l knew we had a good basketball team, but l would have never believed we would have won our first 7 SEC games all by double digits. Four of them on the road at that.
Who Would Have Ever Thunk It?
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Best basketball Bama has played in nearly 40 years.
I told your dad before the season started that I was excited about this team’s potential, but I can’t say I was expecting this so far.
Umm, I’ve been a believer for a while. The only game I’ve been wrong about this season was Gonzaga. In my defense, most teams don’t shoot nearly 70% from the floor.
Past teams would've lost this game. This team has what it takes to win it all if they keep their head on straight! RTR! Let's keep getting the "W"'s!
It seems like yesterday when we could not win a road game my friend. I believe we actually went 2-22 in road games in Gottfrieds first 3 years in conference play. This bunch seems to thrive on the opposing fans giving them hell.
What makes this team so damn good is that we have many different ways to beat you. Obviously Miller is the headliner, but when he is off we have plenty of other guys that can beat you. The depth of this team will be huge as well come tournament time, with Miller, Sears, Clowney, Bradley, Bediako, Quinerly, Gurley, Griffen, Burnett and Welch when they get their feet under them we will legitimately go 10 deep with guys that can beat you.
The offense has been great, but the defense has been the biggest surprise to me, guys are taking pride in playing defense.
The remainder of this season should be fun. I know we can’t win them all, but they damn sure appear to be trying to do so.
ROLL TIDE!!!!
If Griffen had more minutes he would average double digits easy. With Clowney and Miller gone next year we will see that RTR
Anyone claiming to have known this is either lying or not telling the truth. As the saying goes, "if I'm dreaming, please don't wake me!"
Plus Nick Pringle is not a polished basketball player, but he is as athletic as anybody on the team. That kid has springs in his legs and l think he will eventually develope into a very good player. Gotta work on his shooting, keeping fouls down and just playing under control.
Outstanding post by the way.
l agree and he had 3-3's, one of which really brought the momentum back over to the good guys.
Michigan had the Fab Five. Can we have the Fab 4? No way those guys are freshman. They play with the poise of multi year starters.
Throw in some great transfer pickups such as Sears to go with this Fab 4 and hopefully our future will be bright. Hoping this is the year we can actually say the future is now.
ROLL TIDE
I felt it on the 2020 year. I still think that team is one of the best ones ever at Alabama. This year is nuts.
Pringle not being polished is one reason I wish we could get another year out of Clowney. But he is getting better and better and looks like keeping him another season is a pipe dream. Oats is going to have to go front court shopping with our expected losses.
Gottfried had some of the most abominable road blowout losses in our basketball history. Those teams probably own the top 10 worst road blowouts category. In spite of having a fair bit of talent the whole team could vanish in any road venue much less a rowdy one. They were also prone to losing to teams that weren't very talented but played hard and tough.
That elite 8 run is probably the biggest fluke in all of sports history at the UofA. The perfect storm of the right guys hot at the right time and opponents that just didn't match up well against us.
I hope Oats can get this team past the elite 8 so we can forget about the Gottfried era altogether.
The Elite 8 was nowhere close to Gottfried's best team. They did surprise us at tournament time though and gave us something to get excited about.
As Budog and you said above, he damn sure couldn't win on the road in the SEC.
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