Game thread: No. 2 seed Alabama vs. No. 15 seed Iona
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When I got into the car yesterday the radio station was on JOX; Finebaum was on who I hate listening to. He had Oats coming up next so I stayed and listened. Oats was choking the entire interview and all I thought about was I hope this isn't a sign of him choking in the tourney. Right now he's choking.
If we lose this game then its squarely on Petty. Kid needs to shoot better than 15% from three. Been like this for a month now. And he's has been missing badly.
So not the hard fought 2 games to end the sec tournament to win it? yeah ok. But agree today they havnt. Reese and petty gotta ride the pine.
He seems plenty fired up... he’s mentally off on offense
Great job Alabama way to help this team have ALL the MO going into halftime! I cant wait for Petty "Mr. Inconsistent" to move on! Ive never seen a shooting guard turn the ball over more than him and you cant even count on him to be a catch andd shoot guy! The guy has a strong career in house building cause he has a bag full of bricks!🤦♂️🤦♂️🤯🤯🤬🤬
I been thinking the same thing. Not only cold but missing badly.
Two years under CAJ, two under Oats. GTFO with placing blame on anyone else if you are going to put it on a coach. You give Oats all the credit when they play well.
Reese has played good defense. Q has played weak defense and missed his man multiple times. Petty needs to settle down and makes shots or stopped shooting. Herb is going to have to lead them out of this.
what? the / clearly states one or the other. Gotta play them the most minutes the 2nd half and its an easy dub. just like when that lineup is in most times.
JQ has to stay out of foul trouble and quit giving cheap fouls. We need him down the stretch.
Played pretty poorly that half and up one. I think we just took the best punch Iona has. If we can get better shots and clean up the turnovers we will be fine
I without a doubt give oats credit. CAJ ruined many college players. low iq, no offense, no defense, and half couldn't dribble. Oats had to completely teach them the game of basketball and has done a great job. I wanted Avery to succeed but he set us back.
Tried to tell folks all week to cool it on assuming we were going to meet Mich in the elite 8. Iona is playing mediocre but we're playing far far worse. Almost as expected we're flat and Iona is getting just enough to hang around. Going to be scary if its still close with around 5 min to go in the game.
Petty, I don't know what's wrong with him but he's so bad now with the ball that it's offsetting whatever he's offering on defense. His shot looks like he's forgotten how to shoot and is aiming everything. If we win I would find him a gym and watch him shoot 1000 shots to see if he can straighten it out. Plus he's trying too hard to make the crazy pass. He had a 2 or 3 min stretch with like 3 turnovers and 2 really ugly shots.
The whole team needs another wakeup call. If we do win today this performance won't beat anyone ahead of us. We should be up by 20 right now.
Petty, I don't know what's wrong with him but he's so bad now with the ball that it's offsetting whatever he's offering on defense. His shot looks like he's forgotten how to shoot and is aiming everything. If we win I would find him a gym and watch him shoot 1000 shots to see if he can straighten it out. Plus he's trying too hard to make the crazy pass. He had a 2 or 3 min stretch with like 3 turnovers and 2 really ugly shots.
The whole team needs another wakeup call. If we do win today this performance won't beat anyone ahead of us. We should be up by 20 right now.
Seriously Petty single handedly cost us from running away with this game. Stupid turnovers, missed free throws, and his shot is flat out broken at this point. He gave up a 7-0 run to finish the half. Now the pressure starts to build. Hold on tight boys. We better come out on fire or it’s going to be upset city.
Oats needs to grab Petty during half time and have. Saban with AJ moment and tell him to calm the F down. I get you wanna run and play fast but damn let make a couple passes a possession. Too many wasted possessions by our guys going 100 mph towards the rim with no idea what they want to do.
Hopefully oats just walked in the locker room and told them to figure out if they want to win and walked away. There should be no need for motivation when your in the big dance!
Just havnt hit some shots. No big deal and we could easily be up bigger but they have 1 player and the 1 thing we've learned this year is oats gameplans at the half and always shuts down the top player on the other team each 2nd half. Many upsets this year. lets not be 1
He’s about 30% in the last 10, but closer to 20% if you take away the two UGA games.
The rest of the squad is playing decent so far...really good on the boards in the 1st half which is the only reason Petty‘s stinker doesn’t have them losing.
we always end up shutting down the best player on the other team the 2nd half.
I hate to agree but he needs to do his work without the ball, work to get open and hit shots. For sure is our worst ball handler outside out big guys
Played pretty well against Miss St, made a huge comeback against UT to win and took LSU’s best shot and won the tournament.
When Petty hits threes this team is hard to beat. He needs to step it up on the offensive end badly.
This post is low IQ. It's also disingenuous and lazy to be that guy who two years later places the blame on the previous coach. How stupid is it to give Oats all the credit when the players play well but all the blame on CAJ when they don't.
I know you probably could not hear it on TV, but I’m wondering if you could see CNO look up in the stands at some guy who screamed to “keep Quinerly in the damn game” Oats paused for a moment before going to the locker room. I hollered at the guy who was not wearing Bama gear “we are all thinking it, but you said it”
ROLL TIDE!!!!
ROLL TIDE!!!!
I think the game plan was to get Petty going this game since he will be needed somewhere during the tournament. With him being off today, I think Shack and JQ get going in the 2nd half. Gary also needs more minutes down low. If we get back to running and spreading the floor, Reese provides value while spoting up. Herb just needs to stay active. We win if for no other reason Iona is not deep at all, but we need to put them away early to start the 2nd half. We need to kill their confidence.
I'm not placing blame on anyone. It is what it is. Some players still have lazy habits that come out and wouldn't you know it, all these players played under CAJ. Coincidence? I think not. Oats is a goat and has brought very limited talent to indy as a 2 seed. honestly crazy good coaching
