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Bama's defense

Posted on 3/29/24 at 10:38 am
Posted by DirtyCreekBottoms
Member since Mar 2024
826 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 10:38 am
Obviously their offense is great but there were times especially at the beginning of last night 's game that the tarheels had guys passing the ball to guys wide open on the perimeter for unguarded shots that some decent highschool players would easily sink.

Tbh when i saw that i had UNC winning in a route but Bama's offense kept coming back and matching them. It was impressive but I'm not sure they can keep that same pace for two more games.

This Bama basketball team is kind of like a light version of the 2022 Vols football team in that regard. We could beat anyone until/unless we had one slightly off game on offense because our defense wasn't going to stop much of anything.

I really hope Bama and the Vols both keep winning and play for it all. It would be a great storyline imo and boost the SEC up in the current basketball ranks.
Posted by Bryant91092
Member since Dec 2009
24641 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 10:47 am to
Our game plan was to leave a couple of their guys wide open to encourage them to shoot. It was just shite luck that a 16% 3 point shooter drained his first two looks before missing the next one about 5 feet wide right.
Posted by Hback
Member since Aug 2017
10346 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 10:48 am to

Posted by tide06
Member since Oct 2011
13154 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 10:49 am to
Bama going into the tournament was 100+ in efficiency defense.

The change from guys like Griffen, Nelson and Pringle has been night and day and is the only reason Bama made the Elite 8 given the injury to Wrightsell.
Posted by Lg
Hayden, Alabama
Member since Jul 2011
7355 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 10:50 am to
quote:

had guys passing the ball to guys wide open on the perimeter for unguarded shots that some decent highschool players would easily sink.


If you listened to Nate at the half, that was by design because the guys that made those shots hadn't made them with any consistency all year and he thought rebounding was more important. Made adjustments and closed it down in the second half. RJ Davis having an off night was good as well.
Posted by Roll Tide Ravens
Birmingham, AL
Member since Nov 2015
45484 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 10:51 am to
I think Alabama was very worried about getting beat up in the paint, so they were willing to leave some of those 3 opportunities open. Several of the UNC perimeter players didn’t have that great of a 3 point shooting percentage this season, excluding Cormac Ryan, obviously. Unfortunately, those guys were draining 3’s.
Posted by Marktastic86
Pismo Beach, CA
Member since Dec 2020
14518 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 10:54 am to
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If you listened to Nate at the half, that was by design because the guys that made those shots hadn't made them with any consistency all year and he thought rebounding was more important.

I think the announcers said one of those guys that hit two 3's was something like 2/37 from deep the whole year prior to that.
Posted by DirtyCreekBottoms
Member since Mar 2024
826 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 10:57 am to
Oh okay i just looked at the individual UNC players' stats more closely. I guess Oats wanted to sell out to defend the inside so to speak. Almost put you guys in a hole early on. I thought Bama was done for when they went down by 8.
Posted by DirtyCreekBottoms
Member since Mar 2024
826 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 10:59 am to
Guess he needed a bigger spotlight to ballout. His three point stats were indeed terrible headed in.
Posted by CamNewtonsDress
Member since Mar 2024
411 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 11:00 am to
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I thought Bama was done for when they went down by 8.


I wasn't exactly brimming with optimism.
Posted by Nitro Express
Gulf Coast
Member since Jul 2018
16816 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 11:01 am to
I'm not reading that.
Posted by Lg
Hayden, Alabama
Member since Jul 2011
7355 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 11:01 am to
quote:

I thought Bama was done for when they went down by 8.



The runs both teams made were crazy!! 8-0/10-0 runs in some cases
Posted by wm72
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2010
8018 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 11:18 am to


It was certainly bad luck early that the two guys Alabama wanted to shoot it from behind the arc made their first 4 shots.

One guy that made his first 2 3pts shots had made 8 of 38 all season and the other was similar.

However, people watching often over react and Oats, like all good coaches, didn't.

Any "adjustment" wasn't much to be honest. Nelson and usually one more perimeter player kept almost ignoring those UNC guards on the perimeter to hound Bacot.

That strategy ended up:

1) making those players more prone to take 3s (they had a few players shoot multiple threes that were averaging less than 1 per game) instead of playing more slowly and working it inside.

2) creating the frenetic tempo that favored Alabama

3) clearly frustrating Bacot who was the player Alabama was most worried about

4) not overly concerning Alabama since they have the firepower to overcome a barrage of threes pushing a deficit to 10 points as long as the tempo is high


The percentages evened out over the course of the game too. UNC was shooting 60% on threes in the first half and shot around 15% the 2nd half on the same amount of attempts (way too many for the advantage they had in post scoring).


Posted by bamameister
Right here, right now
Member since May 2016
15839 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 11:31 am to
quote:

Tbh when i saw that i had UNC winning in a route but Bama's offense kept coming back and matching them. It was impressive but I'm not sure they can keep that same pace for two more games.


Pace is the Tide's advantage in every game they will play. If you try to match the pace, advantage ALABAMA. Defense isn't every time down the floor. Defense is shutting down the opponent at big moments in the game. When you are an offensive team you play to your strength. Ask Carolina.
Posted by Roll Tide Ravens
Birmingham, AL
Member since Nov 2015
45484 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 12:20 pm to
quote:

I thought Bama was done for when they went down by 8.

Yeah, when their not-so-great shooters were draining 3’s, I got worried.
Posted by CCTider
Member since Dec 2014
24389 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 12:41 pm to
I figured there was no way those shitty shooters would stay hot.
Posted by TTOWN RONMON
Member since Oct 2023
935 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 2:29 pm to
The problem was the Coach did not seem to have a plan for the subs off the bench who could actually shoot (LOL) he stated we had to tweak that a bit. They stayed with it, but I bet when those guys came off the bench in the 2nd half they guarded them.

Davis on the other hand is not a good coach. Being up at halftime by 8, a good coach would have understood what Bama's coach was doing, playing a pressure mini zone (a Box & 1 Wimp Sandersons fav. defense ) with one free player (Baby Face Nelson) roaming around the free-throw line to challenge anything coming down the lane.

Davis should have said, look guys, yes we hit 10-16 three pointers, but they want to make this an up and down game, and get us tired, and if we keep shooting threes they can beat us if we go cold, so lets control the clock, go down low, and kick it out when double teams, lets not jack up threes because they are sagging off, that's the only way we can lose with an 8 point lead.

If he keeps feeding the post, going inside out, running the clock every trip down, UNC would have won that game imho. RJ was 0-9 from three, stop shooting already. 4-20 overall, its not your night, feed the bigs !!
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