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Auburn HC Steven Pearl - Mississippi State Loss · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  just second half you guys kind of cover
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  that switch earlier in the game.
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  >> Yeah, we were supposed to be doing it
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  most of the game first half. We just
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  didn't do a great job of getting the
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  ball in his hands and we saw a lot of
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  shots going and
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  when a player like that does that, it's
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  going to obviously be effective. So
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  yeah, the the game plan was to keep the
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  ball in his hands the entire game. We
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  did not execute that in the first half
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  and we did we had to just you know
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  completely go go play you know four on
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  three after that and double the ball. So
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  we just didn't execute what we were
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  trying to do in the ball screens and the
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  handoffs. That's what we were supposed
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  to do the entire game.
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  just the the the final few minutes you
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  guys are 07 just kind of what kind of
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  perspective kind of what what went wrong
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  there late for you?
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  >> Uh we didn't do a very good job play
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  calling offensively and we just didn't
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  make the necessary stops defensively. We
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  didn't stop making plays. Uh you know we
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  get bad help off of EPS on a drive for
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  no reason. He bangs a three and then we
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  gap a pin in and you're never supposed
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  to gap pinins against him. So, like we
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  we just had two bad breakdowns
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  offensively or defensively that led to
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  six points. Um, you know, offensively, I
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  thought we did a good job attacking the
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  rim. You know, we're we're up two and
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  Murf gets a rebound and gets slapped on
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  the arm. They don't call it, which I
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  thought was a huge swing right there.
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  That should have been two shots. Um,
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  but, you know, got to kind of live with
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  those things, but I don't think we did a
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  very good job play calling late either.
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  And, uh, we got to do a better job in
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  those situations of putting our guys in
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  position to be successful. So, we got
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  our coaching staff's got to wear that
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  those last three minutes.
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  >> Uh, coach, what's the mood in the locker
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  room around just trying to get back into
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  the win column right now?
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  >> Yeah, I mean, it's not great. Um,
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  everybody's obviously at this point in
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  the result. Um, but you know, if we can
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  draw from those 15 minutes in the second
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  half that we played really well, you
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  know, we can do something with it. But
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  if we harp on if we continue to go to
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  slow starts, we're not going to win any
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  games. So, we got to make a decision on
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  how we're going to start games. And uh
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  you know, we can't wait till we're down
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  18 to start playing desperate. We got to
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  play desperately with 0
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  going off that just Yeah, you guys can't
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  come back. We've talked about it a ton
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  this year, but just a matter of just
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  stop being this team is capable of
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  fighting back like that.
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  >> Yeah, I mean, we got to execute a game
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  plan earlier and um you know, we didn't
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  do that, you know. Um
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  >> yeah, just we got we got we got to do a
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  better job of just executing things that
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  we're trying to do early in games and we
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  can't do it we can't only do it when we
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  have to we have to do it you know um for
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  40 minutes
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  >> and obviously you talk about not
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  executing your line in the first half
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  defensively how much KO being about
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  >> had nothing to do
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  >> and everything to do with the four the
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  fiveman just repeatedly would not step
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  up and and like we were supposed to
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  blitz every time he got in a dribble
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  hand up for a ball screen. We never did.
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  So, um that allowed him to have 35 in
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  the first set.