Could 2023-24 Alabama Basketball end up as the program's best team
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00:00 Nato it's in his fifth year here on almost, you know, three quarters of the way through his fifth year has Alabama first place
00:07 Probably gonna get a high seed. Obviously last year was kind of the high-water mark with the number one overall
00:12 It's NCAA seed and the double incident SEC tournament
00:15 We celebrated the 2004 elite eight team this past this past week this team
00:21 You know couldn't get hot the current team can get hotter or in play
00:25 well and could probably make a decent run depending on the depends on the seat and depends on the bracket if
00:31 They make a good run and continue where they are in the SECC
00:35 Standings does this top last year's team as far as NATO best team NATO's best job
00:41 It's definitely NATO its best coaching job to lose so much production from last year seemed to lose four starters
00:47 And to lose your entire assistant coaching staff and to piece together a roster
00:53 From some mid majors. You got the trail rights are coming in
00:56 Aaron Estrada and Grant Nelson and I think part of what at why I'm gonna show a little bit early in the season was those
01:02 Guys weren't necessarily used to the physicality. They weren't kind of ready for the speed and the style
01:06 he took guys that played totally different styles and he's talked about that in press conferences where like
01:10 He said he has to get on to the trail rights old for not shooting enough says he's the best shooter that he's ever
01:15 Best pure shooter he's ever coached and he has to get on he's been doing it
01:20 I saw it at Mississippi State. He took him out of the game because he
01:23 Did not take an open three
01:25 But you're seeing Latrell start to when he's open
01:29 He's gonna Jack you saw when he had a fast break on Saturday to just pull it up and drain to three
01:34 He was at zero points
01:36 Until about 14 minutes or so to go in the game and finish with what 17 just because we're bam bam bam bam bam
01:42 Microwave man is heating it up
01:45 Yeah, I think this is by far Nate's best coaching job in terms of what Alabama can do in the postseason
01:51 And you're right now my expectation is we're gonna win the league and like you thought about SEC titles they matter
01:56 Because you're hanging up a banner anytime you can put up a banner it matters
02:01 It shows that you were the best team in that league
02:03 And then every time Alabama's won an SEC title under Nate we've ended up winning the tournament as well
02:08 I'm not as huge on the tournament
02:11 You know, I think if you like we used to talk about with when you roll the ball out there you want to win
02:16 And I know coach Sanderson take took the SEC tournament very very seriously
02:20 And I think Nate does too
02:23 in terms of the postseason we talked about this last year a lot of it's a based on draws man and
02:29 Alabama ran into a buzzsaw last year in San Diego State me and you were both there for it
02:36 That was a team that had some physical guards that really pushed Alabama off the three-point line
02:41 They had got guys that kind of looked like the troll rights to me like thick guards
02:47 If you run into a team like that, you never know
02:50 but there's also a chance that you don't and you're playing your best ball at the right time of the year and
02:55 You get some favorable draws and you were able to go in a run
02:59 I think if you had told me going into the
03:02 2021 NCAA tournament that Alabama was gonna get an 11 seed in the sweet 16 out of felt really really good about that
03:08 I mean kind of got a good draw, but it turns out UCLA was also really really good that year
03:13 It just had some struggles in their conference play, but they put it together at the end of the year
03:17 It's just all gonna be based on draws man. And if like so if Alabama is able to let's say win the SEC title
03:23 Let's say you don't win the tournament, but you make it a lead a or God forbid a final four
03:28 Yeah, it's that would eclipse any of the prior seasons that Nate's had in any season in Alabama basketball history
03:35 NATO
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