BOL Round Table

Playing hot potato outside the arc until 5 seconds on the shot clock has to stop.

I know you're getting slammed over this but I agree with most of what you said. The fact is we can't recruit out of state in b-ball the way we can in football, therefore we rely heavily on in-state talent. This state has produced one big man of note since Grant has been here and that's Jimmie Taylor (not counting Kouassie because we weren't gonna take Morena to get him). Except maybe one or two guys, Grant has been able to keep all the state's best players home. Also, like you said, the core of our team are sophomores.

Personally, unless we just totally bomb it next year I think he deserves two more years. Yes we are bringing in two bigs but we can't expect them to light it up as freshmen. I believe we'll be an improved team next year with Carl back from injury plus the two new post men. And everyone returns except for Steele. I think we'll be a tourney team next year and the following year we could be scary when Randolph, Lacey, Cooper, Carl and Jacobs are seniors.

A lot of the people in this thread have made up their mind that they want Grant gone but I think we need to be patient and give the man a little more time.

I believe some of the recruiting complaints are unfounded. Part of what CAG has tried to do was improve the level of recruits we get. That being said, he seems to be going after better talent, which means there is more competition for these players. We have won some but lost the big man battles. Also, basketball players, with AAU, seems to have commitments further in advance than football. Football and basketball recruiting is different. Bama football and basketball recruiting is different. Some who complain about our recruiting are the same ones that screamed Ole Miss was cheating. I believe CAG deserves a little more time. He has improved our talent, and we are playing defense. Something MG never coached. We have a young team, and we are not UK.

Agreed. I think he has done a fair job after replacing CMG, but the fact he doesn't cater to the AAU leeches has had an impact. We ain't Duke and didn't have a Duke caliber team when he came aboard. Coach Sanderson will always be one of my favs, but those days are gone.

Well, I just voice my opinion and i'am going to stick with it and I'am behind coach AG 100% and i think he has done a good job of replacing the coach we just had in MG. Like i said MAL make the decision and AG not going no where until he say so!!! You guys can GRIPE all you want , but yall can't fire no one.

....IF we had Earnest Shelton, it'd be raining 3s.

We can't play the IF game. We have to face what's in front of us.

^^^ This. You need to score. Offense is more important in today's game. It's very rare to find a good defensive player. Nerlens Noel is really the only college player that comes to mind right now.

Think about all of the players in the NBA. Nobody is really known for their defense. The NBA defensive player is literally extinct. Gone are the days that Dikembe Mutombo ruled the world (ha!). The NBA in the late 80s and 90s was filled with a bunch of Bad-A defensive players. The game was way more competitive and intense....and that's why Jordan was so special. Not only could he ball, but he played amazing defense.

I think it's important to talk about the NBA in this situation, because most of the time what happens in the NBA trickles down to college and high school. Defense isn't as important anymore. It's offense. Think about all of these small schools making huge runs in the NCAA tourney. It's not because of their defense. It's because they run 4 guard systems and shoot lights out.

From where, man? He has gotten what the state has provided and since that hasn't been enough he has went elsewhere to get what he can and you guys complain about those players anyway. We had Willie Cauley last year until UK swept in at the last second.

We're not gonna beat the blue bloods for recruits (oh wait, he's even done that by signing Lacey and Pollard) so we are gonna have to take on some lower rated players and *gasp* some projects. But y'all don't want to give them time to get to their third year in the program. Carl was contributing a good bit before he went down. That was a big loss. He was playing a lot better than Moussa is.

We cant make a player want to come a play at bama , yall think yall got all the answers and i bet yall dont even come a support the team yall just sit on this site and complain. we have one of the youngest teams in the nation but yall dont re that its going to take time I say if yall dont like whats going on stop watching most of yall are just bandwagon fans anyway go support somebody else inst ead of complaining all the time.

I know we can't go head to head with UK, UF, and other big time bball programs.

What I am saying is any complaint about anything on the roster falls on him. This isn't year 2 it is year 4.

And you are telling me he could not have signed at least 1 average big man extra? Because I understand giving time to develop but CE and MG were 4 year projects that don't have a high ceiling. What are they going to develop to? I mean Reggie Rambo had a higher ceiling and his wasn't high. But he played a role.

Nick Jacobs has been disappointing this year but has the tools if he learns some things (finish with his right hand) to develop to a pretty good player. I don't see that for MG and CE.

This is by far the worst offensive basketball team I have ever seen, I am not sure I have ever seen a team comparable to this team. Zero offensive flow, zero identity, zero confidence in what they are doing. Bad bad offense, It blows me away, some of these guys came to Bama as scorers but have regressed and lost confidence....1 more year and he will be gone, I just do not think he can develop players offensively.

At Alabama, we need somebody that coaches and builds a exciting brand of basketball that will put butts in seats because it is fun and exciting to watch, we don't need somebody that has his team trying to pitch a shutout. Exciting basketball at Bama will allow a coach to recruit some of the better talent out there, nobody wants to come to Bama and D-Up for 48 minutes while scoring 5.3 points a game!Nobody wants to play this brand of ball, we won't get the Lacey's and such next time around with Grant... Its over, we just waiting till it is really over!

Even when i read this under the assumption that you are a troll...my brain still wants to vomit. You clearly are a troll though. If you were as stupid as you appear to be from your systematic destruction of the English language, you wouldn't have been able to create an account on here in the first place. Go back to the barn board where they don't judge people for beastiality. Poor goats.......

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