Where do we go from here?

Wishing and hoping, thinking and praying...

  I know that seems like a strange question prior to  the first game is even being played. There is a good possibility that Alabama is going to have a pretty good year. I don't think it is going to a be a 25 win team though They might win close to twenty.  The Pre-SEC schedule is pretty hard. Can you project the year to be really good when you've lost the best point guard in the SEC? It's a pretty tough to believe that two transfer are going to take you to the promised land. How much do you think Jimmie Taylor has improved on the offensive end? Is Shannon Hale going to continue to step up his game and become the team leader?  Will Levi Randolph become a force after disappearing half of last season? Will Cooper ever become a consistent player and approach his talent level, or will he remain an enigma.I've always been taught that the best indicator of future behavior is past behavior. For 'Bama that brings the good, the bad, and the ugly. The biggest question has nothing to do with the players. Question number one is can Grant really get the job done. I hope so but I'm not holding my breath.Whether the team wins or not it is all about Anthony Grant.

Great defensive player

     I also wonder how much three highly rated recruits can help the team that couldn't shoot straight. Truthfully, Alabama's offense was pretty bad last year, but the defense was worse. Had 'Bama played defense the way Grant's teams of the past had played, we might have won 20 games last year. Truthfully, Grant lost his team last team. To his credit, he came very close to making them a pretty good team down the home stretch. Very close in basketball means you are losing. Very close is just another couple words that mean you still aren't winning. None of this means that Anthony Grant isn't a fine human being. After five years he's proved his point. If any Alabama fan says they are satisfied they are one of two things. They are lying or don't think any sport but football matters. He needs to be ready to hire a great coach, and the conversation needs to start something like this - "hello, my name is Bill Battle and I have four million dollars to convince you we are serious about basketball in Tuscaloosa." I thought Grant was the man. Maybe's he's the man who comes before the  man.