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Message: [QUOTE="WhereistheDove?, post: 4950844, member: 1109"] Tennessee is probably the closest game plan for us defensively. The physicality of their guards on defense clearly made Alabama less comfortable. Couple areas that made those games reasonably close were a) TN didn’t have the rim protection to really shut down the paint, b) Ziegler was just too small to really do anything when he got by his man, and c) they just couldn’t create outside of Knecht. Rewatching the TN game made me pretty confident. Edit: after watching that and the Purdue game, my other takeaway is Grant Nelson is a horrible, horrible post defender. I know the prevailing thought is Oats will have him play the five and go five out but I don’t think there’s a chance they can make that work defensively. He will get absolutely manhandled by Clingan and foul out by halftime. [/QUOTE]