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Title: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: pmull on January 12, 2013, 08:53:36 AM Quote The Alabama men's basketball team will take on Tennessee in its Southeastern Conference home opener on Saturday afternoon. The contest, which will be televised on ESPN2, is slated for a noon tipoff at Coleman Coliseum. “We are excited to have an opportunity to open up SEC play here tomorrow against Tennessee,” UA head coach Anthony Grant said. “I’m very impressed watching their team. Obviously, we’re in our second game coming off a tough loss on the road against Missouri. I think we’ll need to play with a sense of urgency and do a great job on the defensive end and be able to attack their defensive presence. I’ve been really impressed watching them on film in terms of what they do on the defensive end as well. We are looking forward to the challenge tomorrow.” The Crimson Tide (8-6, 0-1 SEC) is coming off an 84-68 loss at No. 10 Missouri on Tuesday night in both teams’ first SEC game of the season. Junior guard Trevor Releford led three scorers in double figures with 26 points on 8-of-14 shooting from the floor. In doing so, the Kansas City, Mo., native became the 46th player to record 1,000 points in his career (1,004). Sophomore guard Rodney Cooper added 11 points, while freshman forward Devonta Pollard chipped in with 10. http://www.rolltide.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/011113aab.html Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: SUPERCOACH on January 12, 2013, 11:32:12 AM I have no idea how good UT is, but we need this win.
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: bama87 on January 12, 2013, 11:35:59 AM UT isn't very good. I think the 1st team to 40 wins. Neither team can shoot the ball.
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: SUPERCOACH on January 12, 2013, 12:27:04 PM This game is ugly.
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: SUPERCOACH on January 12, 2013, 12:31:45 PM Down 20-12 with 8 minutes to go in the first half. >:(
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: SUPERCOACH on January 12, 2013, 12:39:21 PM 20 to 20 now. We are hitting some 3's today.
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: SUPERCOACH on January 12, 2013, 12:53:09 PM Down 28-24 at the half. CAG looks like he is going in to peel the paint off the walls. >:(
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: SUPERCOACH on January 12, 2013, 01:04:17 PM Meanwhile Gottfried's NC State team just beat No. 1 and undefeated Duke 84-76.
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: SUPERCOACH on January 12, 2013, 01:12:27 PM Releford is on fire now to start the 2nd.
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: BAMAWV on January 12, 2013, 01:57:18 PM Bama by 5. You can tell by watching CAG how bad the Tide needed to hold serve in this game.. 2:15 Bama 62-57.
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: BAMAWV on January 12, 2013, 01:59:51 PM Bama by 4 1:00
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: BAMAWV on January 12, 2013, 02:07:52 PM Whew! Bama wins 68-65.
Most balanced scoring of the the season. With a little more offense from Pollard and Jacobs or even Gueye-- Bama would look like a real team! RTR Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: SUPERCOACH on January 12, 2013, 02:30:35 PM We played much better in the 2nd half. If we had just a little bit of production from on inside guy we would be hard to beat. We also are very streaky (hot and cold). We need some consistency.
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: pmull on January 12, 2013, 02:34:36 PM Glad to get this win. We looked much better in the 2nd half. Defensive pressure with under 4 minutes to play was terrific. We got 19 pts off turnovers.
We shot the ball much better in the 2nd half. We ended up shooting 43% but we were less than 30% in the 1st half. We had only 7 turnovers. We were out rebounded 40-25. We are 1-1 in SEC play. We play at Miss State on Wednesday at 8:00. CSS will carry the game. Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: BAMAWV on January 12, 2013, 02:41:03 PM Glad to get this win. We looked much better in the 2nd half. Defensive pressure with under 4 minutes to play was terrific. We got 19 pts off turnovers. Including 14-6 offensively.We shot the ball much better in the 2nd half. We ended up shooting 43% but we were less than 30% in the 1st half. We had only 7 turnovers. We were out rebounded 40-25. We are 1-1 in SEC play. We play at Miss State on Wednesday at 8:00. CSS will carry the game. Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: ricky023 on January 12, 2013, 07:01:00 PM I sure hope we get together in the 10 to 12 weeks. We need injuries healed. RTR!
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: SUPERCOACH on January 13, 2013, 04:31:04 AM We are in for a long season I am afraid. My hope is that our young team can get some good experience for next year, and hopefully we can get some big guys to help us out during recruiting.
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: Jamos on January 13, 2013, 07:18:39 AM Jacobs has been a big disappointment to me. I expected much more out of him this year than what I've seen, he has no leaping ability or he's just not using it if he has it. I will give Gueye an A for effort, he just doesn't have the skills where Jacobs has the skills but gives very little effort.
I don't think I've ever seen a team miss as many layups in a game as I saw Bama miss yesterday. I agree it was very physical under the basket but many of their misses weren't that contested. Maybe it was a day of some bad luck with the misses but at least they were creating something positive by being able to drive to the basket, a big improvement over the past games. Outside shooting is what's hurting the team the most and it won't get any better until some of these guys start using some of their personal time in the gym, working on their shot. Hopefully yesterday's game will be the spark that ignites a fire underneath the players to work a little harder on their shooting and things will get better for the games ahead. It was a hard earned win but a good one, it was Tennessee. ;) Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: pmull on January 13, 2013, 07:44:14 AM Jacobs has been a big disappointment to me. I expected much more out of him this year than what I've seen, he has no leaping ability or he's just not using it if he has it. I will give Gueye an A for effort, he just doesn't have the skills where Jacobs has the skills but gives very little effort. I don't think I've ever seen a team miss as many layups in a game as I saw Bama miss yesterday. I agree it was very physical under the basket but many of their misses weren't that contested. Maybe it was a day of some bad luck with the misses but at least they were creating something positive by being able to drive to the basket, a big improvement over the past games. Outside shooting is what's hurting the team the most and it won't get any better until some of these guys start using some of their personal time in the gym, working on their shot. Hopefully yesterday's game will be the spark that ignites a fire underneath the players to work a little harder on their shooting and things will get better for the games ahead. It was a hard earned win but a good one, it was Tennessee. ;) Good comments Jamos. I agree Jacobs has been disappointing. I have come to believe he can not handle the post position alone. Last year he had Green getting most of the attention to help him out. He is a wide body but he is only 6-7. He has trouble getting his shot off. He should be getting more rebounds. We missed at least a dozen point blank layups. I think our outside shooting has improved a lot this year. Our problem is getting a clean look at the basket. Without any inside threat to score the defense is coming way out on the perimeter to contest shots. We shot 43% from the 3 pt line yesterday. We have room to improve and have enough talent to win some SEC games. We will have match up problems all year without a big guy in the paint. Engstrom would help. We have signed 6-8 PF Shannon Hale fron Arden, NC and 6-9 C Jimmie Taylor fron Greensboro for next year. They are both 4 star ESPN Top 150 players. I would like to see a juco inside player sign as well. Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: pmull on January 13, 2013, 07:48:58 AM I sure hope we get together in the 10 to 12 weeks. We need injuries healed. RTR! We are as healthy as we are going to get. Steele is back and Engstrom is out for the year. No other injuries. Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: BAMAWV on January 14, 2013, 01:13:41 PM I sure hope we get together in the 10 to 12 weeks. We need injuries healed. RTR! We are as healthy as we are going to get. Steele is back and Engstrom is out for the year. No other injuries. So this season comes down to how much progress we can make toward next year. Pollard and Jacobs and maybe Slaughter are the ones to watch. Steele is a senior academically, but maybe a senior in eligibility also, IDK. Gueye is a waste of a scholly, JMHO, but as long as he's is in a uniform let's hope he makes the most of his minutes. The balanced scoring (Saturday v. UTk) was the best I've seen this year. We shot over our heads a little and got out rebounded (14-6 on the off. boards) but was still a good sign that at the very least they still want to win! Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: Jamos on January 14, 2013, 09:32:41 PM I'm really anxious to see how they play the next game, I left Coleman with a better feeling last Saturday.
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: SUPERCOACH on January 15, 2013, 04:11:06 AM I'm really anxious to see how they play the next game, I left Coleman with a better feeling last Saturday. The place looked pretty empty on TV. Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: Jamos on January 15, 2013, 06:46:47 AM I'm really anxious to see how they play the next game, I left Coleman with a better feeling last Saturday. The place looked pretty empty on TV. Actually it was their best attendance of the season, about half full or half empty :dunno:. It's amazing that we have more fans sitting up in the "skydome" section than we have sitting in the high dollar sections. I guess that says a lot for the seaason ticket holders. If Bama goes to Starkville and takes care of business as they should on Wednesday, there should be the largest crowd of the season in for the TAM game Saturday. There is also a parade scheduled for the football team that day as well. TAM beat Kentucky at Rupp last Saturday, so I think that should bring out the no-show season ticket holders. Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: SUPERCOACH on January 15, 2013, 07:27:31 AM The empty seats I saw were all down close to the court. I guess I assumed that if those seats were empty the whole place must be pretty empty.
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: pmull on January 15, 2013, 08:09:04 AM According to the final stats the attendance was 12,093 which is 80% capacity. On TV it looked about 50% to me which agrees with what Jamos said. Football is over and students are back in full swing so we should start seeing better crowds for the remaining home games.
The lighting in Coleman does not allow you to see the crowd on TV very good except for the first 8-10 rows. Coleman is big enough they have some nosebleed seats, especially in the corners. Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: Jamos on January 15, 2013, 08:16:16 AM In the previous games, the announcer of the game would invite all of the folks in the "Sky Dome" to move down to the lower seats after about 5 minutes into the game. They didn't do that last Saturday.
Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: Catch Prothro on January 15, 2013, 09:31:12 AM The empty seats I saw were all down close to the court. I guess I assumed that if those seats were empty the whole place must be pretty empty. That's been going on for a long time, all the empty seats down low. It was frustrating when I had season tickets and many of the lower seats were empty.Title: Re: Alabama Welcomes Tennessee In SEC Home Opener (12:00 ESPN2) Post by: BAMAWV on January 16, 2013, 02:08:56 PM The empty seats I saw were all down close to the court. I guess I assumed that if those seats were empty the whole place must be pretty empty. That's been going on for a long time, all the empty seats down low. It was frustrating when I had season tickets and many of the lower seats were empty. |