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Game thread: No. 6 Alabama at No. 20 Arkansas

Disappointing for sure. Worst game we’ve played. We need to get to hitting outside shots again, defense has to get better and Herb has to stop fouling. Also need these seniors to be better. We are a good team. We only have 2 losses in the conference. Crazy good, but just haven’t been hitting lately. Don’t give up on this team. They can easily score 100+ next one. Just have to figure a few things out right now. Roll Tide
 
Petty and Herb would be much better with JD too. You understand enough to be dangerous. You just don't understand there are two sides to every coin. You never flip the coin over. If JQ would do what he was suppose to do, Herb wouldn't have to play the point. You want Herb out all the time and he literally has to play the point when he has no business doing that. But none of your guys, JQ, Primo or Ellis can do it and all are much better equipped to do so.
Please tell the association I work for I dont know enough. PLEASE. You know how indy cant post due to where he works....Not for me because I'm no longer in NCAA departments.
 
Alabama is a simple team to figure out, the 3 are hitting they can beat anyone. When they are not hitting they could lose to just about anyone.

Thing is the 3 wasn’t really the problem today...fouls, FTs, and missed 2pt were a lot bigger issues
 
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We’re not a top team. Not even top in the sec. Don’t know what happened but this isn’t the same team that went on that winning streak. Keep playing like this and we’ll get bounced from the sec tourney and be one and done in the big dance. Just awful basketball the last couple of weeks.
 
Also Herb wasn’t the only one bad tonight. All of them were bad. Plus Petty needs to calm the heck down. That’s not passion that’s just being out of control. This team needs him even in a bad loss.
 
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Please tell the association I work for I dont know enough. PLEASE. You know how indy cant post due to where he works....Not for me because I'm no longer in NCAA departments.
Tell me the association. That's like saying he was a great player so he will be a great coach.
 
We’re not a top team. Not even top in the sec. Don’t know what happened but this isn’t the same team that went on that winning streak. Keep playing like this and we’ll get bounced from the sec tourney and be one and done in the big dance. Just awful basketball the last couple of weeks.
thanks for telling a 13-2 sec team they shouldn't be there haha. this is an emotional response to a game.
 
We’re not a top team. Not even top in the sec. Don’t know what happened but this isn’t the same team that went on that winning streak. Keep playing like this and we’ll get bounced from the sec tourney and be one and done in the big dance. Just awful basketball the last couple of weeks.
Overreaction. I think we will be ok. Just a long season and we went up against some good teams here and yes lost some. Believe in this team. They can go on a run and do big things.
 
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Tell me the association. That's like saying he was a great player so he will be a great coach.
they'd crack up! everyone is freaking out that we are going to be 13-2 in the sec and ranked 8-9 after this. Its this mans 2nd year. I cant imagine the steps we take year after year.
 
thanks for telling a 13-2 sec team they shouldn't be there haha. this is an emotional response to a game.
This is where you make zero sense. You call the team good. 13-2..so on. But you constantly bash the best players and the guys that got them there. You don't see how those are the complete opposites?
 
Thing is the 3 wasn’t really the problem today...fouls, FTs, and missed 2pt were a lot bigger issues
They have those issues in a lot of games, the difference is the 3 point shooting covers those things up. They haven't shot the ball well tonight and that's why they are getting walked off the court.
 
This is where you make zero sense. You call the team good. 13-2..so on. But you constantly bash the best players and the guys that got them there. You don't see how those are the complete opposites?
I dont think they are the best by any reason. People say we have some players with 2nd round grades. I can tell you, herb has swiftly fell down boards and might be the only draft. Ellis, primo, and shack and legitimate potential to receive round 1 grades going into the year.
 
they'd crack up! everyone is freaking out that we are going to be 13-2 in the sec and ranked 8-9 after this. Its this mans 2nd year. I cant imagine the steps we take year after year.
I just responded to this. I'll do it again. I've noticed you don't respond when someone really ask you a direct question. You said you could say the association didn't you? Why not say it?
So tell me how you think this team is 13-2 and you think they are good but you constantly bash the best players on the team? It doesn't add up.
 
They have those issues in a lot of games, the difference is the 3 point shooting covers those things up. They haven't shot the ball well tonight and that's why they are getting walked off the court.
13-2 and will easily win the SEC. YAWN
 
I just responded to this. I'll do it again. I've noticed you don't respond when someone really ask you a direct question. You said you could say the association didn't you? Why not say it?
So tell me how you think this team is 13-2 and you think they are good but you constantly bash the best players on the team? It doesn't add up.
Theres a reason i cant answer this. and also the reason why I laugh when you say the "best players on the team"
 
Petty isn’t wrong... Oats should have gotten tossed an hour ago. Petty shouldn’t have had to voice his displeasure. He’s gotten hammered twice with no call, yet on the other end we can’t get away with a touch foul.
Exactly. Oats didn't step in there so Petty did. Somebody is going to do it. Oats has to be the one.
 
Theres a reason you cant answer this. and also the reason why I laugh when you say the "best players on the team"
You have all the answers until you get a direct question. Who are the best players on this team? Any coach in the SEC is going to focus on Herb and Petty first. But you don't even want them to play. So whatever you do in your "association" is far beyond any SEC coach.
 
Fair...30% shooting and 10+foul difference is going to provide an L most nights
Other than a few open looks every three, even the ones that went in, were heavily contested. Bruner, Gary, and Reese were the only shooters to get open looks. Enough said. When Bama looked their best 6 weeks ago nobody could stay in front of our guards. Now our guards can't get separation nor could they keep Arky in front of them.
 
If petty was fired up effort wise as much as he was about the bogus fouls we’d be aight. Petty wasn’t stepping up bc oats wasn’t. Petty only acted that way bc the fouls were on him. Stay composed take your medicine sometimes even if the officiating isn’t even and take out the frustration by working harder on the court in practice and the next game. Don’t cry about it.
 
its been rare for him the back half of the season. Ellis has proved to much more effective. SURPRISE! Herb has now fouled out in 3 of the last 4 games. He needs to come off the bench and give ellis the time he's deserved.
I agree Ellis should be in the starting lineup... but there’s a clear role player who for some reason is a starter and it’s primo.
 
I don’t care about the NCAA seed. I care about winning the SEC. But Bama doesn’t deserve if it can’t beat Miss St and Auburn.
 
43 FTA for Arkansas

8 FTA for Alabama

Lots to work on, not a good late Feb. feel losing to another Top 25 team... but I don’t remember this kind of disparity... ever. I’ll take this “slump” in regards to our 3 point game against any “slump” of the past 25 years.
 
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Because I’m a degenerate who put money on Bama. Trash sport honestly. Just fall down and you get free shots
Basketball has always been a very distant second as my favorite sports. One team that can’t really shoot gets hot while the other better shooting team can’t throw it in the ocean. Throw in the refs and you get something like we saw tonight...Bama shot 8 free throws while Arky shot 43. Huh?
 
Tonight has been a total asswhippin.

Oats was out coached. Players out played and out hustled. And for good measure the officials have worked us over like I haven't seen in years.

I probably haven't seen it this bad since the barn game a few years ago when they shot like 50 free throws to our 10 or something. I was afraid there would be a brawl the way they were letting Ark do what they wanted and we got every touch foul. Petty eventually decided he'd had enough.

Ark was ready for this game. They treated it like a championship game and their whole season depended on it. They probably also remembered how bad we whipped them in T-Town. We weren't ready for someone to come at us like this. I hope we learn from it because we'll see Ark again if we don't lay an egg in the SEC tourney. We obliterated Ark in T-Town when the officials weren't being ridiculous so we can beat them.

I don't know what funk Petty is in but he's got to get out of it. And we have to learn to play with guys that are now coming back to being healthy. We've been worse since Jones got healed and Bruner came back.
 
Other than a few open looks every three, even the ones that went in, were heavily contested. Bruner, Gary, and Reese were the only shooters to get open looks. Enough said. When Bama looked their best 6 weeks ago nobody could stay in front of our guards. Now our guards can't get separation nor could they keep Arky in front of them.
A few weeks ago people were helping off of our shooters, even when they didn't need to. It wasn't that we were just blowing by people. Now they've realized to stick to shooters and make our guards win off the dribble around the basket and we haven't had a great answer for that. JQ should be the answer, but hasn't exactly been that. More motion and movement in the half court wouldn't be a bad thing either for this group with how people are playing us.
 
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