🏀 🏀 🏆 SEC Tournament -- Alabama Falls to No. 4 Kentucky

3 games above .500 is NOT where you want to see your basketball program in a coach's 4th year.

Where did Hall go during the final stretch of games? It's as if Avery forgot all about him. We should've schemed our offense to primarily inside-out with our last several opponents, with the exception of maybe Kentucky because of their length in the front court.
 
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Alabama Falls to No. 4 Kentucky in SEC Tournament Quarterfinal, 73-55 - University of Alabama Athletics

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Alabama men's basketball team fell to No. 4 Kentucky 73-55, in the quarterfinal round of the Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Alabama men's basketball team fell to No. 4 Kentucky 73-55, in the quarterfinal round of the Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament on Friday evening at Bridgestone Arena.

Senior Donta Hall finished with 14 points and six rebounds, while scoring his 1,000th-career point in the process. In doing so, he became just the fifth Alabama player in program history to record more than 1,000 points (1,008), 800 (838), 200 blocks (226) for his career.

"Congrats to Kentucky; they came out and put an extreme amount of pressure on us defensively," Alabama head coach Avery Johnson said. "We didn't do a great job of getting in our offense. They turned us over, blocked shots and were active. We just weren't efficient on the offensive end. In the second half we showed some life. We cut the lead but we struggled to score and couldn't get enough stops. But our guys fought. It wasn't a lack of effort. Kentucky just did a great job of disrupting us offensively. It was an uphill climb all night."

The Crimson Tide (18-15) was led by sophomore Alex Reese who finished with 15 points and six rebounds off the bench, including knocking down 3-of-6 shots from beyond the arc. Junior Dazon Ingram added nine points and six rebounds, while graduate senior Riley Norris snatched a season-high three steals.

After a back-and-forth start to the game, the Wildcats (27-5) seized momentum early by going on an 11-0 run to take a double-digit lead, 20-9, with 12:51 remaining in the opening stanza. The Crimson Tide was able to slowly whittle the lead to six points, 33-27, but Kentucky outscored Alabama 6-2 over the final 2:24 to take a 39-29 lead into the locker room.

The difference of the first half was the UK defense, as it collected nine blocks and forced eight turnovers over the opening 20 minutes of play.

The Wildcats picked up where they left off and outscored the Tide 6-2 to begin the second half to build its lead to 45-31 just 1:41 after intermission. In all, UK's 12-4 run that spanned halftime lasted a total of 4:05. Alabama would not get any closer than 11 points the rest of the way.

Tyler Herro scored a game-high 20 points, while PJ Washington posted a double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds.

The Crimson Tide will now await its postseason fate, which will be known on Sunday night.

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Alabama Falls to No. 4 Kentucky in SEC Tournament Quarterfinal, 73-55 - University of Alabama Athletics

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Alabama men's basketball team fell to No. 4 Kentucky 73-55, in the quarterfinal round of the Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
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PurlJam said:
Wish I had your confidence, not being at home, I just can't see it.... hope I'm wrong, I like crow bbq'ed. :)
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I didn't think Bama would pull that one out but never lost hope they might.

All season I've said I thought the constant mention of turnovers and free throw shooting were more of a symptom than an issue in the losses. Last night Bama was +4 in the turnover ration. (UK +3.) For the game they were pretty solid from the line. And yet we're still looking at a loss from last night.

There were a few points scored in transition off of turnovers. As easy as it may be to point to the turnover, where's the defensive transition? But here I go again...beatin' the same horse to glue.
 
TerryP said:
I didn't think Bama would pull that one out but never lost hope they might.

All season I've said I thought the constant mention of turnovers and free throw shooting were more of a symptom than an issue in the losses. Last night Bama was +4 in the turnover ration. (UK +3.) For the game they were pretty solid from the line. And yet we're still looking at a loss from last night.

There were a few points scored in transition off of turnovers. As easy as it may be to point to the turnover, where's the defensive transition? But here I go again...beatin' the same horse to glue.
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That helter skeleter first 10 minutes was awful....
But got it to 6.... and let Ky get Offense rebound and hit a 3 out of it
 
Just watching the two teams from my POV...Kentucky's ball movement is crisp and precise, ours is lazy and sloppy looking, their defense collapses on a pass in the paint and covers the perimeter, ours may collapse in the paint at times but rarely ever covers the perimeter for a 3 point bomb. I understand it's not that simple, but to me the bottom line is Calipari is more Saban like in his college coaching methods, where CAJ is trying to coach at an NBA style for a college team that's just not working. My 2 cents, but I'm just an observer, don't coach, have never coached and only played sports at a high school level, but I do know one thing that holds true in society today, if I can't do my job with good/excellent results, I get shit canned. :)
 
TUSKtimes said:
Alabama's team is not built for success. The lack of slick guard handling is inexcusable for a power 5 basketball team.
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Let's go with that thought for a minute.

The lack of depth of guard play. A great, and most certainly, a leading question that we've seen no apparent answer.

And a thought about being built for success. I heard mention recently that as many as three in the rotation were from Grant's system--honored offers. Whether that's a reasonable consideration is a subject for debate. We can look at a team like LSU purely on a talent standpoint and see it's about the players a lot of the time.
 
PurlJam said:
Just watching the two teams from my POV...Kentucky's ball movement is crisp and precise, ours is lazy and sloppy looking, their defense collapses on a pass in the paint and covers the perimeter, ours may collapse in the paint at times but rarely ever covers the perimeter for a 3 point bomb. I understand it's not that simple, but to me the bottom line is Calipari is more Saban like in his college coaching methods, where CAJ is trying to coach at an NBA style for a college team that's just not working. My 2 cents, but I'm just an observer, don't coach, have never coached and only played sports at a high school level, but I do know one thing that holds true in society today, if I can't do my job with good/excellent results, I get shit canned. :)
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Dude...you hit it....
N my opinion anyway
 
TerryP said:
Let's go with that thought for a minute.

The lack of depth of guard play. Great, and most certainly, a leading question that we've seen no apparent answer.

And a thought about being built for success. I heard mention recently that as many as three in the rotation were from Grant's system--honored offers. Whether that's a reasonable consideration is a subject for debate. We can look at a team like LSU purely on a talent standpoint and see it's about the players a lot of the time.
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Then, where are the players to go with what you want to run? It's year 4 and it's like he hasn't made his mind up what that is exactly. That has to be confusing/discouraging to the players by now. So what does Avery actually see as a head coach when he was getting beat/thumped by teams with small, yet excellent ball handling guards like the barn? What does he think in year 4 watching guys his size carve up our defense and put pressure on our skilled guys in the second half, even after we owned big leads but couldn't hang on?

He starts Lewis, and Jones, with Hall and Smith up front and says go get the 4th best team in the nation. How? That's the actions of a drowning man with nary a lifeguard in sight.
 
TerryP said:
Let's go with that thought for a minute.

The lack of depth of guard play. Great, and most certainly, a leading question that we've seen no apparent answer.

And a thought about being built for success. I heard mention recently that as many as three in the rotation were from Grant's system--honored offers. Whether that's a reasonable consideration is a subject for debate. We can look at a team like LSU purely on a talent standpoint and see it's about the players a lot of the time.
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You don't think a coach worth his salt (or 3 million, in this case) could, or SHOULD correct poor ball-handlers (Grant recruits) by emphasizing the fundamentals of dribbling, passing, and rebounding in practice... In FOUR years?

Pfft.

And, in that same 4-year stretch, do you not think that he's responsible for the ball-handling development OTHER 9-10 players that HE HIMSELF recruited?

Ball skills are learned, if they're TAUGHT.
 
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PurlJam said:
Case and point...watching UK and Tennessee, we have no business being on the court with them at the level they play, sure we may slip up and beat them in T town every once in a while, but come tournament time we are chub to a shark for them.
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Both teams played very well. Cal has the benefit of signing highly ranked players ever year and Barnes has some talent as well but he is coaching at a very high level. Texas wanted more and got much less when they let Barnes leave.
 

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