NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Labaron Philon calls them his lucky plays. It's a modest descriptor for the free layps he gets when Alabama’s opponent turns the ball over.
“When I'm guarding somebody else and I can just turn around the see the ball loose, grab it, see a blur in the open floor, that's going to be easy for me,” Philon said. “That's because of my teammates turning them over and I get the chance to go down and lay the ball up. I credit them the most.”
It’s a humble response from a player who is typically the one creating most of those “lucky plays” for himself and his teammates on the defensive end.