re: Alabama Basketball Recruiting and Offseason Talk

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How important is style of play to y'all this year or do you even care as long as we win? For the last 7 years, we've consistently heard we want to play an exciting, up tempo brand of basketball. Then again, every coach in the country says that. According to KenPom, we've been 318 and 302 in the country in adjusted tempo under Johnson. As long as we win, I don't really care, but I do hope we pick up the pace some and run more. I don't think the excuse about not having the right guys can be used anymore.

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I'm like you. As long as we win I don't really care. I would like to see it though. We have 3 very athletic big men, one of the fastest point guards in the country who has shown a recent knack for distributing (and lob passes) and we have 3 or 4 very athletic wings (Ingram, Petty, Jones, and Davis) who can shoot. There's no reason we can't go uptempo.