2019-2020 Official Auburn Hoops Thread (with no official aspirations)

AUJarhead · « **Reply #60 on:** November 19, 2019, 10:27:17 AM »

Quote from: Buzz Killington on November 19, 2019, 10:19:48 AM

I'm afraid so...better enjoy it this year.

Unless, of course, we can get Gus to coach him up.

But then we'd be playing in the NIT, if we were lucky.

chinook · « **Reply #61 on:** November 19, 2019, 12:43:57 PM »

Quote from: Buzz Killington on November 19, 2019, 10:19:48 AM

I'm afraid so...better enjoy it this year.

Unless, of course, we can get Gus to coach him up.

i hate that rule. needs to be like football.

Godfather · « **Reply #62 on:** November 19, 2019, 01:44:22 PM »

We might get 2 years out of him, I don't think he is NBA ready yet, but that might change by the end of the year. Definitely not more than 2 though.

Snaggletiger · « **Reply #63 on:** November 25, 2019, 11:41:54 PM »

Nice 25 point win tonight. High scoring Richmond tomorrow.

chityeah · « **Reply #64 on:** November 26, 2019, 01:47:01 AM »

What a fun team to watch. We've all criticized Wiley but he is truly a silent assassin. He doesn't get enough credit for what he does. He balled tonight. Poor 3 point and free throws. Power inside and tenacious d. Wait. That sounds like a band.

Kaos · « **Reply #65 on:** November 26, 2019, 10:41:26 AM »

That was a can of defensive whoop ass on a team that isn't terrible. Listening to the announcers whine about NMS playing out of control and wasting possessions got a little tiresome. Many of those wasted possessions were a direct result of defensive hustle disrupting their flow.

Hard to find much to criticize. Went through a first-half stretch of flinging bricks, airballs and botched shots in the lane but settled down and fixed it.

I could be wrong, but I think this might be a better team overall than last year. Talent seems evenly distributed. I'm not saying its going to win the SEC, make the Final Four or win the NC but based on what I've seen so far I wouldn't say any of those things are completely out of the realm of possibility.

BTW? I'm sitting here in utter amazement that the prior paragraph was written about the Auburn basketball program.

jmar · « **Reply #66 on:** November 26, 2019, 04:37:09 PM »

The preseason thought was that it would be hard to replace the offensive barrage of Harper and Brown but so far this lineup isn't taking us though those awful cold spells requiring 6 threes and balls to the wall pressing defense to get us back in a game.

Was concerned early on about our bench play but Coach Pearl knows when to get the right guys in and it doesn't feel as if we are losing production. That factors into lessening those scoring lulls and imo this looks like a better overall defensive team than last season.

And yes I was critical of Wiley but he has since been proving me wrong and hope he will continue to do so.

Snaggletiger · « **Reply #67 on:** November 26, 2019, 04:46:50 PM »

Don't even try and jump with this, Zion.

jmar · « **Reply #68 on:** November 26, 2019, 05:22:18 PM »

Quote from: Snaggletiger on November 26, 2019, 04:46:50 PM

Don't even try and jump with this, Zion.

Mr. Wiley sho gots some big feets!

djsimp · « **Reply #69 on:** November 26, 2019, 09:24:46 PM »

Spiders lookn good but Auburn up by 16 with 5 mins to go.

djsimp · « **Reply #70 on:** November 26, 2019, 09:52:32 PM »

And that's a W for the good guys. That was a solid win with a lot of guys comn off the bench gettn in on the action. Wiley lookn great!

Kaos · « **Reply #71 on:** November 27, 2019, 09:49:30 AM »

Seems like I read somewhere (not al.com, they barely covered the game in order to breathlessly tell us all what Tinkle Tupperblowgovia will be doing during Saturday's game and how Danny Sheridan was right in saying Auburn football sucks...) BUT to get back to the topic, I read somewhere that this is the first regular season tournament title for AU since 2004.

I don't know what tournament that was, but the 2004-05 team started 5-0 before losing to Virginia, Wofford, UNLV and Toledo. It lost its first five SEC games and won a grand total of four in the league.

I don't see this bunch flopping like that.

Build the Bruce Pearl statue today.

Snaggletiger · « **Reply #72 on:** November 27, 2019, 10:21:29 AM »

Just a note on that 2004 team. This was Jeff Lebo's first year. There was one player in the rotation, Quinnel Brown, who was 6'6". Everyone else who played that year was 6'4" and under. They had one legit player, Tony Douglas, a guard who averaged about 17 points a game. He immediately transferred out to, I believe, FSU.

The sad thing is that as bad as this team was, they could have actually propelled Auburn basketball towards some great things. If you recall, when Ellis was let go and Lebo announced, they had an exodus of key players that pretty much decimated the program. 6'8" man child, Marco Killingsworth, left to go start for Indiana. 6'9" Dwayne Curtis departed for Ole Miss and was their starting center and played quite well. 6'8" Brandon Robinson took off for parts unknown. There were a couple of others I believe as well.

Tony Douglas and the rest of that bunch weren't bad players. They were just way overmatched physically every time the they stepped on the court. I don't know if it was Cliff getting the boot or Lebo's magnetic personality that caused the defections. Either way, they went from possible SEC title contenders to perennial doormats in the blink of an eye.

Buzz Killington · « **Reply #73 on:** November 27, 2019, 10:29:02 AM »

ED Champs!

Snaggletiger · « **Reply #74 on:** November 27, 2019, 10:41:23 AM »

Quote from: Buzz Killington on November 27, 2019, 10:29:02 AM

ED Champs!

It's hard to win this tourney with such stiff competition.

Saniflush · « **Reply #75 on:** November 27, 2019, 02:10:17 PM »

Also of note Duke and that rat face looking coach of theirs got their bitch card pulled last night by Stephen F. Austin

Snaggletiger · « **Reply #76 on:** November 27, 2019, 02:34:22 PM »

Quote from: Saniflush on November 27, 2019, 02:10:17 PM

Also of note Duke and that rat face looking coach of theirs got their bitch card pulled last night by Stephen F. Austin

Snaggletiger · « **Reply #77 on:** December 04, 2019, 10:27:25 AM »

The Fighting Pearls are up to #14 in the latest AP Poll. They take on Furman (7-2) tomorrow night.

wesfau2 · « **Reply #78 on:** December 04, 2019, 01:22:00 PM »

Quote from: Snaggletiger on December 04, 2019, 10:27:25 AM

The Fighting Pearls are up to #14 in the latest AP Poll. They take on Furman (7-2) tomorrow night.

I haven't watched any of their games, but in perusing the scores of our SEC brethren it looks like we ought to waltz through most of the season.

djsimp · « **Reply #79 on:** December 04, 2019, 01:42:18 PM »

Quote from: wesfau2 on December 04, 2019, 01:22:00 PM

I haven't watched any of their games, but in perusing the scores of our SEC brethren it looks like we ought to waltz through most of the season.

Just fyi, the Okoro kid is badazz.