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Ole Miss HC Chris Beard + G Patton Pinkins - Auburn Win · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  All right, we'll start with an opening
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  statement from Coach Beard, then we'll
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  take questions for Pat.
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  >> Yeah, obviously a good win for us in a
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  year filled with a lot of adversity. Um,
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  not not too many high points the last
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  couple months. Just uh proud of our
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  guys. Um, a lot of respect for the
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  Auburn program. So, uh, to beat a team
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  like this this time of year, I think
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  speaks really highly of our players, um,
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  in a season where it would almost be
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  understandable if guys kind of checked
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  it in. We just haven't done that. Uh,
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  we've been in a lot of games just like
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  you guys saw tonight. Uh, tonight we
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  just came out on top. So, I've always
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  thought in this league, uh, you got to
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  get three or four guys in double figure
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  scoring. Um, we get three there tonight,
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  but we get a careerhigh from Patton and
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  AJ scored the ball at a high rate. So,
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  um, really thought we won the game with
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  our defense, um, in moments, um, but
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  really the offense is what carried us
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  tonight. You know, to shoot that kind of
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  percentage and have a low turnover game,
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  uh, was really the only recipe that we
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  had to be fortunate and, uh, really
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  proud of our guys pulling off. Any
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  questions for Patton?
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  >> Patton, what what was it about the way
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  you guys were able to get off to such a
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  hot start through, you know, from deep?
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  I know that's been, you know, kind of a
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  struggle for y'all the last few games.
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  What was kind of the difference tonight?
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  >> Um, just coming out, you know, playing
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  aggressive. Um,
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  we execute the game plan. Just we just
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  hooping on offense. Um, moving the ball,
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  cutting. Um, and that let us, uh, get
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  hot on offense.
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  >> Any questions for Pat? Easy night,
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  young.
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  >> Questions for coach?
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  >> Just going off what I was asking Patton,
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  just you guys have the three-point
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  shooting, being able to be so hot so
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  early, kind of what what was the key to
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  that? I know Auburn's definitely
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  struggled in defending through hand. Is
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  there anything y'all saw?
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  >> Yeah, I think at times tonight we had
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  really good ball movement. uh the ball
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  wasn't sticking much on our end. Um and
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  so that's always a good thing for us. I
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  think we were able to get threes in a
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  variety of ways. Got a couple in
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  transition, got a couple late shot clock
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  and just got a couple through dribble
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  penetration. So, um obviously the game
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  is a lot easier when you make shots. Um
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  the percentages we shot tonight, you
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  know, give us a chance to win.
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  >> Seemed like it was a physical game out
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  there tonight, coach. You guys really
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  played through it. Can you talk about,
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  you know, what you told them kind of
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  going into the half? You guys take a
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  one-point lead and then are able to
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  sustain in the second half.
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  >> Yeah, our motto tonight was just to
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  compete. Um, this time of year, we
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  understood what Auburn was playing for
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  tonight. Um, but we have great purpose
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  in our locker room right now as well.
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  Uh, we're going to keep playing this
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  season till they tell us we can't play
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  anymore. Um, so the message at halftime
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  was we turned it into a 20-minute game.
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  Um, I thought above all tonight, we just
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  played as a team and we competed. There
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  was kind of a belief. um the exact kind
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  of story that you guys saw unravel
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  tonight. We've been in many games just
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  like this, just haven't been able to
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  finish. Uh but I thought tonight we got
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  some timely rim protection. Uh James
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  blocked four shots tonight. That's
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  something we really been missing. Um so
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  a lot of those possessions, I thought
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  Auburn executed and got exactly what
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  they wanted and then James just made a
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  play. Uh in college basketball,
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  especially when March arrives, you know,
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  it's about players making plays. We had
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  really good contribution from Corin
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  Johnson tonight. Uh Ilas got a little
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  foul trouble. K played some real
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  meaningful uh minutes late. Um just had
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  good contributions from most of the guys
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  on our roster tonight. It's a good team
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  win for Miss.
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  >> What does a win like this mean with the
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  SEC tournament approach and obviously
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  anything can happen but you know are you
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  sending a message to your guys that hey
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  let's go to Nashville and make a run?
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  >> Yeah, we haven't started talking
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  specifically about that yet. We're just
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  we're literally a program right now and
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  a team right now that's just trying to
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  stack good days and um we've had a lot
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  of you know pretty good games the last
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  month or so. We just didn't come up on
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  top playing some of the best teams in
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  the country. So I think above all I
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  think it's obvious for everybody that
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  was at this game tonight. Our guys
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  haven't quit. uh we continue to try to
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  give ourselves a chance and so two more
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  opportunities in the regular season and
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  then we'll be playing in a tournament in
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  Nashville that gives an automatic bid to
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  the NCA tournament and so that'll be our
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  objective.
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  >> Coach, how big were those challenges
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  getting overturned at the end of that
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  game?
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  Yeah, we got a couple guys behind that
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  bench um that do not get paid a lot of
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  money. Um but they do have a high
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  pressure job to make a quick decision
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  and so I thought our guys tonight behind
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  the bench did a really good job. Um you
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  know, obviously picking a couple
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  challenges that we thought would go our
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  way.
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  >> Coach, what did you see for tonight from
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  Steven Pearl, young coach in this
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  league, taking over, you know, a
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  tournament team last year? uh you know
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  it seemed like he had a decent plan for
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  you tonight. You guys were prepared for
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  it, but can you comment on Stephen in
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  his first year?
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  >> Yeah, I'm on the record and I'll say it
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  again. I think Stephen is doing a really
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  good job. I understand that ultimately
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  uh the win loss record is where most
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  people go first, but you know, you're
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  talking about getting a job late into
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  the spring or was it even early summer,
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  fall? Um I think he's doing a good job.
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  They're more than competitive in this
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  league. Got some great wins on their
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  resume. Um, you know, I think, uh, I got
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  a lot of respect for Stephen and I think
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  he's doing a good job here. And if I
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  didn't feel that way, I wouldn't say it.
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  >> Thanks everybody.