How important are the Alabama guards when it comes to rebounding?

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00:00 >> Look at the box score from the other night, you look at the rebounding

00:02 distribution between the front court and the back court, it seemed to be pretty even.

00:06 How has the evolution of the guards and embracing rebounding kind of come along

00:10 since moving into the lineup change and how has that led to success?

00:14 >> Yeah, I think you've seen Estrada push a triple double a few times this year.

00:20 I mean, he's, and she's offensive rebounding has really come on.

00:24 He's been a good defensive rebounder.

00:27 Our guards are more than capable, right, so he's had a double double.

00:31 Sears could easily get a double, shoot, Sears could get a triple double actually.

00:35 Like, I think Sears, Estrada, Wrights, O'Reillyn starting to rebound it better.

00:41 I think you see the more our guards rebounded, the quicker we can get out in

00:44 transition, so we keep making that point.

00:47 The better transition teams have guards that you take one step out of the training.

00:52 You don't have to get a defensive rebound and throw an outlet to a guard.

00:55 You just get the defensive rebound, you're out.

00:57 So in some of these really good offensive rebounding teams,

01:02 your bigs are kind of wrestling with the great rebounders at A&M and

01:07 Florida Head and then your guards.

01:10 You're gonna have to come in and get some defensive rebounds and

01:12 we've been doing a better job at.

01:14 Hopefully we continue to do a better job at and we need the whole team to rebound

01:19 well, but I think, like I said, sometimes your bigs in these games are fighting

01:25 a war in there and the guards need to come in and help them rebound a little bit.

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