🏀 Camping World Maui Invitational: Bama wins 5th place after defeating Providence Weds night

[bama alum]

This guy has worn the play-on-words with Grill into the ground. Dude, let it go.

 

[Rolltide24]

5 guys in double figures with 6 minutes still on the clock. That’s a good balanced attack.

 

[bama alum]

5 guys in double figures with 6 minutes still on the clock. That’s a good balanced attack.

Been a much better half on both ends of the court (not that the first half was that bad)

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

All in all, a much better performance, albeit against an inferior team. Shot selection and defense was improved, but nowhere near where it needs to be. For a team that practices every day against constant 3's, we sure do give up a lot of open 3 looks. That little Grill SOB kept UNLV in it for most of the night. Reese has got to find a way to add more when he's on the court. Herb played really well on the offensive end tonight. Good to see Petty hit some and that'll hopefully get him going now. The officials were great. Alabama only committed 10 fouls for the game. When was the last time that happened? The Tide had 21 assists and just 11 turnovers. Not shabby.

 

[mando]

Much better game. Need improvement on Defense, passing and free throws.

The little things are going to be the difference against better competition especially when the 3's are not falling.

 

[UA Press Release]

Alabama Takes Down UNLV, 86-74, in Maui Invitational Second Round - Alabama Athletics

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Alabama connected on a season-best15 three-pointers and scored a season-high 86 points total as it blew past UNLV, 86-74, in the second rou...

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Alabama connected on a season-best15 three-pointers and scored a season-high 86 points total as it blew past UNLV, 86-74, in the second round of the Camping World Maui Invitational on Tuesday night. With the win, the Crimson Tide (2-1) moves into the fifth-place game where it will take on the Providence Friars (2-1) who defeated Davidson in its second round matchup.

Alabama was led by guard John Petty Jr.'s 22 points on 7-of-12 shooting from the field and 6-of-10 from beyond the arc. He also had six assists compared to one turnover in his nearly 34 minutes of action. The Huntsville, Ala., native led five UA players who reached double digits on the night as Jahvon Quinerly (19), Herbert Jones (16), Jaden Shackelford (13) and Joshua Primo (11) all contributed on the offensive end of the floor.

The Crimson Tide's offense was efficient throughout the contest, as UA connected on 48 percent from the field, 38 percent from beyond the arc, hit 15 three-pointers (15-of-40) and had 21 assists on its 29 makes with only 11 turnovers.

UNLV was led by Caleb Grill's game-high 27 points to lead all scorers.



Coach Nate Oats Postgame Comments

• "It was a much better effort tonight. We stressed closing the first half and opening the second half. It was a big last four, first four because we ended the half on a 12-6 run to even the game and started the second half on a 6-0 run which forced them to call a timeout. So it was an 18-6 run in all which was much better than (Monday) night. Our big thing is we just need to play harder. I thought some of our guys are figuring out how hard they have to play in a Division I basketball game to get a win. You can't afford to relax or you're giving up a wide-open three. I thought our guys played well and it was nice to finally make some shots. Petty was able to get out of his slump and I'm really happy with the overall game he played. Herb played better than he's played and I thought Jordan Bruner was really good, especially on defense. James Rojas gave us good minutes inside in the second half. A lot of good efforts from our guys tonight."

Team Stats

• Alabama finished the contest with season highs in points, assists and threes made
• 17 of Quinerly's 19 points were scored after halftime as he connected on 5-of-8 shots from the floor after intermission after going just 1-of-3 in the opening stanza
• Shackelford extended his streak to 18 consecutive games scoring in double figures
• The Tide connected on 13-of-19 attempts from the charity stripe compared to UNLV going 3-of-4
• Alabama's bench outscored UNLV's reserves, 14-5
• The Tide scored 16 fast-break points while holding the Rebels to only 9 points in transition
• After the teams were deadlocked at 38-apiece at intermission, Alabama shot 56.7 percent (17-of-30) from the floor in the second half and outscored the Runnin' Rebels, 48-36, over the final 20 minutes

First Half

• Alabama started the game on a 11-3 run, knocking down 4-of-4 from beyond the arc
• UNLV responded with a 9-0 run to take the 12-11 lead with 15:29 remaining.
• After trailing by as many as six points (32-26), the Crimson Tide closed the half by outscoring UNLV 12-6 over the final 7:29 to draw even at 38-38 at the intermission
• John Petty Jr. scored 14 points in the first half on 4-of-6 shooting from beyond the arc to lead UA

Second Half

• Alabama opened the half with back-to-back treys over the first 1:31 to take a 44-38 lead, forcing a UNLV timeout
• In all, the Tide went on an 18-6 that spanned halftime and lasted a total of 9:00
• UNLV battled back and was able to tie the game at 53-53, but the Crimson Tide used an 8-0 run to take a 61-53 lead with 12:00 remaining in the game and never looked back
• Alabama extended its lead to as many as 14 points before settling for the 12-point victory

Up Next

• Alabama and Providence will square off for fifth place in this year's Maui Invitational on Wednesday night at 6 p.m. CT (7 p.m. ET) on ESPN2.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I mentioned this weeks ago, but I felt that we had enough shooters that on pretty much any given night, there'd be a hot hand or two, even if everyone else was ice cold. 2nd game of the year, and that theory was tested and sunk. And man, there were some ugly shots out of those 29 3 point attempts. Meanwhile, it felt like Stanford was making everything, like they were just toying with Bama.

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And I wasn't going to mention it after my comment about "I don't complain about the play-by-play and color analysts" but I can't help it. @TerryP I know I said Walton was unbearable, and he is, but holy shit that guy last night was maybe worse. I know it's gotta be difficult to call a game from your basement or whatever and not in person, but at least try to talk about the game. He was like the crazy guy that sits down beside you on the transit bus, and won't shut up for 20 minutes as he skips from topic to topic and asks and answers his own questions. If he's back on there tonight, and I'm sure he will be, I'm going to have to go to great lengths to sync up Chris Stewart and Bryan Passink, which is an enourmous pain in the ass to keep synced when I have YouTube TV.

We had 2 like that doing a bama football game ( ky?)...
Was awful...

 

[TerryP]

Everytime I read a comment about announcers I have to wonder...

If you have the ability to shut out your wife, how do you not have the ability to shut out a guy talking during a football game?

Then again, I may have an advantage over you guys here. My MPD allows inner-dialogue about what's going on; can't hear 'em.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Everytime I read a comment about announcers I have to wonder...

If you have the ability to shut out your wife, how do you not have the ability to shut out a guy talking during a football game?

Then again, I may have an advantage over you guys here. My MPD allows inner-dialogue about what's going on; can't hear 'em.

We have been conditioned to listen to the announcers.....and conditioned to not listen to wives,...

i dont listen to radio broadcast when at game.... but i can see the field and action...
The tv production jumps all over the place...fans, sideline person....etc..
Hard to watch without audio

remember when they televised a nfl game without announcers.....was hard to watch.....

 

[PurlJam]

Tried to catch the first half before heading to work this a.m. (ESPN had the replay on the guide for 4:00 am on ESPN2), flipped it on and they had Davidson & Providence replay on instead. Thanks for these post filling me in.

 

[BamaFan334]

This guy has worn the play-on-words with Grill into the ground. Dude, let it go.

My wife even commented on this, ha ha. She only heard it in passing and stopped to comment.

 

[TerryP]

Tried to catch the first half before heading to work this a.m. (ESPN had the replay on the guide for 4:00 am on ESPN2), flipped it on and they had Davidson & Providence replay on instead. Thanks for these post filling me in.

It was up on their website around 2ish (ET.)

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[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Game on ESPN2 now for those interested. Earlier start tonight.

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

Touch foul city on both ends

 

[tider79]

We got some 3 ball shooters that for sure.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Overall improvement again, which is what I was hoping for. They don't play again until the 12th vs. Clemson...

 

[Rolltide24]

Best game so far. Man, I like our team when we’re playing like this. Everyone is scoring and rebounding. I like balance and we have it tonight and had it last night.

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

Overall improvement again, which is what I was hoping for. They don't play again until the 12th vs. Clemson...

Yeah much improved since that first round effort. Saw some floor leadership and much more coherence in these last 2 games

 

[mando]

It was the best game so far. Hopefully when things are tighter and not going their way they learned through the Sanford game to keep playing hard and good things will happen.

Lets face it the difference between Sanford and UNLV/Providence was huge. Can they find their rhythm and show enough improvement to close the gap with someone like Sanford. They sure showed much more energy after that first game. Also, to play 3 games in 3 days shows some depth.

Glad they did not fold after that first performance and that was the low point of the season .

 

[UAgrad93]

The 2nd half lull we had when we got up by 23-24pts wasn’t to my liking, but they refocused and got the job done. A LOT of talent on this roster.