| GAME THREAD 🏀 UNC Asheville vs Alabama 🏀 - 8 CT on ESPNU

[Bammerboy321]

Man Stevenson has got to man up on D and not allow players to out muscle him down low.

 

[Bammerboy321]

That Final Four banner is so beautiful

 

[Bammerboy321]

Wrightsell looks like he's got the same beautiful stroke from last season and that is dangerous.

 

[mando]

Worse part of tonight is the attendance. I know it is a Monday game but sure hope the folks closer to T-Town really get out and support this team and the program that Oats has built

 

[Bammerboy321]

Reid just fights through screens and it's incredible

 

[Bammerboy321]

Reid with a 3333333

 

[mando]

That last 2 ponts didn't look like much on the scoreboard but those guys were getting on the floor for a loose ball while they are up 50 points. That is the mindset that would propel these guys.

 

[Bammerboy321]

Aden Holloway is the best passer on this squad.

 

[mando]

7 players in double figures and shot 67%. Held UNC Asheville to 27%. That will get you 50 point wins.

 

[Bammerboy321]

Worse part of tonight is the attendance. I know it is a Monday game but sure hope the folks closer to T-Town really get out and support this team and the program that Oats has built

For what it's worth, I think it was sold out and looked packed. Everyone began leaving after the game was well in hand.

 

[bamafan9201]

Reid almost made it to double digits also, at 9 points.

Bama honestly should've had some more, need to improve some from the FT stripe and avoid costly turnovers on when you're on the break. Great game from the team, always stuff to fix and build on but overall a great performance.

 

[rick4bama]

Ladies Bama won tonight 115-53.

Almost the same score.

 

[Bama Guy]

Only won by 56.......meh

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

For the life of me, I don't know why the oficial UA account is so slow getting the PC's uploaded...

Anyway...

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

7 players in double figures, Sears with his automatic 20, 4 players with 7+ rebounds, Philon with 9 assists (to bo with 3 steals and 2 blocks), team with 1.59 points per possession... Bama only missed more than 2 consecutive shots twice all game. Asheville only made more than 2 consecutive shots twice all game. The level of the competition was low, but hard to walk away from that one and not feel pretty good after game 1.

 

[bamafan9201]

7 players in double figures, Sears with his automatic 20, 4 players with 7+ rebounds, Philon with 9 assists (to bo with 3 steals and 2 blocks), team with 1.59 points per possession... Bama only missed more than 2 consecutive shots twice all game. Asheville only made more than 2 consecutive shots twice all game. The level of the competition was low, but hard to walk away from that one and not feel pretty good after game 1.

Crazy part to all this is while the box score on ESPN shows 10 turnovers I counted around 13.

We also missed on some free points from the FT stripe.

As we said earlier, defensive rebounding wasn't bad but there were definitely a few where we were in position and got out hustled/played.

Smarter plays, there were a few where we just tried to drive the lane against 3-4 guys and had wide open 3 looks we passed up instead of passing out to them. Still stuff we can clean-up this game and I'm sure CNO will point those out to the team and say, we're not 100% yet. That's scary, a team that can hang over 100 every game could be more explosive

 

[alabamajack]

Only thing that can stop this team from being very very good is itself.