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Auburn F KeShawn Murphy + G/F Elyjah Freeman - Kentucky Win · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  just take us through that last
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  possession of what you saw in that.
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  >> Yeah. Um play was drawn up for key, you
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  know, to get downhill. Um just trusting
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  his scoring ability. Um you know, my
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  mindset was just basically just go to
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  the glass, whatever comes off, just make
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  a play and you know, we trusted Murf on
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  the rebound. You know, he's supposed to
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  make that. But we good. Um ended up just
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  falling over and you know, something
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  good happened.
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  >> Uh Keshan, coach said that you didn't
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  really like or weren't happy with your
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  performance after Mississippi State. You
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  come back and have one of your best
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  nights of the season preparation. Was it
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  matchup? What was it tonight that that
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  made you respond the way you did?
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  >> Uh it was just my focus and um want to
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  do better for the team honestly. Uh I
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  never was really big on stats. I really
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  want to win. So like me leaving that
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  game moving forward was just a big part
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  of uh how I came out today and really
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  aggressive and getting the win today.
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  Thanks
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  >> for both of y'all as Pete talk this week
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  about how important of a game this was
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  going to be for y'all's tournament
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  chances here down the stretch to get a
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  big one at home. Just how good does it
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  feel to end that losing streak and
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  finally come out on the winning side of
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  a close game there at the end?
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  >> Um
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  it's definitely a step forward. You
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  know, we've been struggling these last
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  couple of weeks on just trying to figure
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  out how to pull out a win. you know, all
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  the games been close and we've just been
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  doing good down the stretches at the end
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  of games and finally this time um we
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  were able to pull it out and just stay
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  locked.
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  >> For both of you guys, just defensively,
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  you guys had a ton of success compared
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  to where it's been the last few weeks.
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  Just what was the key for y'all to, you
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  know, be as good as y'all were on
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  defense tonight on, you know, for most
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  of the game?
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  >> Uh the key, uh really just staying
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  connected. Uh we always talk about being
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  connected and it's not just uh one man
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  stopping one guy. It's a collective
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  thing. So like once we put that together
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  and figure that out, we we're a better
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  successful team and we'll pull out more
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  wins.
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  >> Elijah, the offensive volume continues
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  to grow in the again when you're
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  shooting the basketball, scoring the
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  basketball, whether that's interior,
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  whether that's shooting the three. What
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  are those conversations like in practice
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  to continue to grow the confidence as
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  well as continue to grow the game?
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  >> Yeah. Um all the guys trust me, you
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  know. Um they always just tell me to
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  knock uh shoot three and just be
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  aggressive. And tonight, you know, I
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  just with the team that we played and
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  the situation we're in, just put lift it
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  all on the court and um not the best
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  shooting night, but we're able to pull
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  it off.
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  >> Uh for either of you guys, just not
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  having his best night shooting, but he
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  has seven assists, a ton of rebounds,
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  some big defensive stops. What does that
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  say about him? because he's been a guy
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  that's, you know, mostly had doing it
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  with it with with his offense this
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  season, but he did some of everything
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  for you on tonight.
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  >> Um, yeah, we, you know, Kei is one of
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  the best scorers in the nation. You know
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  what I'm saying? So, but, um, when when
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  he's not scoring, he he figure out ways
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  to impact the game, and that's what, uh,
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  winning players do. So, uh, for him to
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  come out and get eight big rebounds and,
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  uh, find an open man, it was big for us,
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  and, uh, he put us in position to win.
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  game is tied late and you you hit that
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  three-pointer. Could you walk through
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  that? It wasn't it was seemed like it
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  was kind of early in the clock.
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  >> Yeah, I was just real confident and then
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  um I' I've made that shot before and I
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  practiced it so much. So, it it just
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  felt like another, you know, another rep
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  to me. So, like uh when I'm open, when
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  I'm that open, I probably shoot it
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  again. You know what I'm saying? So, I'm
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  glad I'm just glad I made it. Go up
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  three and get the win.
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  >> What was your view of the last sequence
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  where in the final seconds? Um,
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  you know what I'm saying? Uh, K, it was
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  a block shot. Grabbed the ball and uh, I
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  really can't tell you. I don't know why
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  I missed that. I It really just should
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  have been a dunk. You know what I'm
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  saying? But E free on the glass, man.
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  Save me, bro. And that's what that's
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  what teammates do. That's what we do,
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  man.
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  >> Anything else? Last one. Third.
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  >> Elijah, just talk about the guy next to
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  you and just his performance tonight.
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  How big he was for y'all with, you know,
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  his offense and his defense.
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  >> Yeah. um Merson, you know, one of our
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  main leaders and just him being
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  aggressive always keeps everybody on
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  point. So for him to just even though
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  he's not getting play calls or anything
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  not going his way, you know, he always
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  going to find a way to impact the game
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  and tonight just on the glass and being
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  able to score efficiently helped us a
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  lot.
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  >> All right, guys. Thanks, guys.