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UAB basketball players may not know Spanish but they will know each other after trip to Spain

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The loss of Frazier leaves a void at point guard and it won't be easily filled. Sophomore Denzell Watts recently had surgery and will be out three months.

Freshman Nick Norton is handling that role now. Denzell Collins, an incoming junior college player, will be in the mix too, but not yet, and not in Spain. Brown, a transfer, who can play multiple positions, could also help there.

"Right now in practice today, we basically have one point guard that's a freshman," Haase said. "We'll see as time goes on how that competition unfolds."

The coach is taking 10 players on the trip to Spain. At least of couple players can't go because they had to be in school during the summer.

Norton is probably the best point guard on the team anyway, but I was expecting Watts to play a lot of minutes too. When Watts comes back, I don't really anticipate Collins playing much, provided Norton is able to handle the pressure and adjust to the college game.

This season may be a bit rougher than I had initially anticipated. We really need the point guard situation to work itself out before we play the CUSA teams with their trapping defensive sets.

Anybody visit any summer scrimmages lately?

With Watts out, Not only will we lose all three games in the Bahamas but we may lose every game by 30. Don't care how good a point guard Norton is, he is a freshman playing in his first D1 games going against the best teams in the country. I may not even watch the carnage.

He also needs to work on his underhanded free throws.

If he's out 3 months after his surgery, which was sometime ago, he might be good to play by then. If he's out three months from today, aka 11/14/14, he'd still make back in time for the start of the season right?

Either way the start of the season likely won't be pretty with a vastly undersized true freshman, an unknown Juco player, and an injured sophomore as our primary ball handlers..

I'm not sure what to realistically expect from next year. The pessimist in me thinks we will have a worse record than last year based on our inexperience and tough schedule. The optimist in me says we have a lot of talent and could be a bit better than last year. I still don't know if that's good enough for any post season... Is that good enough for year 3?? So many questions!

This is the most discouraged I have ever been going into a season...and that includes all of the Murry and Mike Davis years.

(08-14-2014 09:25 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I may not even watch the carnage.

Have fun not watching, then.

(08-14-2014 10:21 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  This is the most discouraged I have ever been going into a season...and that includes all of the Murry and Mike Davis years.

It's tough to see it going well, but we should have a lot of young talent who will have to play. I'm more excited about this year than I was with the group we had returning last year.

(08-15-2014 12:24 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(08-14-2014 10:21 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  This is the most discouraged I have ever been going into a season...and that includes all of the Murry and Mike Davis years.

It's tough to see it going well, but we should have a lot of young talent who will have to play. I'm more excited about this year than I was with the group we had returning last year.

I'm not talking about the entire season. we still play in CUSA afterall. I was talking about the Atlantis tournament.