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With Sears, they have a great team. Without Sears, they have a good team.

For that reason, I choose to believe Sears is going pro. 

48 minutes ago, bigbird said:

He'd have to be willing to sit a year along with a couple other stipulations 

How can the SEC enforce a transfer sit-out rule when the NCAA can't? Genuinely asking.

4 minutes ago, TAYLORKEETON said:

Is too early for a kicker controversy!? 
 

this kid is real deal 

Embarrassment of riches at the K position. McPherson made every kick last season! If healthy, he has to be 1 on the depth chart.

8 minutes ago, bigbird said:

He's been playing games for a year.

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.

43 minutes ago, Viper said:

 

 

 

 

 

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!

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.

We are 11 point favorites over USCe. This is another game where I'd be happy with a W however it comes!

34 minutes ago, Cardin Drake said:

Auburn a 2.5 point favorite. Vegas believes!

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.

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. 

34 minutes ago, lost said:

Read the post please. I made sure everyone knew what I meant by make or break. 
It is not getting in the tournament— It is doing something when you get there

😉

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.

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.

>50% shooting and down by double digits at the half? They're gonna have a hard time mounting a comeback...

4 minutes ago, SaltyTiger said:

It worked. She borrowed my 1985ish style very warm Auburn\Russell coat from the rack. Pushed garbage can to street. I was sentenced to some leaf blower work and can retrieve duty.

Leaf blower work?! I hate to say, you got the raw end of that deal, brother.

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.

2 hours ago, cole256 said:

There was a bunch of selfish ball the past couple of years but to say it was him is crazy.

Really just depends on the style of ball you like I think. I feel like this is more of an ol skool board where many have a hard time accepting change. If you don't like more of an alpha personality you probably didn't like him.

If you are more into everybody touch the ball, make 5 passes every possession everybody on the team average double digits there aren't any stars type of basketball you probably don't care for him.

But he did ALOT for this program, especially when we weren't that talented. He was never celebrated the way he should have been. I think it's kinda sad personally, but that's just my opinion.

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.

Any idea what's going on with this young man? Total radio silence it seems like.

4 minutes ago, Mikey said:

It doesn't sound like word games to me. "Asked if he was going to sign with FSU, Bolden replied 'C'mon man, you know that'.". I guess hope springs eternal but that doesn't sound like word games to me.

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.

5 minutes ago, Cardin Drake said:

Come on, quit exaggerating. He's got the year of his birth right there in his user name: 1716.  He's only 307.

1716... BC

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. 

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