cncchris33
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What an embarrassment. 56-38 loss to a very average offensive Alabama team, whose leading scorer on the season has 6 points until a meaningless 3 with a couple seconds to play.
The Good...
1. We managed to overcome a first-half deficit, and take the lead early in the 2nd half.
2. JRich played well for the first 30 minutes, and had that killer look in his eyes. It just fell apart over the final 12 or so minutes.
3. We hung tough on the boards, and we seemed to close out on shooters much better defensively.
The Bad...
1. You can't have 12+ minute droughts without scoring. That is epicly bad, but we literally went from the 14 minute mark to the 2 minute mark without so much as a shot attempt inside of 10 feet. We don't shoot the ball well enough from outside to simply abandon the paint.
2. We somehow managed to have the off-the-back inbound pass executed against us...twice. How ridiculous to happen even once. That is middle school junk. But twice??? Are you kidding me?
3. 2-17 from 3 (11.8%) & 14-45 overall (31.1%). Impressive. Alabama just wrote the book on how to defend us, and executed perfectly.
4. Robert Hubbs had two impressive offensive plays, and then went ice cold along with the rest of the team. Definitely a step back from His past four games, but he was aggressive and didn't pass up open looks.
5. This team needs another consistent offensive threat. JRich is pretty reliable, but it's a total crapshoot as to who else will show up. Today, it was no one, and despite JRich's performance, we looked like the second worst team in the SEC that we were predicted to be over the last 12-14 minutes.
Bottom line...
That was the worst basketball this team has played in a month or more. Hopefully they grow from it, but I have a feeling that this performance may be repeated vs some of the better teams in the league if we don't find ways to get looks in the paint and have to fully rely on making outside shots night in and night out. 38 points in a game is absolutely awful.
The Good...
1. We managed to overcome a first-half deficit, and take the lead early in the 2nd half.
2. JRich played well for the first 30 minutes, and had that killer look in his eyes. It just fell apart over the final 12 or so minutes.
3. We hung tough on the boards, and we seemed to close out on shooters much better defensively.
The Bad...
1. You can't have 12+ minute droughts without scoring. That is epicly bad, but we literally went from the 14 minute mark to the 2 minute mark without so much as a shot attempt inside of 10 feet. We don't shoot the ball well enough from outside to simply abandon the paint.
2. We somehow managed to have the off-the-back inbound pass executed against us...twice. How ridiculous to happen even once. That is middle school junk. But twice??? Are you kidding me?
3. 2-17 from 3 (11.8%) & 14-45 overall (31.1%). Impressive. Alabama just wrote the book on how to defend us, and executed perfectly.
4. Robert Hubbs had two impressive offensive plays, and then went ice cold along with the rest of the team. Definitely a step back from His past four games, but he was aggressive and didn't pass up open looks.
5. This team needs another consistent offensive threat. JRich is pretty reliable, but it's a total crapshoot as to who else will show up. Today, it was no one, and despite JRich's performance, we looked like the second worst team in the SEC that we were predicted to be over the last 12-14 minutes.
Bottom line...
That was the worst basketball this team has played in a month or more. Hopefully they grow from it, but I have a feeling that this performance may be repeated vs some of the better teams in the league if we don't find ways to get looks in the paint and have to fully rely on making outside shots night in and night out. 38 points in a game is absolutely awful.
