Bammerboy321
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Man Stevenson has got to man up on D and not allow players to out muscle him down low.
| MBB/WBB 🏀 UNC Asheville vs Alabama 🏀 No. 2/2 Alabama Opens 2024-25 Season with a 110-54 Victory
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Bammerboy321
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That Final Four banner is so beautiful
Bammerboy321
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Wrightsell looks like he's got the same beautiful stroke from last season and that is dangerous.
Bammerboy321
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Reid just fights through screens and it's incredible
Bammerboy321
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Reid with a 3333333
Bammerboy321
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Aden Holloway is the best passer on this squad.
Bammerboy321
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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
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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.
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.
For the life of me, I don't know why the oficial UA account is so slow getting the PC's uploaded...
Anyway...
Anyway...
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
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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
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Only thing that can stop this team from being very very good is itself.
bamafan9201
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No. 2/2 Alabama Opens 2024-25 Season with a 110-54 Victory over UNC Asheville - Alabama Athletics
The No. 2/2 Alabama men's basketball team opened its 2024-25 season by defeating UNC Asheville, 110-54, inside Coleman Coliseum on Monday night.
The Tide had seven players score in double figures to open the season in lopsided fashion
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The No. 2/2 Alabama men's basketball team opened its 2024-25 season by defeating UNC Asheville, 110-54, inside Coleman Coliseum on Monday night.
The Crimson Tide led wire-to-wire en route to the program's fifth consecutive season-opening victory and the second-straight season in which Alabama surpassed 100 points to open the season.
Mark Sears led the Crimson Tide with 20 points, marking the 50th time that the senior has scored 20-or-more points in a contest. In addition to Sears, six players scored in double figures, including Clifford Omoruyi (16), Latrell Wrightsell Jr. (13), Mouhamed Dioubate (11), Aden Holloway (11) and Labaron Philon (10).
UNC Asheville was led by Jordan Marsh's 13 points. Marsh also collected two rebounds and two assists.
Head Coach Nate Oats Postgame Comments
"I thought it was a good opening night for us. It's the first time we had all these guys available. It was a good game for some guys to get their feet wet. I thought our start defensively was great. I thought Mark Sears' defensive effort was significantly better than it was last year. I love the fact that the crowd recognized how hard he was playing on defense.The crowd was unbelievable. Best crowd we've had for an opener since I've been here, so we need to keep continuing like that. Huge thank you to the student section – I heard that we had more students wanting to come than we had room for, so that's great and we need it to be that way for every game this season. Thankful for all of the season ticket holders that couldn't make it but got people in their seats, so that was great.
We've got some young guys that we need to get some experience. I thought Labaron Philon looked great and he almost had a double-double with nine assists. Aiden Sherrell won the hard hat, he had nine rebounds in limited minutes and Derrion Reid had some big-time plays, too. He had nine points and six rebounds and I thought that he started to get more comfortable out there. I'm happy with the effort from everybody, but the games are going to get tougher from here."
Bammerboy321
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Sherrell looked way better than I expected.
