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Auburn HC Steven Pearl - Georgia Loss · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  It's hard to win on the road, but you
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  know, we put ourselves in position in a
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  lot of different ways to come out here
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  and, you know, win this game against,
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  you know, ranked opponent and um, you
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  know, just camp short. So, um,
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  yeah, just got the questions.
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  >> Coach, can you just talk about the
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  >> Yeah, I mean, we always want to talk
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  about our lack of size and, you know,
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  all those things. This team's top 10 in
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  the nation and rebounding. We got out
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  rebounded him by 15. So, um thought
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  thought Philip was a phenomenal spark
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  off the bench. Um you know, 10 rebounds,
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  five offensive, five defensive, and you
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  know, really was a spark. He was plus
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  five in the plus minus. Um did a lot of
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  really good things for us. So, you know,
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  Philip is incredibly effective in in
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  those areas cuz he just plays hard as
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  [ __ ] and you know that we need more of
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  that. you know, he's got an identity and
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  um his identity is to play hard and to
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  win and we we need more of that from
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  from guys on this team to have a
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  toughness identity because Philip's got
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  it.
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  >> Nathan,
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  >> obviously you talked this week about
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  guard driven approach for them trying to
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  get downhill. How would you evaluate how
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  you guys did defensively with them?
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  >> Yeah, horrible. Um our one-on-one
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  defense is terrible. we just
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  continuously work on it and we let guys
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  drive right around us and at some point
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  we got to have an identity and I'm
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  always going to look within first and
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  I'm always going to figure out what I
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  can do better to help us on the
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  defensive side. Um but at some point our
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  guys have to have a level of pride that
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  they're not going to let their guy just
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  continuously line them up and drive
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  right around them. Uh there's nothing
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  that you know we can do from a schematic
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  standpoint unless we just completely
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  sell out and just give up wide open
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  threes at some point. like you got to
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  you got to, you know, you got to have a
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  little bit of pride in, you know, not
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  letting those guards go for 31 and 24.
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  And it's not the threes I'm I'm I'm as
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  concerned about. A couple of them were
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  scout specific that we we got up out of
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  our stance. Wilkinson hit some really
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  tough ones. I'm more concerned about
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  just the one-on-one drives where they
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  just get into the paint and there's no
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  rim protection because we know we don't
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  have that and they just are able to
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  score two is because we either reach or
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  we open up the gate too much. So, you
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  know, my biggest challenge for our guys
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  was like, you know, we got to have more
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  of an identity defensively in our
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  one-on-one defense because I can sit
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  here and scheme and talk about different
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  coverages, but at the end of the day,
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  like, you know, we we we did a lot of
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  switching. We ran a lot of zone. All
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  they did was just get the ball into a
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  guard's hand and then just attack us
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  one-on-one, and we just weren't able to
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  keep them in front. So, we just, you
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  know, I'm always going to figure out
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  what I can do better. But my team's got
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  to do a better job of finding their
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  identity defensively and taking some
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  accountability in their one-on-one
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  defense because I can't go out there and
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  guard for them.
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  >> All those shots, how tough was it to not
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  have it, you know, in overtime those
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  those last couple minutes as well the
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  second half?
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  >> I mean, it has nothing to do with our
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  offense, everything to do with our
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  defense. So, um, you know, we just we
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  just didn't defend late. We fouled too
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  much. So, um,
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  no, I mean, we've always just played
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  next man up and, um,
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  yeah, I mean, he he he was three for 11
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  from three. So, um, you know, would have
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  been nice to have another ball handler
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  on the floor, but at the same time,
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  that's just, you know, part of
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  basketball. And, you know, we talked
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  about not having silly fouls, and we had
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  a lot of silly fouls, and that led to
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  him not being able to play in overtime.
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  So, um, you know, Ke did a pretty good
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  job at the at the point. Um, you know,
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  we got we it was a two-point game and
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  he's in the post one-on-one and no one
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  on the backside moves and they all just
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  stand there and look and there's nowhere
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  for him to pass the ball. So, you know,
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  um, our execution late just wasn't great
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  offensively. We we got into the space
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  and the place that we wanted to. We just
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  didn't do a good job of getting to the
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  right spots on the floor off the ball.
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  >> Talk about Tom. Can you talk about the
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  decision for him to come off the bench?
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  And then Murphy as well. It seemed like
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  he was kind of bothered by something in
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  the second half. Was he not 100% even
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  when he came back late in the game?
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  >> I mean, Philip was plus five in the plus
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  minus. So, you know, he was just really
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  good. So, I'm not, you know, that's
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  that's why Philip was out there. Um, you
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  know, he just had great energy and did a
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  good job in his one-on-one defense for
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  the most part and, you know, contested
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  shots at the rim. He got vertical as
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  much as he possibly could and he had
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  five offensive rebounds. ly he was just
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  too valuable to be out there to not be
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  out there, excuse me. And then, you
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  know, Todd, you know, it was a coach's
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  decision. You know, he it was a failure
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  to meet our team, you know, standards
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  and expectations. And, um, you know,
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  Tahad's got to do a better job of
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  leading by example. And it's something
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  that we just continuously talk about.
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  And until he does those things off the
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  court, he's going to, you know, he's got
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  to stop putting me in these positions
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  where I have to make difficult
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  decisions. And that's part of growth and
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  that's part of learning, you know. um we
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  made the decision yesterday and he had a
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  great practice in response to it
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  yesterday. Um but you know it's he he's
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  got some things he's got to fix and if
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  he's not going to live up to those
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  expectations and that's to all of them.
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  You know we told everybody when we got
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  back from Purdue like we're just you
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  know we're just going to tighten things
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  up a little bit. Uh guys need to be on
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  time and guys need to do the things that
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  we're asking them to do and if they
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  don't you'll you'll come off the bench
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  or you'll lose a rotation. So uh we got
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  a standard. We have an expectation in
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  this program and it's going to be
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  upheld. Anything else to go?