Nate Oats discussed Alabama's 2023-24 team, the transfer portal, preseason polls and more.
head coach Nate Oats took the microphone Wednesday at SEC Media Days. Among the topics he hit were the 2023-24 Crimson Tide moving on after turning over much of the roster and coaching staff,As provided by the SEC, here is the full transcript of what Oats said from the podium.“That’s a good question, and we’ve talked a lot about defense with our guys. Been at Alabama four years. Two of the four we’ve been ranked in the top 3 of the country in defensive efficiency.
“Everybody else we should have by game one. Everything else is minor, an ankle tweak, a groin pull, a hip flexor. I can’t go through it. We’ve had a lot of different just minor injuries. Everybody is not going to be available for our closed scrimmage and our exhibition game. We do think everybody should be available by game one, though.”
“Ryan Pannone was an assistant with the Pelicans. I think everybody up here that’s in the basketball knows who he is. He was head coach for the Pelicans G League team here in Birmingham, the Squadron. But he works really hard. We were able to get on some Zooms with some transfer guys. He was able to get in there with Grant Nelson particularly, one of his that he kind of targeted.
“They’ve got a lot of questions. How do we do it here? Kind of tell ‘em how we did it here, but I’m open for discussion based on our current roster as to what is there a better way to do it with our current roster. The way we’ve done it here has changed from year to year, too. I don’t necessarily know that I’ve educated them on everything, but we’ve definitely talked about how we’ve done it, and how they’ve done it places they’ve been.
“Would I like to be picked fifth and finish first again? Yes, I would. That’s our goal. But I think that’s 14 teams’ goal to finish first. We ended up out-performing. When they picked us a little higher one year, we performed less than what they thought. What matters is how I play when the ball tips up here in three weeks and how you play in SEC games. That’s what we’re concerned with, getting better every day.”“He’s our leading returner scorer.
“Yeah, I think it will be one of our tallest overall. We had some size last year starting with Brandon Miller, 6′8″ at the three, could play him at the two, played some one even. I think we can do that with Grant Nelson, play him all over. 6′11″. Jarin Stevenson can play a similar role at 6′10″, 6′11″, as what Noah Clowney played. Pringle, Wague inside there. We got some longer guards. Sam Walters can play 2-3 at 6′9″. Rylan has grown, he’s 6′6″. Yeah, we have some length.
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