Three deliveries from the loss of the dry basketball tournament in Alabama in Florida

Gators Chomp Alabama Guardians

The attack Alabama, Grant Nelson, is on the second place on the team in points a season, but only the guards make up number 1 and 3-5. These players are Mark Sears, the Member of the first All-Sec team, the phenomenon of Boboc Labaron Philon and Sharpshooters Aden Holloway and Chris Youngblood.

Like Alabama, the Florida guards are long -time markers, because the position has the first 3 places in the team per match. These players are members of the first All-Sec team, Walter Clayton Jr., Alijah Martin and Will Richard-on average, on average at least 13 points.

This battle of some of the nation’s most important guards had a lot of hype around it, but it was simply not a competition from the beginning. Clayton scored 22 points on 6 out of 11 of Deep with six assistants, and Martin and Richard marked each 16.

Youngblood was one of Alabama bright tiny, while finished with 14 points, but Sears added nine to photos 3-for-10, and Philon had three on 1. That’s the best duos in the country shot a 4-EF-19 in the semifinal round.

“I obtained 54-26 with the three starters from them and the three guards at first”, the head coach Alabama Nate Oats said during the Postgame press conference. “However, for me, it was more when you get stuck in what you have to do to win a game and you are truly talented for offense, the offense takes care of your self.

“I go back to, like, what did I say we would be. I was the hardest playing team, the hardest on the floor? Was our hardest yard, the hardest in the back?

Oats sang Philon who said he fought on both sides of the ball “for large parts of the game”. Philon had one of the best games in his career on Friday against Kentucky. Oats explained that its typical excellence in two directions will be necessary for the NCAA tournament and that Florida already has a leg in this regard.

“They have a hard courtyard,” said Oats. “They are also very good defensive. They also received some of the best defensive guards in the country. So they have obviously done a good job with us.”

The second half the second half says your

Crimson Tide drew Florida 47-45 at the break. Given how the first game went on March 5, as Alabama lost 99-94 But he had a big return late to make a more respectable score, this was a relatively positive start to the gators – – a current seed projection no. 1 in the NCAA tournament.

At the end of the first half, Alabama before Grant Nelson threw him off the ground with a knee injury. The sea remained the course in those final minutes, but when Nelson did not start in the second half, Gators absolutely alabama at the beginning of the second half, while they went for an amazing period of 17-2.

Timeouts are a way to cool the opponents if they are on a hot series. However, the head coach of Alabama, Nate Oats, did not seem to have an interest in giving his team a short break, even when he went down 64-50 after five minutes to be sacrificed.

“I said to them,” Do you want to call a timeout and tell them to play harder? “We were sitting in the video camera after the first time I played Florida,” said Oats. “I said we will be the hardest playing team. It is not because we are tired. We can make a lot of excuses.

“I played last night, they played last night. The 15 -minute break at the break, they played harder than us. You have to determine if you will play more or not. Then you realize some things, to be honest with you. You have to figure out if they want to be the hardest playing team, the hardest on the floor or not.”

Crimson Tide never really reset after the big run. The score improved, but the defense remained the same. In fact, the 104 points allowed by Alabama in Florida is a record of the dry tour – one that lasted previously for 27 years.

What is the secret of Florida?

Alabama lost the last four matches against Florida. Here is the total of the gators point for each game. 105, 102, 99 and now 104. Crimson Tide’s defense has been an earthquake in the last two years, but showed positive signs against many dry teams.

Not Florida. It cannot be denied that the head coach from Florida, Todd Golden, has oats and Alabama. So what did Golden and Gators do in the past two years?

“They do a good job that ran us off the line … They did a better job, doing the guards, open than us,” said Oats. “They did a good job that ran us off the line, pushing us into their blockages. I don’t think we made big rim decisions. I didn’t finish well on the edge.

“Guys well.

Golden also had ideas about why his team surpassed Alabama, and on Saturday was the most obvious of it, especially during 17-2.

“I thought again of the war of a transition.” Said Golden. We started to wear them. We managed to enter the transition, to get a little confidence, a bit of impulse. It seemed that we managed to keep our foot on the gas in this way for the 12 minutes to start half. 20 lead points with seven minutes of walking.

“Again, collective. Different boys made pieces. I thought our great pressure on the offensive glass. Our guards did an excellent paint job, making the right game, making big photos. Playing a high level basketball.”

Alabama has clearly clarified throughout the season that he can hang and beat some of the best teams in the country, and his rank no. 5 in the top 25 AP reflects that. But Florida seems to be Kryptonita Crimson Tide.