Hoops 🏀 How Nate Oats is managing the magnitude of Alabama's matchup against Auburn

[Jack Knowlton]

Nate Oats discussed managing the emotion, magnitude of IBOB matchup.

"We made the point before the Texas game talking about getting ready for ‘Big games’ when there’s a big game looming on the weekend, by prepping every game like it’s a big game."

Also talked about focusing on winning the scoreboard, not focusing on making emotional decisions that could jeopardize the opportunity to win:

“There’s no point for a takedown in wrestling,” Oats said. “There’s no points for knockouts. That’s not what we’re doing here. So let them try to win the boxing match, wrestling match. We’re going to try and win the scoreboard. We walk out of here winners on the scoreboard. So anything that takes away from winning on the scoreboard is losing basketball. So retaliating to something dumb is losing basketball. Let the refs catch them doing it.”

How Nate Oats is managing the magnitude of Alabama's matchup against Auburn

Here's how Nate Oats is managing Alabama's emotions for the IBOB.

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