tide scores only 14 points in second half...
low point in grants' tenure
Not acceptable. No explanation needed or required.The ever continuing offensive problems with the Alabama basketball team hit a new low on Wednesday night. I'm not sure exactly how to describe what happened at Auburn in the second half last night. I'm afraid the what happened is going to known as the night that Tide fans began to have serious doubts about Grant's ability to get the job done at Alabama. A lot of fans have already expressed some concern. A lot more will now join the parade. You can't blame any Alabama fan from having doubts after watching the worst Bama performance on the offensive end of the floor this writer has ever seen.
Some fans are going to say that the defensive effort was missing in the second half as well. I'm not going to take anything away from a dismal Auburn team for beating Alabama. The Tigers played hard, but when you can't score, and I mean literally, eventually you will quit playing defense. That's what the Tide did in Lee County on Wednesday night. This loss ranks right up there with the David Hobbs debacle in 1998. That night finished any discussion of Coach Hobb's future at Alabama. Whether the heat grows as much from the ineptness shown last night remains to be seen. Last night's game was painful to watch.
Clearly, the Tide has some depth problems. This is where your head coach earns his money. Most coaches do well with an abundance of talent. Great coaches do well with a scarcity of talent. Alabama has talent. But it's all at the guard position. I think Alabama might have won last night if the Tide could figure out a way to keep Moussa Gueye in the game. When Gueye picked up his 4th foul things fell apart. Here's another way of expressing how bad last night was - we gave up only 49 points and lost by 12. It wasn't like Auburn was killing us on defense. Bama could have easily scored 40 in the first half but they couldn't make a basket. In the second half they almost couldn't find a shot. Alabama's allowing to the clock to get to 10 seconds before really getting into an offensive set is just poor coaching. if the guys on the floor can't do what you ask find some other guys on the bench who will.
We can't even throw the ball into the post without all sorts of chaos occurring. Any ball thrown to Nick Jacobs is an adventure in abject futility. We are so fundamentally unsound that we cant 'even get the post player to meet the ball on an entry pass. It's not like the entry passes are a thing of beauty to begin with. This wasn't Duke doing this to us. This was Auburn, which is the armpit of SEC basketball. You could see this coming a mile away. Yesterday's blog post reluctantly picked Auburn to win. I just had this sinking feeling that we were in for a long night. Give some credit to Alabama for pulling out a lot of close games. But the signs of what happened last night could been seen all season long.
Here is what will happen the remainder of the season. We will win more than we lose and we'll look bad in doing so. We won't go to the NCAA and we don't deserve to go. I expect we will go to the NIT, get selected to host a couple of home games, and continue to live on life support. This is the Mark G. scenario all over again. Grant better find some recruiters and someone to coach offense or he's in real trouble. How bad were we? Our football team score more points against Auburn than our basketball team managed.
I stil have a lot of faith in Grant. He knows this is unacceptable. Let's see what he does about it. As all of you know I fought hard to get Grant to come to Alabama. Don't think for one moment that I won't fight just as hard to see him go if things don't improve. I like Grant. I love Alabama. I know exactly where my loyalty lies.
I'm not the coach, but here is a novel idea - someone shoot the damn ball.
low point in grants' tenure
Some fans are going to say that the defensive effort was missing in the second half as well. I'm not going to take anything away from a dismal Auburn team for beating Alabama. The Tigers played hard, but when you can't score, and I mean literally, eventually you will quit playing defense. That's what the Tide did in Lee County on Wednesday night. This loss ranks right up there with the David Hobbs debacle in 1998. That night finished any discussion of Coach Hobb's future at Alabama. Whether the heat grows as much from the ineptness shown last night remains to be seen. Last night's game was painful to watch.
Clearly, the Tide has some depth problems. This is where your head coach earns his money. Most coaches do well with an abundance of talent. Great coaches do well with a scarcity of talent. Alabama has talent. But it's all at the guard position. I think Alabama might have won last night if the Tide could figure out a way to keep Moussa Gueye in the game. When Gueye picked up his 4th foul things fell apart. Here's another way of expressing how bad last night was - we gave up only 49 points and lost by 12. It wasn't like Auburn was killing us on defense. Bama could have easily scored 40 in the first half but they couldn't make a basket. In the second half they almost couldn't find a shot. Alabama's allowing to the clock to get to 10 seconds before really getting into an offensive set is just poor coaching. if the guys on the floor can't do what you ask find some other guys on the bench who will.
We can't even throw the ball into the post without all sorts of chaos occurring. Any ball thrown to Nick Jacobs is an adventure in abject futility. We are so fundamentally unsound that we cant 'even get the post player to meet the ball on an entry pass. It's not like the entry passes are a thing of beauty to begin with. This wasn't Duke doing this to us. This was Auburn, which is the armpit of SEC basketball. You could see this coming a mile away. Yesterday's blog post reluctantly picked Auburn to win. I just had this sinking feeling that we were in for a long night. Give some credit to Alabama for pulling out a lot of close games. But the signs of what happened last night could been seen all season long.
Here is what will happen the remainder of the season. We will win more than we lose and we'll look bad in doing so. We won't go to the NCAA and we don't deserve to go. I expect we will go to the NIT, get selected to host a couple of home games, and continue to live on life support. This is the Mark G. scenario all over again. Grant better find some recruiters and someone to coach offense or he's in real trouble. How bad were we? Our football team score more points against Auburn than our basketball team managed.
I stil have a lot of faith in Grant. He knows this is unacceptable. Let's see what he does about it. As all of you know I fought hard to get Grant to come to Alabama. Don't think for one moment that I won't fight just as hard to see him go if things don't improve. I like Grant. I love Alabama. I know exactly where my loyalty lies.
I'm not the coach, but here is a novel idea - someone shoot the damn ball.
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