🏀 🏀 Auburn vs Alabama 🏀 : No. 2/1 Alabama Falls to No. 1/2 Auburn
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That's a hard reality for some. It sucks, but it's true. Just so happens they and Duke, IMO, are 1A and 1B. I think Bama and Florida are right behind them. It doesn't mean Bama sucks. It doesn't mean Bama can't win it all. SOme fans are just deep into their feelings over it because auburn is better right now and won today.
IMO Auburn played under controlled chaos and Bama didn’t. Unfortunately, when it gets pressure time and step up time late in a game like this Sears becomes a liability trying to do way too much.
But, I still stand by my statement that despite their really high level of play, and ability to main such consistently, I firmly believe they have a glass jaw as a team. If they smell blood in the water, they will eat you alive. But if they look down and notice it's their own blood, they will fold. It almost happened today, with their 2 usual suspects. One who commited a flagrant foul and gave Bama a chance to flip the game on a silver platter (but Bama didn't grab it). And another, earlier, when Bama clawed back to tie it, Broome started his, "I'm hurt and can't walk without a limp" soap opera drama role. Again, Bama didn't sweep their leg and auburn went back on a run... but I've seen enough of those 2 in particular and this auburn team to know, if you take the fight to them, they curl up. But if you play scare, or tight as a drum like Bama did, they will sink you.
I guess there is some good news. Bama out rebounded them and was better from the charity stripe. And bama only had 7 turnovers. Silver lining don’t you think?
The 7 turnovers is pretty amazing. If you had told me Bama would have less than 10 turnovers for the game, I'd have bet a lot of money on The Tide. I think they still had zero turnovers 10 minutes into the game, and that's when Nelson slipped in the lane and traveled.
Without looking, I'm pretty sure that is both the fewest turnovers by Bama in a game this season, YET ALSO the fewest Bama forced in a game. LOL
Was only able to watch parts of the game as I was having to deal with a situation with mom. What did you guys do? How does Bama let the barn turds come onto our home court and get a win where we never led in the game with what sounds like a tremendous atmposphere? Bama is a good team but when pushed at the highest level their weeknesses show up - slow start, poor shooting, D lapses and missed free throws. Oddly it does not seem like turnovers were the issue in this game.
auburn's 3 point defense is really good, even so, I thought Bama had some good looks and just missed. Bama was seeing ghosts in the lane and missed more bunnies than I could count, but again, that is a by product to a degree of auburn's defense. They are tough as hell at the basket... but, today they really didn't seem as good as normal. I think Broome was protecting his shoulder some, but just his mere presence made out guys alter their shots/layups and it let to misses. Overall, I don't think Bama's defense was all that bad... bad moments yes, but auburn made some tough shots and were just flat out hot, especially starting both halves. One last thing, for whatever reason, Bama just hasn't played great at home this season. Not sure why. Example: From 3, they are shooting 30.7% at home. They are shooting 37.5% on the road. 30.7% would put them 315th in the nation from 3. 37.5% would put them 28th. The good news? The tournament games are all on the road...............
What few minutes I saw there was one sequence maybe in the first half where we got a stop drove down the lane and just threw up a shot off the backboard way out of control. The shot had no chance. I was like what the heck that shot never had a chance. No idea what they were thinking but it was out of character from what I had seen this year. The two that I am talking about involved Nelson and Sears.
There was one where Nelson was about to slam it and bring the house down, but he took off a bit too early and realized that he wasn't gonna make it and then tried sorta lay it in and it was a disaster. Like watching giraffe fuck a tree stump.
Sears did the other where he tossed it up flat from the left side I guess expecting to get the foul called or something. Just really poor attempt.
Bammerboy321
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0-2 now when gameday comes here.
TerryP
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The Crimson Tide falls for the second time at home
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama men's basketball team fell to No. 1/2 Auburn Saturday afternoon, 94-85, inside Coleman Coliseum for its second home loss of the season. The Crimson Tide put up 52 points in the second half, but were unable to overcome multiple offensive runs by the Tigers.
The Crimson Tide (21-4, 10-2 SEC) was led offensively by Mark Sears' 18 points and Grant Nelson's 12 points, along with Labaron Philon and Aden Holloway's 10 points each to contribute to the 32-point effort from the bench.
Auburn (23-2, 11-1 SEC) was led by Johni Broome's 19 points, off 7-for-16 shooting from the field, to go along with a game-high 14 rebounds and six assists.
Head Coach
"Obviously it's a disappointing loss. Give Auburn a lot of credit. They're the number one team in the country for a reason. They (Auburn) did a great job, I thought, on the defensive end, trying to take away our threes. We didn't shoot it very well, they contested them. They did a good job contesting our shots at the rim too. They got us off the three-point line to push us in. We had under 50 percent at the rim, can't do that. We didn't convert at the free throw line. As well as their guards did, look at their guards, they were 19-of-21 from the line. Between our free throws, not finishing at the rim, and not getting off as many threes off, and then not making them anywhere close to the level that they made them at, it ends up making the difference.""I told the guys afterwards, when we got beat at home by Tennessee last year on College Gameday, I thought we had a major letdown of leadership on the team. We got to have better leadership this year. We're not in full control of our own destiny to win the league outright, but we're under full control of our own destiny to at least get a tie for the league moving forward. It's not an easy stretch, but the last seven games, I think, are the hardest seven game stretch of anyone in the country at any given point. We got three home games and three road games left in the last six games of the year and we have to bring it. So, our mindset has to be better than they were last year after the home loss after College Gameday was here."
Team Stats
- Alabama won the rebound battle 49-40 despite the loss, with Nelson and Omoruyi grabbing a dozen each
- The Crimson Tide put up 52 points in the second half, compared to its 33 in the first period
- The bench unit totaled 32 points, off a combined 10-for-24 shooting from the field
- Nate Oats' squad scored 19 of its points on the fast break, compared to Auburn's 13
- Alabama shot 27-for-70 (39 percent) from the field, 5-for-26 (19 percent) from three, and 26-for-35 (74 percent) from the charity stripe
24and7
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Bruce Pearl said it best… They practiced like a number one team… They acted like a number one team…They played like a number one team… They are the number one team…Sucks, but he was spot on…
Auburn just appeared to play much better team basketball, instead of one or two guys trying to make highlight reel basketball..Maybe it will make Bama a better team..
Auburn just appeared to play much better team basketball, instead of one or two guys trying to make highlight reel basketball..Maybe it will make Bama a better team..
BamaFan334
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Man, it would not shock me one bit if we beat them at their place. People wanna bitch just to bitch. We were just off from three today, plain and simple. Some Team Me ball played by Sears at the end, but we were just off. Maybe I'm tge least concerned here, but if we're on, we win. I felt we played good defense against Johnny. He just made some very tough shots.
Bammerboy321
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Wouldn't be shocking. We play much better on the road and shoot it better. Oats has even said multiple times that the team's mindset is different when they play away. Just wish some of it could translate to them wanting to defend homecourt better. Could have had better effort defensively yesterday. I think only Cliff and Mo answered that bell after being challenged.
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