Alabama head basketball coach Nate Oats talks about his team's win over Indiana State

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00:00 It's a quality win, that's a really good, very well coached team.

00:06 We knew it was gonna be that way, we knew it when we scheduled them.

00:10 They were even better than I thought they were gonna be when we scheduled them.

00:13 I mean, for our guys to come out, start out,

00:17 nine's up, a long way, I thought our guys did a pretty good job bouncing back.

00:23 Staying locked in, and figuring out a way,

00:27 obviously it helped to get Aaron going.

00:30 Aaron's been pretty good for us in practice.

00:36 So, you have three guys, 12 and 20, but that was pretty impressive.

00:43 So, our defense was not good again, we've gotta do a way better job on defense.

00:50 Obviously, the rotation got shrunk a little bit from the last game,

00:54 just with how tight the game was, we knew this team was gonna be a lot better.

00:57 And honestly, they didn't even have their best, you need to say, out of injury.

01:04 So, we just, we gotta continue to get better on defense.

01:07 So, we've got South coming in, South will play a much different style than

01:12 Indiana State, but they play really hard.

01:15 I think Coach Riley's done a great job down there, and

01:18 we're just gonna keep preaching defense, defense, defense.

01:23 So, that's what we got.

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