Ah, not much to analyze, I suppose. Bottom line, we just aren't very good. We played pretty hard, so no one can we are quitting, but at the end of the day we just aren't very good.
It all goes back to the basics, and our complete inability to do any of them.
We cannot shoot the ball well from the floor, we cannot draw fouls, and we cannot shoot free throws even when we do get to the line. Throw in poor ball movement and the lack of a truly dominant inside player that may open things up outside, and you have a team that really struggles to score points offensively.
On the other end of the floor, we absolutely cannot defend the three, we struggle to rotate defensively, and we constantly blow assignments. We also have a tendency to give opponents too many opportunities in key situations with an inability to rebound the basketball. Add those things up, and we often struggle to do particularly well on the defensive end.
Combined, we generally cannot score many points, and we struggle to stop teams defensively. Put it together and it just turns into very bad play, I'm afraid to say. We all sit here and effectively tell the same story after every game (read loss). Hopefully things will improve, but honestly it may be in our best interest to just keep on losing. At least then we may, perhaps, bring in a good coach who can get things done. Realistically speaking, we aren't going to improve any more this year, and we are unlikely to even make the NIT. And if Gottfried returns, the odds are that we do not do a whole lot better next year, and most likely we will be having this same discussion twelve months from now.
Just not a lot of good things to say about the Alabama basketball team at the moment. In all honesty, about the only two good things we have seen all year is a blowout win at home over an equally terrible Auburn squad, and a few electrifying dunks. Positives outside of those two things are scant and few.
