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TIDE-HSV said:
that we didn't get hurt that badly on the inside, hence it does not compute to criticize the big men. They're playing much smarter this year, and, let's face it, we had the home court. I'm much more worried about our perimeter defense. There, the old rule of never fouling a jump-shooter swings into action. IOW, when you're beaten - you're beaten; end of story. If you're a step slow getting there - and we are - picking up a foul to make the situation worse is just, well, senseless. We are playing decent, not outstanding, but decent, inside defense. Perimeter is a different story...
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True. Are we playing zone or MTM?
 
We played...

MTM the first five minutes of each half - the rest in 2-3. I knew we were not going to be all that hot at guard this year - both ways - but I didn't expect this...
 
Read it again...

TIDE-HSV said:
by posts like this. After re-reading your post a couple of times, how would more fouls on the part of David and Davidson remedy the perimeter defense problem?
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and maybe you will not be puzzled. I did not say that more fouls by Davis & Davidson would help the perimeter defense. I said we need to be more physical on the inside, Also I am not saying to foul just to foul, but it doesn't hurt to let people know you are there and try to intimidate them a little. Also my comment on the perimeter defense is that in addition to our soft defense down low, we are always soft around the perimeter.
 
TIDE-HSV said:
MTM the first five minutes of each half - the rest in 2-3. I knew we were not going to be all that hot at guard this year - both ways - but I didn't expect this...
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Still haven't seen us play, but if you play a 2-3 Zone it would seem to say that you aren't that tall on the Frontline. However, looking over the roster it doesn't seem that way at all. You still have to put pressure on the ball up top.

Probably most important to me is getting maximum pressure with the guards on the perimeter. I don't understand why we would start out in MTM and then go the rest of the way in a zone unless there is a question on "conditioning". That could be the case because we seem to fall behind early and then play catch-up. I look forward to seeing us next weekend. I'm pretty sure that CMG has a reason.

Boy I miss the days of Wimp's pressure defenses!
 
I think...

the conditioning has to be a bit of a question mark at this point. However, the guard play around the top is not. We haven't the foot-speed to play defense - at least, as far as what I've seen so far. And I don't care what scheme we're talking...
 
TIDE-HSV said:
the conditioning has to be a bit of a question mark at this point. However, the guard play around the top is not. We haven't the foot-speed to play defense - at least, as far as what I've seen so far. And I don't care what scheme we're talking...
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Foot-speed is very important on defense especially up top where you have to do a lot of "help and recover". Against a good "passing" team you are dead if you are in a zone and don't have the foot-speed up top because of the quick movement of the ball.

So maybe we are not "conditioned" enough to play a good MTM defense for a prolonged period of time and when we go to the zone, "good" passing teams are beating us in the gaps created by the ball movement. And then of course not hitting FT's isn't helping much either.
 
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I caught CMG's...

remarks on his show this AM. He pretty much echoed what we've been saying here - that we're a step slow in locating the outside shooter. On the FTs, he just said that we had to hang in there and they would start to fall. Or words to that effect. I still feel that if I were coach, (Ho, Ho, Ho!), Gee would be shooting FTs after practice until his eyes watered. And I'd get him some mechanical help. He misses almost every one exactly the same way - low arch and shoots it into the back rim, from which it bounces straight up (I think one actually fell back through, out of his first eight). Also, I'd have a heart to heart with Steele and tell him that Jonus gets the ball when he's open. JJ is a real liability on "D," because he's a step slower than the other guards, who, at this point, aren't exactly Achilles. If we're going to play JJ, he's GOT to shoot, which he can't do, if the only time he handles the ball is on long rebounds.
 
TIDE-HSV said:
remarks on his show this AM. He pretty much echoed what we've been saying here - that we're a step slow in locating the outside shooter. On the FTs, he just said that we had to hang in there and they would start to fall. Or words to that effect. I still feel that if I were coach, (Ho, Ho, Ho!), Gee would be shooting FTs after practice until his eyes watered.
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I think that I would have them running "suicides" in practice to get some more wind in their lungs and work on their conditioning.
 
TIDE-HSV said:
remarks on his show this AM. He pretty much echoed what we've been saying here - that we're a step slow in locating the outside shooter. On the FTs, he just said that we had to hang in there and they would start to fall. Or words to that effect. I still feel that if I were coach, (Ho, Ho, Ho!), Gee would be shooting FTs after practice until his eyes watered. And I'd get him some mechanical help. He misses almost every one exactly the same way - low arch and shoots it into the back rim, from which it bounces straight up (I think one actually fell back through, out of his first eight). Also, I'd have a heart to heart with Steele and tell him that Jonus gets the ball when he's open. JJ is a real liability on "D," because he's a step slower than the other guards, who, at this point, aren't exactly Achilles. If we're going to play JJ, he's GOT to shoot, which he can't do, if the only time he handles the ball is on long rebounds.
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Jonus only has 1 reason for being on the court...to shoot the 3. However, during the NC State game, I remember 2 or 3 times that he received the ball with a wide open chance at a 3...and shot faked or dribbled. He passed up on the open shot. He cannot do this. I think the blame lies more with Jonus' tentativeness and inability to create his own shot, than Steele's unwillingness to give him the ball. Jonus has deserved very little playing time lately.
 
For starters...

let's not get the idea that I'm some sort of JJ partisan. I'm not. He just happens to be the only semblance of a trey threat we have. I just have to disagree, based on the last game. He declined one shot, which wasn't totally open, but, several times, he had the window and Steele looked him off. Don't tell me about being looked off. I know it when I see it. I should... :D
 
I love what I'm seeing from Gee, except for his FT shooting. I got to see one preseason practice and it looked to me that Gee was impatient shooting FT's. He missed enough FT's that would have made a difference in the NC St. game. AG is shooting under 40% from the line, thus far.

Felix is a huge disappointment right now. Although, in the NC St. game, he did have a few offensive rebounds and putbacks. Hopefully, he'll start to play more like he did last year. I think he is the key to our season right now. We need scoring (12 to 15 pts per game) from his spot to have a chance.
 
Bama-MSU 2005

imauafan said:
Go back to last years games against MSU that we won 94-47. We had the starters in the game until late instead of giving the backups an opportunity to get some experience. ..
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The back-ups did get some experience. They rotated players so most of the starters played fewer minutes than normal. Compare the stats if you don't beleive me.

MSU-Bama box score
Bama 2004-05 Cumlative stats
 
Hoot30 said:
.. The transfer argument was debated to the point of exhaustion last year.

The "point" is that every school in America has players that transfer for numerous reasons. Even Duke and N. Carolina have players transfer.
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But they don't lose but 1 maybe 2 a year. That's the real point on the transfers.
 
Read the first part of that post. Again, I get what the point is. Like I said, one of those transfers was a non-scholarship walk-on that transfered to Lipscomb U.

I think you are absolutely correct in your previous post, Bama94. I was at the M$U game last year, and the reserves did rotate in during the game. I had no problem with CMG's sub pattern in that game. Obviously, those people that complained about the M$U blowout, don't understand the history between us and $tansbury. That was a statement game, pure and simple. He left his starters in, CMG did the same.

On the same subject:

Did anyone see the UAB-Ok. St. game last night? UAB's starters stayed in to the very end. I wonder if their message boards are going to criticize Anderson like some did on here?
 
Yea

Hoot30 said:
Read the first part of that post. Again, I get what the point is. Like I said, one of those transfers was a non-scholarship walk-on that transfered to Lipscomb U. ..
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I read and understood that part of your post. Transferring to lower NCAA division allows a player to not have to sit out a transfer year. But yea mostly we didn't lose much quality. At least Miles and Webber would have helped this year.

Just saying that more than a player or two transferring from a team in a year is rare at most schools including Bama.
 
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