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Auburn F Keyshawn Hall - Arkansas Preview · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  I like that.
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  >> Keith, what does it say about this team
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  that you guys have been in some really
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  tough spots these last couple games, but
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  you had a chance to win it there on that
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  last shot, came back, you know, forced
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  overtime against Georgia. What's that
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  say about you guys, you know, at this
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  point in the season? Um yeah, it says
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  that we um we we have a lot of fight in
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  us. We have a lot of fight in us and we
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  won't like we won't like uh stop, but we
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  got to stop putting oursel in these
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  situations and let's sometimes let's be
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  ahead in at the end of the game instead
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  of being behind fighting from behind.
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  But it shows that we have a lot of
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  fight, we have a lot of grit and that we
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  want to win. So we're trying our hardest
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  and we just have to stop doing the
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  little stuff, the timely stuff at the
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  end of the game. Like yeah, if we can
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  get away with it in the first half,
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  that's cool. at the end of the game it's
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  more tight. We got to got to focus in a
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  little more.
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  >> How do you feel like talked about your
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  offense, but defensively do you feel
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  like you're making progress there and
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  improving in that area? And have you
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  seen that, you know, just this season?
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  >> Oh, yeah, man. That's that's actually
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  that's one of the main reasons I came to
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  Auburn for defense. Uh like when I was
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  talking to coach uh BP um he's at the
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  helm um and talking to the guys,
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  obviously Coach Berggo, the offensive
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  coordinator, called me. He was the first
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  But when I start talking about defense
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  that our our vision aligned and I wanted
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  to get better on defense and they have I
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  have gotten better been putting way more
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  energy into it um and trying to do like
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  like jump the passing lanes just have a
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  little more energy getting deflections
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  anything even if it's just not steals
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  not letting my man score on me I don't
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  know if my rate at that but I feel like
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  I've been keeping my guy in front of me
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  a good amount this year
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  Steven said you know despite a couple
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  tough losses he feels like this team has
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  gotten better over the last three weeks
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  and and that's what matters, I guess.
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  How important is that mindset moving
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  forward in the SEC when you guys can get
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  a good win for your resume essentially
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  every single game,
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  >> man? Yeah. No, I feel like we have
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  gotten better and better each week um
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  for when we have came from like like
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  obviously, you know, it's not the
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  results we want. I don't want to say
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  we're close. You know what I'm saying?
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  That's not a thing we say around here.
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  But um definitely I feel like we have
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  gotten better and um we just have to
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  like I said start getting ahead and man
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  just locking in a little more on the
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  little the small details like last year
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  I don't know like you know what I'm
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  saying we're pretty similar to a team
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  like Purdue last year one big man and
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  made a good run last year you know what
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  I'm saying or you know what I'm saying
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  things like that not too big but still
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  can make a run. So I feel like we just
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  need to get one game and we'll go on our
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  streak very fast.
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  You obviously went through in the Big 12
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  last season that grind of what
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  conference play is like. You're
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  obviously starting it here. What do you
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  tell some of these like younger guys,
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  some of these freshman or maybe some of
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  these guys who have played this level of
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  ball before about it and like the key
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  for y'all to, you know, hang in there
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  and make that turnaround with with the
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  with the schedule being the way it is.
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  >> I talked to the guys and I was just
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  telling them like um like in conference
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  play, yeah, you can see the
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  non-conference schedule and um see the
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  rankings, but in conference play,
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  anybody can lose anybody. Nobody is just
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  untouchable. Nobody just like you seen
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  Michigan almost lose the other day. Uh
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  nobody's untouchable. Anybody can lose.
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  You just have to um the gr the uh
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  conference is going to be more of a
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  fight because all the coaches know each
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  other. Everybody knows each other's
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  schemes and things like that. So you
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  just gonna have to bang it out and not
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  like not worry about the next game.
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  You're gonna have to worry about that
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  game going one and note each day each
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  day in and out. So that's the main
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  thing.
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  What have you seen out of Arkansas so
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  far just on film and such?
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  >> Um Arkansas they they're they're very
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  good. Obviously they're well coached
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  Hall of Fame coach. Um they play they
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  play fast. They press they press a good
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  amount. They have all they always have
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  good freshman guards and things like
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  that. They play hard. They can switch
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  with a little bit of anybody. They're
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  very big things like that. So they're
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  going to be a good task for us. But uh
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  one thing that we have at our event,
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  we're we're experienced. Like we've been
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  in these big games. So this thing
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  shouldn't get to us. We just have to get
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  on our run man. We get momentum just
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  like a game. We get momentum one game. I
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  think we can make it make something
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  special.
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  >> Ted mentioned that you lead the nation
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  in free throws. So obviously finishing
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  through contact is a big part of your
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  game. What's your mentality when you
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  know you got fouled but you don't get
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  the whistle.
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  >> Um
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  you know u I just like I it comes back
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  from when I was a kid just playing um at
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  the wreck or anything just like we
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  didn't call a lot of fouls and things
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  like that. So, I just try to make sure I
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  finish it because certain games, you're
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  not going to have refs that call the
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  foul. Especially not late in tight
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  games, they're not going to bail you out
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  with a foul. So, I try to work on
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  finishing through contests. Like through
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  my pregame workouts or any workouts, I'm
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  not just shooting a bunch of jumpers.
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  I'm I'm jumping into a pad. I'm drawing
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  contact and finishing while doing that.
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  Then putting pressure on myself to make
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  free throws or run two down and backs,
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  things like that. So, I'm just trying to
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  focus on just making sure I stay locked
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  in on finishing other than trying to
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  draw the foul. I know I draw a lot of
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  fouls, but I don't try to as much as I
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  can.
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  >> You guys have been really good here
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  recently rebounding the ball and I know
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  that was a question people had earlier
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  this year because of the size. But, you
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  know, kind of what's been the key for
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  y'all to be as good of a rebounding team
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  and how much you think that can carry
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  you against some of these teams you got
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  coming up? I
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  >> feel like we're very good at rebounding
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  just off how fast we are. It's not about
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  the physicality. It's just like a one
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  thing and that's why we got to want it
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  on defense. if like uh it's a one thing
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  and if you want the ball and if you move
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  faster to the ball that's why we're like
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  top 10 in the country in offensive
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  rebounding rate versus some of the
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  biggest teams in the country. So if we
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  just keep doing that um that can carry
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  us in games and hold us in a lot of
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  games. So we just have to translate to
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  the def uh the defensive end which we
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  have been and just make some uh shorter
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  mistakes in the second half and we'll be
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  good.
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  >> Kean, what was your reaction players
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  reaction to how the game ended the other
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  night? And then is Murf now a legitimate
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  35 foot weapon now for you guys?
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  >> Oh no. We giving Murf the ball at the
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  end of the games for now on man. Every
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  time at that point him. But no man um we
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  you know we thought it was good but hey
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  it's a different outcome. They the ref
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  seem different. It is what it is and we
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  just got to go on with the next thing if
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  we too we harp on it too much. That's
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  another thing in conference play. Um
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  back to uh your question before. Uh
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  conference play is like it's quick
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  turnarounds. You don't have to wait a
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  week or two before
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  you have to be like locked right in. You
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  can't like like he said, you can't get
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  too high, can't get too low. You have to
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  bounce back very fast. So, um, we just
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  tried to stay calm about it and we
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  really just looked at ourselves in the
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  mirror. It's not even about that last
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  shot. It's about we put oursel in that
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  situation. We were up 16. You know what
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  I'm saying? We should never put
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  ourselves in that situation to come down
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  to one shot. So, we can't blame that
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  shot. So, that's all that's all it
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  really is.
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  >> Thank you, guys.