phillyeagle
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2024 Transfer Portal Thread (Merged Zeek's New Thread)
phillyeagle replied to AU80cruiser's topic in AU Recruiting Forum
How can the SEC enforce a transfer sit-out rule when the NCAA can't? Genuinely asking. -
Embarrassment of riches at the K position. McPherson made every kick last season! If healthy, he has to be 1 on the depth chart.
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Too bad for the players. One less option to develop their skills for their desired career. Def feeels like our recruiting has been disproportionately impacted by the G League route, so maybe good for Auburn in the long run.
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This Quad System is utterly ridiculous
phillyeagle replied to arktiger1975's topic in AU Basketball Forum
It's just an arbitrary cut-off. It's continually updated as the teams move up and down the rankings. The NET rating algorithm seems to give pretty similar weight to a low Quad 1 and a high Quad 2 opponent. We have a lot of high Quad 2 wins, and our margin of victory maximizes the value of our wins. Otherwise we wouldn't be 5th in the NET with our Quad 1 record. Some people seem to count the Quad 1 wins twice--they look at the NET ranking and then look at the Quad 1 record to judge whether the team is over/underrated. I don't love the NET but that's not the way to use it IMO. -
Where is this "we can't get better than a 4 seed" stuff coming from? A bunch of media people who have no control over the situation? At #6 in the NET, there's justification for us to be a 2 seed! I have no idea what's going to happen but I'm not gonna concede that we're not justifiably a 3 or even a 2 seed. We've got a lot of positives on our resume, one of only 5 teams with a top 20 offense and defense, and only 3 teams with a top 15 offense and defense. Very fun to watch too!
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58% FG percentage and 41% 3-point percentage at the 3/4 spot will get JW a real shot at an NBA roster, and a decent chance to be drafted.
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Tale of the Tape: Comparing Auburn and South Carolina
phillyeagle replied to aubiefifty's topic in AU Basketball Forum
We are 11 point favorites over USCe. This is another game where I'd be happy with a W however it comes! -
Bruce previews Florida/Tale of the Tape added
phillyeagle replied to aubiefifty's topic in AU Basketball Forum
Might we see our 1st close win of the season? I'll take a W any way we get it! -
There are plenty of ways for this very good team to get even better. Since the time of the OP, we've seen some positive changes in last week's 2 games: -A few more minutes for Tre, who is starting over Aden now -Better shot selection from Aden (1 game at least) -Greater commitment to rebounding A couple more ways where the team can continue to show improvement in a challenging week of games: -Less turnovers, return to care for the ball that we had earlier this year -Come out strong every game (esp. on the road) so that we don't have to dig out of a hole in the 2nd half to pull out a win.
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I was impressed with Aden last night. He showed more patience with the offense, passing up some good shots for better shots. In particular, they drew up a 2-man game with Aden and J Will that got Ole Miss scrambling. On one play, Aden turned down several half-open looks and instead found someone wide open at the top of the key for a 3. Another time, he drove to the basket and took a hard foul to get to the free throw line. He still took a couple of 3s off the dribble that were ill-advised, but overall I saw Aden play much more like the PG we need him to be last night.
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Just 2-3 plays go differently in each game and we'd have 2 tough road wins from the past week. I agree with finding more minutes for J Will. Maybe we can play with both Chaney and J Will as the 3-4 for a few minutes a game to cover our weak spot at the 3 position. I'd also like to see more screen-roll and screen-pop using J Will instead of a center. We do that some but not enough IMO. And I agree Tre needs to play 25-28 min a game, and finish each half, with Aden getting 12-15 min.
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We have a set where Broome sets a screen for Aden to the wing, and the defenders always go under the screen and leave room for Aden to shoot the 3 off the dribble, practically begging him to take the shot. On a miss, we're at a disadvantage because there's no one down low to get an offensive rebound, plus we're vulnerable to a fast break because our SG and SF are deep in the 2 corners. Aden has been missing way too many of those to keep trying them. We've got to find some motion off of this set that gets a good open look or stop running it altogether.
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>50% shooting and down by double digits at the half? They're gonna have a hard time mounting a comeback...
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Leaf blower work?! I hate to say, you got the raw end of that deal, brother.
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Elevated court, seems to throw off a lot of visiting teams. Bruce can't feed them the same energy from below the court, and shooting percentage tends to take a hit. I think this year's team feeds off each other more than past seasons. If we take care of the ball and play tough defense like usual, we should win comfortably IMO.
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I loved Flan's defense and poise generally. What I didn't like was him dribbling the ball off his foot out of bounds on every fast break. I didn't see any behavior issues but I'm not privy to what happened behind the scenes. Overall, I'm loving the whole-team effort of our current bunch and haven't missed any of our players from last year TBH.
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2024 3* OT Favour Edwin Signs With AU!
phillyeagle replied to ellitor's topic in AU Recruiting Forum
Any idea what's going on with this young man? Total radio silence it seems like. -
When I watched the video, I heard "C'mon man, you know that [long pause] I can't speak on that." I think that's the reason for his post complaining about the reporters. I could be mishearing b/c of some static but the reporters should have heard him correctly and published his full statement.
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2024 4* SDE Amaris Williams Flips From Florida To AU!
phillyeagle replied to ellitor's topic in AU Recruiting Forum
1716... BC -
***Touchdown Auburn Bowl 2023 - GRAND FINALE!***
phillyeagle replied to Auctoritas's topic in AU Football Forum
Everybody here knows the perennial champ is @Auctoritas! Thank you so much for pulling this together for us every week, a true contribution to the AUFamily community. -
So who do you think will make top 4 playoff spots...
phillyeagle replied to bishoptf's topic in Rivals Football
All about the $$$. ESPN gets the show they want to put on. Simple as that. -
This NMSU matchup reminds me so much of this game. Just saying the AU players have to prepare and focus properly, or a game like this can turn sideways in a hurry.