Nate Oats details how Alabama found offensive success vs. LSU

Nate Oats detailed how Alabama found offensive success against LSU in the Crimson Tide’s 109-92 win Saturday.

Alabama put up a lot of shots and just happened to have a lot of them fall down. But the reason? The great rebounding for the team on the offensive and defensive glass.

Oats explained how after the win.

“I didn’t realize that we took 81 shots,” Oats said. “That’s a lot of shots. When you don’t turn the ball over and you get 19 O boards, you’re gonna have a lot of shot attempts. Now, they had more free-throw attempts, but it wasn’t by a huge margin. They only out-scored us by four at the line. To have 21 more field-goal attempts, it’s gonna be hard for them to win the game doing that. I thought we did a really good job on the offensive glass. Wrightsell is a guard and ends up with five O boards. 

“Nick Pringle had four O boards in 15 and a half minutes. I thought Pringle’s energy in the minutes he gave us was huge. Before the game, everybody was like, ‘Man, Pringle is ready to go.’ I told the guys after the game, there’s a way you get yourself mentally ready to play, and Nick was ready to play before the game. It’s an 11 o’clock tip, you’ve got to get yourself mentally ready to go. Some of the guys did not do a great job, and Nick obviously did. Hopefully he can use this as a springboard to really start playing some great basketball for us.”

Oats doubled down on the good rebounding. It’s a recipe for future success.

“But to have five guys in double figures and 19 O boards, I thought the ball was moving well,” Oats said. “We were getting on the glass, taking care of it. It was one of better offensive nights. Shoot, I believe our analytics guys had us at a 1.43 on offense. That’s pretty elite.”

Oats also elaborated how Alabama pulled away from LSU, coupling his thoughts about the offense.

“I think they were up one with nine and a half to go, and then I think we hit five straight three,” Oats said. “So we’ve got a lot of offensive firepower. We’re liable to explode at any point. If we can get our defense better, we could be a pretty dominant team. So I think if you start missing as fast as we play – I think they had to call timeout. We went on an 8-0 run in about a minute, they called timeout and then it’s kind of over at that point. 

“We came out of the timeout, hit a few more, opened it up. So we’re explosive offensively. I think we had a few big runs in both these games to kind of open it up, and we were able to take it home from there.”