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

[QueenCityGator]

Twice in a row I’ve started an official game thread! It’s the best week of my life!

So what’s our seeding if we win/lose?

Name and town if you wish to opine.

 

[FireFoley]

Glad we play AU instead of USCe. I think AU is better than USCe, but I think Martin is a better coach than Pearl and think Pearl's teams are more prone to play wild and less fundamental hoops than Martin's teams.

 

[rogdochar]

1) Love these one game every day tournaments. Gotta be a great process for our youngsters to learn, for corrective development. (maybe for our coach to learn, too?)

2) Hoping the tiredness-factor burdens our opponents more than us. (poor Locke cursed by hip injury)

3) We need Stokes to be worthy of more minutes. Seems like Stokes could be sacrificed to play tight & rough to get their bigs in foul trouble. At least see if that works as a weapon and as spelling ole "full-speed Hayes".

4) Time to hit good % on our 3s i.e. Allen, Locke, Nembhard, Hudson, KJ.

5) Time to see Hudson play with top-speed & effectiveness.

6) Go Gators, play steady, beat Auburn --- get that 20th win

 

[UFHealthGator]

 

[Musclepug]

Pearl is a tool, F him!!

 

[Jbossgator8]

It will be a tough game no doubt. We are playing in our 3 game in 3 days and our starters played a ton of minutes this past game in a very physical game. Will we get the benefit of the foul calls this game? Can we limit and/or defend AU's big time 3 point shooting? AU likes to run and gun so we will have to slow the game down and make them use shot clock to frustrate them. ESPN gives AU a 67% chance to beat us so can we pull off the monumental upset? AU beat us pretty good when we played back in January but we are a much different team now. Go Gators!!

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

Tired legs might factor into Auburn's 3-point shooting. They're also on their 3rd game in 3 days. I fully believe whichever team wins this game is just walking into a buzzsaw against UK or UT, anyway.

 

[maheo30]

This guy is a complete idiot. I hope our guys kick his azz.

 

[Thick&ThinG8r]

Tired legs might factor into Auburn's 3-point shooting. They're also on their 3rd game in 3 days. I fully believe whichever team wins this game is just walking into a buzzsaw against UK or UT, anyway.

I agree, wouldn't mind if we made a good showing and bowed out and saved our legs for next week, but beating Pearl's sweaty a$$ would be great also.

 

[MertzJay26]

Tired legs might factor into Auburn's 3-point shooting. They're also on their 3rd game in 3 days. I fully believe whichever team wins this game is just walking into a buzzsaw against UK or UT, anyway.

I’d like another shot at UT....UK not so much.

 

[LeeForThree]

Florida takes on Auburn today at 1 PM EST on ESPN. Gotta fight and score, while playing defense and rebounding

GO GATORS!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[LeeForThree]

Twice in a row I’ve started an official game thread! It’s the best week of my life!

So what’s our seeding if we win/lose?

Name and town if you wish to opine.

Probably a 10 seed currently imo. A 9 seed if we win

In reality we could be a 12 seed play in game right now or if we lose or an 11 or 10. It's all over the place right now

 

[QueenCityGator]

The winner of an 11 seed play in game would play in Hartford, which is near where I live in Boston. It’d be cool to watch them play up here (I wasn’t up here many years ago when they played at NH).

 

[LeeForThree]

Gotta stop Auburn from getting transition points and 3pters

Game time!!!!!

 

[itsgr82bag8r]

Fk that cheating, low rent, scumbag azzwipe.

 

[LeeForThree]

Auburn torching our offense with close defense right now

 

[LeeForThree]

3 turnovers and 3 bad shots

 

[LeeForThree]

4 turnovers. **** offense

 

[LeeForThree]

Florida is down 5-2 at the under 16 timeout. Not one good look in the half court. Pearl owning this hand off offense

 

[LeeForThree]

Florida is up 14-7 at the under 12 timeout. Locke with 5 straight