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The Tide is playing a very important game tonight against Iowa State. ISU is #13 in the country and presents a real challenge to the Tide. This game will be a good barometer of where this team is at, skill wise, rebounding, ball handling, etc. Game on ESPN2 @ 8:30 pm.



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Info on the game tonight;











http://www.rollbamaroll.com/2014/11/24/7260599/alabama-basketball-breakdown-iowa-state-preview



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Showtime! ISU will have a huge crowd advantage. Game in KC. Coleman hits 3 to start. Hale hits a 3. 6-2 Tide.



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26-24 ISU. ISU shooting 11/18: Tide 9/21, but 5/11 3 pointers.



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ISU getting too many shots in the paint while Tide is shooting 3 pointers. Perimeter D is weak.

34-26 ISU  4:45 left in half

ISU getting too many layups and short shots while we are just throwing the ball up with no effort to get inside. ISU hitting 3's and layups. 41-31 ISU TO.



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Where the heck is pmull, chechem, 2Stater, and the other good basketball posters?



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43-37 ISU Half


FG   13/37
3 PT 6/16
REB 18
AST  8
FT   3/4


Cooper 9 pts  4 rebounds
Hale    8
Levi     7
Norris  5      4 reb


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Well, the same old bug-a-boo is biting the Tide, mainly shooting. So far:


FG   23/58  39.7%
Ast  15 (excellent number)
Reb 28 (excellent, so far)


68-63 ISU  6:00 left in game


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ISU shooting 55% from the field but we are hanging in there. 74-70 ISU, 3:00 left

84-74 Iowa St. FINAL  Tide can't score down the stretch. This will be Tide's 16th consecutive loss on the road. Tide plays Arizona State tomorrow. Some good things for Tide but ISU is just too good.



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That was frustrating to watch.  I thought we would come back and when it was about 3 minutes to go.

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

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.

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. 

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).

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.

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.

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