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re: Question for Bama basketball fans
Posted by wm72 on 4/2/24 at 7:49 pm
[quote]How good is your center? If he's a B+ or better, you've got a shot. UConn's weakness is teams that can hit a lot of threes and have a good center (Creighton put on a clinic to prove that). [/quote]
Will be interesting to see what Oats does when UCONN's big center is in the game.
He a...
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re: Final Four Moneyline Parlay
Posted by wm72 on 4/1/24 at 10:40 am
I'd certainly be surprised if anyone beats UCONN.
They simply demolished Illinois and San Diego St to break open close games with massive 2nd half runs but they were a little more 'mortal' most of the season.
Prohibitive favorites to win it all for sure but not sure they're the ki...
re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)
Posted by wm72 on 4/1/24 at 8:39 am
[quote]I might even bring Nelson and Pringle both off the bench and start Stevenson with all 4 guards just to set the pace early and try to drag them into a chaotic track meet. Could blow up in our faces, but it's not like anyone expects us to even keep it respectable.
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This would be...
re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)
Posted by wm72 on 3/31/24 at 7:45 pm
[quote]Never played basketball in a football stadium, but I wonder if that's a disadvantage for 3 shooting teams...depth perception or whatever. Might favor the team that scores their majority in the paint.
Or it may not matter at all.[/quote]
It would seem to matter and be somewhat of a disad...
re: Today is arguably the biggest day in Vols basketball history
Posted by wm72 on 3/31/24 at 1:17 pm
Should be a great game and one Tennessee can certainly win.
Got to give Purdue a ton of credit for making the plays down the stretch to win so many games against a solid schedule too. But, they've not often just dominated games like UCONN.
Almost every game I've seen them play against g...
re: Nate MF’n Oats - best coach in the SEC
Posted by wm72 on 3/31/24 at 10:19 am
[quote]Seriously? How many adjustments does Oats ACTUALLY make in a game when Sears and Grant are carrying the team. [/quote]
Seriously: Oats isn't a coach that really tinkers and makes adjustments nearly as much as most. He mainly teaches his system, recruits for that system and sticks with ...
re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)
Posted by wm72 on 3/31/24 at 8:36 am
[quote]t was pretty cool when both teams were trading threes. Love how we don’t stop pushing the ball and answering their shots.[/quote]
Oats seems to have learned that sometimes you just have to call a TO but I actually love that his first impulse is to push the ball back up as quickly as possib...
re: Elite 8 Clemson 82 Bama 89 Final
Posted by wm72 on 3/30/24 at 9:43 pm
Clemson [i]thought[/i] they wanted to chest bump and shoot 3s with Alabama. ...
re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)
Posted by wm72 on 3/30/24 at 8:40 pm
Great effort on defense!!
Sears shots aren't even close. He needs to shoot so FTs...
re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)
Posted by wm72 on 3/30/24 at 8:31 pm
10-15 deficit isn't a problem with this team.
We just have to hit more open looks and finish the few easy ones we getat the rim too.
Sears really needs to get hot!! ...
re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)
Posted by wm72 on 3/30/24 at 8:28 pm
We're actually playing pretty solid D and rebounding very well.
Clemson plays good defense too but
We just can't hit open the shots we're getting. ...
re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)
Posted by wm72 on 3/30/24 at 8:22 pm
We're on pace for like 45 points so far...
re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)
Posted by wm72 on 3/30/24 at 8:20 pm
They're just doing exactly what they want all around so far. ...
re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)
Posted by wm72 on 3/30/24 at 8:15 pm
[quote]Everyone on Clemson has post moves, and nobody on our team does. We can’t win a halfcourt grind game.[/quote]
Yeah, we're playing the type game they want so far...
re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)
Posted by wm72 on 3/30/24 at 8:04 pm
Hope Clemson keeps shooting from the perimeter. ...
re: Is it just me
Posted by wm72 on 3/30/24 at 7:46 pm
Some of it has to be the easier transfer rules .
A lot of those guys were lightly recruited and improved a lot at a small schools. They can now easily transfer to a bigger program, like Grant Nelson for Alabama. ...
re: Updated: Significant and Semi-significant bball wins...
Posted by wm72 on 3/29/24 at 12:11 pm
Of course people talk about making the Elite 8 or Final 4 . And they certainly are what sticks out and do certainly matter.
However, give me the coaches that continually have very good seasons and therefore make the tourney with a decent seed and the Elite 8s or Final Fours will tend t...
re: Bama's defense
Posted by wm72 on 3/29/24 at 11:18 am
It was certainly bad luck early that the two guys Alabama wanted to shoot it from behind the arc made their first 4 shots.
One guy that made his first 2 3pts shots had made 8 of 38 all season and the other was similar.
However, people watching often over react and Oats, like all good ...
re: Who is the worst coach in SEC Basketball History?
Posted by wm72 on 3/28/24 at 9:41 am
[quote]David Hobbs followed Wimp and was bad. Dont know his record though but for Bama worst coach in my life time[/quote]
Hobbs seemed to be going downhill fast the last two seasons but did at least make it the 2nd round of the NCAA tourney a couple of times in his 5 years. Probably the worst ...
re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)
Posted by wm72 on 3/25/24 at 10:07 pm
[quote]My guess would be because its harder to rebound out of zone.[/quote]
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It’s also giving teams open 3s which is against everything he stands for [/quote]
Those are good points and probably reasons Oats only uses man to man defense.
I'd guess the main reason is pretty simp...
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