Huge matchup at the Clam. Hope our boys can get their minds right for this one cause I’m still in a deep state of anguish and sorrow over the Mac injury. Plus I’m annoyed just thinking about the stupid football related festivities.
Boogs v Bama
- Thread starter Denim Vest
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...what's the point?
DOOOOOM...DOOM I SAY!
DOOOOOM...DOOM I SAY!
JK...we gonna crush the Bobs
Need HARPA to skore about FITTTTTTY in dis wun!!!!
Looooooozin SMACKLASHACK hertz like HAYUL!!!!
Gonna need Heron, Harper, and Brown to play 30+ minutes each. All need to play well, stay out of foul trouble, and make some shots.
I imagine Bama comes in and tries to attack the paint with Sexton and Hall. It will be interesting to see how we guard them, especially when Spencer isn't on the floor. When he's out, we will have essentially a 5-guard lineup on the court and can do a lot of switching and perimeter defending to disrupt their ball screens and penetration. Still, this is a big task for us, given the lack of depth we have. We have to be efficient and make some timely shots to balance out the potential pitfalls of the defense.
I imagine Bama comes in and tries to attack the paint with Sexton and Hall. It will be interesting to see how we guard them, especially when Spencer isn't on the floor. When he's out, we will have essentially a 5-guard lineup on the court and can do a lot of switching and perimeter defending to disrupt their ball screens and penetration. Still, this is a big task for us, given the lack of depth we have. We have to be efficient and make some timely shots to balance out the potential pitfalls of the defense.
I expect them to try to give us the ole "TamU" treatment but it will likely not be effective because the Bob's get selfish.
Team needs to get together and play this one for Mac. Maybe Bryce will wear his number and rain 10 J’s.
Bruce will have these handsome studs ready.
Bruce will have these handsome studs ready.
And they don't have two dominant bigs like aTm. This could also be a game where we show a lot of full court zone pressure and drop back into that 1-3-1 for good stretches of the game to protect our guys a little.
Our guards are gonna need to stay in these guys faces on D, can't allow lots of open looks.
We have always been concerned about getting whistle happy refs, but we are in constant code red now. Chuma and Horace have to stay out of foul trouble. I assume Dunbar will have to play some more 4 man. We really need to shoot well on Wednesday. The bobs are front runners, if we can boog on them early we will win by 20 points.
We need some good minutes from Mitchell with his relentless defense. And it would help if Chuma can be more physical than he has been and be a passable answer at 5 for some minutes to give Horace a spell.
We win if Horace stays out of foul trouble. I think it's the single most important thing that has to happen for us to win the game (other than hitting shots, of course).
Thanks to @bprockman v2.0 , this is the first AU b-ball game I will attend this year. Looking for Spencer to step up!
It'll be my first game this year. We're taking a bus up. I hope get there in time to get drink a pitcher from Mama G's.
Bad matchup for us made worse by the injury. Hopefully we can use the crowd and make some shots. No doubt we are a better team than them. Anybody heard how Hall’s hand/finger is? Kind of quit paying attention to their game Saturday about the time he got hurt.
Would playing zone against them be more beneficial? May help limit their bigs getting easy touches and drawing fouls; will also limit Sexton getting into the paint with ease. Add in the fact that Alabama is fairly average with the 3 ball, maybe even below average outside of Petty.
Probably would, but may hurt us by allowing more offensive rebounds as well
I hadn’t even thought about the trophy crap. Surely they call that off if the other team wins the Natty???
Wun Wun...it'd be great if he wore #11
Horace...although i think Chuma will have more time there.
Chuma starting at the 5 is pretty exciting to me from an offensive standpoint. Talk about spreading the fuggin floor. 5 guys on the floor at the same time that can all legit launch threes and can all dribble penetrate should be fun to watch.
Defensively, gonna be interesting. But hopefully we can just out score everyone
Defensively, gonna be interesting. But hopefully we can just out score everyone
The positives are it limits penetration and inside touches and potential for foul issues and allows them to settle for 3s, which they statistically are great at shooting. The negatives are the potential for offensive boards, poor defensive movement and rotations allowing easier perimeter looks, and less deflections and pressure causing fewer turnovers.
I think we will play some zone. I went back and watched most of the last game against them, and we went to the 1-3-1 on one possession. Petty hit a 3 from the top of the key, and we never showed that look again.
If we fire this coach, I will never watch another Au b-ball game again. He’s the best coach ever at AU, and idc what anyone else has to say about that. He’s so far above all coaches off the court.
I’d like to see more of it. If we were more comfortable in it could shade guys you want to take away. I feel like it wouldn’t be that bad for our rebounding. We aren’t gonna just body people off the glass anyway. Use our athleticism more for boards.
Triangle and two on Sexton and Ingram/Petty (switch that one back and forth for confusion), ftw. Switch back and forth between that and 1-3-1 at odd intervals to keep them off track. Switch it up when they pull the ball back out up top to reset their offense. Sprinkle a little 2-3 zone in occasionally. This type of scheming is what took my Autauga Generals to the Class 1A state finals my sophomore year. Finished with a record of 32-4 (all 4 losses to South Montgomery County Academy, all in overtime, all by two points), two regular season games, 1 area tournament game, and the state championship game. 20 years later and I’m still pissed about it. Anyway, we called this the Kamikaze defense. It was chaotic. We would also full court press and then fall into one of the above.
Wun Wun needs to start the game and punch Sexton in the throat with that retard strength.
My God, who wouldn’t want to play for this man. Good stuff, thanks!!
I'd be really interested to see how Avery reacts if we're playing Chuma at the 5 and they can't guard us because he's got his bigs on the court. He would need them to be crushing the offensive glass for him because they aren't the kind of guys that get their own shots from posting up 8 feet out. They need lobs and rebounds and passes from Sexton penetration to get their points. It's not like A&M where they can actually post us and cause big problems. In fact if they post Hall and he hits 3 in a row I'm still not doubling him. He'll miss a couple in a row too and when he does they will completely bail on posting him up. It's what almost every college team does and they don't really believe in him as a post player anyway.
I'm making my first trip down the season. Just wish it was happening after a Boog win and no injury to my guy Mac.
I'm making my first trip down the season. Just wish it was happening after a Boog win and no injury to my guy Mac.
Let’s cheer this thread up. Chuma has 10x the potential Mclemore does, if he can be more aggressive this team will still go far. Also, it’s going to be deafening against bama Wednesday. Should be an awesome time.
...if Bruce turns Chuma loose, i'm gonna be crushed when he leaves at the end of next season. crushed.
I have a total fancrush on him, but if he can leave and be a high draft pick as a SOPH under the tutelage of Bruce I'm all for it. Not sure there would be much better of a recruiting chip we could play (and we likely need one right now after all the FBI crap) than having Okeke end up being a stud that NBA squads want to get their hands on 12 months from now.
