How did Alabama basketball approach guarding Dalton Knecht?

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00:00 There were a couple Tennessee possessions in the first half where y'all double connect

00:05 a long way from the basket outside the three point line.

00:08 I didn't see much of that in the second half, but was the idea there just to make him kind

00:12 of uncomfortable and harass him as much as he could?

00:15 Yeah, we wanted him thinking about whether we were going to double or not double.

00:19 You know, I'll have to go back and look to see if it worked.

00:22 I mean, like, you saw what he was doing to some of the teams in the league.

00:26 He was just taking games over.

00:30 We watched a lot of NBA here and see what the team's doing.

00:35 Guys like Steph Curry, Luke, Dave Miller, they get going like they're almost on guard

00:42 with one on one.

00:43 We felt like that's the way he had to look at the 25 points in the last 10 minutes of

00:47 that, 10 to 12 minutes of that all-game game.

00:49 Just took the thing over after all that was over.

00:51 So we didn't want him getting in a groove, getting comfortable doing that to us.

00:55 So we felt maybe we were a little questioning his mind.

00:58 You know, it helped get him in foul trouble for sure.

01:00 I don't know if the traps helped to foul trouble out, the combination of everything.

01:07 You know, he's still in the 13 points.

01:10 You know, but he just missed some shots that we were doing a great job, but he just missed

01:15 some shots too.

01:16 But he's really good.

01:18 If we're fortunate enough to play these guys again in the NCAA tournament, you know, we'll

01:23 have to look and see if we can find the possessions that we've been tracking.

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