Coming Alabaman game

[markay714]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...ections-injury

Do we really want to be their next opponent or are they going to have to get some campus walkons to field a team from suspensions against Tech?

[HogDawg]

Same thing happened to us last year at UAB. We finished the game at UAB with 4 players.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/01/loui...cted-uab-brawl

[markay714]

Remember it well!

[rockdog]

Crazy that Bama actually won the last 10:30 of the game playing 3 on 5!

[sportdawg]

Crazy that Bama actually won the last 10:30 of the game playing 3 on 5!

We did the same against UAB - not as close as Bama. But we outscored them

[TECHLAX]

Will they have to serve a suspension?

[Blue Dawg]

I dont feel great about this. We seem to get every team's best performance in games like this.

[Dwayne From Minden]

I dont feel great about this. We seem to get every team's best performance in games like this.

Because teams KNOW we are good -

They KNOW that they can't afford to over look us -

All the wringing of hands and worry I think are kinda strange given our history of the past 5 years or so on the road against teams from the A-5 conferences - 9/10 times we give them all they want and usually have a shot to win it at the end, even last year at a final four team in South Carolina

BTW - Bama is really good this year, could easily finish 2nd in the SEC behind UK

That said - I don't know how their roster will shake out, I believe if you are ejected you have to sit the next game - but I don't know if that's for just throwing a punch or if its an NCAA rule or just a conference rule

[Blue Dawg]

Because teams KNOW we are good -

They KNOW that they can't afford to over look us -

All the wringing of hands and worry I think are kinda strange given our history of the past 5 years or so on the road against teams from the A-5 conferences - 9/10 times we give them all they want and usually have a shot to win it at the end, even last year at a final four team in South Carolina

BTW - Bama is really good this year, could easily finish 2nd in the SEC behind UK

That said - I don't know how their roster will shake out, I believe if you are ejected you have to sit the next game - but I don't know if that's for just throwing a punch or if its an NCAA rule or just a conference rule

I think we have a reasonable shot to win it (42% or so). I don't normally think of Bama as a basketball school, they've been improving the last few years, and somehow we catch them on the way up. That's what I meant.

Don't think I'm wringing hands. Football has taught me a valuable lesson this year about expectations for Tech sports, maybe this year it'll stick.

Still think we have a pretty good season. 23 wins is my benchmark (54% of scenarios I tested). Outside shot at 27 wins. Regular season, of course.

[Dawg06]

I think we have a reasonable shot to win it (42% or so). I don't normally think of Bama as a basketball school, they've been improving the last few years, and somehow we catch them on the way up. That's what I meant.

Don't think I'm wringing hands. Football has taught me a valuable lesson this year about expectations for Tech sports, maybe this year it'll stick.

Still think we have a pretty good season. 23 wins is my benchmark (54% of scenarios I tested). Outside shot at 27 wins. Regular season, of course.

KenPom only gives us a 13% chance to win tonight.

[Blue Dawg]

KenPom only gives us a 13% chance to win tonight.

Still early. KenPom is better than I am especially so early.

I take my number to mean we'll keep it close for a while then Bama will get hot from 3 like all the teams we play and we'll lose by 20.

But I don't know if a while is 35 minutes or 5.

[PawDawg]

I believe if you are ejected you have to sit the next game - but I don't know if that's for just throwing a punch or if its an NCAA rule or just a conference rule

I can't find it in the NCAA rules. Wasn't the ejection/sitting our of Boykins last year a C-USA ruling?

NCAA Men's Basketball Rule 10, Article 2, Section J states:
Any individual who leaves the bench area and enters the playing court but does not participate in a fight shall not be assessed a technical foul. That individual shall be ejected but is not subject to suspension.

[Dwayne From Minden]

Can't compare football to basketball -

Basketball and baseball are legit upper 3rd national teams, football is not...

[Dixonfor6]

Avery Johnson has brought very highly rated recruits into Tuscaloosa. They start I think 4 freshmen. Maybe we catch them still in their learning curve.. but they may click late and make a great push. They have a fantastic coach.

[HogDawg]

Avery Johnson has brought very highly rated recruits into Tuscaloosa. They start I think 4 freshmen. Maybe we catch them still in their learning curve.. but they may click late and make a great push. They have a fantastic coach.

I'm not real crazy about Avery Johnson. He never really had to pay his dues like everyone else in the NBA, and some of his bad decisions cost the Dallas Mavericks the 2006 NBA Championship (won by Dwyane Wade and Miami). In fact, that 2006 NBA Final was a classic "choke job" by Avery Johnson.

Johnson got his first asst coaching job under Don Nelson in Dallas in late 2004, and 5 months later Nelson resigned. Essentially, Johnson was handed the keys to a brand new Ferrari, that he played no part in building. But the organization got behind him and propped him up. Obviously he won a lot of games, even being named NBA "Coach of the Year" in 2006. But YOU too could have done well coaching those Maverick teams from 2004 thru 2008.

Avery Johnson was a big time underachiever as head coach of the Dallas Mavericks. He couldn't win playoff games. The longer Johnson stayed in Dallas, the worse his Maverick teams performed in the playoffs, despite have superior talent. (The Mavs eventually won the 2011 NBA title 3 years after Avery left.)

From Wikipedia:

"In the 2006–07 season, Avery Johnson's Mavericks had the best record in the NBA with 67 wins and entered the playoffs as the top seed. However, his Mavericks lost to the eighth-seeded Golden State Warriors, led by former Mavericks head coach Don Nelson, in one of the biggest upsets in recent NBA history."

"Following the 2007–08 season, the Mavericks under Johnson were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs for the second year in a row. A day later, on April 30, 2008, Johnson was dismissed as head coach of the Mavericks."

That's right, his mentor big Daddy Don Nelson, took Johnson to the woodshed and reminded him who was boss. After that, it was all down hill until the Mavericks forced Johnson out.