Absolutely. We couldn’t afford a single injury, regardless of who it was. We weren’t deep enough to be able to overcome that.
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Absolutely. We couldn’t afford a single injury, regardless of who it was. We weren’t deep enough to be able to overcome that.
Mac isn’t doing as well on the boards or offensively as I would like. I think Wiley may move into that starting spot at some point
Just think the team as a whole is trying to find it's groove with all these rotation combos. There's no doubt that these guys are willing to play a role, just think everyone is trying to discover what that role is with each player combo. Not worried, but do think it's gonna take 6 more games for everything to settle.
KenPom has it 51/49, which is obviously more accurate. But the boogs need to shoot well, especially from 3, to pull this one out.
Yeah, he’s been pretty quiet all season. The defense and the blocks are solid, but he’s not impacting games as much as we probably need him to. He has started to find his range from deep recently, which he struggled with a bit earlier in the season. Hopefully that continues. Him adding a couple of 3s a game is a big help for the offense, especially early in game, because it pulls those bigs out of the lane and gives Jared more room to operate.
Yeah, I saw somewhere that the early line was NC St -0.5. Not sure how accurate that is because lines usually don’t come out this early, but that would more closely match KenPom’s info. BPI would likely make NC State a 4/5 point favorite, which I think is a lot.
Tried to read up on NC State some and the general opinion seems to be "we don't know how good they are". Their schedule is pretty soft. Their best results are beating Vandy at a neutral site and losing close to Wisconsin (which they probably should have won TBH). They blew a bunch of bad teams out but also had a nail biter vs a bad Mercer team.
Look guard heavy on paper. Don't shoot a ton of 3's but shoot a very good % there. Top 5 in the nation in eFG%. Again, no clue how much that has to do with competition level. To me they sound a bit like AU last season before SEC play. We were excited and getting some love but at the same time our OOC schedule wasn't strong enough to have others believing. Sometimes those teams go .500 in conference and end up being very mediocre and other times they end up being conference champs. Completely unsure what the Wolfpack are. Just know we need to play better than we have.
BRUCE told Corch Butch of Not Men’s softball something like this sometime earlier this year. Said that he thought last years team might actually have been better off without Danjel & Austin because of how the chemistry of the team unfolded. Also said we needed them to take it to the next level tho. For whatever that’s worth.
I watched the Wisco game. NC State looks fairly good, but we have a size advantage. This would be an excellent time for Wiley to have a coming out party. Our 3 point shooting tends not to travel, but if Austin and Chuma could both have big nights in the paint, we should be able to beat them.
Between that, Bama, UGA, and UF, enough good ones left to justify selling UK I think
I put mine for sale at $250/each, couldn’t believe that I might have sold them too cheap. Yeah I would sell. That’s like half your cost for those tickets.
Sure, but I’d do everything in my power to make sure they didn’t get in UK fan’s hands. Maybe I have more respect for Bruce than you do, though.
Youtube suggested videos for me finally hit its peak.
Lol'd pretty fuggin hard at this.
Youtube suggested videos for me finally hit its peak.
Saw where the GREAT Frank Ford of Boog basketball lore passed away & came across this article on Sonny Smith. Ford & Gerald White were the Butch & Sundance of Auburn guards back in the day & went to the Dance all four years of their playing days. Article is from 1985 & Sonny has resigned as head corch after a losing conference season, followed by four wins in fours days to win the SEC Tourney & clinch a berth into MM. There was a "STAY SONNY STAY" campaign with chants & signs in the BJCC the night of the historic Sweet Sixteen game against UNC that ended up working as well. Smith had convinced himself that AU basketball could never really get there & was frustrated with the dismal year he had just experienced (before the magical run), even though an 8-10 conference record isn't bad over the course of Boog history. After advancing two rounds in 84-85, the Tigers made their only Elite Eight (to date of COURSE) the following year and the Round of 32 the next two seasons. RIP FRANK
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I’ll just put this here cause I’m a boog and I played pickup hoops for the first time in years yesterday. OMG your boy is out of shape. Drained a 3 then had a nice little take to the goal to start then almost died.
Team chaulkie lost the first one then they want to run it back to 25. Tried to call for a sub halfway through that one which was embarrassing but not trying to have a heart attack at the Y. Nevertheless was pretty fun. Think I’m gonna buy some bball shoes.
Team chaulkie lost the first one then they want to run it back to 25. Tried to call for a sub halfway through that one which was embarrassing but not trying to have a heart attack at the Y. Nevertheless was pretty fun. Think I’m gonna buy some bball shoes.
I played a while back and 3 days later I literally yelled in the shower "WHY AM I STILL SORE!" haha. Getting old sucks.
Sounds like the HYGs will be getting after it this week:
Should be able to really take advantage of our 10 man rotation. Wish we could get some practice clips.
And on a related note I don’t know wtf somebody can’t record the post game pressers. Had Malik and Ant out there after the last game no video to be found anywhere on the net.
Should be able to really take advantage of our 10 man rotation. Wish we could get some practice clips.
And on a related note I don’t know wtf somebody can’t record the post game pressers. Had Malik and Ant out there after the last game no video to be found anywhere on the net.
those guys are too busy slap fighting on the twitterz to record history...one day god will direct @GregMadia to the loveliest village, and it will be good.
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Last year buddy begged me to play on his adult league squad. I was the oldest dude on the team at 40 and most nights the oldest guy on the court. I'm in the gym 6 days a week lifting and doing cardio, am constantly either coaching kids soccer or giving private lessons. Feel like I'm in good shape......
Nothing prepares you for an actual game where adrenaline starts flowing and you chase down things you'd never chase down or sprint at speeds you don't ever plan on sprinting again. After one game I wanted to quit on the season. Every muscle and every joint was screaming at me.
Don't get old kids. Just do enough drugs to die.
I wonder if Gameday will come to AU this year? If so the AU/UK game seems to be a good one. The only other big game that I can find on that day is Michigan at Wisconsin.
If they don’t come for the UK game, then they definitely should for the Tennessee game, which is on a Saturday, at the end of the season. I’d expect them to come once. And with the UK game being on ESPN (not secn or espn2), then I’d say the odds are good for that one assuming the Boogs don’t muck up the two games leading into it
Looked at the slate that day and UVA plays at Duke. Then again they could go to a million Duke games. Only other decent game is Michigan v Wisconsin.
Well they love Duke so it will probably be that one.
Gang what do we make of Austin having the lowest +/- on the team at 4.7?
It has steadily declined over the last 4 games
Our top 4 are:
Charming Chuma 12.8
Stunning Samir 9.3
Mandingo Malik 8.9
Agile Anfernee 8.4
Coincidence Austin was put in starting lineup about the same time as our decline?
It has steadily declined over the last 4 games
Our top 4 are:
Charming Chuma 12.8
Stunning Samir 9.3
Mandingo Malik 8.9
Agile Anfernee 8.4
Coincidence Austin was put in starting lineup about the same time as our decline?
It’s interesting but I don’t take much from it. So the game before was NC St Austin was great. Austin and Mac were both good against Murray. N FL game is meaningless. Both sucked against OM. Yesterday Mac was a stud so that’s probably the difference.
In general our ceiling is higher the way Ant plays but our floor is higher with Austin. I don’t think it makes a ton of difference who starts just gotta go more with what’s working game by game. Biggest takeaway on this is we need more Malik.
