Alabama basketball players Mark Sears and Nick Pringle meet with the media after losing to Tennessee

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00:10 >> Honestly, pretty hard, pretty frustrating.

00:21 Put a lot of work and detail and time into it.

00:24 So for us not to come out with it, it's kind of really tough.

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00:35 >> Mark Tennessee held you guys to your lowest three point percentage on the road

00:39 and not so much here in Columbus, Columbus City.

00:42 What is it about Tennessee that makes them so

00:44 tough to play against when you guys are trying to make them three point or one?

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00:51 >> They do a really good job of taking away our three being very visible on the ball.

00:56 So that's a nice [INAUDIBLE] >> In the middle of a tournament,

01:02 Nick, you kind of transformed your game, you had the strength of your games.

01:06 What have you done to kind of reshape yourself and

01:09 kind of get your best level and get into the better?

01:13 >> Really just refocus, really.

01:17 Just putting all the extra things to the side,

01:20 running all the way 100% to my team.

01:24 Just trying to do whatever I can for this team to be successful.

01:27 Whether that's rebounding, scoring the ball,

01:31 whether that's screening, whatever.

01:33 A lot of things I do don't show up on the stats.

01:36 And I'm still proud of everything I do.

01:39 But just trying to put it together as a team.

01:42 >> And you're right, Nick, as you both guys,

01:45 what was the message from your staff and also what do they say to each other?

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01:53 >> See, it's not open, but we still have some of the players we're working with.

01:57 I mean, tomorrow, what we did, we stayed some of the [INAUDIBLE]

02:03 >> For both guys, the last 10

02:05 points you did in the office, you kind of saw it out.

02:07 You guys were a few big, more or less confident.

02:10 What happened off the pitch today that kind of slowed you guys down?

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02:18 >> I mean, I kinda think we got a little stagnant, a little bit.

02:23 The thing we should have moved the ball a lot more.

02:29 Get some off ball actions, knowing that they were pressing into the ball.

02:33 There's a lot of things that we could have did, a lot of adjustments we could have

02:38 made, a lot of communication, and some things that we still building to build

02:42 the team, so that's all I can say for now.

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02:48 >> Thank you guys.

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