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Arkansas HC John Calipari - Auburn Loss · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  I walked in and said, "Not my team. I'm
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  burning the tape. Let's move on. Get on
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  the bus fast. Let's get out of here.
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  What are you going to do?" I mean, we
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  >> progress
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  >> had a bunch of guys that, you know, we
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  got to have fun. And I told him, "You
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  got to take responsibility."
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  I mean, we we we had a great practice
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  and had a great shoot around. So, I felt
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  really good until I watched the game
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  unfold and I saw that they were beating
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  us to every loose ball, every 50/50
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  rebound. No, 8020 toward us, they still
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  got the ball. They were they had they
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  were 12 rebounds up on us at half. Well,
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  how how what you you can't win that
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  game. And so, no assist. I mean, we
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  ended up playing uh wasn't us, but you
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  know what? This stuff happens. It
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  happened to us last year. We got it
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  going. And we went somewhere, I think
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  South Carolina,
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  >> and we were down 35.
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  >> So, this happens. They're not machines.
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  They're not robots. And give Auburn
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  credit. The way they played, we're a
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  lane touch team.
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  Who was a lane touch team today?
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  We're not a team that tries to shoot
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  33s. Who did that today? Us. Because the
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  stuff was really rough. If you drove, it
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  was rough. You're not just getting a
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  free lane unless you were driving on us.
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  But like I said, um I won't watch this
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  tape. Not my team.
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  >> Go ahead,
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  >> Anthony. You mentioned all that you guys
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  get outscored 48 to 28 in the paint. Do
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  you feel like there was anything Auburn
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  was doing in particular that was
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  creating good looks? Did you feel like
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  that was more defensively?
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  >> Most of it was layups,
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  more offensive rebounds, stick backs. It
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  wasn't like we'll throw to the post.
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  Now, I'll tell you, Hall played a heck
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  of a game and they went at him in the
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  first half and and we didn't really have
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  an answer, but you know, um, we don't
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  get our post points just from throwing
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  it in there. We get ours by driving it,
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  extra passes, lobs.
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  We didn't get any of that today. Got a
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  few of them, but
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  >> Matt,
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  >> yeah, John, how surprised were you by
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  the first half?
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  >> Say what? How surprised were you by the
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  first half defensive?
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  >> You're going to have to speak up. I
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  can't hear you.
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  >> Sorry. How surprised were you by the
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  first half defensive effort?
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  >> Um, we were we first of all, we talked
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  maybe we should go zone and then half
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  the staff was so mad like go zone. It
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  doesn't matter. We could play put six
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  guys out there the way we're playing.
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  But I wanted to try to zone anyway and
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  it wasn't bad. you know, we we had
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  worked on it and uh but they were
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  beating us on the bounce so bad in the
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  first half that it was like and I all I
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  wanted to do is let's go in this first
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  five minutes. So, we get that dunk,
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  we're going to do and all of a sudden
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  we're fing three-point play
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  like you you you don't give up on a
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  game. Matter of fact, I showed him tape
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  of Kansas down 15 with four minutes to
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  go. I showed him the tape
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  and so at halftime I said Kansas came
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  back from 15 down, 16 down with four
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  minutes to go. We got a whole half just
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  play. But we never
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  Auburn just kept coming and we kept
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  letting them come so to speak. So it is
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  what it is guys.
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  >> Yeah. Carter didn't play in the second
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  half. Apparently there was a hip issue.
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  Is there any update on him and his
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  condition? They said I think they told
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  me hit pointer when they they fell on
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  him. I don't know if it was a play at
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  half court where he got fouled. No call
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  or if it was one on the other side of
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  the baseline. I don't know. But he got
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  hit pretty good from what I hear.
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  Any Auburn people?
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  >> They were great today. They were great.
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  We played
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  we've lost to three top 10 teams and we
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  had a chance to beat all three. That's
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  who we've lost to top 10 teams.
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  We had no chance today.
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  No chance.
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  >> And one of them was on the road.
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  >> John, did you see anything different
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  from Auburn on defense than maybe what
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  you'd seen on film from them or was it
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  just executing, you know, what they've
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  been trying to do kind of all season?
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  Because that's been that's been more of
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  a struggle for them this season, the
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  defense.
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  Yeah, they they seem they were like I
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  said, they played desperate today in
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  their times, but you know, they might
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  not. But what they did, they're look,
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  they're talented. They've been talented.
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  They got a um the Jo what was the kid uh
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  that walked in? What was his name? The
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  the big white kid.
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  >> Jovich.
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  >> Yeah, he killed us. He killed us.
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  They just threw us around and you're
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  like, "Dude, throw him to the floor. Do
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  something. Don't accept it." But you go
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  up and down the lineup. They all played
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  well. I don't think they had a guy play
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  bad.
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  >> Kean Hall at 30 tonight and pretty much
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  does it in every way. Where would you or
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  I guess how would you describe his game?
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  It just as a pure score for for Keshan
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  Hall at
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  >> He's got a lot of ways to score. You
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  know, he's making threes. He goes at the
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  basket. He is ISO's pretty good. He
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  does. He's He's good. He's a good
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  player.
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  >> Yeah. How did uh Auburn's physicality
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  compare to the six ranked teams you'd
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  seen before this?
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  >> They they took it to us in every way.
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  I mean, we we fought those other teams
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  and had a chance. Um
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  I for some reason it's guys, I'm going
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  to say it again. They're not robots.
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  They're not computers. They'll have
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  games. They may somebody's girlfriend
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  may have been I don't know but something
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  that wasn't my team. Now we could even
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  say Auburn made us look that way. Yeah,
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  we could. But I'm telling you, we played
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  other teams that played hard and were
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  desperate and did it and we were
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  desperate back and ended up winning
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  games. So this was uh they were good
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  today. They were good. Give them credit.
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  It's not like we are a bad team. We're
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  top 20 team. Who got spanked today?
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  >> Coach, you've had plenty of really good
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  matchups against Bruce Burl for a
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  personal level. How different was it for
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  you looking at the other sideline and
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  seeing Steven instead of Bruce for
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  Tigers?
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  >> You won't believe us, but I don't like
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  look down at the other guy. But I would
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  tell you that uh it's a great win for
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  him. You know, that's uh he's following
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  his dad who did a heck of a job here um
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  trying to get it going. He, you know,
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  this was a this was a big- time win for
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  him. And I said, somebody asked me, I
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  said, "Well, I I hope they stink
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  tonight, but I want him to do well cuz I
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  got a son coaching, too."
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  And I want him to do well, just not
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  against us. Now, he must have listened
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  to me and said, "Yeah, well, how about
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  we do it against you?"
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  >> Thanks.
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  >> Thanks, folks.