Ever wanted to play for Alabama basketball? You need to make it through a Nate Oats practice first. Here's your survival guide.
Gurley couldn’t move. Then a recent Furman transfer, Gurley needed the help of trainer Clarke Holter to get to the training facilities. There an IV awaited Gurley, ill-prepared for the practice he’d just gone through.
If you don’t fuel properly, get ready to suffer the consequences. Ask the players on Oats’ first team. Alex Reese, a forward from 2017-21, had to lay on the floor of the locker room afterward. He didn’t need an IV but did need to visit the cold tub. “Come prepared,” said Mouhamed Dioubate, now in his second season with Alabama. “Get some good rest the night before. Get your mind right, your body right. Just be ready when you step foot on the court.”After the first practice with Oats, Johnson returned to his dorm room that spring night in 2019 and made a proclamation to his friends.he ran practice.Your mental preparation will be almost as important as your physical preparation. Take good notes in film sessions outside of practice.
The five-on-five drill will test your mental fortitude. Bring it up, and just about every player reacts to it like it’s an old nightmare. “Strike drill pretty much controls the whole practice,” Gurley said. “You could be down four going into strike drill. They come out up three drills, a whole seven-drill swing.”Crimson Tide Photos / UA Athletics
“There’s nothing worse than having a bad day of practice and you can see the thing going up,” Barnes said, “and you’re just like, ‘I know at the end of this too we’re just going to be running a bunch.’”
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