We will playing with talent instead if depending on experience. Oats will have a full lineup of his guys and we will be back in the sweet 16
Next season and from here on out...
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I gotta say I really enjoyed this season. Bitter loss to UCLA. Bama never played their game. Lost it with sloppy turnovers and missed free throws.
But I am excited for the future with Nate Oats as coach. Sweet 16 in his 2nd year at a school that has not had a good basketball team in about 15 years.
This team had it in them to go further but did not step up and do it.
Roll Tide anyway. 26 and 7 is one of our better years ever. SEC regular season and tournament champions. Sweet Sixteen. I’ll take it this year.
But I am excited for the future with Nate Oats as coach. Sweet 16 in his 2nd year at a school that has not had a good basketball team in about 15 years.
This team had it in them to go further but did not step up and do it.
Roll Tide anyway. 26 and 7 is one of our better years ever. SEC regular season and tournament champions. Sweet Sixteen. I’ll take it this year.
I just hope we don’t go after the one and done guys. Duke and Kentucky each had a great year with the one and done model, but it seems like teams with veterans have fared better in the last 10 years than ones with young star power. Chemistry and experience can be huge difference makers
I definitely think we will be better next year. This one hurts bad, but still a great year and Bama is on the national scene.
I know next year im making the whole roster make 100 free throws before they leave practice lol
Have we ever beaten UCLA in basketball? I was thinking about that earlier...all I can remember are losses against them.
Couple times. Once the night after Coach Bryant had died that morning.
Ahh - so Wimp beat ‘em? I was wondering if he’d ever coached against UCLA. Thanks for the info!!
UCLA was #1 riding the longest home winning streak too when we won in LA. Also, we beat them in Coleman not long ago. '12-'13 I think? I was there.
I see it the same. For all the great things Herb and Petty did, we know we'll cut off about 5-7 turnovers a night on out of control, sloppy handle drives. We'll have two awesome point guards not a point forward, God love Herb. JD was made in a lab to run this offense. He's dominant on D as far as blocking tons of shots along with getting a ton of steals. His rim attacking style will flourish and the assists will be there too bc our offense will be better all around. Langston Wilson IMO is a huge get. Totally different than our outgoing, unathletic bigs. Alex T is gonna ball. Our frontcourt looks good and hopefully we land Bediako. Backcourt of JQ and JD? Primo is awesome. Ellis will assert himself more I believe and he's pretty awesome. We got a lot of dudes. We got a big old taste this year. Those on here criticizing Oats after tonight are so myopic and ungrateful. Completely ridiculous.
As long as we only lose our seniors we will be loaded!
Addition by subtraction if you know what I mean
I wish everyone felt this way. Should we have won this game? Yes. Are we better than UCLA? Yes. But people complaining about Oats tonight and dogging him have no idea what they’re talking about. This season is similar to Saban going 12-2 in 2098. Changed the culture of the program but still had players that don’t fit his system. Next year’s roster won’t have any players who don’t fit Oats’ system.
you can’t miss 14 free throws and expect to win in the tournament. It’s that simple
Experience means more than you’re thinking. These teams left in the tournament have experience.
Exactly. 11-25 on free throws gets you beat in the Sweet 16...it’s a miracle we even made it to OT shooting ft’s like that. And I haven’t looked at the stats, but I can’t imagine Herb has had many worse games than he had tonight. He killed us.
That’s what it’ll have to be. Oates did a great job inspiring them to out hustle opponents and come from behind many times, but situational coaching needs to improve along with talent. You can’t keep relying on pissing away the first half of the game and making huge clutch runs down the stretch. We were able to against UT, and LSU and were also able to get away with bad first halves against Iona and Maryland, but you’ll never get through an NCAA tournament relying on it.
CNO started this season with four (4) players that had actually played in a game for Bama... so he did a tremendous job of blending the pieces parts together.
At this moment he will have eight (8) players returning that have played for Bama - a couple with limited minutes - but they know the system and should improve. Plus he is adding some additional talent.
Looking forward to next year's team. ROLL TIDE!
At this moment he will have eight (8) players returning that have played for Bama - a couple with limited minutes - but they know the system and should improve. Plus he is adding some additional talent.
Looking forward to next year's team. ROLL TIDE!
I cant take these stupid takes anymore by Bama fans. Like I said before we've got the lowest basketball IQ fans in the country. If you don't know basketball and only watch and post when the team is doing good please keep these ignorant post to yourself, geez!!
This is the model I remember mentioning last year on how I thought Alabama can be competitive. They can get one of those one-and-done players here and there, see JD Davison coming in, but the majority of their recruits needs to be players that are around of 3-4 years.
Alabama is never going to get 3-4 one-and-done type players like the BB of CBB are able to get. I hope Primo comes back, in the middle of the season most mock drafts had him as a first round player, his slump caused him to fall completely off many mock drafts.
JQ will be back and so should Ellis and Shack. Gary played great down the stretch and should be a huge contributor. If those freeman can come in and make an impact, next year Bama should be a tourney lock.
JD
JQ
Primo
Gary
shak
Ellis
Hilton
Wilson
etc
This should win a lot of games right here. I know there are a few more but you get the idea. We will win more games this decade than any decade of Bama BB. May not win a NC but will be in the tourney for years to come.
JQ
Primo
Gary
shak
Ellis
Hilton
Wilson
etc
This should win a lot of games right here. I know there are a few more but you get the idea. We will win more games this decade than any decade of Bama BB. May not win a NC but will be in the tourney for years to come.
Good thread and about everyone is right....We got the right coach! He's Wimp reincarnated....The thing is, Oats will make mistakes because he's still young in his coaching career at this level and I'm not going to completely blame him or anything on last night's loss because we could've won in so many ways and we just didn't do barely anything right.
As far as the past and the future:
Nate Oats is a player Development coach and that's all that matters..I've been whining like a bitch since Wimp has been gone saying we need this. Btw, Wimps old ass(whom I love) always talks getting talent and he's right but he developed that talent to be great and he never admits that but that's why he was great.
I would recruit Petty, Jones, Reese and everyone all over again. With Oats for 4 years they would've been on a totally different level by now...he had to break them down first and this took time.
In a few years everyone will be talking about how great of a recruiter Oats is and how he gets shooters and rebounders etc.....but the truth will be how he got standard talent Alabama has always gotten but he made it great, just like Wimp. He has a system! Everyone will come and we're going to win and keep winning.
And we can do this with or without a new arena like I've always said.
As far as the past and the future:
Nate Oats is a player Development coach and that's all that matters..I've been whining like a bitch since Wimp has been gone saying we need this. Btw, Wimps old ass(whom I love) always talks getting talent and he's right but he developed that talent to be great and he never admits that but that's why he was great.
I would recruit Petty, Jones, Reese and everyone all over again. With Oats for 4 years they would've been on a totally different level by now...he had to break them down first and this took time.
In a few years everyone will be talking about how great of a recruiter Oats is and how he gets shooters and rebounders etc.....but the truth will be how he got standard talent Alabama has always gotten but he made it great, just like Wimp. He has a system! Everyone will come and we're going to win and keep winning.
And we can do this with or without a new arena like I've always said.
Twice- 1982 at UCLA when they were ranked number 1 and a couple of years ago in Tuscaloosa.
beat in coleman in 2014 i think. grant was our coach.
Shack must have had 4 or five turnovers, two on consecutive trips.
If this were an NBA team, the coach would’ve pulled Petty out for Primo in OT. I think Oates went with Petty b/c of his experience. If Oates pulls Petty and we lose, Oates looks like an asshole and does irrevocable harm to his relationship with Petty & the Petty family. In no way am I criticizing his decision. I think he did the right thing. When Petty was playing at his best, he’s Reggie Miller. At his worst, he was a hindrance to the offense. Streaky scorers are a good thing to have , just not in your starting 5.
We will also have experienced talented players is what im saying. JQ, Shaq, Gary, Ellis, Primo....all experience players which at least 2 to 3 of these guys will be in the lineup at any given time.
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