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Title: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: pmull on December 19, 2012, 08:37:58 AM Quote The Alabama men's basketball team will look to snap a three-game losing streak when it travels to Lubbock, Texas, to take on the Texas Tech Red Raiders on Wednesday at 7 p.m. CT. It will be the final non-conference road game of the season for the Crimson Tide. The contest will be televised on ESPN3 and can also be heard on the Crimson Tide Sports Network, with Chris Stewart and Bryan Passink on the call. "Texas Tech plays similar to VCU from a defensive standpoint," Alabama head coach Anthony Grant said. "They are going to press a lot. I think they are forcing 19 turnovers a game. They play very fast offensively, meaning after a missed shot or made basket, they are going to get the ball down the court fast. We have to be able to be able to take care of the basketball and execute offensively. We also have to get back defensively to prevent them from scoring in transition. It's a similar prep to what we just faced." http://www.rolltide.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/121812aac.html Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: BAMAWV on December 19, 2012, 08:45:58 AM Last non-conf. road game. Need to snap losing streak and get season reinvigorated.
Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: pmull on December 19, 2012, 08:55:08 AM We need a win bad. We need to stop the three game losing streak and finish the non-conf season strong. TT is 5-2 and has not played anyone. They were blown out by Arizona and lost to McNeese State. We should win this game on the road or not.
Realtime RPI has us rated 45 and TT 284 but has them winning the game 71-69. http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_352_Men.html Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: BAMAWV on December 19, 2012, 09:22:20 AM (https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSyV7AiLhJCeMMh-ohOXiX5QedHeJ04mV5t2V7D7OGq3HUD5b1M_g)
:( Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: pmull on December 19, 2012, 11:15:02 AM Tide looks to bounce back against Texas Tech - Article by RollBamaRoll.com
Quote Texas Tech enters the game with a seemingly respectable 5-2 record, but the win/loss mark masks what is probably the weakest team in the Big XII conference this season. All seven of the Red Raiders' games have come at home, and four of their five wins have come against teams ranked in the bottom 30 (out of 347) Division I teams in the Pomeroy ratings, with the fifth win coming against 264th ranked Northern Kentucky by just six points. They were annihilated at home by top-ten ranked Arizona, and lost their most recent game at home to lowly McNeese State. Despite Alabama playing on the road, missing two key players due to injury, and having downright pitiful performances in their last two outings, Vegas has the Tide favored by 10 points as of Tuesday night. Playing a road game against anyone in college basketball, especially a major conference foe, is never an automatic win, but this is a game that Alabama simply has to find a way to win, especially given the fact that Alabama's margin for error this season is exceedingly thin thanks to what is shaping up to be another down year for the SEC and Bama's having lost its only two non-conference games against likely NCAA Tournament opposition. http://www.rollbamaroll.com/2012/12/19/3781886/tide-looks-to-bounce-back-against-texas-tech Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: pmull on December 19, 2012, 07:22:42 PM Bama is winning 21-10 with 12:00 to go in the first half.
I am glad to see we got off to a good start tonight. We have not been able to overcome slow starts in the three game losing streak. Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: pmull on December 19, 2012, 07:26:08 PM Bama is on top 24-12. Lacey has 14 points. We are 5-7 from three point line.
Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: BAMAWV on December 19, 2012, 07:31:03 PM Bama is on top 24-12. Lacey has 14 points. We are 5-7 from three point line. Big 12 announcers-- nice to hear someone squawking about THEIR team for a change!Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: pmull on December 19, 2012, 07:43:09 PM Bama is up 39-23 with 2:58 to go in half.
Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: BAMAWV on December 19, 2012, 07:50:17 PM Bama 43-27 at the half.
Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: pmull on December 19, 2012, 07:54:34 PM Nice 16 point lead at the half.
Lacey has 14 and Releford 9 to lead the Tide. Pollard has 5 rebounds and Gueye has 4. Bama applying full court pressure and then dropping into a zone. Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: BAMAWV on December 19, 2012, 08:02:11 PM Nice 16 point lead at the half. Pollard will be a force to be reckoned with by tourney time. JMHO but it seems CAG has targeted next season as his run on the NCAA. I'm sure he is not seeing the improvement he wanted out of this season,--at least so far.Lacey has 14 and Releford 9 to lead the Tide. Pollard has 5 rebounds and Gueye has 4. Bama applying full court pressure and then dropping into a zone. Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: BAMAWV on December 19, 2012, 08:19:24 PM Bama by 20. I guess the usual suspects have quit on the Tide again-- this time in hoops!
Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: pmull on December 19, 2012, 08:30:30 PM Jacobs is playing better tonight. He has 8 points. Lacey has 18 and Releford 13. Cooper has 4 fouls and only 2 points.
Bama up 55-39 with 10 mnutes to go. Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: BAMAWV on December 19, 2012, 08:41:04 PM Jacobs is playing better tonight. He has 8 points. Lacey has 18 and Releford 13. Cooper has 4 fouls and only 2 points. And he is 1-5 shooting. Tide up by 13 with around 7 min. to go.Bama up 55-39 with 10 mnutes to go. Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: pmull on December 19, 2012, 08:43:32 PM The lead is 11. We are getting sloppy. We need to get things cleaned up and finish this game strong
Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: BAMAWV on December 19, 2012, 08:47:14 PM :pray: 7 point game --5 minutes.
Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: pmull on December 19, 2012, 08:50:04 PM Nice drive by Pollard to get the lead back to 9.
Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: pmull on December 19, 2012, 08:51:30 PM We are playing man defense now.
Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: pmull on December 19, 2012, 08:54:13 PM We have got very sloppy. Twelve turnovers in the 2nd half. We lead 58-50 with 3:24 to go. TT has the ball.
Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: pmull on December 19, 2012, 08:58:02 PM TT hits a three pointer to pull within four at 60-56. 2:12 to go.
Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: pmull on December 19, 2012, 09:11:14 PM Bama wins 66-62.
Bama was up 16 at the half and as much as 20 in the 2nd half but we let TT get it to a 2 point game late. Bama gets out of Lubbock with a win. Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: BAMAWV on December 19, 2012, 09:15:37 PM Down to the wire but Bama pulls this one out. Tired legs (2nd half was miserable) on the big 3 Releford, Lacey, and Randolph. A Lacey drive at the 2:30 mark brought Bama back up by 7 (60-53) and Releford FTs with 1:50 left combined with a Randolph bucket with 31 secs remaining allowed the Tide to hold on.
No help in sight with SEC play looming. We need big games from Pollard and Jacobs to round out a starting five worth SEC discussion. We will see. :popcorn2: Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: pmull on December 20, 2012, 08:25:40 AM Alabama gets a road win against a Big 12 team and stops the three game losing streak. This team needed a win and got it.
We played great in the first half. We shot the ball well, out rebounded TT and did not turn the ball over. The second half was the exact opposite. We lead by 16 at the half ans built the lead to 20 with 12:00 to go. We started standing around and TT hit a few shots. Once they got the momentum they went for the win. Alabama pressured full court all night but dropped into a zone once TT crosed mid-court. CAG switched to man with 5:00 to go and TT making a run. We out rebounded TT 33 to 28 but TT got 14 off rebounds and most of those were easy put backs. Blocking out in a zone is difficult and we had trouble last night. The offense looks good when Lacey starts the game on fire. He had 14 of our first 28 points hitting 4-5 three pointers. That opened things up and we scored 43 points in the first half. The second half was a different story. Too much staying around. We passed the ball around the perimeter and took several bad shots to avoid the shot clock violation. We did not try to get the ball inside. We did hit a few big shots down the stretch to secure the win. Alabama shot 51% to TT 38%. We turned the ball over 20 times with most of those in the second half. TT only had 6 turnovers. The stat that hurt us the most is shots taken. We took 45 shots to TT 58. This was a result of turnovers and off rebounds by TT. We do not have any more non conference road games. We play Mercer Sunday and still have non conference games against Tulane and Oakland. We should win all three of those games. We open SEC play at Missouri on Jan 8. We must get better or we will struggle asgainst the better teams in our league and no games will be easy wins. Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: Catch Prothro on December 20, 2012, 08:40:13 AM Thanks for the reports. Glad to have the win. They guys do seem to let off the gas when they get a lead... is that a young team or a tired team? Opening SEC play v. Missouri is tough, probably the best team in the conference.
Title: Re: Men's Hoops Set For Showdown At Texas Tech (7:00 ESPN3) Post by: ricky023 on December 20, 2012, 01:14:37 PM Great job guys. Thanks for the reads this morning. I have a question though. What is causing us to be so sloppy in second half? Could it be that we don't have the depth of good players or what? Just confused cause at the beginning of the year it seemed like we would be a more powerful team this year? RTR!
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