Baseball ⚾️ Game Thread: Alabama @ No. 1 Auburn
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Yep. Auburn is our worst possible matchup bc of Kessler
We have one player tonight that can score, gonna be a long night unless that changes
It’s embarrassing to have a half court offense that looks like this at this level. Primarily 1 on 1 and you better beat your defender and sometimes the help.
JQ and Ellis are brick masons tonight. Combined 2 of 15 so far in this game. They are the difference the wrong way so far.
The problem is, when he helps, it’s too easy for someone to help the helper but we have no movement off the ball ever. So it’s too easy to help against us.
They are just the better team combined with be an awful matchup for us. Let’s compete and try to make it a game
No one here wants to hear this, but hearing them say Pearl coaches his team, call plays based on the personnel he has on the court. That's what excellent coaching looks like...
Pearl has been coaching much longer. I’ll give you this one, but experience helps. Pearl is one of the best coaches in college. The blue bloods of college basketball are crazy not to go after him, but I will say he fits Auburn.
It's pretty easy to coach when your team is hitting shots. Oats sure was coaching against Baylor, Gonzaga, but I guess those games don't count.
Not too hard to look like a great coach with this auburn team. Pearl didn’t look like a great coach this time last year
Oats knows one style of coaching; when it's working, they look good. When it's not he has no answer and they lose to shitty teams like UGA.
Pearl is far and away the better coach IMO.
Anyone else so Fing tired of hearing all the excuses on why our D sucks so badly with Herb leaving? Don’t get me wrong I loved Herb and he was fantastic but we lost one player and going from one of the best Ds to playing D like a bunch of turnstiles is infuriating.
No one is going to beat this Auburn team when they are shooting 57%.
I actually think our defense has looked alright tonight. Main problem is auburn is an NBA team
Anyone that followed CBB knew Auburn would struggle last year with that roster. Players leaving, suspended, and hurt.
I guess you can say it was easy for Oats to look like a great coach last year when this team would go crazy from 3.
It’s bama’s the inabiiity to guard the pick and roll… AU has done an amazing job adding an extra screener against bama when bama switches .
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You can insert almost any team you want in that statement. Anybody is going to beat tons of teams when they shoot 57%. But a lot of teams won’t let Auburn shoot 57%.
Your first paragraph is just as applicable to what Oats has dealt with this year.
They don’t do that everytime. They mix it up a ton. They are multiple. They mix it up. The kids know exactly how to react to different things from the defense. Our help defenders can’t just stand there and always been in help like people can against us. If you don’t think our offense is an issue, then we can disagree. We’ve given them a lot of fast break points with turnovers and bad shots. Our half court offense is 95% based on somebody beating somebody off the dribble with help standing there waiting.
This was supposed to be Oats's best team. Most here couldn't wait for “Avery's players” to leave. This team started the season highly ranked and that team is pretty much intact.
My opinion of Oats is that even with his faults, he is the best coach Bama has had since Wimp Sanderson and he will only get better with time. Had Primo not went pro, this would probably be a 20 win team playing a 20 win team tonight.
You might be right but Primo has been long gone. Has Bama adjusted to their own personnel?
We haven’t been able to solve their PnR coverages, their guards are playing better than the first matchup.
I’m with you on the morons wanting herb and petty to leave and I’ve stated that for a long time. This team was highly ranked because of what was accomplished last year. But unexpected and expected losses, as well as injury to Burnett and Tchikou somehow not being who anyone thought he would be have been pretty brutal hits.
I'm a Primo fan; I said he would be the best player on this team and one of the best players in the league had he stayed. But this is basketball and he came in with the possibility of being a one and done player.
@G.O.A.T-23 pearl has been at auburn 8 years he's only won more than 20 games in 4 years. Last year he went through the same thing oats is this year. If it wasn't for the portal he basically has the same team as last year but with Jabari Smith. No way they are number 1 with out the portal! All but one of the stars for Auburn are transfers, so I guess Pearl had no faith in his own recruited guys.
I can't really answer that question accurately. I do think Oats could do some better things coaching wise. But the players are not blameless either.
JQ and Ellis are 2 of 15 combined shooting tonight. That is not on Oats.
I don't know if Burnett makes that big of a difference. He didn't play much at Tech; maybe he would have but I think he would have been more of the same unless he was great at rebounding and defending the post.
I did expect a lot more from Tchikou, not sure what the problem is with him.
