Is Nate Oats still using defensive performance in practice to determine playing time

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00:00 I think it was after this last game against LSU when you talked about Davin Cosby,

00:03 there was somebody asked you about him getting more minutes,

00:05 and you talked about just guys that are going to work hard at practice.

00:07 Do you feel like at this point, over a third of the way into SEC play,

00:10 it's still rotation minutes are up for whoever's going to play defense and play hard?

00:14 I do actually, and it'd be nice to have a set rotation by this point.

00:18 This isn't the way it's gone with this team.

00:20 I think there's definitely minutes up for grabs, like who plays well.

00:24 You know, our front court, you know, we started the four guards.

00:28 With all the tough front court players that we had in the depth up there,

00:32 you know, to start four guards means it's a lot of competition up in the front court

00:36 as to who's actually going to play.

00:38 So, like, those minutes are for sure up for grabs.

00:40 I think even, you know, with the guards, if we're going to play guards a little bit more,

00:44 like, they're going to have to rest.

00:46 Who else can play in those minutes?

00:48 So, yeah, I think there's some guys that have definitely established themselves

00:52 as some of the better players on this team that are going to play,

00:55 but even them, if they're not playing hard on the defensive end,

00:58 we're not going to leave in the game.

01:00 I mean, they're going to start out playing,

01:02 but we can't leave guys in the game that aren't giving us winning effort

01:05 for trying to win games.

01:07 I think--

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