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Auburn F Filip Jović + F Sebastian Williams-Adams - South Carolina Win · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  All right, we'll open it up to questions
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  for Sebastian and Phillip. Uh, let's
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  start here with Ferd.
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  >> Philip, did you feel like you were
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  playing back uh overseas tonight with a
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  with as much scoring as you were able to
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  do and getting to the basket like like
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  you did?
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  >> Yes. But in in this team, we have a lot
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  of scorers and everybody can give a lot
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  of points. I think we won this game
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  today because defensively
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  and I just
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  letting game to come to me and my
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  teammates like finding me in great spots
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  today.
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  >> You had all my bench points
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  >> bench point.
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  >> You had all of them.
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  >> Not bad.
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  Sebastian, your coach said that you're
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  starting to really understand what your
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  your role is and how important it is
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  when you're on the floor, not in foul
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  trouble and making an impact. How did
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  that help you tonight with with another
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  good performance?
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  >> Um, yeah. No, I was very frustrated. Um,
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  Missou just because, um, you know, I've
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  been in the endame lineups in pretty
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  much every close or close game we've
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  had. Um, so Missou when I wasn't out
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  there or not because the coaches didn't
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  want me to because I had fouled out. Um,
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  I just was super frustrated. So just
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  kind of um a revi re-evaluating my
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  approach when especially like some of my
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  um fouls like um we talked about the
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  first foul of the game, it was just a
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  completely dumb foul. Um and then some
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  of my other ones were a little bit
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  silly. U three of them were silly, two
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  of them, you know, debatable. Um but
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  just um kind of focusing on you know
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  trying to stay out of foul but still
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  being aggressive and still being uh the
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  Sebastian that the coaches recruited. Um
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  was just kind of my main focus going out
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  here tonight.
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  >> Nathan
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  >> Phil Coach Burl said that he just told
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  you in a timeout, hey they're not
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  doubling, just look to score the ball. I
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  guess how fun was that approach to kind
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  of maybe look to score the ball a little
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  bit more than you usually do when you
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  have the ball in your hands?
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  Yeah, finally other team is not doubling
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  and and I just I just listen my coach
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  absorb that information and there I
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  think uh there are in last 10 minutes
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  start doubling me I just make a right
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  play I be happy with that if I'm not
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  scoring I I just happy to make a right
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  play
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  Philip
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  >> you made the steal and then and then
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  drove the length of the floor for the
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  for the dunk
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  Yeah.
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  >> Could you uh your view of that play?
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  What what could you describe it?
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  >> I didn't see that play.
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  >> You made it. What you did?
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  >> Well, you stole the ball and then you
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  went to go like you dunked it all.
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  >> Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know this play. I
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  I just play aggressively. Defense was
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  what coach need for us. And yeah, games
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  come to me. Yeah.
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  Uh this would be for Sebastian to get
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  just when when Keshan Hall is struggling
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  the way that he did, especially foul
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  trouble. You can relate to that. How do
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  you guys overcome that with with the top
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  score in the league not making the
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  impact it normally does?
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  >> Yeah. Um I mean kind of similar Phillips
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  said, I mean this team is gifted with a
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  lot of scoring options. So even if um
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  Kih Hall, which we know this won't
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  happen again, but like you know get in
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  foul trouble like that um we all can
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  still uh score in his place and you know
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  help with those um with the production
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  he usually gives us. I mean that's the
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  beauty of this team is offensively
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  everybody can just um not like replace
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  each other but it's kind of just plug in
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  anybody's night um for a team and that
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  kind of makes it scary.
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  Soy SP has talked a lot about you guys
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  not letting your offense affect your
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  defense and that was an issue against
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  Missouri. Yeah.
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  >> Tonight I mean really tough first half
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  for y'all shoot the ball and y'all
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  played your best first half of defense.
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  What was the key to that? Like how how
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  were y'all able to kind of keep that
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  mindset because that's been something
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  that you know I know they've been really
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  appreciating.
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  >> Yeah. Um I mean just in terms of our
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  like our timeouts every time out was
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  like the shots are going to fall just
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  keep playing defense. Like we're in this
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  game because of defense. We knew,
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  you know, games in the past that we've
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  gotten blown out, it was our offense,
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  like you would have thought we weren't
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  just going to play defense at all. So,
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  um, for us, it was just keep repeating
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  and keep repeating almost like we you
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  get sick of hearing it, but you need to
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  keep reminding yourself like, okay, the
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  defense is the reason why we're in the
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  lead right now. I mean, we're up by six
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  um at one media timeout and we just kept
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  saying defense, defense, defense,
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  defense, defense. I mean, and we were
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  holding them, I mean, in the first half
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  to some of sometimes we would look I
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  would look back up and be like, "Oh, are
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  they still at that score?" Like, it just
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  felt it was nice to see our offense not
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  affect our defense.
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  >> Sway, you got to see Phillips stealing,
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  not what you think about it.
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  >> Yeah, I know. him. So when I saw Phil
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  get the steal, I was scared he was going
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  to look to pass it to somebody first
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  because I was like, "You have a wide
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  open lane. Please dribble it." So then
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  when he started dribbling, I was like,
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  "Perfect." And then I was like, I saw my
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  man go over it and I was like I was
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  like, "Okay, first is he going to foul?"
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  Like like I was kind of trying to gauge
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  the situation, but I knew Philip was
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  going to try to punch it. So, I was just
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  ready for if the guy found him hard and,
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  you know, I had to go protect my
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  brother, my pate. Um, or if he somehow
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  missed it, I was there for the rebound.
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  But when he dunked it, I mean, I I said,
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  I don't know if they showed him, but I
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  just started laughing like cuz I'm I
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  mean, I'm literally so proud of this
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  dude. I don't think y'all realize like I
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  love this dude from the bottom of my
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  heart. Um, me and Philip are now
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  classmates and best friends. So, um, but
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  yeah, no, I was just super proud of him,
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  especially when I got to see, uh, him
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  come out of his shell and, you know,
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  talk his Serbian, um, shi blank. Um,
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  >> Philip, we've heard Sway talk a lot
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  about his relationship with you. Just I
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  want to hear from your perspective,
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  like, you know, what does this guy next
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  to you mean to you and, you know, how
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  you've gotten to this point so far this
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  season?
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  >> Yes. Seb is my real brother and he
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  helped me a lot in in small things in
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  adapting in college basketball and off
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  the court also. We are classmates and uh
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  because this is my second lang language
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  and uh he helped me uh a lot to to be
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  relaxing uh in any moments and yeah he's
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  my brother.
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  >> Anything else for these two? One one
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  back there.
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  This can be for either player, but to
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  win a game like this where the shot
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  wasn't falling, what can that do for
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  your confidence moving forward?
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  >> You
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  um No, it can do a lot for our
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  confidence. Um just because um I mean I
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  don't think I've ever seen a night I
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  mean where KO
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  to Hod E okay E3 having zero points like
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  um Kih Hall missing threes like I don't
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  think I I've ever seen him like practice
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  even where we've shot this bad. Um, so
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  for us to go out there and um, like we
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  said earlier, not letting our offense
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  affect our defense and go out there, win
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  this kind of grinded out game, it proves
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  like, you know, even if we go on the
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  road, our shots may not um, travel, but
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  our defense will. And to keep this
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  mindset of not letting the offense
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  affect our defense, um, I mean, it can
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  just do the wonders. I mean, like I
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  said, we'll see um, on Tuesday um,
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  whether we can string this along. And I
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  mean, it's going to be a challenge,
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  especially at Old Miss, um, just because
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  they do have, um, not looking too far
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  ahead, but they do have two very good
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  one-on-one players. But, I mean, we look
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  at it, watch the film, prepare in
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  practice, and, you know, we're ready for
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  another showdown on Tuesday.
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  >> All right, guys. Thank you.
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  >> Thanks, guys.