as well the offense wasnt as flowing due to not having the depth of shooting or playmaking needed to deal with them consistently.
not being able to keep mo did create more questions on how the D will look but i would say oats and co did a solid job overall of trying to address the main issues that hurt us last season. we should be quicker, longer, more athletic, better spacing, and honestly while our physicality and depth do remain questions, as far as general size goes i see just as much on this teams frontcourt as last seasons and much more on the perimeter. sherrell is several inches taller than cliff. bowen is just as tall as grant but longer. bristow is taller than mo and reid. williamson is a 7 footer. all of our wings are taller, longer, and more athletic than youngblood and certainly more skilled than jarin so, while i get where the concern is coming from i really just cant find a reason to go along with it as of now.
re: Tide Hoops | Recruiting
Posted by rushball on 6/7/25 at 5:50 pm to antibarner
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Their big guards overmatched us.We couldnt drive because their bigs camped out near the basket and if we did beat anyone off the dribble it got rejected altered or just plain stalled.
Our bigs would make for instance Floridas people pay a high price for that. Condon Chineylu and the like will have to play like 3s against us and that aint their strength. On the other hand we will have some serious matchup issues against their size.
bamas offense layed an egg against duke because the spacing and playmaking werent there in that one. in general we relied heavily on sears, youngblood, and aidens shooting to stretch the floor but against an elite D like dukes, when sears and aiden were off there wasnt much to do. the current roster has far more shooting at every position and doesnt even have to play small to stretch the floor to deal with teams like that. sears was great but a recurring frustration about him last season was his tendancy to force drives that werent there. thats the main reason his efficiency dropped off. philon has the keys now and should be better at creating, and well see how aden, jalil, amari, and so on have progressed. i personally wouldnt be surprised if the offense is even better than the previous season.
re: Tide Hoops | Recruiting
Posted by rushball on 6/6/25 at 10:19 pm to BamaBravesPackers
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Not many teams will, but I don’t think this team has the size or strength to matchup with a team like FL. Aiden has both, but he is prone to foul trouble.
Our back court is bigger and stronger on defense, but our front court is definitely weaker than last year. I think we are going to struggle once again against physical teams. 2023 was really the only time we had the size and physicality to matchup with physical teams, although 2021 we could hold our own due to Herb. This team’s front court is a whole lot more like 2021 than 2023 (or even last year). Hopefully the improved perimeter will make up for a lot of the front court weaknesses.
sherrells issues came from adjusting to the pace of the game. the hope is as a sophomore he would be more acclamated as is usually the case when talented freshman head into their next season.
yea theres no herb but this team also has more athleticism, size, and length in general than that one did. petty and primo were very good defenders but not great athletes. jq was the only pg defender oat's has had with a negative dbpm. love reese but he couldnt even dunk. still too soon for me to talk about bruner and shack tried but lol. also what about the 23-24 team?
yes, even if the frontcourt turns out to be a bit thin compared to bruiser teams like florida the backcourt is more than capable of potentially making up for it. we can still have a very good to great defense without being an elite rebounding team and added with what our offense could be then it becomes quite possible that some of those teams will be forced to adjust to what bamas doing, you know? either way i think most looking at this roster now that philons back can agree the talent level is off the charts and i for one cant wait to see what that oats guy cooks up with it.
re: Tide Hoops | Recruiting
Posted by rushball on 6/6/25 at 6:22 pm to mistaken4193
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Intel from practice. We either need another 5 or we gotta use TBB like we did Grant.
bristow could play some small ball 5 as well. i remember some pointing out similarities he had with jarin but i see him more as a more athletic gurley type with hopefully a more consistent 3 ball. that said, an extra big to solidify the depth would still be nice.
not sure we win that north dakota game without him. very clutch plays in that one.
re: Tide Hoops | Recruiting
Posted by rushball on 5/29/25 at 5:54 pm to GoodTalkRuss
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Feel the same way. Maybe just a big 3 / Hybrid 4 (I say this as if they are readily available and we just go an take one off the tree) . Nelson and Mo gave us good toughness when we needed it and they also could get downhill with the ball when teams were selling out on the perimeter defense. Looking at the roster we have now, im not sure who assumes that role.
as far as getting downhill bristow and when jemison plays there can do that pretty well. both are good athletes with length so maybe they can provide something similar on D? i have big expectations for bowens ability to cover rotations but i dont know how good his handles are yet, but yea another bruiser mo type who can atleast come in and provide toughness for certain situations would be nice.
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