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(03-23-2024 08:26 AM)MAN4UAB Wrote:  

(03-23-2024 07:48 AM)DuelingDragon Wrote:  The officiating was terrible. I am not saying it cost UAB the game. Missing free throws, not grabbing a few rebounds and making some really untimely turnovers did that. But it absolutely *impacted* the game in big ways. When you let one team’s big man be a bull but don’t let the other team’s big men hold their ground, it’s a problem. I don’t think LeeDee did anything a physica big man wouldn’t do. Only saying he was allowed to do it and Yax, JD and Coleman were not allowed to defend that physicality. And yes, the fouls evened out when they were be benched. Of course they did - by then UAB wasn’t fouling and the physical SDSU guards were. But which one impacts the game more as to how it plays out? The officiating was incredibly inconsistent and that makes it very hard on the players to adjust.

I agree that LaDee was allowed to be more physical than our bigs. I am curious if some of the officiating inconsistency may be caused by rule changes to “charging” and so forth. I remember when “pushing off” by a player on offense was a foul. It seems to me that a player on offense has a lot more leeway.

Excellent point on that rule change.

(03-22-2024 07:01 PM)UABFAN23 Wrote:  I’m not even mad. Disappointed, a little. I kind of rationalized in my mind that wed have foul trouble and that we wouldn’t be able to take care of the ball in key moments, before the game started. So, to have a chance or 2 at the end is good.

We have hardware and we met the ultimate goal. Make the big dance. Now we build on it. Hopefully we add the pieces much better than we have over the last two seasons.

I agree. I thought we should have gone dancing last year. This year with all the new additions, it's been a pretty satisfying season. However, I'm going to throw some cold water on everyone's "wait til next year" mantra. Even if everyone comes back and we are an improved team (I think we will be), all it takes is a couple of bad losses in December and we are out of the at-large running. We caught a break in the conference tournament this year. We can't expect that every time. For sustained success, our next step is getting at-large bids and also higher seeding in the NCAA tournament. It's extremely difficult to have to win a conference tournament every year and once we get in to advance from a 12 seed. This isn't earth shattering news. We all know this. Our schedule has to continue to improve, and we must win some big games early in sesaon.

(03-23-2024 08:35 AM)randy22263 Wrote:  

(03-23-2024 08:26 AM)MAN4UAB Wrote:  

(03-23-2024 07:48 AM)DuelingDragon Wrote:  The officiating was terrible. I am not saying it cost UAB the game. Missing free throws, not grabbing a few rebounds and making some really untimely turnovers did that. But it absolutely *impacted* the game in big ways. When you let one team’s big man be a bull but don’t let the other team’s big men hold their ground, it’s a problem. I don’t think LeeDee did anything a physica big man wouldn’t do. Only saying he was allowed to do it and Yax, JD and Coleman were not allowed to defend that physicality. And yes, the fouls evened out when they were be benched. Of course they did - by then UAB wasn’t fouling and the physical SDSU guards were. But which one impacts the game more as to how it plays out? The officiating was incredibly inconsistent and that makes it very hard on the players to adjust.

I agree that LaDee was allowed to be more physical than our bigs. I am curious if some of the officiating inconsistency may be caused by rule changes to “charging” and so forth. I remember when “pushing off” by a player on offense was a foul. It seems to me that a player on offense has a lot more leeway.

Excellent point on that rule change.

We need another Trey Jemison in the middle.

Ultimately, we have to get better at every spot. We overcame shooting and defensive deficiency, by getting to the line many times and the extended 1-3-1 worked pretty well. Our half court D stunk and we could not buy a bucket outside which led to clamps on our post players. Referring to the season, in general.

That’s ultimately why I still support AK, cutting players like an NFL GM during preseason camp, after each season.

Roles didn’t expand for many on the team. I knew they wouldn’t, which is why I had thought all along we may be replacing 4-5 guys. If he’s able to hold on to the top 4-5 guys(Yax, Coleman, EG, Butta, AJ), we may be looking at replacing 6-7 guys like we did after the last conference tournament championship. Toney still has a role, but I don’t see it being expanded outside of being a decent defensive substitution.

obviously, I agree that it would be nice to win some big games early. but the first step is to NOT lose to awful teams.

you can't be on a roll, winning 5 of 6, including wins over 2 ranked teams, and then get blasted at home by Rice. doesn't matter if the schedule improves if you continue to have these WTF losses

Yep, times infinity. Same record playing, unbroken.

I’ll kind of say I told you so when I said that these wouldn’t benefit us while watching the schedule get put together.

You can’t have losses to(records for regular season):
16-15 Southern Miss
16-15 Arkansas state
11-20 Rice
13-18 Wichita state

Did Charlotte pass the eye test? Yes, but like USF, they were disguised and benefited from an easy conference schedule. It was a WTF loss at the time and how its recorded on paper and in the computers is what matters. Remember that.

15-16 Maryland(we really tried to prop that win up, I told you they didn’t belong in the NCAA tournament last season.)

You can’t control what your conference schedule looks like. But, you better do your due diligence in putting your nonconference Schedule together especially your program has a history of not gelling early on in the season.

If TT wants an expanded role he needs to just work on 3pt shot all offseason.

Another way to keep Yax is to hopefully have Hargrove improve to where he gets some sort of playing time. He did do pretty well in JUCO so it would be nice to have him be an option

(03-23-2024 09:54 AM)UABrandon Wrote:  If TT wants an expanded role he needs to just work on 3pt shot all offseason.

Another way to keep Yax is to hopefully have Hargrove improve to where he gets some sort of playing time. He did do pretty well in JUCO so it would be nice to have him be an option

Yep. TT hasn’t grown much, if at all as a player, in 4 years. His shooting percentages went DOWN this year. He’s still the erratic, “energy guy” who can’t reliably make threes or free throws. There’s a role for him, sure, but I don’t see it expanding unless he really, really works on his three point shot.

Other than Gaines, and Butta a liitle, our other guards are horrible at ball handling ( need a couple more who can). Our bigs must learn how to set decent screens and how to quit getting isolated on defense with a guard when they get screened and leaving our guards on the opponents bigs.

(03-23-2024 09:47 AM)UABFAN23 Wrote:  Yep, times infinity. Same record playing, unbroken.

I’ll kind of say I told you so when I said that these wouldn’t benefit us while watching the schedule get put together.

You can’t have losses to(records for regular season):
16-15 Southern Miss
16-15 Arkansas state
11-20 Rice
13-18 Wichita state

Did Charlotte pass the eye test? Yes, but like USF, they were disguised and benefited from an easy conference schedule. It was a WTF loss at the time and how its recorded on paper and in the computers is what matters. Remember that.

15-16 Maryland(we really tried to prop that win up, I told you they didn’t belong in the NCAA tournament last season.)

You can’t control what your conference schedule looks like. But, you better do your due diligence in putting your nonconference Schedule together especially your program has a history of not gelling early on in the season.

Maryland was still a decent win on paper. It wasn’t some crazy good win, but it wasn’t trash either. The crazy thing is if you take those four losses of the schedule, I think we have an at large resume. It wouldn’t have survived the bubble this year, but we would have likely been in the conversation. The selection committee is pretty consistently clear, they like good wins, and they hate bad losses.

the NET really likes when you blow teams out too

(03-23-2024 10:47 AM)BlazrDawg Wrote:  Other than Gaines, and Butta a liitle, our other guards are horrible at ball handling ( need a couple more who can). Our bigs must learn how to set decent screens and how to quit getting isolated on defense with a guard when they get screened and leaving our guards on the opponents bigs.

Whats everyones opinion of KJ Satterfield for next year?

I don’t know if AK let’s boosters sit in during practice like previous coaches. Otherwise it’s hard to have an opinion on KJ when we haven’t seen him play.

While he's unknown he has a few things going his way

Played at The Patrick School (Vasquez & Jelly's high school)
Rated as a top 50 guard in the country with an offer from Creighton
Dad played in the NBA so he's got NBA genes
He's 6'4 and AK rarely recruits high school kids