re: Alabama 78 @ Purdue 87 Final - Peacock

It’s hard to overstate how bad Jarin Stevenson has been for Alabama

6-19 from the field, 0-13 in four games thus far. Not good enough.

Lineup likely to be used from the next game

starter
Philon
Sears
Trelly
Nelson
Cliff

bench
Aden
Sears
Reid
Mo D
Sherrell

out of the rotation

Jarin

Oats will give Stevenson's minute to Sherrell.

4 for Purdue reminded of that 40 year old looking dude from SDSU that whooped our arse 2 years ago.

It's always going to be hard to beat a team that only turns the ball over 3 times the entire 40 minute game. I felt like we played exceptional as far as ball security on the road and we still had 8 turnovers. Put a team at home and have them only have 3 turnovers and it would be tough to beat just about any decent major program. Have to praise them for that level, that's tough to do against air for 40 minutes..

Does anyone know where to find player +/- for each game? Someone had access to it for this article.

" Omoruyi was the only Tide player in the positive in +/- at +11. That means in the 18 minutes Omoruyi was on the bench, Alabama was outscored by 19 points"

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I know it is early and only time will tell, but there is the real possibility that the combination extra weight training to get stronger and expending more energy on defense may be what are hurting Sears' shooting. I'm sure he's getting more defensive pressure after all the publicity but that may not be the whole reason, and free throws aren't defended.

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Dude. It's a really, really long season. And they are mixing in 3 new freshman and 2 transfers. This isn't college football. These losses don't matter right now and actually make the team better. Be ready for more of them. Maybe Illinois, maybe North Carolina, Houston and Creighton.

They will be good when it matters in March. I would argue they don't even have their 2nd best player in Youngblood and won't have him until mid to late December.

It will be ok. Give it a minute.

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There is zero reason to be melting about a 9 point loss @ Purdue when we're still figuring out rotations, the shots aren't falling for Sears, Stevenson is ice cold right now, and we don't have Youngblood yet. This was not a schedule designed with any intentions of going undefeated.

Everyone is railing about Jarin Stevenson, but much more disappointing and concerning from Friday long term is Oats deciding Aidan Sherrell was only worth 3 minutes when TKR goes for 26 points in the low post.

Stevenson's shots are going to fall. They haven't been bad shots. He has had several go halfway down and pop out. He just needs to see a few go in. Him being being 0-13 from 3pt through 4 games in November doesn't effect our ceiling January-March whatsoever. But Sherrell being unplayable most certainly does.