Alabama: more difficult to prepare for this year.

peteswell4 · October 27th, 2009, 01:39 PM

I am a law student at Mercer University, and Mercer's basketball coach spoke to us today. I asked him about Alabama after his talk because Mercer beat Bama last year and we play again this year. He said he thought Bama would be much more difficult to prepare for this year, as opposed to last year. Also, did yall know that Mercer's PG James Florence is the returning leading scorer in the nation? He has averaged over 20 points each of his first three years.

mdb-tpet · November 3rd, 2009, 03:14 PM

I sure do hope Mercer's coach is correct about having more trouble preparing for Alabama's new system.

JDCrimson · November 3rd, 2009, 11:18 PM

I would expect this to be the response of most opposing coaches for these reasons:

Lack of film with Bama running new offensive and defensive systems employed by CAG.
Personnel inherited by CAG that would likely cause him to alter his traditional gameplans somewhat tailored to what the current personnel can do.

I really dont know what to expect from this years team.

Hoot30 · November 4th, 2009, 01:06 PM

	Quote:	JDCrimson
	[*]Personnel inherited by CAG that would likely cause him to alter his traditional gameplans somewhat tailored to what the current personnel can do.[/LIST]I really dont know what to expect from this years team.

If the reports coming out by the beat writers are true, it appears that CAG is attempting to adapt the personnel to his system.