{"id":235797,"date":"2025-09-18T07:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235797\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T07:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:11:15","slug":"alabama-assistant-says-latrell-wrightsell-has-looked-really-good-in-return-from-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235797\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama assistant says Latrell Wrightsell has looked &#8216;really good&#8217; in return from injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama assistant coach Erwin Dudley doesn\u2019t want to get ahead of himself and he doesn\u2019t want to make it seem like Crimson Tide senior guard Latrell Wrightsell is in the clear injury-wise.<\/p>\n<p>But Dudley also doesn\u2019t want to sell his excitement short. He came out on Alabama\u2019s sports radio show \u201cHey Coach\u201d on Wednesday and said that Wrightsell has been playing in 5-on-5 scrimmages in practice as he tries to come back from an Achilles injury. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been looking really, really good,\u201d Dudley said. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Erwin Dudley said on &#8220;Hey Coach&#8221; that Latrell Wrightsell has been playing 5-on-5 in practice as he returns from his Achilles injury. &#8220;He&#8217;s been looking really, really good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Rodak (@mikerodak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikerodak\/status\/1968471637843497355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wrightsell has dealt with a lot of injuries during his time at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/alabama\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama<\/a>, and last season it all came crashing down. He only played in 8 games, averaging 11.5 points, 1.8 rebounds and 2.0 assists, as his season was cut short because of the ruptured Achilles tendon injury.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, Wrightsell\u2019s season was over and it was only early December. He was a pivotal part of Alabama\u2019s 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/college-basketball\/march-madness\/final-four\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Final Four<\/a> team, helping the Crimson Tide get to the Final Four for the first time in program history. <\/p>\n<p>But he didn\u2019t get to follow that up because of the Achilles injury, and that\u2019s what he\u2019s working toward doing this coming season. From what his assistant coach said on Wednesday, Wrightsell is on the path toward having a chance to end his Alabama career the right way.<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rounded-full mx-auto sm:m-0 grayscale aspect-square perfmatters-lazy\" alt=\"Cory Nightingale\" width=\"88\" height=\"88\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758179475_110_02813c85f5e62581de7be2248f57d8cb5ea2cea992916a88326e37d4e7983065\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm mt-4\">Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama assistant coach Erwin Dudley doesn\u2019t want to get ahead of himself and he doesn\u2019t want to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":235798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-235797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115224058030345407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}