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Auburn HC Steven Pearl - Alabama Loss · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  Um, Alb played well. Um, they, you know,
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  beat us at our own game and thought they
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  made the adjustments from the last one.
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  Uh, Georgia kind of punked them and, um,
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  you know, they did a great job of
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  responding and I told our guys going
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  into the game that that was going to be
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  a real point of emphasis on their part
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  and, uh, you know, credit to them for
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  coming out here and executing it. We,
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  uh, we got pushed around and, uh, you
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  know, they they punked us. So, that's
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  that's that's the short of it. Um, you
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  know, they missed
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  33 shots and got 19 of their misses
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  back. And, uh, you know, it's a great
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  offensive team and they're they're going
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  to make shots and they're going to make
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  tough plays, but you got to do
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  everything you can to limit, you know,
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  their second chance opportunities. If
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  they shoot 52% from the field and 25%
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  from three and 65 from the line, if you
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  look back at games this year, like, they
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  probably don't win many of those games,
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  but when you get 19 offensive rebounds,
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  you know, you're you're going to be able
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  to stay in those. So, they did a great
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  job there and uh we had a bunch of
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  really bad turnovers early which got us
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  into a hole and weren't able to dig out
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  of it. So, take any questions
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  >> specifically on the offensive rebounds.
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  I guess from what you could see, how how
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  much of those do you feel like were
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  effort versus just things that maybe
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  they did?
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  I haven't watched the film yet because
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  I, you know, the game just ended, but
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  I'm I'm sure it was a combination of
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  both. Um, it felt like every time that
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  they got an offensive rebound, the guy
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  that was just staring at the ball when
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  the shot went up, his man was the one
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  that got it. So, uh, that's typically
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  how it works. And, uh, they do a really
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  good job of sending guys through the
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  free throw line. And, uh, you know,
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  they, uh, you know, anytime we did hit,
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  they would still push and, uh, they got
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  those rebounds. So, credit to them.
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  They, uh, they did a really good job,
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  um, in that part of the game. So, um,
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  you know, we'll watch the film and, uh,
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  I'm sure a lot of it was, you know, us
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  just, you know, not going and finding a
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  body and just turning and looking at the
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  ball and, uh, we got to clean that up.
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  >> Stephen, what do you attribute to the
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  turnovers early on? This is, you know,
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  an area where you guys again have done a
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  really good job at this year, but that
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  was kind of uncharacteristic those first
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  few minutes.
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  >> Yeah, I mean, it looked a lot like the
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  Old Miss game, didn't it? you know, just
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  like silly turnovers, casual turnovers,
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  just, you know, we dribbled off our foot
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  one time. We had two really bad outlet
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  passes. Um, just too casual with the
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  ball. You know, anytime that they would
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  send multiple guys, you know, we didn't
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  get off it in time and, uh, they did a
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  really good job of stripping and
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  ripping. So, all things that, you know,
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  we did a good job of fixing in the LSU
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  game, uh, we reverted back to in this
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  game and, uh, you know, ultimately led
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  us to have a really slow start.
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  Coach, I know you don't take any moral
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  victories in this rivalry, but you guys
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  got back in the game. I thought Overton
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  was tremendous in the second half. Talk
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  about how he played and what you'll need
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  from him going forward.
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  >> Yeah, I mean KO was you know, good
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  offensively once again. Um so, you know,
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  we're down 28 with 1455 left and um you
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  know, they battled um but you know, we
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  we can't wait to battle like that when
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  we're down 28. You got you got to do
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  that from the very tip and uh we didn't
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  do that tonight. So, you know, need need
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  KO um you know, to continue to shoot the
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  ball like that. Uh he's playing with a
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  lot of confidence offensively, you know,
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  um but just need him to continue to do
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  those things and, you know, be be one of
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  our better defenders.
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  >> See, what did you think about the effort
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  and the intensity just in the first
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  half? Obviously, you guys had in the
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  second half. Did you just feel like it
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  was lacking, you know, early on?
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  >> I don't think it was lacking. I just
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  think, you know, we were we were just a
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  little too casual. Um, and those
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  turnovers, you know, led to, you know,
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  some some easy opportunities. Um, no, I
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  think there was the effort was there. It
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  was just the execution and that's
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  something that, you know, we just we we
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  struggle with a little bit this year.
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  And, um, you know, we we we got to
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  button that up. Um, because we, you
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  know, it's it's win or go home at this
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  point.
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  >> Stephen, back here. What did you think
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  of Keshan Hall defensively tonight?
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  >> Uh, I would need to watch the film. Um,
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  yeah, I mean, he had four defensive
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  rebounds. Um, you know, there was he had
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  a couple mistakes early where, uh, you
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  know, he was loaded into the ball and
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  lost his man on a back cut, but, you
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  know, it wasn't just him. You know, it
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  was our entire roster. You know, I told
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  our guys like it wasn't one person that
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  stuck out defensively that was
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  struggling or on the rebounds. It was a
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  collective effort. The only guy that
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  really was really solid the entire time
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  he was in there was Blake. you know,
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  Blake's plus nine in five minutes and we
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  got to keep him in the game there. Um,
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  we can't pull him out in that situation
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  because it it it had gone from like 28
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  to 15 when Blake was in the game. We
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  subbed him out and uh they pushed it
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  back up to 21. So Blake Blake was a real
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  spark and we're going to play him more
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  in the SEC tournament because he just he
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  helps us defensively and he gets us
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  organized.
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  >> Stephen, what's your message to the team
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  in terms of the urgency that you'll need
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  to have at Nashville?
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  >> Yeah, I mean it's win or go home. Um,
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  you know, I don't know what more urgency
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  you need at this point. Um, you know, we
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  we've put ourselves in a in a, you know,
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  in obviously a difficult situation, but
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  also, you know, a great situation. We
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  play in the best league in college
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  basketball. It's the the deepest league
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  in college basketball. We have, you
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  know, five of some of the best wins in
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  in in the country. We have the best win
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  in college basketball at Florida. Um,
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  you know, if you look at our quality
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  wins, you know, and you look at other
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  teams in the bubble, I don't think those
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  teams get those wins. I just I just
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  don't. Um, so we've put ourselves in a
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  position to be considered and you know I
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  think our resume stands up against
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  anybody's. Um, you know, we I'm not sure
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  what the number would be tonight after
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  the game. I don't know if anyone has Ken
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  Palm pulled up, but I would imagine that
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  we finished one or two in the country in
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  strength of schedule overall, which is
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  what the committee asked us to do. Um,
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  and you know, we scheduled we played
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  against some of the best teams in
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  college basketball. you know, we went
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  two and two against the uh conference
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  champions of the SEC, the Big East, the
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  Big 10, and the Big 12, and we didn't
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  play any of those games at home. Um, so
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  we have enough quality wins to be
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  deserving to be in this tournament, but
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  we understand that we got to go to
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  Nashville and we got to make a run just
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  so we don't have to be sweating it out
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  on Sunday. So, the urgency is, you know,
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  this this could be your last game if we
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  don't find a way to win these, you know,
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  these ones moving forward.