Bama Basketball Breakdown and Game Thread: Furman

Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports Three games into the 2020 campaign, the Alabama Crimson Tide (1-2) certainly find themselves in an interesting position. For one, it’s clear now that it’s going to take some time for Nate Oats to get this team playing his brand of ball effectively. The Tide do play with the kind of frenetic pace that Oats employs, but with very mixed results. Alabama has struggled to take care of the basketball and get back on defense. John Petty, in particular, has had a tough time transitioning to Oats’ pace. I’ve seen some mention that Alabama is top-5 in the SEC in both assists and three-pointers made, which sounds nice, except that when you have more possessions and take more threes than anybody else, that’s to be expected. Alabama has a negative assist-to-turnover ratio and is 290th in the country in 3P% at a measly 28.1%.

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