🏀 🏀 #4 Alabama at #14 Mississippi State 🏀 - The Tide outlast State, 88-84, on a Wednesday night road trip

Youngblood and Diaboute were players of the game. Somewhat of an off night I guess offensively and we still score 88. If they could have found a way to guard #12 this would not have been a game. They didnt's so it was tight to the end. How can Bama let these single guys light them up like they do? You would think we would have that one guy that could shut him down. Oats tried everything but no one could guard him.

Take a road win any way you can get it.... Move on to the next one.
 
mando said:
Youngblood and Diaboute were players of the game. Somewhat of an off night I guess offensively and we still score 88. If they could have found a way to guard #12 this would not have been a game. They didnt's so it was tight to the end. How can Bama let these single guys light them up like they do? You would think we would have that one guy that could shut him down. Oats tried everything but no one could guard him.

Take a road win any way you can get it.... Move on to the next one.
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I'm glad it didn't turn into a foul fest. Hubbard is extremely fast with the ball and that can lead to A LOT of contact when defensive feet can't move as fast and he gets into the paint like he does. One has to think Oats and the team are willing to go shot for shot with anyone in the country. We struggle when a lot of fouls get called and it hurts our tempo. A game like tonight had multiple runs by both teams, but fed more into what I think we are willing to concede/battle, over what we would try to steer clear of and avoid.
 

The Crimson Tide were led by Chris Youngblood’s season-high 23 points

STARKVILLE, Miss. – For the third time this season, the No. 4/4 Alabama men's basketball team came away with a road win over an Associated Press top-15 opponent, defeating No. 14/13 Mississippi State 88-84, Wednesday night at Humphrey Coliseum. With the win, Alabama head coach Nate Oats has tied Wimp Sanderson's record for most AP top-25 wins in program, capturing his 25thvictory.

Alabama's (18-3, 7-1 SEC) Chris Youngblood put on a performance scoring a team-high 23 points, setting a new career-high with seven three-pointers while Mark Sears recorded a game-high nine assists. The Crimson Tide's duo of Sears (12 points) and Youngblood (11 points) combined to score 23 of Alabama's 44 points in the second half.

Mississippi State (16-5, 4-4 SEC) was led by Josh Hubbard scoring a career-high 38 points, shooting 14-28 from the field.

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"That was quite the game if you like big shot-making, this was a good game to be at. (Josh) Hubbard is pretty good and we didn't do a very good job on him, but he made some tough shots. I thought Chris (Youngblood) stepped up because he said let me take him and I thought he did the best job of anybody. He (Hubbard) went for 38 points so we have to do a better job, but we made some big plays elsewhere to make up for the fact that we didn't do a good job on Hubbard and we didn't shoot well from the free throw line. They are a tough team and have some of the toughest guys in the league in my opinion. I thought Cliff's (Omoruyi) block saved the game in my opinion because it would have put them up one point with under 30 seconds left. I thought a lot of guys made a lot of big plays and (Mark Sears) had a great bounce back game. A lot of big plays and a huge road win over a really good team."
 
That was a elite win in a tough environment. Didn't think Sears played really good, but man he is facilitating much better than he ever has in his career.

Our switch and PnR defense was atrocious all night. Sherrell, Cliff, Nelson, and Stevenson were just straight garbage all night on that aspect. Thank god State screwed up that late possession to take the lead. Why oh why can't any of our bigs just protect the rim?

Mo D. Nuff said.

I think Philon is slowly getting his groove back but he's not fully back to what we want.
 
Bammerboy321 said:
Oats has never really fired a coach before, but if this defense doesn't ever come around, I do wonder if he'll part ways with Brian Adams after the season.
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Take a minute, if you have it, and look at the defensive numbers from last season versus where they are now. I haven't in a week or two. I know DRtg finished last season at 111th. I'd be willing to bet they are inside the top fifty right now. (Defense, across the NCAA, has been better this season than last.)
 
I'm not a basketball guy. I didn't even watch the game last night. But it seems to me in my somewhat uninformed opinion, that if you beat a top 20 team in their own house, and the only reason it is close is because one guy decided to be Michael Jordan for one night, then that's a pretty good win. I've been told that it's hard to win on the road in the SEC, but Bama has some pretty good road wins, and last night was one of them. Legit question: are the Bulldogs good enough to beat elite teams such as Tennessee and Auburn and Kentucky on their home court? If so then I would say Bama played really well. Except for the free throw shooting. That's just pathetic.
 
Crtuneman said:
Legit question: are the Bulldogs good enough to beat elite teams such as Tennessee and Auburn and Kentucky on their home court?
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You can pick just about any team in the conference and find two or three games they came this close to losing. AU has a few that were at the last minute (as one example.)

IF a team can go on the road and shoot .500 from behind the arc they can beat anyone on the road. (Not unlike Bama going 15-31 from three while shooting 11-20 from the line.)

In case any of you guys missed it...that does make Bama 4-0 on the road in SEC play this season.
 

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