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Posted on 10/19/22 at 7:17 pm to Joka2kold
Recapping Alabama Men's Basketball at SEC Media Day (SI)
Before fielding questions from the media, Oats took a moment for an opening statement.
"It's good to be here, it's good to be back," Oats said. "It's the first Media Day since my first year, so things are looking to get back to normal which is great. We're looking forward to the year. We've got a good young group. Got a lot of new faces. We've got 12 kids on scholarship and only four of them have ever played a game for Alabama before and [Jahvon] Quinerly's out — so maybe SEC play [or] sometime in December with an ACL — so we'll have three guys that have ever played a game for us that won't be suiting up for their first game. That's Darius [Miles], Charles [Bediako] and Noah [Gurley].
"That means we've got eight new faces: four freshmen and the other ones are all transfers. We need a lot of production out of the new faces so I think you'll see some — at the beginning of the year, there may be some games where we're a little inconsistent. I think we've got a lot of room for growth and we're looking to try to be peaking at the end of the year, so we may go through a few growing pains early.
"We've got a tough non-conference schedule to get us ready, but we're looking forward to it."
Before fielding questions from the media, Oats took a moment for an opening statement.
"It's good to be here, it's good to be back," Oats said. "It's the first Media Day since my first year, so things are looking to get back to normal which is great. We're looking forward to the year. We've got a good young group. Got a lot of new faces. We've got 12 kids on scholarship and only four of them have ever played a game for Alabama before and [Jahvon] Quinerly's out — so maybe SEC play [or] sometime in December with an ACL — so we'll have three guys that have ever played a game for us that won't be suiting up for their first game. That's Darius [Miles], Charles [Bediako] and Noah [Gurley].
"That means we've got eight new faces: four freshmen and the other ones are all transfers. We need a lot of production out of the new faces so I think you'll see some — at the beginning of the year, there may be some games where we're a little inconsistent. I think we've got a lot of room for growth and we're looking to try to be peaking at the end of the year, so we may go through a few growing pains early.
"We've got a tough non-conference schedule to get us ready, but we're looking forward to it."
This post was edited on 10/19/22 at 7:23 pm
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