🏀 Alabama Men’s Basketball Falls On The Road at No. 22 LSU, 90-76

[rocknthefreeworld]

This team will have a hard time coming back being 18 down. They can't hit anything right now.

 

[rick4bama]

ROLL TIDE!!!

 

[BamaFan334]

I mean, make 70% of the damn wide open layups we've missed and we're within six points. The fouling has got to stop. They were in the bonus with 13 minutes left in the freaking half. Not sure what the heck is going on from three. What, 1-16 from three after a 2-3 start?

 

[#80]

Getting beat in every phase of the game.

 

[bama alum]

Good start to the second half

 

[BamaFan334]

Lazy bullshit inbounds pass. You can't come back being lazy.

And I'm with the announcers. These are some soft ass rims and somehow LSU is getting every soft bounce from them.

 

[planomateo]

"Elasticity is a big word." Are there any commentors worth a shit?

 

[BamaFan334]

Well, I am very very happy we came out swinging in the second half and haven't given up, BUT we just get over the hump tonight. LSU simply is automatic inside the paint with their runners and floaters. It's money in the bank tonight and we just can't consistently hit from three which causes us to never get unit under nine, then quickly goes back to 13, and we just can't get over the hump. Petty has lost confidence or something tonight from three.

 

[bama alum]

"Elasticity is a big word." Are there any commentors worth a shit?

Hey, man...Guys are using girl scout cookies as metaphors.

 

[mando]

Watched until half and had a few things to do so just turned it back on. What I saw in the first half was not a lot of energy from the team. On the defensive end, LSU was easily getting into the lane and hitting high percentage short jumpers time after time. On offense everyone was standing around watching the guy with the ball dribble around. Not going to win a road game without playing with a lot of energy and just standing around. I assume they played better coming out of the half but at that point you have let the game get away from you.

 

[#80]

We lost on the road to a more talented team. The outcome did not surprise me about what I expected.

 

[BamaFan334]

LSU had 13 more free throws than us. I said it at half, we fouled WAY too much in the first half, and that in itself is the difference. Take the crappy shooting out of the game, fouling in the first half killed us. Missed layups also hurt as. We got to the rim and could not finish, even without being defended at the rim.

 

[#80]

LSU had 13 more free throws than us. I said it at half, we fouled WAY too much in the first half, and that in itself is the difference. Take the crappy shooting out of the game, fouling in the first half killed us. Missed layups also hurt as. We got to the rim and could not finish, even without being defended at the rim.

I agree we must learn to defend without fouling.

 

[UA Press Release]

Alabama Men’s Basketball Falls On The Road at No. 22 LSU, 90-76 - Alabama Athletics

BATON ROUGE, La. – The Alabama men's basketball team fell short against No. 22 LSU, 90-76, on Wednesday night at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

rolltide.com

BATON ROUGE, La. – The Alabama men's basketball team fell short against No. 22 LSU, 90-76, on Wednesday night at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

The Tigers (16-4, 7-0 SEC) maintained their grasp on first place by claiming the league-best ninth straight win by using a strong first half performance which allowed them to hold and 18-point lead at intermission. The Crimson Tide (12-8, 4-3) mounted a second half comeback and twice cut the lead to single digits but could not get any closer than nine points.

Alabama freshman Jaden Shackelford led the team with 21 points on 7-of-19 shooting from the field and career-high tying five three-pointers. It marked his third game of the season scoring 20 or more points. Junior Alex Reese tied his season-high of 17 points, sinking three treys and a pair of blocks. Sophomore Kira Lewis Jr. added 13 points, 11 of which came in the second half, and a game-high eight assists.

LSU was led by Emmitt Williams who finished with 23 points and 11 boards, along with Skylar Mays who notched 18 points on the night. Trendon Watford added 17 points and a game-high 15 boards.

Coach Nate Oats Postgame Comments

"This was definitely not our best effort. We've been playing a lot better than that. We knew they were good. We listened to some of Coach (Will) Wade's comments leading into the game. I think he kind of got on his guys, so we knew we were going to get a pretty good effort. Our effort didn't match theirs in the first half. They destroyed us on the boards. That's two games in a row now where we just can't rebound the ball. It just caused major problems. I thought our effort was better in the second half, but it just wasn't enough. When you give up that big of a lead, give up 51 points in the first half, you really dig yourself a hole against a team like this that plays as hard as they do. That many points in the first half is going to be too hard to overcome. I thought our guys showed some fight in the second half. We did a lot better – I think we cut it to nine twice. We only had nine turnovers for the game. So now the first time you cut it to nine we turn the ball over, they score, turn it over immediately on the inbounds play and then they score again, and it goes right up to 13. We just couldn't get over the hump so a lot of credit to them. They're a hard-playing team. There's a reason they're first place in the SEC."

Team Stats

• The Crimson Tide was outrebounded 49-31, which marked the second consecutive game UA lost the battle of the boards after getting outrebounded by 12 (45-33)
• Prior to the last two contests, Alabama had only been outrebounded five times in 18 games
• The Tigers outscored the Tide 19-6 at the foul line, as LSU hit 19-of-20 (95.0 percent) from the charity stripe marking the 11th time in 20 games an opponent has shot 75 percent or better from the charity stripe
• Freshman Jaylen Forbes earned a career-high seven points in his 13 minutes of action
• Shackelford (14) and Reese (10) both attempted career highs in three-point field goals combining for 24 of the Tide's 38 attempts on the night
• It marked Shackelford's fourth consecutive double-digit scoring game and his 13th overall on the season
• Junior Herbert Jones added seven points and led the team with eight rebounds and three charges drawn to earn his 11th Hard Hat Award on the year

First Half

• LSU jumped out to an early 10-7 lead at the first media timeout
• After Alabama cut the LSU lead to 25-23 at the 10:03 mark, the Tigers went on an 18-2 run to extend its lead to 43-25 with 5:47 left in the half
• The 18-point deficit would remain the same as the teams headed to the locker rooms with LSU leading 51-33
• Reese led the Tide with 10 points at half

Second Half

• Alabama opened the half on a 10-4 spurt to cut the deficit to 55-43 at the 17:20 mark of the second half
• After cutting the LSU lead to 62-53 at the 13:14 mark, the Tigers converted on three consecutive empty Alabama possessions to stretch its lead back to 15, 68-53, at the 11:53 mark
• Alabama again cut it to nine, 70-61, with 9:21 left to play, but LSU would answer with six of the next seven points to stretch its lead to 14 with less than eight minutes remaining
• The Crimson Tide never got any closer than 11 the rest of the way

Alabama will return to action on Saturday afternoon as it returns home to face the Arkansas Razorbacks. Tipoff is slated for 5 p.m. CT and will be televised on SEC Network.

 

[PurlJam]

Better make shots because we will more than likely get destroyed on the glass.

Spot on..... out rebounded 49-31...we had 11 offensive rebounds, hard to win if you miss a shot and you're one and done on the offensive side of the court.... on the sunny side, we beat them 43 - 39 in the second half.

 

[BamaFan334]

I agree we must learn to defend without fouling.

LSU was 95% from the line, missed one free throw. I'd take my chances all day long with them shooting jumpers and floaters at even 50% from the field. Missouri hung in tight with us because of 31-31 from the line. Not sure if that comes with the territory of being a much more aggressive defensive team or if our opponents have just been the benefactors of new age tit for tat officiating.

 

[RTB X Bot]

 

[OldPlayer]

Alabama played sloppy. Poor passing and throwing up trash. SMH.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

Huge statement... so a team has a little success and then they start slacking.

Skip: You guys. You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry!

Larry: Lollygaggers!

 

[mando]

Huge statement... so a team has a little success and then they start slacking.

Skip: You guys. You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry!

Larry: Lollygaggers!

If they have been slacking in practice (seems like they have) it has shown up in the last 2-3 games. On the rebounding issue, Never playing organized basketball but I assume like with anything there is some technique into blocking out that helps but some of it is also just good old fashion want to.