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re: Alabama 88 @ Georgia 98 Final - ESPNews

Posted by BamaBravesPackers on 3/6/26 at 8:19 pm to rushball

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that was not the only reason we made the final four. i think i even remember you being a guy who claimed it would take a miracle to beat that top seeded unc. a unc team with one of their most accomplished bigs and guards of all time, along with several pros.

You’re confusing Duke 2025 with UNC in 2024 (which Duke probably wouldn’t appreciate given the rivalry). I said it would take a miracle to beat Duke, and we got crushed. I was ecstatic at the bracket in 2024 as it was absolutely the best we could have hoped for, including getting the 4 seed. I had F4 tickets if we made it and it was an awesome trip to Phoenix to watch us in our first ever F4.

The fact that SECT champ Auburn got the same 4 seed, a harder path, and got knocked out by Yale in the 1st round was just icing on the cake (another example of “hard evidence” that winning the conference tournament was bad. We got rest and prep after being bounced on Friday and made a run, they got tired winning the SECT and couldn’t overcome losing 1 player against a 13 seed).

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also that clemson team was arguably a tougher matchup than what zona would have been anyway because they not only had an excellent frontcourt, which included a legit nba guy but unlike that zona team they could really shoot.

AZ had a physicality that we couldn’t matchup with particularly at the guard position. They could run us off the 3 point line and had rim protection and rebounding to back up their physical guards. If we played them, we would have needed them to have a really bad shooting performance (which was possible with that particular team, but not something we could force them into given our small back court). Clemson was absolutely beatable as their front court was skilled but not dominant physically. We had guys that could play defense and rebound against those types of players (Grant, Pringle, etc.). There’s a reason AZ was the 2 seed and Clemson was the 6, and it wasn’t because Clemson was the harder team to matchup with.

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pretty sure you were also one of the ones who before this season thought aden couldnt be a legit starter

Literally said Holloway would be fine for 90% of the games we play, but his defense and lack of physicality would be a liability against the top 15 teams who have size advantages on their roster (similar to Duke, FL, and even AU from 2024-2025 season). Holloway has definitely played better defense this season, but guess who he was a liability against? Top 15 teams with size…AZ bullied him, FL, Purdue, even Tennessee dominated the glass partly because our less physical guards couldn’t rebound (we were very fortunate their lottery pick got injured and their offense sucks horribly without him). Aden is awesome at offense, but his defensive and physical liabilities showed up exactly where I said they would.

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and that sherrell would most likely suck.

Now you’re just making stuff up. I said our front court was a weakness and it would likely limit our ceiling…that has been 100% true so far. Sherrill was our strongest front court player we had last year and played the best 1:1 post defense against physically strong centers (better than Grant or Cliff). He was our best 3 point shooting front court player last year as well. In no way did I say Sherrell “would most likely suck.”

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it wouldnt be the first time ive seen you have to eat crow and i doubt it would be last.

While this is a factual statement, the tone of it is generally inaccurate. The only definitive take that I can remember having to eat crow over was when I claimed that I didn’t think Jalen Milroe was going to be good enough at reading defenses to win elite games and make a legit playoff run in 2024. I had to eat crow after the UGA win, only to watch him lose 4 out of the next 9 games including an awful win over USCe and proving my take to be correct in the end.

Feel free to bring receipts on others if you want, but I don’t consider game thread banter of responding to a poster that claimed it’s not worth watching the 2nd half of UT or joking about not being man enough to beat UT as “eating crow takes,” especially when it took an injury to their best player and flukish enough things to happen that the coaches joked after the game that we probably deserved to win last years game instead of this years. Feel free to disagree

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