Alabama is a very interesting team. They are long, athletic and older and they either take threes or rim runs, nothing in between. When you see their shot chart, it is incredible to see where they are scoring from. There are no circles in the mid range areas.If I coach against a team like Bama, I just play man, crowd them beyond the arc and make them drive to score. Rather they be more efficient from inside than to get streaky from 3. For us, we have a much longer team, so I'd hope to press them inside on the other end of the floor and hopefully get them in foul trouble.
But you're right, you have to run them off the three point line and resist the urge to leave your man to play help defense
Tuesday night's game should be very interesting. I think Cal will have something figured out.