re: Alabama Basketball Megathread | 26-7 (16-2)

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Rick Pitino on Nate Oats: “I enjoy watching his teams play immensely. I don’t know him. I guess this is his first year at Alabama.” (it’s his second)

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Nate’s going to make sure that he knows who he is on Saturday. And may make it a point to note that he did as well.

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Nate’s going to make sure that he knows who he is on Saturday. And may make it a point to note that he did as well.

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I don't think Pitino meant anything by that. I think he was just saying that he's never met the man and/or had a conversation with him.

LINK ]Nate Oats talks tournament foe Iona, coaching against Rick Pitino (BOL)



LINK ]Nate Oats 'not interested' in job openings at Indiana, other schools (BOL)



Charlie Potter nugget: "No COVID-19 issues for Alabama. The team is out of quarantine."

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When Petty scores 13 or more:
Record: 11-0
Avg. margin: Alabama +18.7

When Petty scores 12 or less:
Record: 12-6
Avg. margin: Alabama +4

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Damn, that one point does make a huge difference when you look at it like that.

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Damn, that one point does make a huge difference when you look at it like that.

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Yep, it really does. We've now got confident and elite Quinerly shooting and driving, a healthy Herb, a maturing before our eyes Ellis, a Shack shooting as well as he has all year.......we are truly Petty making shots away from looking around and going "uhhh we can win this damn tournament".

Remember when we couldn't shoot? How about these numbers from the last 5 games from 3PT

- Keon Ellis (5/12) (42%)
- Jaden Shackelford (15/36) (42%)
- Jahvon Quinerly (9/22) (41%)

There's one guy missing there
- John Petty (11/32) (34%)

Reese still can't shoot, but let's not get greedy

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2. James Rojas (+5.4)

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Jimmy Basketball

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So his Offensive BPM is -5?

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Yea............it's not good. He has a turnover rate of 46.1%

Reese's is only slightly better at -3.9. He's 3/14 from 3PT the last 3 games (21%). His True Shooting % is 37%

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Damn, that one point does make a huge difference when you look at it like that.

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I drew that line there because that's the mark where we stay undefeated.

Petty 10 or more:
Record: 16-3
Margin: Bama +12.1

Petty less than 10:
Record: 7-3
Margin: Bama +4.7

I'd guess that he does his part in the greater scope of team defense with the units he is on the floor with - which leads to a higher Box +/- number.

I'm pretty sure he's not an elite individual defender, but it's hard to argue that the numbers don't show that the defense plays well with him in the game, which must mean he's doing his part.

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DLev45

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Those are pretty crazy numbers. We've all been saying if we shoot it well as a team we can beat anyone. In reality, if John Petty shoots it well we can beat anybody. If he doesn't we'll probably have to grind it out. When Petty shoots it well we are a national title contender. When he doesn't we are (playing the way we are playing right now) a Top 10 or so really good team.

I mean, the numbers bear it out, Petty having a solid night basically adds 10-12 pts to our margins. If you add 10 pts to our "baseline" margin, that's a serious national title contender.