Alabama vs. Iowa State in Basketball Tonight

[2Stater]

Alabama played hard and had a chance to win this game against a very good Iowa State team. We were down by 3 with 1:30 to go. The 10 point margin is misleading. The game was much closer than that.

Iowa State shot the ball much better than us and that was the difference in the game. ISU shot 58% for the game compared to 38% for Bama. We put up 100 total shots to their 71. We did well on the boards. ISU had 34 rebs but only 2 off rebs. We had 31 rebs with 9 off rebs.

Our defense did not play well. We gave up too many drives to the basket results in easy lay ups. I give ISU a lot of credit. They shoot the ball well from all over the floor. Regardless of how good they are giving up 84 points is too much. Our defense needs to improve.

We scored 74 points. This is the lowest score we have had in our four games. That is encouraging since we have struggled to score the last few years. Cooper had a good night with 27 pts. Randolph had 18 and Hale 9. We played 9 players and 8 scored.

It appears CAG is settling into an 8 man rotation. Randolph, Cooper, Hale, Taylor, Coleman, Tarrant, Kessens and Norris. Obasohan only played 5 minutes. I like freshman Riley Norris. He plays hard. In 18 minutes he had 5 pts, 6 rebs, 2 off rebs  and 3 steals.

ISU is a good team playing basically a home game in Kansas City. Several articles I read yesterday said they may be our toughest non conference game. Tonight's game becomes very important. We do not need to go 0-2 on this trip. Arizona State will be another challenge.

Thanks pmull. Good assessment.

[Catch Prothro]

Was not able to watch the game last night. What made ISU so good?

I watched the game but was not online.

ISU caught fire shooting and never really got cold again.  Bama didn't attack the basket too much on offense, though it was encouraging to see the 3 pointers fall.  The newcomers for Bama played well and will help improve this team.

ISU is ranked 13 and made it to the Sweet16 last year, losing to eventual national champion UConn.  They have most of their players back.  Though I don't believe in moral victories, Bama made a good showing and kept the game mostly close till the end. 

[bamaphil]

I was following this game on Twitter while at work.  It seems that Bama hung in longer and scored more points than in games like this over the last couple of years.  A win would have been nice, but hopefully the team can learn and improve.

I should be able to watch my first game of the year in the morning (7:00 AM tip-off for me).

[2Stater]

Was not able to watch the game last night. What made ISU so good?

I watched the game but was not online.

ISU caught fire shooting and never really got cold again.  Bama didn't attack the basket too much on offense, though it was encouraging to see the 3 pointers fall.  The newcomers for Bama played well and will help improve this team.

ISU is ranked 13 and made it to the Sweet16 last year, losing to eventual national champion UConn.  They have most of their players back.  Though I don't believe in moral victories, Bama made a good showing and kept the game mostly close till the end. 

Thanks, CP. This was only our 4th game and from what y'all are telling me, it was close up until the very end. That's got to be encouraging going into the rest of the season. Let's hope we are up to beating Arizona State.

[Marshal Dillon]

Alabama played hard and had a chance to win this game against a very good Iowa State team. We were down by 3 with 1:30 to go. The 10 point margin is misleading. The game was much closer than that.

Iowa State shot the ball much better than us and that was the difference in the game. ISU shot 58% for the game compared to 38% for Bama. We put up 100 total shots to their 71. We did well on the boards. ISU had 34 rebs but only 2 off rebs. We had 31 rebs with 9 off rebs.

Our defense did not play well. We gave up too many drives to the basket results in easy lay ups. I give ISU a lot of credit. They shoot the ball well from all over the floor. Regardless of how good they are giving up 84 points is too much. Our defense needs to improve.

We scored 74 points. This is the lowest score we have had in our four games. That is encouraging since we have struggled to score the last few years. Cooper had a good night with 27 pts. Randolph had 18 and Hale 9. We played 9 players and 8 scored.

It appears CAG is settling into an 8 man rotation. Randolph, Cooper, Hale, Taylor, Coleman, Tarrant, Kessens and Norris. Obasohan only played 5 minutes. I like freshman Riley Norris. He plays hard. In 18 minutes he had 5 pts, 6 rebs, 2 off rebs  and 3 steals.

ISU is a good team playing basically a home game in Kansas City. Several articles I read yesterday said they may be our toughest non conference game. Tonight's game becomes very important. We do not need to go 0-2 on this trip. Arizona State will be another challenge.

Excellent observations and on target. ISU had 4 players score in double figures & we had 2. ISU was very smooth and always seemed to know what they wanted to do. I too was impressed by Norris and his constant hustle. Jimmy Taylor pretty much was invisible and a non-factor. ISU had way too many layups and easy shots. I saw huge improvement overall for the Tide except on defense.

[cbbama99]

Too bad we couldn't pull this one out. We would have played Maryland for the championship tonight.

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