Orange and Blue Hue » For Young Gators, a New Task Awaits…

Fittingly enough, Florida opens SEC tournament play with Alabama - the exact same school they faced in their first ever SEC game. The Gators enter with an 18 game postseason winning streak, but as we’re all well aware, that was back when the Fab Five took the court. Lose this, and we’re packing our bags for the Not Invited Tournament. As for X’s and O’s, if we can shut down Alonzo Gee and/or Richard Hendrix, we’ll do fine. That is easier said than done, however.

In the majority of their regular-season SEC games, Florida has let a player on the opposition either score 20 points or come really close to that number. For four of those games, they let two players score 20 points. Twice, they let someone score 30. And in the rout they lost to Tennessee, they let three players score a score. Simply put, when opposing teams play UF, their star players magically morph into All-Americans and future lottery picks - if only for one night.

Guess what? Alabama was one of the four 20-20 games and one of the two 30-point scorer games (The Tide’s Alonzo Gee was the first, Georgia’s Sundiata Gaines the second) So chances are high that those two will cause trouble for Florida all night long. However, if Marreese Speights can frustrate Hendrix and put him into foul trouble, Gee will be forced into taking a lot of risky shots. Conversely, if one of our guards successfully defends Gee, Hendrix will forced to pound the glass all night - and take a lot of risks in the offensive foul department.

And one factor in Florida’s favor? They don’t have to play this game at Alabama anymore. For me, this game is too close to call. However, I like the fact that this UF squad has faced Bama before.

Let’s make the Tuscaloosa Tide regret that they ever signed with a football school.

P.S.: Sorry I don’t have any pictures. The Mac I’m writing this on hasn’t been very kind to me.

8 Comments so far

Well, here we go again. I swear them off, then there’s a game on and what do I do? Schedule the night to watch it. It’s like heavy drinking before a 3pm kick off early in September. You know how it’s going to end (again, sorry UPD) but you can’t control yourself.

Go Gators, let’s beat Bama so you can screw up my Friday by being forced to watch you play Miss St.

Drink Kentucky Bourbon it makes everything better.

Nothing like some Jim…now roll tide roll

I hate bourbon, but I will drink some Bushmills for the game. Ummmm, Daniel, I don’t know Jim but i’ll take your word on that.

He means Mr. Beam, Urb. Mr. Jim Beam

As for me, probably just a glass of lemonade. Not Mike’s Hard, though.

Luck’s in the Cards for ol’ Louisville.

Isnt Daniel a UK fan? Urban you seem to disassociate yourself from the team lately saying “you” and “them” when referring to the Gators instead of “we.” I dont know if thats how you always talk abou them, but I noticed it this week. Its a theory called Cutting-off-reflected-failure as opposed to Basking-in-reflected-glory.

Daniel is just a muck-raker.

If he had a brain he would be cheering for UF to beat the much bigger and much more athletic Bama team which is far more likely to beat his undersized Cats.

But he’s just a hater.

That’s okay Daniel, in about a week, UK’s season will be over and you can crawl back into your hole until December.

GB…

I refer to the Gator teams in that manner all the time…

After all…

I’m not out there on the field/court playin’…

Those guys deserve the credit…

I just buy the tickets…

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