🏀 GAME THREAD 🏀 Players Era Festival- Las Vegas: Bama closes out tournament with 105 - 72 win over Maryland

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[mando]

Passink said, and I’ve seen others echo, this may be Gonzaga’s best “team” ever. Maybe not the most talented, but the best team. And Passink said that before Bama ever got to Vegas. He’s a voice I’d trust on it.

Just me, but I thought considering Bama was without Wrightsell (not to mention Bethea), things went about as expected against them.


Best teams I’ve seen so far… no real particular order… Purdue, Gonzaga, Michigan, and Arizona. But its a small sample size and just my take on it.

Yeah I think if we had the third option betwen Philon, Holloway and Wrightsell, we would have had a better chance that only one out of three would have had an off game. Just a little more pressure on Gonzaga. Maybe not enough to win but maybe the single digit loss versus 10. In the end it is still what is going on in the paint with rebounding that is this teams weak link.

 

[Bammerboy321]

Passink said, and I’ve seen others echo, this may be Gonzaga’s best “team” ever. Maybe not the most talented, but the best team. And Passink said that before Bama ever got to Vegas. He’s a voice I’d trust on it.

Just me, but I thought considering Bama was without Wrightsell (not to mention Bethea), things went about as expected against them.


Best teams I’ve seen so far… no real particular order… Purdue, Gonzaga, Michigan, and Arizona. But its a small sample size and just my take on it.

Arizona and Purdue are 1A and 1B to me. I think this Alabama team with its guard depth absolutely can and should make a deep run in the tournament. This team will grow from these early challenges, but the frontcourt limitations will still be a big obstacle to overcome against more physical teams (Florida and TN). But still a big chance to make the Final Four if Philon, Holloway, and Wrightsell all play at a high level, similar to how Sears, Estrada, and Griffin did two years ago.

I think it's a good sign Alabama had the lead and/or was tied with Gonzaga and Purdue despite being dominated on the glass. But unfortunately, Oats' teams have had a tendency to really fall a part late and let the game get out of hand. The Duke game last season was kind of a prime example of Alabama not playing particularly well but still playing within reach until a four minute lapse that blew it open. Same thing against Gonzaga, where poor shot selection and back to back defensive break downs that led to them putting it out of reach. Learning experience though.

 

[Bammerboy321]

Kansas giving TN everything they can handle. Kansas is doing a lot better on the boards andgetting second chance opportunities to get to the line.

 

[Bammerboy321]

And one! Kansas can take the lead

 

[Bammerboy321]

TN is about to run away against Kansas. Weird tournament. I would have liked to have seen Gonzaga vs TN. Bill Self looks checked out too. His offenses looked outdated.

 

[Bammerboy321]

St Johns is down 11-6 against NepoPearl. St Johns has already had 6 turnovers in barely 8 minutes of play.

 

[Bammerboy321]

St Johns does not have good guard play whatsoever

 

[Bammerboy321]

Boom big and one

 

[Bammerboy321]

TN is about to run away against Kansas. Weird tournament. I would have liked to have seen Gonzaga vs TN. Bill Self looks checked out too. His offenses looked outdated.

Man I say this and KU made a comeback! Fuck TN!!

 

[Bammerboy321]

St Johns is beating auburn. Finally stopped turning it over and started to dominate them.

 

[Bammerboy321]

Booooom! Big 3

 

[Bammerboy321]

Pitino is losing his shit right now. They were up 9 and then completely gifted auburn with horrendous turnovers and bad fouls.

 

[252BAMA]

SIAP. Long thread. Is Bama game for fifth or seventh place?

Edit: So no one knows. No problem. They probably don't know in Vegas either. Stupid format.

Players Era CEO flips, to rethink format for 2026

After promising to stick to the current format, Players Era Festival CEO Seth Berger told ESPN that the event will consider a new one when next year's field expands to 32 teams.

www.espn.com

 

[Bammerboy321]

St Johns has to be one of the most overrated teams in the country. It'll likely be a Q2 win for us but it ain't much of one.

 

[Rolltide24]

The Zags are getting their ass handed to them tonight by Michigan, and not politely! Currently down 45 points with 5 minutes to go.

 

[bamafan9201]

Man, Gonzaga can't hit water from a boat in the ocean they are shooting HORRIBLE tonight on the flip side Michigan has been shooting lights out this entire tournament....not a good time to be peaking though this early in a season likely to burn out and fall flat later.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Man, Gonzaga can't hit water from a boat in the ocean they are shooting HORRIBLE tonight on the flip side Michigan has been shooting lights out this entire tournament....not a good time to be peaking though this early in a season likely to burn out and fall flat later.

Was going to say, it'll be interesting to see if they can keep it hot in March/April...

 

[Secondand26]

@Brandon Van de Graaff - what happened to Bristow?

 

[Bammerboy321]

Man oh fucking man that pass by Holloway and Hannah cutting to the basket was a chefs kiss

 

[Bammerboy321]

Bama is looking really good right now. Would definitely like to see some more creativity from Allen, as he develops better as a ball handler. Not a lot of burst or quickness just yet