Oats has had some stinky early games at home in the past. I think the team played together better in this game than some of those stinkers; turnovers and rebounding were good compared to some of those games. The team played pretty good defense. They shot poorly with open looks and ASU hit some very difficult shots. Flow disruption by the refs probably hurt Bama a little more than ASU.
There were a few stretches when it looked like Oats was struggling to get the players currently on floor to set up correctly and run the offense. I can see it will still take some time for all player combinations to be in sync.
I like seeing Nelson's on-the-court coaching.