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OT: AUBURN BASKETBALL

Anybody know where I can purchase one of these? The shirt that is

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Links to pay sites Cookie? You know better. I had to download the app to get a free view. If I was a bad person I would copy and paste it in Chile.

I don't pay anything for it. I just assumed it was free.

Auburn is extremely legit
Bruce Pearl tried to tell me that his team was “a little overrated,” but he was far from convincing. Washington is an NCAA Tournament-caliber team, but Auburnmade the Huskies look like they were a JV squad in an 88-66 win on Friday. Washington trailed by 10 points a little over three minutes into the game and never got to within single digits after the 14:52 mark of the first half. Auburn sliced Mike Hopkins’ Syracuse-tailored zone like it wasn’t even there. The scary part is that Auburn isn’t at full strength yet. The ceiling on this team is high. Very high.

I want to be careful about over-reacting – every team looks special when it’s winning by 20 – but it was astounding how easily the Tigers scored. Washington’s zone is designed to stop 3-point shooters, but Auburn spread its 12 3-point makes among six players, including all five starters. Many of those were launched from deep, which forced Washington to extend its zone.

That, in turn, opened up a gaping hole in the middle of the defense, which allowed Chuma Okeke to go to work. He’s a wiry 6-8 sophomore from Atlanta who was highly rated coming out of high school but played a limited role off the bench last season. When Pearl recruited Okeke, he sold him on the idea of using him as a face-up big man, as he has in the past with players like Tobias Harris. Okeke has a live body and a lot of skill. He finished with 19 points and 10 rebounds, both game highs.

“He really worked on his body and worked on getting more explosive,” Pearl said. “He wasn’t ready physically as a freshman, but he’s special. He’s absolutely a pro, and we were fortunate to be 75 miles from his front door.”

Then there is the ever-evolving center position. It was manned for most of this game by 6-foot-7 junior Anfernee McLemore, who got hurt toward the end of last season, reducing Auburn’s rotation to eight players. Austin Wiley, a 6-11 junior who was ineligible last season, missed five weeks of preseason practice because of an inflamed foot. He had five points in 13 minutes against Washington but will have a much larger role once he gets into shape. “Austin and Anfernee give us two completely different guys at center,” Pearl said. “Anfernee is a Jordan Bell-type five man. Austin is Austin. So it will really give me great flexibility to play big or play small.”

In addition, 6-7 junior forward Danjel Purifoy, who also missed last season, is servinga nine-game suspension for taking extra benefits, but he is practicing with the team and will be ready to go in about a month. So Auburn is bound to get better – a lot better. Scary thought.

The other thing on display was the blazing speed of this team’s guards – a facet that has been considerably buttressed by the addition of Samir Doughty, a 6-4 transfer from VCU (18 points, 4 steals). Suffice to say, this is going to be a highly entertaining team. Even when Pearl was down to eight players at the end of last season, he still pushed his guys to play full court and up-tempo as he always has. If these 10 guys can stay healthy, then that style will be all the more imposing. “Only having eight guys for the postseason was a problem for us, no question,” Pearl said. “That’s why this year we feel like we have unfinished business.”
 
nice article - not much new ground covered for us on here, but always nice to see the gospel of BRUCE spread on a national level

it’s all so logical - and so clear... I still can’t believe we have a coach so qualified and capable of such an unmistakable display of competence

on a semi related note - I took a peak at Rupp’s Rafters earlier... not a ton of talk on the Boogs - but plenty of comments about us being the best team in the conference, how we’d drill UK a new asshole same as Duke did, looking forward to our potential matchups in Maui, etc... the same thing you guys were telling them for months and were delittled for... only, no one is calling anyone out for all that praise

hmm... funny how that works... like I said yesterday, only took 4 days for everyone to realize what we’ve been saying for 6-8 months
 

some experts would disagree... a buddy sent me a screenshot of one esteemed AU mod preaching the “its only been 2 games” false prophecy - but the funnier part to me was au4liferz (that complete and total mouthbreather) liked the post

2 people who present themselves as basketball savants surrounded by us “nothing matters but football” simpletons, just refuse to acknowledge how fvcking great BRUCE is... it’s adorable... not as adorable as Jared - but adorable nonetheless
 
lots of early season buzz - add the nbc dude above to the list of people who miscalculated just how much we had coming back and didn’t realize how good Dr Chuma was

now everyone is clamoring for a Boogs-Duke matchup

we’re already better than I ever dreamed we’d be... I knew BRUCE was the best bet to legitimize our program and had lusted for him for YEARS, but I was expecting a “safely in contention for tournament bids/bubble conversation - make a tourney 75% of the time with a solid run every 4 years” type of program... which I’d have killed for

we’re a win over Duke from the chance to cement ourselves as a top national program for as long as BRUCE is here
 
Great stuff. I like to think we have 2 elite wing defenders in Bryce and Samir to matchup with Barrett/ Reddish. They’d give up quite a few inches but can at least stay in front.

As dynamic as Zion is he’s only shot a couple 3s. Chuma can hold his own there.

Im sure their PG is a stud but Jared and this boog squad could make him more uncomfortable than he’s ever felt.

Not like we’d shut them down but more than capable of winning a gm in the 90s.
 
Great stuff. I like to think we have 2 elite wing defenders in Bryce and Samir to matchup with Barrett/ Reddish. They’d give up quite a few inches but can at least stay in front.

As dynamic as Zion is he’s only shot a couple 3s. Chuma can hold his own there.

Im sure their PG is a stud but Jared and this boog squad could make him more uncomfortable than he’s ever felt.

Not like we’d shut them down but more than capable of winning a gm in the 90s.

their size advantage on the wings is the biggest advantage they’ll have

the point guard Jones is a true freshman and is really good - but Jared can handle him, and he’ll have never had to defend against anyone like Jared... Jared’s willingness to shoot from SO DEEP opens up the court... one of the articles after the UW game mentioned how far out it stretched their zone which gave Dr Chuma so much room in the mid/high post... I mean we demolished that zone like I’ve rarely seen a college team demolish a zone

anyhoo - they’ll have physical advantages, but not athleticism advantages if that makes sense... they’ll be able to get their shots - but how much can we contest them? and are they ready to make contested shots?

they’ll also have to defend harder... and for longer... and in space... more than they’ve ever had to

maybe they can - and if they can then good for them because that many young, supremely talented, kids gelling defensively in November? in college basketball? that’s generational stuff - so we’ll have lost to a potentially all time great team

but if they can’t..............
 
some experts would disagree... a buddy sent me a screenshot of one esteemed AU mod preaching the “its only been 2 games” false prophecy - but the funnier part to me was au4liferz (that complete and total mouthbreather) liked the post

2 people who present themselves as basketball savants surrounded by us “nothing matters but football” simpletons, just refuse to acknowledge how fvcking great BRUCE is... it’s adorable... not as adorable as Jared - but adorable nonetheless

I remember @au4liferz saying that the bama kid from Pelham was better than Chuma. Lol
 
thank zod you edited his name so he’s not actually tagged...

we’ve bedowngraded that lunatic motherfvcker since the scout days and I’d prefer to not regress back to those days

Hahahaha!!

I just tried to post on the scout basketball forum to get a response from him. I couldn’t remember my username that wasn’t banned, so I tried an email to sign in and it worked. The username is “cAUnstipated”, but my post have to be approved by a mod before it shows up on the board.
 
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Is he a former player or something? I always assumed he was older just because he and @archie had similar views, but I guess not. I do remember getting into a discussion with him and archie kept chiming in with a "do you know who he is? You wouldn't be saying that if you did."

He was in the same frat as Dontarius Thomas. He’s nothing more than a racist loser!
 
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Is he a former player or something? I always assumed he was older just because he and @archie had similar views, but I guess not. I do remember getting into a discussion with him and archie kept chiming in with a "do you know who he is? You wouldn't be saying that if you did."

there are few things I enjoy more on internet college sports message boards than the “do you know who you’re talking to?” posts... because few things blow college sports superfans minds more than being told “I don’t give a shit who I’m talking to”

when someone continually displays their stupidity they deserve to be called on it, not have it excused because you’re blinded by some other factor completely unrelated to the discussion at hand... so that dude has continually displayed that he’s a racist, braindead blowhard - unworthy of my respect... I don’t care if he’s Doc Robinson - it just means I know more about basketball, and am a far more qualified college sports messageboard dumbass combatant than Doc Robinson
 
some experts would disagree... a buddy sent me a screenshot of one esteemed AU mod preaching the “its only been 2 games” false prophecy - but the funnier part to me was au4liferz (that complete and total mouthbreather) liked the post

2 people who present themselves as basketball savants surrounded by us “nothing matters but football” simpletons, just refuse to acknowledge how fvcking great BRUCE is... it’s adorable... not as adorable as Jared - but adorable nonetheless
This from the same mod that said the team was toast after one game last year?
 
I think JGT tries to downplay the success of au hoops because the more successful the team is, then the more people will want content, then the more work he has to do.

He "should" be the basketball guy, but yeah he doesn't want to work and doesn't really know basketball either.
 
I think JGT tries to downplay the success of au hoops because the more successful the team is, then the more people will want content, then the more work he has to do.

He "should" be the basketball guy, but yeah he doesn't want to work and doesn't really know basketball either.
As sited many times over, @GayT.Jate is a habitual liar and paranoid schizophrenic willing to bend reality to his truths. Cant help that the unwashed over at his site continue to support a guy that is in denial and openly wishes Bruce to fail so he can hold onto his inner wildkat.
#moot #toast #savemegreg #safespace #laffed
 
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http://www.tankathon.com/mock_draft

Was just perusing around some mock draft sites to see if Chuma had made an appearance on any and found Mac on this one.
Without seeing a ton of the guys that are projected 1st rd Chuma is infinitely better than PJ Washington at 22. Cool to see Mac getting some draft love would still kinda blow my mind to see him go in the 1st this year even though we all know he’s a stud.
 
Without seeing a ton of the guys that are projected 1st rd Chuma is infinitely better than PJ Washington at 22. Cool to see Mac getting some draft love would still kinda blow my mind to see him go in the 1st this year even though we all know he’s a stud.
Yeah. PJ Washington is trash. Not sure how he was so highly ranked. EJ Montgomery is gonna take his minutes soon
 
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