🏀 GAME THREAD 🏀 Texas vs Alabama: Texas stuns No. 13 Alabama 92-88 in Tuscaloosa

[Bammerboy321]

Oats has done an absolute shit coaching job tonight.

 

[bamafan9201]

Yea, not a top 25 team. Something seems of this year about this team, injuries are rough, no true physical presence anywhere. Sporadic shooting, poor decisions in critical moments. Gonna need to do some soul searching the next few days and figure it out on the road or we'll be looking at even worse here soon.

 

[Bammerboy321]

What a horrendous loss at home. I see a soft ass team that isn't coached well on defense and is only good when they shoot decent from 3. Since the second half of Arizona, Oats has some an absolute shit job of coaching. Brian Adams is a fucking roasted dog turd of a defensive coach.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Oats should probably stop talking publicly about winning the SEC for now and worry more about winning games.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I said the Vandy loss didn’t bother me much, but tonight was embarrassing. Especially, coming off that loss.

 

[BamaFan334]

Yea, not a top 25 team. Something seems of this year about this team, injuries are rough, no true physical presence anywhere. Sporadic shooting, poor decisions in critical moments. Gonna need to do some soul searching the next few days and figure it out on the road or we'll be looking at even worse here soon.

We look a lot like the football team. Lazy and just watching the ball rather than being active. Bad passes, bad defense, and foul a lot.

Our athletic program has been humbled the last couple of years. So much ability everywhere and we keep falling short of our abilities. Track and Field holding it down. Girls Soccer playing well, Gymnastics may be back. Everything else that really made us Alabama (football, basketball, baseball, and softball) has been underwhelming.

 

[Bammerboy321]

You'd hope Philon or Holloway would have been able to step up there, but nope. All they did was miss open 3s and miss critical FTs. Then Oats stupidly calls no set plays whatsoever when we have a chance to tie/take the lead. Just let guys freely do whatever and take low percentage shots.

Inexcusable loss at home against a dog shit Texas squad. But hey, we beat a overrated St Johns team, lucked out against Clemson at home after imploding for most of the second half, and somehow beat a decent Illinois team. This team looks like the typical squad that will get upset in the first around of the NCAAT. No defense; no rebounding; questionable coaching.

 

[Bammerboy321]

Oats is the best coach in Alabama history. I love the dude to death and I'll always defend him. Tonight was reminiscent of an Avery/Grant loss.

 

[footballer]

Too many inconsistencies in many of our players. Tx defended us better than we defended them. Some of our players seem to sleepwalk through parts of the game.

It looks as though we practice a lot on defensive switching. Instead of just manning up and staying between your man and the goal.

Also, basketball IQ and awareness go hand in hand. We end up out of position defending and for rebounding often. and often can't defend underneath without fouling.

Oh well, so it goes.

 

[#80]

The tougher team won tonight. I said earlier this year this team is soft Allen is the only dog with have. This team was pushed around at home they were out hustled and -10 rebounding. They were man handled in the lane trying to rebound on FT shots. Missed FT's late killed. If this play continues they will finish middle of the pack in the conference. SMDH.

 

[Kamikazi18627]

Our last offensive possession, the one after the timeout…….


Uh. That was complete tomfoolery. Down 3, no time outs, 18 seconds left and you drive in the paint? Gotta hold that ball and get the last shot up from three to tie and try and luck out in overtime.


The last five minutes of that game were a complete meltdown of miscues and awful choices.

 

[Bammerboy321]

 

[Rolltide24]

Is a win over Bama still a quadrant 1 win? I haven’t looked up how those work.

 

[bama alum]

Oats is the best coach in Alabama history. I love the dude to death and I'll always defend him. Tonight was reminiscent of an Avery/Grant loss.

Especially from the FT line

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Especially from the FT line

Crazy part is, they were at like 90% until the late 2nd and then they couldn’t hit any of them.

 

[Bammerboy321]

Is a win over Bama still a quadrant 1 win? I haven’t looked up how those work.

Yes. Alabama is 12th in Net Rankings. Even if Texas played us at their home, we'd be a Q1 win.

Q1 wins - 1-30 at home, 1-50 neutral site, or 1-75 on the road.

 

[BamaFan334]

Crazy part is, they were at like 90% until the late 2nd and then they couldn’t hit any of them.

I noticed that as well. Went straight frozen from the line late. Of course, when it mattered most.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

 

[alabama mike]

There are two things that REALLY bother me about this team: 1. Our lack of defense, totally frustrating to see. 2. Our situational shot selection blows my mind. Yes, we live and die by the three, dribble penetration and a fast tempo but my goodness, why do we shoot some of the shots we do? Hopefully, CNO can get some things fixed very soon.

 

[UAgrad93]

There are two things that REALLY bother me about this team: 1. Our lack of defense, totally frustrating to see. 2. Our situational shot selection blows my mind. Yes, we live and die by the three, dribble penetration and a fast tempo but my goodness, why do we shoot some of the shots we do? Hopefully, CNO can get some things fixed very soon.

Shot selection kills me!!! I can see defense lapsing at times simply because of the roster we have that is at least 70% healthy and available. Get caught in a switch and a bad mismatch. I do wonder more so about substitution patterns though. Those leave me scratching my head a lot. Need to break out the boxes of Deer Antler Spray that we have had in storage and get our roster healthy.