It's addressed through practice.
Even though they both fall in the same category in the box score, and they're both related to my observation, there needs to be an asterisk beside the turnover numbers: offensive fouls versus, as
@UAgrad93 mentions, protecting the ball.
How many offensive fouls yesterday? At least a half of a dozen, right?
Let me throw this out there for you guys to think about.
When JQ entered the game yesterday had had the ball just inside the top of the key (we're facing frontside in this example.) On the left, outside the lane, I think it was Gurley who was making a break around the back of the defender. JQ had a nice pass other than it was a half of a second too early: turnover. He saw the play...but the timing of his pass was off. The play and easy bucket were there but the players weren't there, just yet.
I saw the same thing with the other guys. The play is there, but they're off on their timing leaving the ball handler—sometimes off his feet—on an island, per se'.
It's not the only thing you've seen go askew this season. But I don't believe it's something to get hung up on yet. I don't see the early part of the SEC schedule as being more difficult than what this team has faced thus far: likely easier based on some of the scores I've seen.
** One more note on JQ. It's my view he's still seeing the floor as well as he did before his injury. I also believe his mind and body are quite in sync. I look at it a lot like a golf swing where a players hips are coming through late. His swing plane is perfect, set up is perfect, everything is as it should be: expect that little glitch in timing.
Here's something to chew on...a bite or two.
Oat's system, based on the average number of points scored from different areas on the court, devalue the mid-range jumper the most. Bama was beaten with the mid-range jumper.
If there's a play in the history of basketball that's literally a play that can't be defended, it's the pick and roll / ball screens. Bama was beaten by one of the oldest plays in basketball. EVERY coach in the history of basketball has been out-coached, by an opposing coach whose team ran ball screens perfectly.
Staying with golf as an analogy ...
If I play a better golfer I'm not ashamed or embarrassed of losing. If a program losses to Mark Few and the Gonzaga program it's not an embarrassing loss, nor a loss where one should be ashamed.
