🏀 Alabama Improves to 4-0 in Blowout Victory over Mercer
- Thread starter Brandon Van de Graaff
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It just finish here!
Yep.
Try to hard to get the 100's!
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The No. 22/22 Alabama men's basketball team claimed its fourth-straight win to open the 2023-24 season with a 98-67 win over the Mercer Bears Friday night inside Coleman Coliseum.
The Crimson Tide (4-0) connected on 14 of its first 16 shots from the field and never looked back, leading by as many as 38 points (97-59) before settling for the 31-point victory.
Alabama was led by Mark Sears' 26 points and six assists to help the Tide extend its home winning streak to 19 straight wins, 15 of which have been won by double-digits. In addition to Sears' output, Nick Pringle (14), Jarin Stevenson (14) and Aaron Estrada (10) also scored double digits.
The Bears (1-3) were led by Jalyn McCreary scoring 17 points and collecting eight rebounds.
Head Coach Nate Oats Postgame Comments
"I thought it was a good start. We shot 79 percent in the first half, that's pretty good offense. I didn't think we did a great job of playing like we needed to the whole 20 minutes of the second half and sometimes it's hard when you're up (big). We got up by 30 at one point, but we didn't close the game well and we have to start doing a better job of that. We've got some depth I think we've been able to play, it looks like all our scholarship guys are double digit minutes tonight."If you look at these next seven games coming up, we've got some tough ones so we need to be ready to go. We've got a week off between games and Ohio State is going to be tough. Their guard is much better than what we've been guarding. Our defense could have improved, but I think it was a good first four games for us. Particularly with a new squad I thought the chemistry had been good. We took care of the ball for the most part tonight. Large portion of the game we had no turnovers to a team that was second in country in turnover rate on defense. Lots of good things again, but we got some work to do here next week before we play Ohio State"
Bammerboy321
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Missed the game, but watched the highlights. I love how Oats is ripping into the team's ass still when Alabama is up big. He hates complacency as much as Saban and it's great to see. We're much better at guard than I'd thought. Mainly because Estrada is just patient ball handler who knows exactly which lanes to attack to break down the D. Stevenson is probably going to be a one and done if he keeps this up.
Still think we need more physicality on D. I hope it'll improve as the season goes on, but we have a ways to go to match the 2020 and last season's D.
Lastly, Musselman and Arkansas lost last night to UNC Greensboro. So that makes me happy.
Still think we need more physicality on D. I hope it'll improve as the season goes on, but we have a ways to go to match the 2020 and last season's D.
Lastly, Musselman and Arkansas lost last night to UNC Greensboro. So that makes me happy.
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