Baseball ⚾️ Game thread: No. 9 Alabama vs. No. 14 Houston

[TideFever]

Our players are going to need an ice bath after this game. Houston might as well be a football team playing basketball. Everything they do around the ball is accompanied by some hard contact of some kind.

Don't like our chances in this one if we can't hit some 3s and make their D work even harder to defend the 3 and the rim.

Shackleford has felt invisible as well as Ellis on offense. JD doesn't seem ready for what Houston can take away from him.

 

[aggietider]

Miles probably isn’t made for this football, I mean basketball game.

 

[shake_weight]

We’re kinda getting bullied. I’m really surprised we’re in this. Our FT shooting has kept us in the game.

Houston definitely looks better than us tonight

 

[aggietider]

Weak foul call on Gurley. The offensive guy had his elbow in Gurleys chest.

 

[Tony_Tsoukalas]

Noah Gurley has played 14 minutes. He has four fouls, no rebounds and a +/- of -10

 

[mowens75]

Dang these offensive rebounds on that side are killing us. Plus these guys all have a ton of fouls, but still fighting to get them and getting them

 

[D Isaiah T Billings-Clyde7]

Refs trying to even the score on fouls… it’s what physical teams like this and West Virginia count on… eventually the refs realize they are going to foul your whole team out and quit calling stuff

 

[frazor]

Guys are going to have to suck it up and play with some heart. Not sure we can play more than 7 guys from here on out.

 

[TideFever]

On every rebound Houston is like wild animals fighting over one scrap of meat. If we win it will be because they fouled a bunch out. We've been slowly losing this game since around 18 min left in the second half.

Gotta have someone get hot and we have to find a way to at least take a few boards away from Houston on their end.

 

[aggietider]

Refs trying to even the score on fouls… it’s what physical teams like this and West Virginia count on… eventually the refs realize they are going to foul your whole team out and quit calling stuff

It’s unbelievable. Can’t imagine playing them in Houston. We’d be lucky to get out of the game alive.

 

[pwestbro61]

Getting killed on the offensive glass. Houston is by far the best team Bama has played.

 

[aggietider]

I like how they do a perfect form tackle and jump up and react like they didn’t foul.

 

[TideFever]

ffs.. it's almost like the rebounds just find Houston players.

 

[aggietider]

If we don’t learn anything else, we will learn something about rebounding. JD jumps up and waits and then goes up a little more.

 

[Tony_Tsoukalas]

Alabama is on a 7-0 run and leads Houston 68-63 with 8:17 remaining. The Tide has made its last five shots from the floor.

 

[TideFever]

That was a good little run there for us. Got some rebounds for a change and it opened the offense up a bit.

 

[aggietider]

The guy just let flew out to close cover the shooter in the corner and let JQ go shoot a layup. Crazy world.

 

[mowens75]

JQ!!!! Also Gurley on defense

 

[frazor]

Getting killed on the offensive glass. Houston is by far the best team Bama has played.

I knew it was going to be like this. Athletic guys who never stop.

 

[aggietider]

We better score with these 5 guys. No way we rebound with 3, 5, 13, 2 and 4 out there.

 

[Secksbot]

We better score with these 5 guys. No way we rebound with 3, 5, 13, 2 and 4 out there.

We aren’t rebounding no matter who is out there.

 

[TideFever]

All that trash talking to Quin has him as fired up as we've seen him. Dude looks like he's on the edge of blowing up in a rage and he steps back from the edge enough to keep playing.

 

[frazor]

We better score with these 5 guys. No way we rebound with 3, 5, 13, 2 and 4 out there.

2 needs to just go hide in the corner. Q looking at him like "fool this ball aint leaving my hand." Haha

 

[D Isaiah T Billings-Clyde7]

Regardless this is a great game. Houston is real good. We are playing good. They are more athletic than us and that won’t be true against many opponents this year

 

[TideFever]

Looking at the stats, they've only outrebounded us by 4. 33-29

But the offensive boards are crazy slanted to them at 16-5.

 

[mowens75]

uggg..come on JQ some times you need to pass it around

 

[aggietider]

2 needs to just go hide in the corner. Q looking at him like "fool this ball aint leaving my hand." Haha

He’s improved but he’s in over his head right now on this court.

 

[aggietider]

10 has to give us a lot more defensive rebounding.

 

[shake_weight]

Stop watching the shot and put your body on the Houston players!

 

[TideFever]

Crowd sounds asleep. Should be deafening right now when they have the ball.

 

[jmillerbama]

REBOUND THE DAMN BALL! PLAYING WEAK AF TONIGHT!

 

[mowens75]

How has none of the cougars not fouled out???

 

[aggietider]

We aren’t rebounding no matter who is out there.

Struggle. But those 5 sure wouldn’t get them.

 

[jmillerbama]

Crowd sounds asleep. Should be deafening right now when they have the ball.

No different than the football stadium........always a lot of 65+ age fans in the stands sitting on their hands!🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

 

[aggietider]

How has none of the cougars not fouled out???

When it gets to a certain point, the refs just slow down bc they don’t want to foul them all out. Makes them look worse than letting fouls go.

 

[TideFever]

How has none of the cougars not fouled out???

The officials got used to seeing Houston push us all over court. No blood... no foul...

 

[aggietider]

Of course, we get the first guy to foul out. That’s a crime.

 

[mowens75]

Bediako with a tough gsme, against some good bigs.

 

[TideFever]

Huge 4 point play there by Shack. Gotta make a few more 3s to finish this game.

 

[mowens75]

Offensive rebounds. Wow! Just getting beat every time.