"It's like a marriage, and it's a give and take," Johnson, the Tide's coach, said the day before Alabama faced Mississippi State. "It's not a one way deal. I am going to do more to try to help him be more productive because I'm the coach. But it's give and take. We need more energy, more passion. There's some more blocked shots and rebounds that I think were left on the board in South Carolina. He's a great kid, and I think his heart's good, so we had a little bit of a talk about it, and I hope that we see some improvement tomorrow night (vs. Mississippi State)."