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JMHO, but better to just admit you used the wrong phrase than try to defend misusing it. You can't change the meaning of the phrase to most people by arguing it means something else when you say it. Good lord.

37bamagreats55 said:

Yes, typically it does. In my post, however, it didn't.... I thought I made that ultimately clear.... If I thought the team quit, I'd say they did. I watched the game, and know they didn't. I also know, that if a team commits more turnovers than the opponent at home and hits 9-of-26 from the charity stripe, they're not all mentally there for the entire 40 minutes. I thought the referees, on the whole, were decent - besides the two travelling calls they missed and one or two fouls on Dazon that weren't.... .Usually, when playing KY, there is a lot larger gap in officiating. This game wasn't nearly as horrid as years' past.

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Agreed the officiating wasn't as bad as we've seen some years. It was still pretty dang bad. In no way was it "decent."


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Bottom line: Competed throughout, kept themselves from being competitive throughout.

37bamagreats55 said:

Yes, typically it does. In my post, however, it didn't.... I thought I made that ultimately clear.... If I thought the team quit, I'd say they did. I watched the game, and know they didn't. I also know, that if a team commits more turnovers than the opponent at home and hits 9-of-26 from the charity stripe, they're not all mentally there for the entire 40 minutes. I thought the referees, on the whole, were decent - besides the two travelling calls they missed and one or two fouls on Dazon that weren't.... .Usually, when playing KY, there is a lot larger gap in officiating. This game wasn't nearly as horrid as years' past.

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37bamagreats55 said:

Yes, typically it does. In my post, however, it didn't.... I thought I made that ultimately clear.... If I thought the team quit, I'd say they did. I watched the game, and know they didn't. I also know, that if a team commits more turnovers than the opponent at home and hits 9-of-26 from the charity stripe, they're not all mentally there for the entire 40 minutes. I thought the referees, on the whole, were decent - besides the two travelling calls they missed and one or two fouls on Dazon that weren't.... .Usually, when playing KY, there is a lot larger gap in officiating. This game wasn't nearly as horrid as years' past.

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Probably best to acknowledge it was a poor choice of words and move on.

This one was simply due to self inflicted wounds. No the officials didn't help us but this was a winnable game. UK was well short of their season average in scoring. 35% from the free throw line is unacceptable at this level. We hit our free throws and I think we win. It is as simple as that. The careless mental turnovers are what cost us. The 3 to begin the 2nd half were a killer. We just do not have a ball handler. Our assist to TO ratio has to be amoung the worst in the country. They rebounded with us and that was huge as well. We needed all the extra shots we could get.

That might have been some of the worst free throw shooting I've ever seen!

Just wanted to say sorry for the loss today. I turned on your game after ours finished and saw some of the things mentioned above. They are all correctable in my opinion and you have a great coaching staff that will work on it so hang in there.....

I also did not see any quit from your players - they played very hard!

From what I saw, this Alabama team should beat this UK team when playing in Tuscaloosa. This was frustrating, some of it the usual wash-rinse-repeat; unforced turnover-missed free throws-bad calls by refs. Overall the refs weren't too bad but they blew more calls in UK's favor and some late were awful. (UK player over Taylor's back going for a put back and Taylor gets called for foul?)

UK did make some really good baskets to stop a couple of Bama runs so they deserve some credit for that. Otherwise, Bama just didn't take advantage when they had multiple opportunities.

One play I really liked late in the game. Taylor (maybe Hall) jumped out high when Ingram had the ball and appeared to be coming out to set a pick. Ingram beat his man off the dribble and drove to the basket. I don't know if the big man was going to set a pick or just coming out to pull the UK big out of the paint freeing Bama up for the drive.

I "tried" to watch most of the game. Fast forwarded thru most of it, especially the second half. My observations:

1. We pass up too many open looks to try to drive to the basket.
2. Related to #1, we have to work too hard to get a basket. In camparisoin, KY seemed to get plenty of open, easy looks.
3. We turn the ball over too much because we "over pass" (related to #1 too).
4. The reason we don't take those open looks is because we don't have any great shooters. It's been my complaint about Bama basketball for years now going back to Grant. We recruit great althletes but I can't remember the last pure shooter we've had. When a great shooter gets an open look he doesn't pass the ball to another player...he doesn't drive to the basket...he doesn't drive and then make a bad pass...HE SHOOTS THE ROCK. I think Coach Avery is trying to rectify the problem. Got some guys coming in that hopefully can shoot the ball.
5. The quickest way to see how we don't have any shooters is to look at what happens when we go to the free throw line. I will admit that even for average shooters we are terrible at the charity stripe, but the free throw line is the quickest insight into a players ability to shoot the ball.

While we deserved the loss, UK earned their Hiking merit badge with all the walking they did yesterday.