| MBB/WBB đźŹ€ #5 Alabama vs. #12 Oklahoma 🏀 - Tide rolls over Oklahoma 107-70 as Sears surpasses 1,500 career points

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Nate Oats' reactions after a bad defensive play, like a violently pissed off marionette, yelling at the other puppets behind him will never not amuse me.​
 

The Crimson Tide start conference play 1-0 following a dominant performance at home

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. –
The No. 5/6 Alabama Men's Basketball team picked up its first win of the conference schedule with a 107-79 win over the No. 12/10 Oklahoma Sooners, Saturday night inside of a sold out Coleman Coliseum.

Mark Sears led the team in points (22) and assists (10), achieving a pair of milestones in the performance. Sears surpassed the 1500-point mark, becoming the 18th player in Crimson Tide history to do so, and reached the 300-assist mark as well.

Alabama (12-2, 1-0 SEC) had five other players in double-figures as well including Labaron Philon's 16 points, Grant Nelson (12), Derrion Reid (11), along with Aden Holloway and Clifford Omoruyi matching with 10 apiece.

Saturday's win marked the largest margin of victory over a ranked opponent under head coach Nate Oats and the largest since the 2004-05 season.

The Sooners (13-1, 0-1 SEC) were led by Jalon Moore's 20 points off 9-of-14 shooting to go with seven rebounds in 29 minutes

Head Coach Nate Oats Postgame Comments

"I thought our guys were pretty locked in tonight. I thought the start was good in the first half. I thought to start the game, we were really locked in on the defensive end. Jeremiah Fears, I think, only had one point at the half; he's been their leading scorer, so I thought our guys were ready to go on him. Defensively, we were much better, then fell off a little bit in the second half when we got a lead. It's one thing we have to work on is playing with an edge when we get a lead.

Offensively, getting the offensive rebounds, getting 22 out of the 40 available rebounds on our offensive end is pretty solid. I thought we took advantage of some of their smaller guards on the offensive boards. I thought our guards got in there and mixed it up pretty good. Offensively, we didn't turn it over much, we had nine.

"Mark had a double-double with 10 assists, I thought he really had the ball moving. You could really see his energy when his teammates were scoring, which is great. We need that out of him. He was more excited about getting 10 assists. I think you saw when he hit Holloway for the one three, that was his ninth and he was fired up. I was happy to see that because we talk about 'Mudita,' vicarious joy through others success. Mark was really happy for his teammates scoring particularly off his passes tonight."

"A lot of stuff to clean up, but a lot of positives on our first game. I think our non-conference schedule prepared us for these games and now we have to go on the road where we've been a little inconsistent. Really good first game though."
 
My forecast? Bama wins the "boards" by double digits.

My lord Alabama is smoking OU on the boards.
51 v 26 total boards. This wasn't too hard to see: I just looked at the box scores going into this game.
Not trying to jinx shit here... but just 5 TO's thus far. Heart warming...
Overlooked point here: As fast as Sears plays? Zero. (Same with Grant.)

Grant's fourth double double: Fishback mentioned on SEC Now that Grant was the MVP of that game. I'd say season, but I'll agree with him on this one.

107 with only 9 threes? Okay. (Could that have been a 40 point win?)

Look at the "+ / -" for both teams last night. OU had one player that was in the '+' category. It was Mohamed Wague (on Bama's squad last season) with a "+2." They had three with '-20' or more. Bama, on the other hand...every one of their players were in the '+' category last night (three, +20 or more.)
 
Be careful now. @musso hates metaphors.

In fairness (to me), my post didn't come with the need for decipherer like your usual mind traps.

Random Post from @musso to the board...
Hey, what's everyone having for lunch today?

@TerryP... I'll put it this way. I was out on my bike this am. Neighbor down the street got a new sofa. Bamboo. A flannel airplane landed on 23rd. Seagulls were flying NNE. Odd for January, bet there's fog later tonight. Manhole cover by the post office. Story for another day. Used to work on Mr. Finley's farm. Figure maybe some cornbread too. I've got an egg from the lighthouse that should work great.
 
@TerryP... I'll put it this way. I was out on my bike this am. Neighbor down the street got a new sofa. Bamboo. A flannel airplane landed on 23rd. Seagulls were flying NNE. Odd for January, bet there's fog later tonight. Manhole cover by the post office. Story for another day. Used to work on Mr. Finley's farm. Figure maybe some cornbread too. I've got an egg from the lighthouse that should work great.
Ya know, that's a damn good prologue.
 
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