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Auburn G Kevin Overton - Texas Preview · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  KO, what's the what's been the biggest
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  difference for you guys these last few
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  games on defense, especially slowing
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  down really good guards um like y'all
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  have?
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  >> I would say the attention to detail to
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  the scouts. Um I think we've
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  since our last loss clamp down on the
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  details just in terms of individual
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  players and just not doing the extra. I
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  think we've got outside of ourselves in
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  certain games of just not really
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  believing what's really going on in the
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  game. these players. So, I think just
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  cracking down the details.
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  >> What is a healthy Murf meant for you
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  guys um on the court? And from a
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  confident standpoint?
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  >> Yeah. Um I definitely have memory of
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  saying like having a healthy Keshan
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  Murphy and a healthy Keshan Hall is like
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  I think one of the scariest front courts
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  you could you could play against. But
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  he's been tremendous. I think having him
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  and then complimenting Philip off the
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  bench is is great for us. But um I mean
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  we've all seen he's been great. But if
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  he can stay healthy, I think he'll do
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  nothing but get better. Having him
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  actually get reps and be healthy for a
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  string of games up until now has been
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  what it clearly has showed for us.
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  >> Stephen was in here. He was talking
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  about all the firepower that Texas has.
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  Said that you would be kind of the front
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  line of defense guarding some of those
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  guys. Talk about the challenge that you
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  personally feel for trying to do some of
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  that tomorrow.
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  >> Yeah. Um, every game I I try to put
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  myself in the mindset of we have to win
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  the guard match up. Not necessar not
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  necessarily by out scoring or out
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  playing. It's just like for me it's
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  defense. So if we can lock down those
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  guards, I think that changes everything
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  in the game. So my approach to
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  especially this next coming game is is
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  obviously stopping who we need to stop,
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  but understanding that I am the front
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  line of defense. So it's not like I can
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  come out and be lax. So, I mean, it's
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  the same approach as any other game.
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  >> You guys have shot really well from the
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  free throw line these last few games.
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  You hadn't missed one in the last three
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  games. Just how how big is it as a team
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  as a whole? Y'all getting as good as
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  y'all gotten these last few games for
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  for the line?
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  >> Free throws have been the reason we've
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  lost I think some games. So, just being
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  able to make those free throws, those
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  free throws in conference play, I think
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  is more important than obviously
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  non-conference, but
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  we've had some some funny things go on
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  and for guys to make free throws, I
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  think. We heard if y'all heard the
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  stories of how guys are making free
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  throws and be insane, but it's
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  definitely fun to see.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> Um I don't know if you noticed Keesan
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  Murphy switches feet, but he switched
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  his feet up and I do that and I kind of
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  like helped him do that. So it's funny
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  to see him switch his feet and he had a
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  game I think it was miss where he made
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  like five or six and I was just like so
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  happy for him. It was like just to see
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  stuff like that. It's funny to see.
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  >> So you talked about handling success.
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  What's the message as an for your older
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  guys to this team about not getting too
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  high, too low, and handling success?
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  >> Yeah. Um, being [clears throat] able to
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  learn in winning, I think, is is huge
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  for especially me. I don't really harp
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  on wins. I feel like most of my college
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  career, even in high school, has been
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  generically winning. So, I've had to
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  learn how to be better in winning in a
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  lot of different ways. So, just not
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  being satisfied, keeping the same
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  approach that we had whenever we were
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  desperate and and just remembering that
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  you can't really put yourself in those
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  shoes because that's not what's going
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  on, but you can remember back how you
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  felt when you were one one and three,
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  two and three, three and three, need to
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  win this game. Feel like the season's on
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  the line, stuff like that. So, just
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  keeping that same approach.
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  >> Kevin, you talked about details when it
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  comes to to the defense, especially
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  coach has talked a lot about being in
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  the gaps, especially again in
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  one-on-one. What does that mean to you
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  as a perimeter defender being in the
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  gaps and getting help in the gaps
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  defensively?
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  >> Yeah, I think that's that's helped us
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  just in our connectivity and our like
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  feeling like there's a comfort. I think
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  being on the ball a lot. You need to
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  feel like either one way or another I
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  have help one like I have to have help
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  one of those ways. So I think in our
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  defense that's helped feel like we're
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  more connected. gives me a comfort and a
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  peace knowing that if I do get beat one
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  way or another, somebody can help me
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  just for a split second to get back.