Nate Oats on Alabama Guard Aden Holloway's Defense vs. Oakland.mp4

I thought he was definitely better than he was for most of the games last year. I think there was a few games where he showed his capability, particularly the one down at LSU. I thought this version of him is a lot more like what we're gonna see all year cuz he's been a lot more like this in practice. I loved his intensity, I liked the fact he was staying in front of the ball. I liked his leadership tonight. I'm looking right now like, yeah, I mean, on the blue collar stuff, yeah. He wasn't one of our highest, but I thought he did a good job staying in front of the ball, not getting beat, and just kind of, I thought he was better than what he was the first two years here. And so we can take this, work off it, keep building. It's going to have to be a better Friday night, but he's focused on it. I think you guys can tell he's... Trying to be the right leader. I think he's been a really good leader. He's trying to help lead these young kids. We've got five freshmen playing a lot of minutes. He's trying to help lead them. It's hard to be the leader that we need him to be if he's not going to play hard on the defensive end. I thought he played pretty hard on that end of the floor tonight. I was happy with his effort tonight.