| MBB/WBB 🏀 Alabama vs Purdue 🏀 - Tide Falls at No. 13/12 Purdue, 87-78
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Kaufman-Renn will prepare Bama well for when they play the Vols... this goon has brought everything but an iron flail on defense in this one.
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Good thing he can't hit his FTs
Rolltide24
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Tough loss, I thought we’d be able to outscore Purdue. Team stats are pretty similar except shooting percentage, they wore the nets out with 50% FG and 56% from 3. Luckily they weren’t good free throw shooters or it wouldn’t have been close. Hopefully we learned some lessons in this one, they were a better tram than I thought. They lost Eddy and didn’t fall off much.
Bammerboy321
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Watched it. I seriously don't understand why we just don't let Philon run point mainly and have Sears play off ball more. The offense has gotten incredibly lethargic when Sears is running it.
Not a bad loss but we don't look like a top 10 team at all. Last three games have shown that.
Not a bad loss but we don't look like a top 10 team at all. Last three games have shown that.
Bammerboy321
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It needs to hurry up
It's like those old Indiana teams... they play fundamentally sound and don't hurt themselves too much. Just an example tonight, they had 18 assists and only 3 turnovers.
No. 2/2 Alabama Falls at No. 13/12 Purdue, 87-78 - Alabama Athletics
The No. 2/2 Alabama men's basketball team fell at No. 13/12 Purdue, 87-78, Friday Night inside Mackey Arena.
The Crimson Tide drop its first contest of the season
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The No. 2/2 Alabama men's basketball team fell at No. 13/12 Purdue, 87-78, Friday Night inside Mackey Arena. The Crimson Tide held a six-point lead midway through the second half, however, the Boilermakers went on a 13-0 run to take the lead for good and pull out the nine-point win.
Alabama (3-1) was led by Labaron Philon who scored 18 points off the bench on 7-of-10 shooting from the floor and 3-of-4 from deep. Grant Nelson added his first double-double of the season with 12 points and 11 boards in the losing effort.
The Boilermakers (4-0) were led by Trey Kaufman-Renn's 26 points on 12-of-23 shooting, to go along with a team-leading eight rebounds.
Head Coach Nate Oats Postgame Comments
"We schedule these games for a reason; we like to go against the best teams in the country and figure out what we have to work on, and we have plenty to work on because they (Purdue) are good. Braden Smith is one of the best guards in the country and he does not turn the ball over. As a team, they only had three turnovers. We got beat up in the post a little more than what I thought. The coaching staff has to do a better job of preparing our guys to defend the post and we didn't do a good job of getting our shooters open. Give them (Purdue) a lot of credit though, those guards are good and super skilled. We have got some work to do, and we will get back to the drawing board and get better because we have another big game coming up."TEAM STATS
- Both teams hit nine treys, however, the Boilermakers went 9-of-16 (56 percent) compared to the Tide going 9-of-29 (31 percent)
- Alabama held a 33-27 edge in points off the bench, led by Labaron Philon's season-high output, to go along with five rebounds and four assists
- Philon is the first freshman since Brandon Miller to have 18 points 5 rebounds and 4 assists in a game
- Mark Sears finished with 15 points, six assists and four rebounds, while Latrell Wrightsell Jr. added 11
- Alabama held a 65-59 lead with 10:59 left, but Purdue scored 13 straight over the next 2:38 to take a seven-point lead
- The Tide cut it to four points on two separate occasions but could not get any closer
- Alabama finished the contest with only eight turnovers, but Purdue committed only three miscues on the night
FIRST HALF
- Labaron Philon (10 points) and Mark Sears (10) combined to score 20 of Alabama's 40 points in the first half
- The Crimson Tide's bench outscored the Boilermakers' reserves, 22-11
- Trey Kaufman-Renn led all scorers with 13 points in the first half
- Alabama did not make its first three-pointer until the 6:22 mark of the first half
- Purdue went into the break with a 42-40 lead
SECOND HALF
- In the first nine minutes of the second half both teams combined to shoot 59 percent (16-27) with Alabama shooting 8-13 and Purdue converting 8-14 from the field
- Over that stretch, the game featured five ties and five lead changes until the Boilermakers' game-changing run
- Purdue shot 57 percent (16-of-28) from the floor and 83 percent (5-of-6) from beyond the arc
UP NEXT
- Alabama's next contest will be against Illinois on Wednesday, Nov. 20 in the C.M. Newton Classic
- The Crimson Tide will tip-off at 8 p.m. CT with the contest airing live on the SEC Network
So they have a 10 man rotation splitting time. Seems like that should have been enough depth. From the post game seemed like we sturggled to defend especially in the paint which is suprising. Any ideas why Sherrell only got 2 minutes of playing time. I would think he and Omoruyi would be splitting time. Also surprised stevenson only got 14 minutes.
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Only one that I remember
