Nate Oats on Alabama's Unselfishness vs. Oakland
Nov 10, 2026
I think we've got a really good group
that's trying to play the right way.
You know, I had them kind of show
this clip of the Brewers out there with
viral for one, you know,
Wisconsin guys got my Brewers World Series championship
sweatshirt, hat, t-shirt, the whole deal.
But we showed a clip of the Brewers when there was like a pop fly,
general pop fly, and they're sprinting around second base, you know,
and it's two outs.
Most of the people probably just walk off
because it's pretty much coming out.
And I had our guys explain what they thought playing
the right way in basketball was,
and they went through and did a really good job listing off,
you know, what they thought that meant
and then how they wanted us to play it.
And, you know, one of those is ball movement, being unselfish,
which goes along with the whole Mudita thing
that we've kind of adopted from Murph.
And so I think ball moved, you know, we told them the zone
Can cause real problems with some people, sort of, to put up a 1.56.
That was our efficiency number tonight on offense against that zone.
It's pretty tough to do, and I think a lot of it's ball movement.
I think it starts at the top with your kind of starting backcourt
and Holloway and Amari,
and I thought those guys really get the ball movement
right out of the gate, you know,
and they end up providing for eight assists
and only one turnover.
So I thought they set the tone, and then I think
Everybody else kind of followed, and then, I mean,
you go down the list, like, everybody, everybody that played except,
you know, it's hard, the last guys that only played two minutes,
but even DJ got an assist, so I think 12 guys ended up with an assist,
so I think the guys really like playing with each other,
the chemistry's great, and we've been really trying to work
on just getting the ball moving, not having it stick.
I thought it was pretty good tonight.

