Gator Basketball Gators bumble their way to a loss against Auburn, bow out of SEC tourney

[oxrageous]

I’ve come to the conclusion Law and Ox would make excellent Bama fans. If it ain’t football, it is to be belittled and ridiculed, in their little world. Must be sad to have a one dimensional mind.

I'm sorry? I watch most of the basketball games, dork. I've also spent the last decade belittling and ridiculing the football program, because it deserved to be.

We speak honestly here. Dishonest people live at Swamp Gas.

 

[Ocalaman]

The team plays hard and has been consistently good on defense all year. Considering how we're always outsized, we rebound very well. There is little to no offensive identity and shooting is very inconsistent. Today it was excellent, but 19 turnovers killed us. We won the rebound battle 30-15, but Hayes had 5 turnovers, Allen had 3 and Hudson & Nembhard had 4 each. Although Hudson & Hayes led in scoring, the turnovers in key situations killed us. White is using a shorter and shorter bench and playing their 3rd game in 3 days, they had to have been leg weary in the 2nd half today. Ballard has disappeared, Locke is playing less and less due to nagging injuries, tokes makes too many mistakes and Bassett gets beat too much on defense. Considering the loss of big men, injuries and the disappointing seasons of Hudson & Allen (pre-season All-SEC), it's pretty incredible we're going to sneak into the Dance.

 

[Dunder]

@Dunder they showed White yelling at the officials at the end with his face red as a beet. Keep up Gator

All I saw was him shaking hands with Pearl immediately afterwards

 

[NVGator]

This.

There has been more ball movement and more balance as the season progressed.

But the horses aren’t there....particularly inside.

What horses are coming in next year for the inside?

 

[Marine1]

I somewhat blame coach for this loss, not for his lack of say fight, but rather they did not adjust their offense while Auburn did adjust their defense. How many turnovers in the second half came from running the same play that worked well in the first.

That said we are probably better off with some more rest for the big time.

Agreed the rest won’t hurt.

Not sure what adjustments he can make offensively. Nembhards t/o’s were a surprise but Hayes and Hudson simply cannot handle the ball. Hayes missed several easy passes to him. Both would be better suited coming off the bench but that’s not really an option. We need size and better ballhandlers to attack and more consistency to rely on the perimeter. We are very limited offensively. The only answer is to recruit better talent. Next years class is a big step in the right direction and will bring a much better analysis of Whites coaching ability.

 

[NVGator]

All I saw was him shaking hands with Pearl immediately afterwards

He looked at the official and yell, “That’s a foul” and then calmly walked over to Sweaty Pearl. He certainly didn’t go off like he should have. Hell, Pearl showed so much discontent with the 10 Second violation call he should have been T’d up. Not White, though. He’s a good young man.

 

[Alumni Guy]

White’s offense is abysmal. There are so many possessions with no movement, no cuts, picks or passing.

If Butters coached roundball, this is what his O would look like.

 

[ChiefGator]

The team plays hard and has been consistently good on defense all year. Considering how we're always outsized, we rebound very well. There is little to no offensive identity and shooting is very inconsistent. Today it was excellent, but 19 turnovers killed us. We won the rebound battle 30-15, but Hayes had 5 turnovers, Allen had 3 and Hudson & Nembhard had 4 each. Although Hudson & Hayes led in scoring, the turnovers in key situations killed us. White is using a shorter and shorter bench and playing their 3rd game in 3 days, they had to have been leg weary in the 2nd half today. Ballard has disappeared, Locke is playing less and less due to nagging injuries, tokes makes too many mistakes and Bassett gets beat too much on defense. Considering the loss of big men, injuries and the disappointing seasons of Hudson & Allen (pre-season All-SEC), it's pretty incredible we're going to sneak into the Dance.

So coach benches those that don't play well or are injured? What else would you expect. Now in the second half too many forced passes into the post.

 

[MertzJay26]

What horses are coming in next year for the inside?

Bofa who plays C should be huge

 

[Frozen Gator]

Auburn is a better team. They are faster, have a better center, shoot better and play defense about as good as us. We had a gritty fantastic effort and some bad bounces that on another day could have gone our way. When the game is that close you allow the officials to sometimes decide the game, didn't go our way. I'm proud of our team! Go Gators

 

[Marine1]

What horses are coming in next year for the inside?

Not completely sold on Payne yet inside. He’ll be a more polished scorer than Hayes for sure though.

Lewis and Mann bring a slasher as well as a shooter and another ball handler.

 

[Great White Buffalo]

What horses are coming in next year for the inside?

Omar Payne, #43 overall and the #11 center in the class. Ignorance or obstinance?

 

[NVGator]

Omar Payne, #43 overall and the #11 center in the class. Ignorance or obstinance?

Can’t wait to hear the excuses next year.

 

[oxrageous]

Can’t wait to hear the excuses next year.

How can you belittle the basketball program? You must be a Bama fan.

 

[NVGator]

How can you belittle the basketball program? You must be a Bama fan.

Clearly there are fans here who know it all and then there’s us, the casual fan that watching basketball games, uses their intellect to judge what we see yet secretly are Bama fans.

 

[MJMGator]

Everyone knows Ox is a Barner and NV follows that HS team in the desert conference.

 

[LeeForThree]

What horses are coming in next year for the inside?

Not much unless it's a grad transfer

Nembhard
Locke/Mann
Lewis
Keyontae
Stokes/Payne/Transfer/Gak/Bassett/Jitobah? (I think we made the top 3)

That would be our starting lineup imo

 

[Great White Buffalo]

Can’t wait to hear the excuses next year.

I haven't made any excuses this year, why would I next year. I've said on multiple occasions that we have a lack of talent, and Mike White is responsible for that. He's had two good classes in a row, he'll have the talent next year. If he doesn't put it together, I'll join all of you on the dumper bandwagon.

 

[oxrageous]

If we storm through the tourney and win it all, I will give White another year.

 

[Marine1]

Omar Payne, #43 overall and the #11 center in the class. Ignorance or obstinance?

Ignorance on my part. Just haven’t seen him play much.