Nate Oats says Alex Tchikou still can’t go live yet. He says Alex has put on some weight.
“He plays like a 5 who can play on the perimeter"
Nate Oats on Alabama being one scholarship over the limit for 2021-22 — he doesn’t have an answer yet but Alabama has “earned the right” to let it play out. “It’s not fun all the time.” Said he thought they handled it well last year with some players transferring out. “We’ll be down to the number that it needs to be down to when it needs to be down to that."
Nate Oats on Charles Bediako: “We’ve been recruiting him a while and have a really good relationship with him that we’ve built over a long time. … He’ll give us a little bit different big than maybe what we played with this year.” Cites rim protection and athleticism.
Oats on Burnett: “Recruited him really hard out of high school. Developed a great relationship with him. … When we didn’t get it initially, I thought we handled it correctly. … They followed back up. They watched us play a lot. They let us know they enjoyed watching us play."
Nate Oats said Alabama “did not have an answer” for Noah Gurley when Furman played them the past two seasons. Oats said the staff was “fired up” when Gurley put his name in the transfer portal.
“Versatile big that can play multiple positions. High IQ, which we like."
Nate Oats says he expects some underclassmen Alabama players to enter the NBA draft. But if they don’t have a guaranteed first-round grade, he would probably recommend coming back.
Nate Oats says he thinks JD Davison will be “really hard to guard.” … “You put him and Quinerly out there and it’s going to be hard to keep the two of those guys in front of you."
Nate Oats, fighting back some tears, just gave a rememberance of Luke Ratliff during his signing day Zoom press conference. Oats called Ratliff “one of us” and noted the late Alabama student had been over his house.
Nate Oats on 2021-22 schedule: “We’re gonna schedule really good teams. But Houston’s pretty good. I’m not trying to schedule too many top 10 teams coming in here. Houston will be in here. Still trying to work on the Birmingham deal."
“He plays like a 5 who can play on the perimeter"
Nate Oats on Alabama being one scholarship over the limit for 2021-22 — he doesn’t have an answer yet but Alabama has “earned the right” to let it play out. “It’s not fun all the time.” Said he thought they handled it well last year with some players transferring out. “We’ll be down to the number that it needs to be down to when it needs to be down to that."
Nate Oats on Charles Bediako: “We’ve been recruiting him a while and have a really good relationship with him that we’ve built over a long time. … He’ll give us a little bit different big than maybe what we played with this year.” Cites rim protection and athleticism.
Oats on Burnett: “Recruited him really hard out of high school. Developed a great relationship with him. … When we didn’t get it initially, I thought we handled it correctly. … They followed back up. They watched us play a lot. They let us know they enjoyed watching us play."
Nate Oats said Alabama “did not have an answer” for Noah Gurley when Furman played them the past two seasons. Oats said the staff was “fired up” when Gurley put his name in the transfer portal.
“Versatile big that can play multiple positions. High IQ, which we like."
Nate Oats says he expects some underclassmen Alabama players to enter the NBA draft. But if they don’t have a guaranteed first-round grade, he would probably recommend coming back.
Nate Oats says he thinks JD Davison will be “really hard to guard.” … “You put him and Quinerly out there and it’s going to be hard to keep the two of those guys in front of you."
Nate Oats, fighting back some tears, just gave a rememberance of Luke Ratliff during his signing day Zoom press conference. Oats called Ratliff “one of us” and noted the late Alabama student had been over his house.
Nate Oats on 2021-22 schedule: “We’re gonna schedule really good teams. But Houston’s pretty good. I’m not trying to schedule too many top 10 teams coming in here. Houston will be in here. Still trying to work on the Birmingham deal."
