More Alabama basketball players enter the transfer portal

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If Alabama does not make the right hire, they might not have enough players to field a basketball team in 2020.

Yesterday we learned point guard Kira Lewis Jr. joined Dazon Ingram in the NCAA transfer portal.  Today Jeff Borzello reports there are two more Crimson Tide players entering the transfer portal following Avery Johnson’s termination, sophomore shooting guard John Petty and junior forward Daniel Giddens.

Petty picked Alabama over Kentucky even though he was one of the first players John Calipari recruited in the class of 2017.  P.J. Washington’s running-mate for Team Penny, the allure of playing for Coach Cal wasn’t enough to convince the Huntsville native to leave his home state.  Giddens spent one year at Ohio State before transferring to Alabama.

In 2018 Petty scored 10.2 points per game on 35.8 percent shooting from behind the three-point line.  The streaky shooter got hot against Tennessee, scoring 30 before they fell to the Vols 71-68.  If Alabama holds on, Johnson may still have a job.

Whoever takes over in Tuscaloosa will first have to recruit his roster before adding to it.  If all four names remain in the transfer portal, the Crimson Tide will lose 60.8 percent of its offensive production in 2020.  Yikes.

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