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Jones with 2 quick fouls in first 41 seconds.UCLA 7 Tide 4 early. Ellis hits 3, 7 all.




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The first foul on Jones was legit. The second was a garbage call - the defenders feet were still dragging when Jones ran into him. >:(

Tide has already committed 3 charges against UCLA.




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Slow start, but Bama shooting lights out now. 13-0 run since trailing 7-1!

Tide looking good, 3/4 3 pointers. Plus, Tide looks much quicker than UCLA, especially Quinerly & Primo, and maybe Ellis.



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I halfway expect UCLA to start playing a zone defense. Tide driving to basket too easily.



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Tide 8/16 FG 50%. Tide 13 rebounds, UCLA 7. Tide 23-22.



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Tide 8 turnovers, UCLA 4.




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Can't make a free throw.  :wall:

Tide shooting and free throw shooting has gone stone cold. UCLA 7/15 3 pointers, Tide 3/10. Tide 4/10 FT and has missed front end of 1 and 1 twice.




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UCLA 40 Tide 29. Half



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Tide storms out of the gates and cuts it to a two point game by first media timeout!  :clap:

Come on Bama please play with some composure. RTR!

Looks like this one is going to go to the wire.  :panic:

Tide 3 point shooting is ugly, 5/21 so far. Tied at 60. One of their best players just fouled out.




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ALEX REEEEEEEEEEESE!!!!!

And we poop the game away in the first minute of OT.  :'(

Herb Jones has killed us in this game with turnovers, 2/7 FT, 0/3 3 pointers, 4 points.




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Well I had us going to the Elite 8 but what the heck. RTR!

Free throws were our death. Change the coach, change the players, Bama Basketball is still Bama Basketball.

Tide 11/25 FT 44%. Embarrassing performance and unacceptable FT shooting. Incredible.




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Despite this horrendous performance, the Tide had a great season. We won SEC Conference title, the SEC Tourney, and made the Sweet 16. Outstanding season after 25 years of frustration.




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 #+ #+ #+ RTR!

It was a tough way to lose. All we had to do is hit a few free throws and we win.

It has been a great year. I enjoyed watching this team all year. SEC champion, SEC Tournament champion and Sweet 16. Good year. I can not want to see the team Coach Oats puts on the floor next year. The future of Bama Basketball looks to be in good shape.

All those missed FTs will "stick in the craw" of the returning players & coaches all off-season.  Or at least I hope they will stick there. CNO will find a solution, I hope. This is a game we could have won if we'd hit the most basic shot in the game.

But it was a great year for Bama BB.  No question about that.  A new standard has been set.

Roll Tide...

7-28 from 3pt
11-25 from FT
Lost the TO battle by 6

It's amazing we were even in the game.

The poor performance in the last game stings momentarily, but it was an overall great season by the team!

"Don't make excuses. Make your free throws."

It's all about dedication to perfection.  If a team misses half their free throws, they aren't ready to win.

 :(

If they'd made half, they would have won in regulation.

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I was thinking the same thing. This should be posted on every wall of the locker room and maybe tattooed on each players hand as a constant reminder.



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I'd like to push for a new rule that makes free throws optional.  If a player is fouled, the team can choose to take the ball, and inbounds it along the area where the foul occurred rather than have to shoot free throws.  It'd stop this inane fouling at the game's end.

Of course, OUR PROBLEM was missing them when they were FREE POINTS!!   >:(

If we would it our FT's people would stop fouling us. That is the coach's problem. Make them shoot FT's till they do it in their sleep. These are college players. RTR!

Shooting FREE throws is an outdated part of basketball.  I grew up playing basketball as a kid, and even in pickup games we shot free throws when fouled.  But as a teenager when we played black kids, we played by their rules of simply taking the ball inbounds when fouled.  You called your own fouls.  They never shot FTs, and never practiced it.  That was about 1965.  When I got to Tuscaloosa we played pickup games nightly in the old gyms by the same rules (no FTs).  Only during intramural games with a ref were FTs shot.  Never since then have I played in a game of pickup bb where foul shooting was used.  Today the rules have remained; no foul shooting in pickup games.  So kids don't grow up shooting them, except sometimes in deciding teams (shoot and hit, team A; miss and team B), so they seldom practice FTs.

As a result kids don't practice FTs until they get into organized bb.  It's an antiquated part of the game.  Time to end that practice, except when/if a team chooses to shoot them.   >:(

I don't think there's any team in NCAA basketball that soaks up a lot of the allowed weekly practice time shooting a bunch of free throws.   Remember, there is a 20 hour total limit of mandatory activity (practice, meetings, workouts, etc).  It necessitates it being outside individual responsibility.

We were a middle of the road FT shooting team (72%) going into that game.   It was more about choking than lack of practice.  It was a first time experience for all of those guys.

The more I see reasons why we don't practice FT's shows me if we had hit 80 to 85% of the FREE SHOTS, we might have won the game in the 2nd half. Am I wrong? RTR!