Grant needs to step down...
Flashback to the end of the first half of last night. Retin Obasahan steps to the free throw line to shoot a one and one. The Tide has a five point lead and it could stretch to seven. He misses. What happened after that is the kind of tragedy that only an Anthony Grant team could muster up to lose a basketball game. A foul, a technical foul, some gifted stupidity, and a lack of situational coaching cost Alabama a basketball game.Sure, there was an entire half to be played. That was just the second act of a normal basketball game coached by Anthony Grant. Levi Grant, an All-SEC type player took one shot as I recall. The Tide ran no set plays for the senior. We ran no plays for senior Rodney Cooper as well. Anyone who knows basketball knows that you win game with the ball in the hands of your best players. You lose games by doing stupid things. The Tide did a ton of those things, but none more stupid that Michael Kessens pushing a ball into the face of an opposing player near the end of the second half. I agree it wasn't egregious enough to warrant a technical foul. That's not the point. It simply wasn't necessary. The point is that a well coached team doesn't do those things. Instead of going into the second half with the momentum, the Tide handed the big M back to Vanderbilt.The Tide couldn't duplicate the first half surge again, and the Commodores took advantage of of a porous Crimson defense. Alabama just wasn't ready to play, and how does that happen? How does a coach not sense that?
It was sickening. It was so Anthony Grant. It is the new Alabama basketball program. It's time for it to end. When Mark Gottfried was fired we had some real problems. In all fairness to Mark Gottfried we were not a terrible program. Things were declining. Grant inherited a less than perfect program. In six years he as turned the Alabama Crimson Tide into a non-competitive program. When the final draft of the obituary of Grant's tenure is written it will reflect that a young coach with a sterling future, took the second best basketball program in SEC history and turned it into a total and absolute failure. And that, my Crimson brothers, took some real effort on his part.
I'm not suggesting that Grant did any of this on purpose. I'm sure that in his mind he did all he could do. He has his good points. Not many, but you was a fine man in his personal life from all I have gathered. He didn't stand bad conduct by any team member. That was one reason why I was surprised to see Kessens on the floor in the second half.He never acknowledged the warm welcome he received from the Alabama nation. Fans became something of a nuisance to him in my way of thinking. He is a cold fish. That doesn't make him a bad person. It just doesn't help him in tough times. I fought hard to get him. His failure is surprising as much as it is monumental. So, let me say, I'm sorry for my strong desire to get him to Tuscaloosa. How anything that seemed so logical could end up so bad. The simplest answer is usually a the best answer. He doesn't have the personality to attract the best recruits and he can't coach. It is probably just that simple. I don't advocate firing him in the season. Let him have the remainder of the season to hopefully find something positive. I'm sure that getting Ricky back on the Court might have changed the outcome of this game. I don't think that is the underlying problem in Tuscaloosa. Grant has so little respect that an opposing team was able to shoot over 30 free throws in our building.That's the stat that killed the Tide.We nailed our threes, had less than 10 turnovers, and controlled the boards and still lost.
LATER TONIGHT: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE AUBURN GAME
AND THE FUTURE OF BAMA HOOPS.
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It was sickening. It was so Anthony Grant. It is the new Alabama basketball program. It's time for it to end. When Mark Gottfried was fired we had some real problems. In all fairness to Mark Gottfried we were not a terrible program. Things were declining. Grant inherited a less than perfect program. In six years he as turned the Alabama Crimson Tide into a non-competitive program. When the final draft of the obituary of Grant's tenure is written it will reflect that a young coach with a sterling future, took the second best basketball program in SEC history and turned it into a total and absolute failure. And that, my Crimson brothers, took some real effort on his part.
I'm not suggesting that Grant did any of this on purpose. I'm sure that in his mind he did all he could do. He has his good points. Not many, but you was a fine man in his personal life from all I have gathered. He didn't stand bad conduct by any team member. That was one reason why I was surprised to see Kessens on the floor in the second half.He never acknowledged the warm welcome he received from the Alabama nation. Fans became something of a nuisance to him in my way of thinking. He is a cold fish. That doesn't make him a bad person. It just doesn't help him in tough times. I fought hard to get him. His failure is surprising as much as it is monumental. So, let me say, I'm sorry for my strong desire to get him to Tuscaloosa. How anything that seemed so logical could end up so bad. The simplest answer is usually a the best answer. He doesn't have the personality to attract the best recruits and he can't coach. It is probably just that simple. I don't advocate firing him in the season. Let him have the remainder of the season to hopefully find something positive. I'm sure that getting Ricky back on the Court might have changed the outcome of this game. I don't think that is the underlying problem in Tuscaloosa. Grant has so little respect that an opposing team was able to shoot over 30 free throws in our building.That's the stat that killed the Tide.We nailed our threes, had less than 10 turnovers, and controlled the boards and still lost.
LATER TONIGHT: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE AUBURN GAME
AND THE FUTURE OF BAMA HOOPS.
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