Game Thread: Bama Travels to Rocky Top

I don't know how the SEC can defend that crap officiating....I hate to see a referee decide a game like that.

CrimsonForce said:

Started slow, nice comeback but predictable ending. Everyone will talk about the traveling call but it was our free throw shooting that did us in. We were like 1-10 or something in the second half. Just pathetic effort from the free throw line..

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The effort was there. Maybe to much effort at the free throw line. I know sometimes your free throws don't fall. I have had a couple miserable games at the line and I tried my hardest to hard.

Proud of the fight our guys showed to give themselves a chance but we're good enough that moral victories are NOT enough (especially garbage losses too). Having to rely on a freshman point guard down the stretch in games seems to kill us routinely in games I've gotten to watch. Our ability to value/maximize possessions in the final five has not been up to snuff. This is a talented, deep team that has a crippling deficiency in ball handling and offensive leadership in crunch time.

Jobbed and robbed - phantom step as predictable a call as could have been made to take it out of 'Bama's hands. Avery's TO @11.3 left let the zebras plot the perfect ending.

An enterprising engineer could make a fortune developing AI - driven robot game officials. Anything, and I mean anything, is better than the hot garbage on the court now. Of course, I also want our players to learn the Rick Barry FT style, so anything I say should be not be taken seriously....

hollisx4 said:

I don't know how the SEC can defend that crap officiating....I hate to see a referee decide a game like that.

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Not going to be a popular comment, but watch the play without the crimson colored glasses. While I didn’t see a travel either, Petty clearly chicken-winged the defender. He was nearly grabbing his butt when it happened, which using your arm to hook the defender is a blatant offensive foul.

The officiating was one-sided at times in the 1st half, but it was far more evenly called in the 2nd. It’s not the refs fault we missed 10 free throws in the 2nd half. Or that our shot selection was garbage for the last 5 minutes of the game. Or that we couldn’t draw up a decent offensive play out of a timeout to win the game.


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The rain made my satellite freeze up so I missed the traveling call.

Still, had we made free throws at the same 75% they did, we win the game.

I’m not big on a moral victories, but a close loss to the #1 team in waiting is nothing to sneeze at.


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Bright side, the tourney is all about being able to compete with the best, and we certainly picked up more than a couple brownie points there today seeing as how no one else has gotten with sniffing distance of UT since Gonzaga.

The sickening point is my afore-mentioned tent-folding in this thread, up three points and UT building a four-minute long igloo. Serviceable free-throw shooting (not necessarily even good) and brain-induced shot selection with the lead in the last five minutes would've been a win that could've shifted the program. At some point, you either take that step, or shy away from it when the pressure is on...again. Purely nauseating.

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Lost the game at the free throw line. Not for the first time. Good play by the Tide in the second half.

seebell said:

Lost the game at the free throw line. Not for the first time. Good play by the Tide in the second half.

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Yep. We can only blame ourselves for the horrendous 2nd half FT shooting. That is a game we should have won.

1-3 in tight games decided late (beat KY, losses to GAState, A&M, and UT). If this team and coach can demonstrate the ability to win more of these games (or at least not self-destruct), we'll truly turn the corner. I hope we're close to that. Proud of the players for the fight they showed in this one, though. Would've been easy to fold the tents.

Frankly, I am surprised we played as well as we did. I did not expect anything but a beatdown going in. Kudos to Petty for finally hitting some 3s on the road.

BamaHoosier said:

Not going to be a popular comment, but watch the play without the crimson colored glasses. While I didn’t see a travel either, Petty clearly chicken-winged the defender. He was nearly grabbing his butt when it happened, which using your arm to hook the defender is a blatant offensive foul.

The officiating was one-sided at times in the 1st half, but it was far more evenly called in the 2nd. It’s not the refs fault we missed 10 free throws in the 2nd half. Or that our shot selection was garbage for the last 5 minutes of the game. Or that we couldn’t draw up a decent offensive play out of a timeout to win the game.


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Gonna have to disagree on the officiating, but had Petty been called for a foul you might possibly maybe arguably had a point. He was not called for a foul, however.

TiderJack said:

Yep. We can only blame ourselves for the horrendous 2nd half FT shooting. That is a game we should have won.

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Now, I would like to see this effort every game. That has been an issue with CAJ teams. We play really hard one game, fairly hard another, tank another. If we would play with consistent effort, we could be a solid program again. Until we do, we are just going to continue the hair-pulling frustration.

bamamoss2 said:

Frankly, I am surprised we played as well as we did. I did not expect anything but a beatdown going in. Kudos to Petty for finally hitting some 3s on the road.

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Strange thing is at times this team looks top 10 and other times they look lost. Seems to mostly hinge on fundamental technique and effort.

teamplayer said:

Now, I would like to see this effort every game. That has been an issue with CAJ teams. We play really hard one game, fairly hard another, tank another. If we would play with consistent effort, we could be a solid program again. Until we do, we are just going to continue the hair-pulling frustration.

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"We played 35 minutes of a 40 minute game."

ALA2262 said:

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Because Tennessee was the home team and also the team with a top 5 ranking about to go to #1 in the country after Michigan lost.

Yes I believe the refs manipulate outcomes in college basketball. It’s easy to do, as we witnessed today. We can talk about Alabama’s deficiencies which are maddening to watch, but we also don’t have to ignore the reality of the horse manure that is collegiate officiating.