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Texas A&M HC Bucky McMillan - Auburn Win · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  Hardfall game both teams. You know,
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  there's a lot of Auburn people here.
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  That's uh still a great fight either
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  way. A&M people here. Gig them. Great
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  win.
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  >> I don't know if they
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  >> Okay, just the the decision at the end
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  there on the free throw to try to miss
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  an was that discussed in the huddle and
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  just your thoughts on the final few
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  seconds back in game?
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  >> Yeah, I mean the game's over if there's
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  not a clock malfunction. They have no
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  timeouts. So, you know, at home, we we
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  may consider making that. But with the
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  continuation rules in college
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  basketball, you cannot foul under five
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  seconds. Can't foul under five seconds
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  now because there's continuation. So, if
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  we go up three and we foul, we can't do
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  it. So, they're going to get a half
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  court he off. They're going to get the
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  same a better heave off if they can
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  throw it in on the baseline out of
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  bounds. Right? And you got to ask
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  yourself in that game, the way that was
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  going, did y'all think we had an
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  advantage? They had an advantage in
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  overtime. Do we have a better advantage
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  to win it right there with them having
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  to catch it and shoot a 80-footer the
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  way it should have been or if they could
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  throw it in, have an opportunity to make
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  a three and then there's overtime. It's
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  going to be a tough win in overtime for
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  us. But they had no timeouts.
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  So that that's got to get corrected
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  right there just with what happened at
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  the clock because the only if we thought
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  there's any way for the game to be
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  stopped with a review or with the the
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  clock went too early which what they
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  were saying that's the only way for the
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  game to be stopped. It's the only way we
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  could lose the game pretty much unless
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  they're going to make a a 75-footer and
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  um so anyway we didn't cover the last
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  play well. We should have been tight or
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  we're trying not to foul but maybe we
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  covered it really well. There was enough
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  time to get it off so maybe that's the
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  best thing you can do. Um, but I thought
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  the officials in the situation, I think
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  they knew the situation that if it was
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  close, it had to go our way based on
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  what had just transpired the play
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  before.
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  >> Coach, believe the deficit was 16 for
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  you guys at one point in the second
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  half. What led to the the turnaround to
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  to make a comeback like that and
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  ultimately went on road?
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  >> Well, I mean, 16 for us isn't much.
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  We're a high variant team. We shoot a
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  lot of threes. We play a lot of guys. We
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  play fast. We get up and down. We're a
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  second half team. Um, we've been winning
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  these second half the majority of the
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  year once we got in shape and started
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  understanding our identity to who we
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  are. We obviously shot the ball better.
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  We got our offense going better and uh,
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  we turned up our defense. They're a good
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  team. They weren't going to quit. So,
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  um, is what it is.
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  >> Coach, welcome back to the state. Oh,
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  man. You've been a part of these crazy
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  games, but what's going through your
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  mind during this that last shot? What
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  about the resilience of your team? Yeah,
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  I mean the last shot was unbel it was
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  unbelievable everything that had gone on
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  up to that but just because I could not
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  believe the game was not over. I just
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  couldn't believe all of the sudden I
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  look up and there's a sideline out of
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  bounds like that was with no timeouts.
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  That was that was crazy. And um you know
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  I mean that that you never see that or
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  you never would elect to do what we did
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  in that scenario. But um end of the day
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  I don't want to take away make it one
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  play or not. Our guys fought hard
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  tonight and uh played good basketball.
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  Look, we're playing good right now. We
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  we we've lost arguably our best player,
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  Mackenzie Bako. He missed the first uh
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  start of the season. Two of our three
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  losses been without him. And um right
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  now, we've won 10 of our last 11. Our
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  only loss was to SMU, a top 25 team in
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  overtime. So, that's what I care about.
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  We're keep playing good basketball.
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  >> Like you mentioned, you spent a lot of
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  time playing a lot of games in the
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  state. Would this one, you know, this
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  being your first time back? Was this one
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  a little extra special for you? It felt
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  good. I mean, I got good memories here.
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  We won a lot of high school games here.
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  We won some college games here. I like
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  the people of Auburn. I got a lot of
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  good friends here. I got to see before
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  the game. Uh, the Pearls mean a lot to
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  me. I've had my players play here at
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  Auburn. I like the university. Um, but
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  I'm at Texas A&M. I'm going to fight
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  with my guys, but I wish them luck when
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  we're not playing. Glad we don't have to
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  play them again.
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  >> Is there anything else for coach?
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  >> Coach, I just want to ask you about real
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  quick about um Bob Isaac, uh, how how
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  much does he contribute to this team and
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  how's he grown through this year?
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  >> Well, if you if you those who catch&m
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  fans may know this, but you know, we we
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  had Embako was out start season. Pop
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  Isaac had a hip surgery, then a meniscus
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  surgery, wasn't playing at the start of
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  the season. Didn't play basketball for
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  almost a year and came back right around
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  the Oak State game. Shell of himself as
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  anybody would be because he didn't
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  played for a year. And now he's been
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  able to practice and he's getting his
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  rhythm back. And I think that's the Pop
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  Isaacs that you can uh you can see more
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  on the regular. And what you did get to
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  see though with Embako was out early and
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  Pop was out early and not playing as
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  many minutes. These backups got a lot of
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  experience. And you know, some of those
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  guys that may have not had a ton of
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  minutes uh early that may not had a ton
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  of minutes tonight, they were
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  experienced minutes because they played
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  some early in the season. And that was
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  huge to hold it down when we're subbing.