Everything Nate Oats said following Alabama’s 86-83 win over Arkansas

“As far as the basketball stuff goes, look, we didn’t have a great start. This is two games in a row I don’t think we’ve played our best basketball at the beginning of the game. Obviously, we struggled. Shoot, we didn’t score for the first few minutes. Down nine at the half, down 11, I thought we made some decent adjustments in the second half. I think Quinerly was able to get in the paint and create offense for us. He ends up with seven assists. I thought he played really well. It’s nice to have depth that you can go to different options. We’ve needed different guys to step up different games. I thought he was a big one this game.

“We’ve gotta learn how to close games better, too. I think they scored 20 points in the last two and a half minutes or so. So give Arkansas a ton of credit. They’re a talented team. Nick Smith’s obviously really talented. They never quit on it. They got down, they hung in there. They gave themselves a chance there in the last 30…