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After watching a lot of Holloway playing (every televised game), I never saw the lights come on for him. His passing was mediocre, he got knocked around by every SEC opponent, he does not have great quickness, not a great leaper, did not shoot well under pressure, inadequate defense. He's just not a fit for AU and Pearl or any other team that prefers physical play. Physical teams like UT, Auburn, TAM, will shut him down. The only thing he may do well at for UAT is shooting 3's from way out side the 3 point line. For everything else, he is easy to defend and he's not on the same planet with Sears.

It's been a thing for a years in Georgia too. Buford City High School entices athletes from many North of Atlanta suburbs. Buford has its own school system, separate from the county and state. I don't live in Buford but a local HS baseball phenom near my neighborhood (a friend of my daughter, who does not have the money to pay the Buford tuition) was compensated to play for Buford HS which is about 15~17 miles away. Bammer and UGA always recruit Buford. I ran into Saban and Kirby Smart at Buford restaurant at the same time. Overheard them saying they were going over to Buford HS to see some talent while their wives were going shopping together.

There are several techniques that shooting guards can use to improve their ability to get off 3 pointers when they are guarded by taller defenders. Unless they are 6'8" Dalton Knecht, they need to offset their height deficit with step back, side step off a screen, quick release, over your head release point, jump & release at your high point, etc. When Holloway shoots 3's, he steps forward, releases the ball in front of him (hands forward, not over head), he is more smooth than quick and he does not release at his high point, instead using his upward motion to help push the ball. Unless Holloway changes that shooting style a lot, he will continue to have trouble due to his smallish stature. Other points about Holloway; he is not as quick as I would expect for someone with his slight build and he doesn't fight through screens very well. He needs a little KD Johnson or Jared Harper DNA. Fortunately for him, he is still very young and has time to develop his style. IMO, Pearl gave him a very generous amount of playing time this year, more than he would have received from a lot of coaches at this level

He gets his jumper off a lot quicker than does Holloway, lets the ball go above his head and he shoots layups with either hand, left or right for drives and fast breaks. Offensively, he looks like an upgrade to me, though not as physical as Tre is. Looks like we can drain a lot of 3 pointers with Pegues, Petttiford and Denver Jones in the lineup. Good shooters, good ball handlers, basketball IQ, etc.

UK will buy him a new wardrobe with white button downs, dark blue suits, conservative neckties, black dress shoes, an assortment of puffs for his jacket pocket, some Rolex watches and hire a full time valet.

Maybe Pearl should go after 7-1, 226-pound Aaron Bradshaw, leaving UK via the portal. I like Broome's basketball IQ but he may not stay and we sorely need another big

Agree, this is one of many reasons CBP is not going to Kentucky. UK, wants a white collar, GQ looking & sounding head coach. UK is the image, the coach is not the image. That is nothing like Bruce Pearl. CBP may be on their list but he is way down the list. Secondly, recruiting is not what it used to be. All the 5* one-&-done recruits, UK had this year proves it when they bombed out in the SEC tournament and the NCAA. That team was the most blue blood * loaded team imaginable. Bruce Pearl wants players with heart & desire, not NIL$ prima-donnas. Pearl wants to coach, develop, and father a family, not manage spoiled ego maniacs. Bruce's teams display Bruce's heart & character. That cannot happen at UK.

Pearl may not want that kind of insanity & micro-scruitinizing every decision and word out of his mouth. Not to mention all the one and done 5* recruits that came for the NIL and not for the coaching. Dillingham has already announced for the NBA. UK is the ultimate hot-seat job. Besides, all the UK talk is around Billy Donovan, Dan Hurley, Nate Oats, Petino, Scott Drew, etc. They even had Chris Beard on their list. Pearl is on their list but not high on their list. I think they go after a different personality profile. Pearl is a bit more charismatic, colorful, creative & blue collar for KY fans. UK tilts toward the snobby side/ white collar side.

Aden Holloway has a lot of growing to do before he can reach 5* expectations. He just lacks physicality needed for this level and who knows if he can actually get to that level. Tre is an all around better choice for point guard in the SEC and he has a higher ceiling than AH, IMO.

Good point. We need to consider what UT did Dalton Knecht from Northern Colorado (Big Sky Conference). Plus Pearl did well with CBM, Broome, Samir Doughty, Wendell Greene, etc. There is a lot of talent to tap besides the 5* one-and-done types. Interesting that Aden Holloway is going to hit the portal, considering that he was not far from being a bust in his freshman year (and I don't put that on the AU coaching staff, he just isn't physical enough to compete at a high level, yet).

Like to see UK's Dillingham hit the portal. He's got the talent to be a great SG. However, filling the holes likely to be left in our bigs is a higher priority.

Curious what Barkley's opinion is on this as Tre was his favorite player from this team. Could be that Tre didn't like playing behind Holloway and he has an argument to make, IMO. He made great progress this year but has he reached his maximum potential? Could he get much better than he is now? Keep in mind that players often don't get the type of portal offers they want and end up changing their minds. Tre may be testing the waters.

What bothered me was that the officials did not back up the video far enough to see the Yale player's slap to CBMs throat. That Yale player should have received the same penalty as CBM. Also there were phantom fouls called on Williams and Moore but the replays showed not even a touch. It was as if the officials were anticipating AU fouls. Another type of foul that isn't getting called enough this year is the shove in the back when a player is high in the air going for a rebound. KY and TA&M did that to AU over and over to Broome but never called.

KY really was awful and Calipari didn't have any solutions. They kept trying to drive to the basket and draw fouls but they were missing layups and not getting the rebounds. You'd think with three 7 footers on the team Coach Cal would be able to work the ball into the paint, screen defenders and dominate rebounding but they were tentative, unsure, disjointed and didn't know what to do. KY's 2 guards would stand on the perimeter and snap passes back & forth to each other while the rest of the team would shuffle about. With 3 minutes left in the game, KY still had 3 time outs left but Calipari had run out of ideas, so he didn't use the TOs. Calipari puts in KY's huge 7'2", Ivisic, who gets called for an illegal pick, absolutely decking the Oakland player, knocked the wind out of him. So Calipari pulls Ivisic when he should have used that brutal pick to fire up the team (Bruce Pearl would have loved that pick). Then Reeves fouls himself out on a stupid decision. They looked like a bunch of talented players who had never been on a court together. Great recruiting but BAD, BAD COACHING.

Started listening to Finebaum in about 1989/1990. He was on local radio when I lived in Birmingham, Al. Finebaum has always been mostly a purveyor of college sports related rumor, gossip, controversy, jealousy, hatred, etc. especially if he has something that bammer fans will feed on. There's nothing he enjoys more than getting sports fans to argue and hate each other. It is similar to politicians who engineer wedge issues to make people jealous and enraged, so they will mindlessly hand over their money, votes and influence. Remember when that psycho bammer fan poisoned the Toomers Corner tree in Auburn? He got that moron to admit that he poisoned the tree on Finebaum's radio show (live broadcast) Bammer fans eat up that stuff because deep down inside their heart of hearts they hate Auburn and enjoyed the tree poisoning. X's and O's are a waste of air time in Paul Finebaum's mind.

Anyone watch those 2 NCAA Men's games last night? It felt like I was watching Vandy vs. Mizzou. None of those 4 teams impressed me. 4 SEC teams in action today. MSU, UT, KY, and USC. MSU vs. Michigan State at 12:10 EST on CBS and South Carolina vs. Oregon at 4:00 on TNT

Yeah, that Kentucky draw seemed biased considering it is a 3 seed + Eastern time zone + driving distance to Kentucky??? I would say the selection committee ignored conference tournament results or had completed all selections prior to the conference tournaments. However, based on final selections, the committee appears to have cherry picked particular conference tournament results and ignored others. SEC was ignored except for maybe TxA&M

Pearl seems to get a lot out of his bigs, especially considering how bad Cardwell's offense was until this year. Dylan's offense is still a bit clumsy but I never thought he would ever be able to hit free throws. Proved me wrong about that. I expected Florida to give us a tough time in the SEC-T (even though UF's big 7'1" center went down) because they have 3 more bigs. So, I was curious how it is that UF ended up with 4 big men? If UF can get 4, we should be able to get 1 or 2.

agree, UF has to be hurtin in the 2nd half tomorrow

Is MSU 100% healthy? There has been a lot of gimpy players during the SEC tourney, so far. Dalton Knecht at UT vs. MSU looked slower, like he might have been cramping. TA&M had 2 players cramping yesterday. Several bammers had leg wraps on, including Sears. Plus, Sears looked a bit less mobile than usual and wasn't getting many open looks, was driving to the basket and then passing back out. Nelson fell to the floor several times (even stuck out his arms batting at a dribble from while sitting on his butt). I really think our deep line up is going to help a lot going forward. UF is really deep too. They match up well vs. AU. It was pleasant to see bammer go down last night, especially after several favorable calls for Sears early in the game. Sears while defending was hanging all over his UF opponent, slapping arms, riding his back. The UF Guard couldn't move any direction, and then they call a push off on UF. You could hear the arm slaps by Sears but no calls. It was some ugly officiating early on but later evened out.

That team beat several blue blood teams on the way to the final 4. We had the toughest draw I every can recall. No doubt we would have won the whole NCAA if a competent official had made that double dribble call or if Chuma wasn't injured. Eliminate one of a few exceptionally bad breaks and AU would have been hanging the banner in Neville Arena. Would love to get there again. I love this year's team but we have to get more consistent shooting or rebound a bit better to get to the final 4. This team doesn't have a stud shooter like UT has with Knecht and UK has with Dillingham. So, we need a couple of players to step up to another level.

These days, sports surgeons are so good with ACL repairs, Lior will recover to 100%. It is even better for athletes than non-athletes because the surgeons can move a piece of your own over sized hamstring to replace the torn ACL. Because the tissue is a perfect match and is super healthy (it moves from the hammy to the knee in a few minutes), recovery time is super fast. The athlete does not even miss the piece of hamstring because that ligament is so thick and over developed anyway. One of family members popped his ACL, snow skiing, had that surgery and he recovered so fast it was incredible. The surgeon did it all micro, so there were just a few small incisions. He was in and out of surgery in an hour. Zero trouble with the knee since.

Both commentators calling the game last night agreed that UT and AU are tournament teams that can go deep into the NCAA tournament. In the 2nd half with about 6-7 minutes left, their comment was something like, "we are watching 2 outstanding teams that will go deep in the tournament." I don't think they were just being nice, they were genuinely impressed.

Yeah, I was surprised KD passed instead of going to the hoop and trying to draw another foul. That was the wrong decision. Did you notice that Tre looked a little pedestrian vs UT. I wonder if he has been sick. Also, the players were sweating a lot, especially J-Will. I have seen several comments that UT had the temp turned up and it was very hot in there

A key issue was Broome drawing fouls that never were never called. He should have been shooting +1 at least 5 times and Aidoo would have been out 1/2 way through the 2nd. I expected a physical game but when the players are taking shots, call the dang foul !!!