There is no box for reversals next to the name of Nate Oats in a box score, but if there was, it should have been marked with a 1 following the loss of roads from Alabama Basketball against Le Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee.
A big one, in fact.
A call of 5 seconds on an inbound – inexcusable pass with an available expiration time – gave the ball to volunteers in the last seconds for what turned out to be their winning possession.
The rivalry with high stakes was equally 76-76 at the time, with the Alabama inbound to the basic line with 3.8 seconds remaining. The Inbounds passer, the first year student Labaron Philon was a beat at the end of the search for an open while the whistle. On the possession that followed, Jahmai Mashak du Tennessee launched a deep 3 points, in the 30 -foot district of the basket, for an exciting dagger who raised the case of volunteers for a seeded n ° 1 in the NCAA tournament.
And made Alabama March Madness sowing favors at the same time.
Oat has pointed out the thumb.
In the aftermath of the losses, the coach generally has a word on what the AU staff could have done better, but he rarely blamed a loss of coaching so downright, as he did on Saturday. After weeks to suggest that his players must look in the mirror to find more defensive efforts and emergency, it was a mirror control for the oats itself.
And he was not only talking about the failure of the time call on the Inbounds game.
“I’m going to take most of the blame. In the last 30 seconds, it’s on me. We have suffered from our big ones before I should have. I shouldn’t have endured them before I got the rebound. So it was on me, and then I would have had the opportunity to call it,” said planes. “I thought we were doing it. It was on me. And we could probably have had better guys, we were a little smaller at the end.”
The defeat has spoiled a 24-point night by the Red-Hot Sears, which has scored 110 points in its last four games. The AU built second half-time tracks as important as nine points before a late collapse that led to the fourth consecutive victory in Tennessee in the series. Alabama basketball has not won in Knoxville since 2021.
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There was a lot of other chances for Alabama to guarantee victory, especially on the free throw line. The Crimson Tide only drew 17 out of 26 on free throws, including a 0 for 3 characteristic by goalkeeper Aden Holloway. But this time, oat did not point their fingers.
“We are working on our end-of-game situations in practice and we expect our players to be good for them, and I was not good for the last 30 seconds today. So I feel like I failed these guys,” he added. “For 39 and a half minutes, they were ahead of (Tennessee) and succeeded four.”
With the Alabama which sails by a burst of matches against the classified teams to finish the regular season, the timing of the oats by taking the heat probably could not have been better. The Crimson Tide (23-6, 12-4 sec) finished a glove of a schedule entering the SEC tournament in two weeks. Oats, recently, has lightened a practice here and there to recharge the legs of its players.
A coach undergoing a loss on himself can do the same for the mentality of a team.
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