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

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  Thanks for
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  >> Okay, a two-part question. Number one,
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  what has it been like having some
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  minutes at the point guard? You talk
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  about that adjustment and how that's
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  been for you. And number two, what is
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  your spoon in order?
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  >> Uh, the second one's easier to answer.
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  Uh, pineapple serve every time. Um, fire
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  and I think it's just filling in the
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  minutes that need to be filled. Um,
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  I don't know what exactly the coaches
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  talked about for that to happen, but I
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  appreciated it and
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  I just think that lets me know that I'm
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  somebody that's trusted on this team and
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  I don't think it's necessarily hard or
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  unnatural for me to play that position
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  just based on the way my my whole life
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  has went. So, it was just filling those
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  spots and it worked out. I feel like
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  maybe we didn't win the game, but it
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  wasn't something that was negative to
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  the team. So, yeah, I enjoyed it.
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  has been talking about you guys like
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  your on ball defense has been good or
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  was against Alabama just was the key to
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  like making sure that y'all are in the
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  right spots in the right you know right
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  gaps and all that in in games like that.
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  >> Yeah. Um I think that just goes back to
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  practice. I don't think the emphasis
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  overall
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  collectively has been
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  to be loaded to the ball now. um we kind
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  of got away from it just taking that
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  week off of not playing and then our
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  switching is what it is but still
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  understanding that we have to be in the
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  right positions off the ball. I don't
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  think that was emphasized enough but I
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  mean guarding the ball I don't think
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  we've been that good. We're still giving
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  a lot of guys angles and giving up some
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  things still on the ball. It just needs
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  to be more resistance overall in our
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  defense.
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  Yeah.
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  >> Uh
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  he was talking about Sebastian and just
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  how good he's been on defense. I mean,
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  you play good college basketball. See a
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  freshman come in there and and play the
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  defense that he does. How impressive has
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  that been?
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  >> It's
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  It's incredible. Like I think he's the
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  one guy every game we decide that we
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  really have
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  maybe one complaint on one play with
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  Seb. like just him being a freshman,
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  it's insane to see. I think it's it's
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  next level. Um I enjoy playing with him
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  the most. I think he's the most valuable
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  player on our team in my opinion, but we
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  all see it. So yeah, it's pretty obvious
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  for sure.
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  >> Face a lot of good guards this season,
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  but I guess what do you see of Tyler
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  Tanner? You know, what do you guys need
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  to do to I guess slow down a little bit?
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  >> Yeah, collective effort. Um,
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  I take every matchup personally just in
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  terms of what I need to do to guard the
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  ball, but that's going to be a
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  collective effort, especially the way
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  he's playing right now. He's coming off
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  like having 40 last game or something
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  like that. So, collective effort overall
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  and I think that's just what it is. I
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  definitely would be the first line of
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  defense, but with our switching and the
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  things that we do, I know I won't be
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  able to guard him the whole game. So, it
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  really is a collective effort.
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  You guys have been in the spot before
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  this season where you have a tough loss
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  and you turn around, come back and put
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  together good performance. What's been
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  the key to that? This something y'all
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  done several times this season
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  throughout the year.
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  >> Yeah, for some reason this team does
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  better responding. I think that's just
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  speaks to our youth and
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  just being younger on the side of of of
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  games. But
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  this team responds well to adverse
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  situations and understanding what's at
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  stake in certain moments. And I think
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  that's what carried us is understanding
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  that we still have a lot of work to do
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  and we can respond and keep trying to
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  build and get better each week.
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  >> Kind of building off that, how much
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  confidence does that give y'all
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  collectively knowing that you've come
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  off, you know, a tough loss, you bounced
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  back and you've had some big wins
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  following tough games?
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  Um,
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  I think it gives you peace of mind
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  knowing that our past and the things
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  that we have overcome at this point have
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  been huge and that we we've shown
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  ourselves that we can do it. So I think
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  it's just getting on to the next game
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  and we try not we try to emphasize not
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  harping on games as much especially
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  where we are understanding where this
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  team is how much we have grown so not
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  just beating up on ourselves but it
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  definitely gives you a piece of mind.
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  >> Obviously y'all wanted the win but how
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  big was it for Tahad to get going like
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  that on on offense again? You know how
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  much different is this team if you know
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  the both of y'all are you know shooting
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  like that performing like that?
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  >> Yeah backward. Um, I think every win
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  scoring will look different. I think we
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  put up the same to me the same offense
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  each game. It might be a game where none
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  of us can hit shots, but collectively
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  the way that we score the ball will
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  always be good. I don't think our
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  problem is offense. We've seen him do
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  that plenty of times. So, it wasn't
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  like, oh my god, Tah is back or
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  anything. It was just like he had a good
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  game today, but defensively we weren't
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  where we needed to be. So, we lost the
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  game.