{"id":424114,"date":"2026-01-19T22:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424114\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:13:07","slug":"what-alabama-basketball-is-doing-to-get-healthy-during-mini-open-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424114\/","title":{"rendered":"What Alabama basketball is doing to get healthy during mini open week"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Nate Oats<\/a> said Monday, the mini bye week couldn\u2019t have come at a better time. <\/p>\n

More than anything right now, Alabama men\u2019s basketball<\/a> needs rest. This team has struggled to stay healthy throughout the season, and the last few weeks have been no different. <\/p>\n

So without a midweek game this week, there\u2019s extra time to rest up. And Oats and company are taking advantage. <\/p>\n

Oats gave his players Sunday and Monday off after defeating Oklahoma on the road on Saturday<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll get back in there tomorrow,\u201d Oats said Monday in Birmingham after speaking to the Birmingham Tipoff Club. \u201cEven with that, we\u2019ve got multiple guys who\u2019ve got nagging injuries. We\u2019re not going to try to practice them as hard as maybe we would have practiced them.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the win over the Sooners, Alabama was without Latrell Wrightsell Jr. and Keitenn Bristow. Taylor Bol Bowen played, but he was still dealing with a hand injury. <\/p>\n

Against Mississippi State earlier in the week, Alabama only had eight scholarship players available. <\/p>\n

In addition to rest, Crimson Tide players who are dealing with injuries have some other tasks they can, and will, do. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve obviously got to get with (trainer) Clarke (Holter) every day,\u201d Oats said. \u201cYesterday. Today. They\u2019ve got to figure out exactly what\u2019s wrong with them. We have multiple guys seeing specialists. Just let you know exactly what\u2019s wrong, let\u2019s get a treatment plan, and then we\u2019ve got to find ways to get better at the stuff we need to get better at without maybe practicing super long or super hard.\u201d <\/p>\n

Oats also stressed the importance of mental reps. <\/p>\n

\u201cGet reps maybe not going live but walk through to try and get healthy,\u201d Oats said. \u201cThis break couldn\u2019t come at a better time than us. We\u2019ve got to use it correctly to A. get better, and even more importantly, what will help us get better is getting healthy while getting better, if that makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next up, No. 17 Alabama will face Tennessee on Saturday (7:30 p.m. CT, ESPN) at Coleman Coliseum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Nate Oats said Monday, the mini bye week couldn\u2019t have come at a better time. More than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[123020,64,63,726,123021,721,45056,21890,85],"class_list":["post-424114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-alabama-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-bkc","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-purdue","tag-sec","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}