Nate Oats gives his opening thoughts on taking on Tennessee

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00:00 Yeah, it's a big stretch here for us with Tennessee and Auburn back to back.

00:06 I mean, those are two of the top teams in the SEC.

00:10 If we're gonna have any chance of winning the SEC, we gotta play well here in these

00:12 two games.

00:13 So it's not easy to win in Tennessee.

00:15 I think we've only lost five times at home in the last four years.

00:20 So it's a tough place to play.

00:23 They're a very good team, one of the best teams in the country.

00:27 And we're both playing for conference championship.

00:33 They got one loss and we don't have a loss and Auburn's undefeated as well.

00:38 So we're gonna have to play well.

00:41 They do a good job turning people over.

00:43 They're super physical.

00:44 We didn't handle it well up there last year.

00:46 We only had two losses in league last year.

00:50 And this was one of the two was up there.

00:53 So our guys, and we've had an issue with turnover.

00:56 So we've got to do a good job taking care of the ball up there and what we have in the

01:00 past and we're gonna have to obviously guard, throw and connect.

01:04 I mean, he's put on quite a show here these last three and I think he's had three straight

01:09 games so over 28, which scoring at a high level back to back 35 point games or 35 plus.

01:18 So the issue is if you focus your entire defense on him, they've got other really good players

01:26 I mean, Vescovy is one of the best guards in the league.

01:28 He's been here.

01:29 Ziegler's one of the best guards in the league.

01:30 He's been there.

01:31 You know, a Duke can score it.

01:34 James is played well.

01:37 They've got multiple guys that can score it.

01:39 So it's hard to just completely focus on Dalton, but you've got to focus on him because he's

01:46 scoring the ball at a high clip right now.

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