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****Bama vs. UF Postgame Thread***

I agree the officiating was beyond bad but, the shot selection, and 5 points in the final 9:59 is a bigger reason for the defeat. Still would have been nice to have not had the refs against us. I'm afraid what the committee will see is a team that gave up a 19-2 run down the stretch.
 
CrimsonProf said:
Are you serious? Releford, Obasahon and Lacey are all solid free-throw shooters and the others are decent - Moose being the biggest exception.

We were in a position to win when UF went on that run which was aided in great part by the officiating.
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True, Prof,

But let's give a big hurrah to our offense, which took to sleep-walking after we took our biggest lead. That meant bad shots plus very few trips to the line. And that jet-started Florida's offense on the other end. OK, the foul disparity is startling. But let's not kid ourselves: One of the factors is how we play offense. Only Releford and Jacobs consistently look to score, and Releford must balance that with his ball-handling and distribution responsibilities. That leaves the same three guys -- four if you want to count Andrew -- having to pick up the slack. One is in a horrendous shooting slump, and the other two don't consistently take what the defense gives them.

If we could count on two more consistent scorers, we'd be a beautiful team to watch.
 
bamafan_bdb said:
I'm not sure what you're talking about. We shot 40% from the line. That's awful and my point is that when you're shooting that bad from the line you'd rather take your chances from the field.
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When over half of your FT's are being taken by Nick Jacobs you're going to have a bd FT %. Not a knock on NJ just the reality.

When FLA went on their run and Jimmy Dykes was talking about their D intesity. Releford and Lacey were getting mugged when they had the ball.

Also the game really changed when Releford came out for a breather.
 
WylieTexasTider said:
I agree the officiating was beyond bad but, the shot selection, and 5 points in the final 9:59 is a bigger reason for the defeat. Still would have been nice to have not had the refs against us. I'm afraid what the committee will see is a team that gave up a 19-2 run down the stretch.
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You can't mention shot selection and points scored independent of the officiating. It's all part of the same series of events - and that's the real devil of it. Bad officiating affects you psychologically and tends to gum up the works, so to speak. It doesn't happen in a vacuum.
 
CrimsonProf said:
You can't mention shot selection and points scored independent of the officiating. It's all part of the same series of events - and that's the real devil of it. Bad officiating affects you psychologically and tends to gum up the works, so to speak. It doesn't happen in a vacuum.
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No, it doesn't. When you bring the ball down and get body-slammed, lose the ball with no whistle, it's affecting your entire game, not to mention continually stopping the action when you're on defense to award the offense unearned FTs...
 
CrimsonProf said:
I'm on a kinda-sorta Twitter break during Lent - sounds like our state media is, as usual, lining up to support the officials because you can never, ever blame a loss of lousy officiating. Because officials are all hardworking Boy Scouts who never make mistakes.
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I never have understood why Officals get a free pass. They get paid for what they do... And quite well.... Yes it's hard and a highly scrutinized position... But so is Coaching, which is what I do for a living. Why do the refs always get a free pass with the media?
 
BamaMike05 said:
I never have understood why Officals get a free pass. They get paid for what they do... And quite well.... Yes it's hard and a highly scrutinized position... But so is Coaching, which is what I do for a living. Why do the refs always get a free pass with the media?
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I don't know, man, but fewer things irritate me. I've stopped listening to most sports talk in Birmingham for that very reason.
 
TIDE-HSV said:
No, it doesn't. When you bring the ball down and get body-slammed, lose the ball with no whistle, it's affecting your entire game, not to mention continually stopping the action when you're on defense to award the offense unearned FTs...
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Exactly.

And the two insane offensive against Levi and Coop only amplify the point.
 
WylieTexasTider said:
I agree the officiating was beyond bad but, the shot selection, and 5 points in the final 9:59 is a bigger reason for the defeat. Still would have been nice to have not had the refs against us. I'm afraid what the committee will see is a team that gave up a 19-2 run down the stretch.
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Bingo. In college basketball you can count on home cooking officiating. But we scored 5 points in 10 minutes. That isn't going to get it done against a team like Florida.

When we complain 10-1 about officiating rather than offensive production, we look like another school from down the road in another sport. Let's just realize that officiating is bad and so are we (on offense).
 
Well, I took my own challenge and looked up our FT numbers at home and on the road... It shows that either A.) Home cooking is SO bad in the SEC they should launch an investigation...or, we are getting jobbed on the road completely. Take a look

SEC Road games

UA FTM-FTA 73-107 68%
OPP FTM-FTA 111-158 70%

Per game on the road: UA - 13 attempts, OPP - 20 attempts


UA Home games

UA FTM-FTA 128-189 67%
OPP FTM-FTA 69-111 62%

Per game at home: UA - 24 attempts, OPP - 14 attempts
 
Can still win the SEC tournament - if the NCAA changes the rules in the next 10 days and makes college basketball a game of four-on-four...

Otherwise, to implode prosperity once again and get outscored 20-3 or whatever down the stretch bodes for deservedly cratering out of March Madness.
 
bamafan_bdb said:
Bingo. In college basketball you can count on home cooking officiating. But we scored 5 points in 10 minutes. That isn't going to get it done against a team like Florida.

When we complain 10-1 about officiating rather than offensive production, we look like another school from down the road in another sport. Let's just realize that officiating is bad and so are we (on offense).
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Sorry, but I disagree strongly. As stated above, anyone who thinks lousy officiating doesn't interfere with your offensive game just hasn't played basketball. I have...
 
bamafan_bdb said:
Bingo. In college basketball you can count on home cooking officiating. But we scored 5 points in 10 minutes. That isn't going to get it done against a team like Florida.

When we complain 10-1 about officiating rather than offensive production, we look like another school from down the road in another sport. Let's just realize that officiating is bad and so are we (on offense).
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In that 10 minute period we got called for NINE fouls, two of which were offensive (and offensive - ha!). Either we are the most undisciplined team in college basketball or we were on the back end of some really, really bad officiating.

That's not home cooking - it's food poisoning and I'm tired of suffering folks who won't see it for what it is.
 
Win one of the last 2 regular season games, possibly both. Win 1 or 2 in the SEC championship, 2 or 3 in the NIT, and finish with 23-25 wins with the make up of this team and this will have been a great year. If this group can improve at all, and God help them if they can't, they should be about 5-7 wins better next season.

If that happens Anthony Grant is doing a great job and it will only get better as more of the top end recruits stay home or come to Bama. The SEC is down this year all across the board. Florida looks average at least today and I don't see any SEC going far in the NCAA's.
 
Matt0424 said:
Well, I took my own challenge and looked up our FT numbers at home and on the road... It shows that either A.) Home cooking is SO bad in the SEC they should launch an investigation...or, we are getting jobbed on the road completely. Take a look

SEC Road games

UA FTM-FTA 73-107 68%
OPP FTM-FTA 111-158 70%

Per game on the road: UA - 13 attempts, OPP - 20 attempts


UA Home games

UA FTM-FTA 128-189 67%
OPP FTM-FTA 69-111 62%

Per game at home: UA - 24 attempts, OPP - 14 attempts
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This is beyond bizarre.
 
TitleWave said:
Can still win the SEC tournament - if the NCAA changes the rules in the next 10 days and makes college basketball a game of four-on-four...

Otherwise, to implode prosperity once again and get outscored 20-3 or whatever down the stretch bodes for deservedly cratering out of March Madness.
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Take it easy...
 
I don't think the officiating was horrible. There were a few questionable calls but I don't think it cost us the game.
What did cost us the game was our inability to hit open looks when we had them.
We were up by 8 and had five consecutive chances to make it ten or more. The result was two turnovers, two missed open jumpers by Lacey and two missed free throws by Jacobs. Things like that can't fall on the officials.
I think if Lacey had of had even an average shooting game that we could have pulled it off but after the two threes to start the game he couldn't buy a bucket. It happens.
Trevor wasn't a force offensively but we knew Florida, by design, was going to limit his effectiveness.
Cooper and Randolph looked a bit tentative on offense.
Jacobs played hard and contributed pretty well.
I'd really like to see Obasohan get more minutes because he doesn't look the least bit intimidated on a basketball court.
All in all it was a great effort. We just couldn't avoid the once a game lull we seem to have where we can't do anything on offense for several minutes.
In the end Basketball is always a game of who can make the critical shots and who can't.
Today they did and we didn't.
I'll be honest. I didn't think it would be close. They were averaging winning at home by something like 27 points per game.
I'm proud of our guys. They're very young but they fought til the end.
Florida has more overall talent than we do and they started three seniors and two juniors.
Most of the game we played with one junior and four sophomores.
That's huge.
I still honestly believe if we beat Ole Miss and Georgia and a game or two in the SEC Tournament that we'll make the dance.
Time will tell.
Gonna pull hard for the guys and see what happens.
RTR
sip
 
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