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Florida HC Todd Golden - Auburn Loss · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  Yeah, disappointing. Um, anytime you
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  lose, you're disappointed. But, you
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  know, we've been playing pretty well.
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  And, uh, I I I don't think we played
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  great today, but I want to first
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  obviously credit Auburn. I thought they
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  took the fight to us today, and that's
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  something that we take a lot of pride in
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  doing. Uh, we we've been pretty
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  consistent with that over the last
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  couple weeks. Uh, you know, throwing the
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  first punch and the majority of the
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  punches. I thought the first half, uh,
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  they they just were better than us that
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  way. Uh, quicker to balls, more
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  physical, did a great job on the glass.
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  We were down six on the glass at
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  halftime. Obviously, Keshan Hall had an
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  incredible individual performance in the
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  first half offensively. U sometimes you
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  got to tip your cap that way. We didn't
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  do a good enough job guarding his three
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  or keeping them off the line. Um but you
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  know, I just feel like with it's a long
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  season, there's you know, ups and downs
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  and and we've been through a lot uh of
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  those already this season. I think you
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  know, this team and obviously it starts
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  with me. anytime, you know, you get to a
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  point where you think you got things
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  rolling a little bit and the moment you
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  feel like they're on the right track,
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  you get you get punched in the mouth.
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  And that's what happened to us today.
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  So, uh, again, credit to Auburn. We we
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  got some things we got to we got to
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  clean up, uh, before we get on the road
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  to South Carolina next week.
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  >> Tommy kind of insinuated that some of
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  the respect that this team has gotten
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  from the national media may have
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  impacted them from a complacency
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  standpoint. Have you sensed that? And
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  how do you, you know, given you faced
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  that in the past, how do you correct
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  that going forward? Yeah, you know, I
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  think it's uh it was a little human
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  nature in the sense of, you know, I
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  thought we had great prep after the LCU
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  game. We're pretty consistent in the way
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  we go about uh you know, the things we
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  do in our program. Thought we had a good
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  practice yesterday. I thought we were
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  locked in this morning. So, um you know,
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  maybe that showed up when we started the
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  game. You know, just, hey, we're out
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  here, we got a great crowd. You know,
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  things are just going to go our way. And
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  they certainly didn't in the first half.
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  And again, it was similar to Missouri
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  last year here at home. Um, you know,
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  there there's a lot of really good teams
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  in this league. Auburn's one of them.
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  They got really good talent and um, we
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  pride ourselves on being the mentally
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  and physically tougher team. I don't
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  think we were either of those tonight.
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  And again, we did not respond quickly
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  enough to their, you know, their early
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  punches and we we just couldn't get back
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  on track in the first half.
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  >> What disappointed you the most about
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  today's game?
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  >> That we lost.
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  What do you uh what do you uh credit
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  Auburn for for being able to just stop
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  Alex tonight?
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  >> Yeah, I thought you know they did a good
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  Well, they they had a different game
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  plan um than most teams. They just
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  weren't guarding him on the perimeter uh
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  plugging up the paint. Obviously, he's
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  not shooting the ball great right now
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  and uh weren't able to take advantage of
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  that. I I was more disappointed with our
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  inability to get him down low. Um but
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  they were showing bodies anytime we
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  threw it inside. Uh you know, again,
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  where where his game disappointed me was
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  the four turnovers. You're not going to
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  score it every night. Not going to be
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  great that way, but but you can't turn
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  the ball over four times when when
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  you're a guy that we run a majority of
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  our offense through. And he just got
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  outplayed tonight.
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  >> You you tied the game at 62. And did you
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  expend so much energy getting to that
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  point that there was just a let down
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  afterwards?
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  >> Yeah, I think that was a big part of it
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  and dug ourselves an 18, you know, uh 18
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  point deficit. crawled all the way back
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  to take a two-point lead. You know, get
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  a tough reversal on the on the goend and
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  um you know, it just they made a couple
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  tough shots after that, but we had dug
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  ourselves too big of a hole. Uh the
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  defense in the first half and obviously
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  the free throw shooting, you know, as I
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  explained to the team, if we had made
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  our free throws at a decent rate up
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  until that point, instead of it going
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  from two to being tied with their ball,
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  it would have been from six to four and
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  we can still play with a little bit of a
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  lead and a little bit of confidence. Um,
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  but yeah, I do think a big part of it
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  was the fact that we had to expend so
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  much energy getting back in the ball
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  game.
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  >> What were some offensive adjustments
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  that you may have made
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  into the second half?
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  >> Again, we we had to value the basketball
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  a little more. U I thought we didn't do
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  a good enough job uh down on the block
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  of of handling the double teams and the
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  digs. We didn't shoot the ball well
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  enough. Uh there there were a number of
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  things that we had to clean up, you
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  know, from the first half. Um and again,
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  in the second half, we did a decent job
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  that way. We turned it over less. Uh,
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  you know, I thought we were playing with
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  a little more purpose, but we still
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  missed some open shots and we miss our
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  free throws.
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  >> What do you think you can learn from a
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  team like Auburn? Like packing the paint
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  as much as they did today and how can
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  you carry that forward if teams kind of
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  try to implement that?
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  >> Yeah, we got to find ways to counteract
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  it and do a better better job of uh, you
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  know, taking advantage of being wide
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  open, you know, on the perimeter and
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  wide open in the middle of the floor.
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  Uh, you know, I think that's going to be
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  a hard way to live for teams to play us
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  that way. Um, I think more often than
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  not we're going to be able to take
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  advantage of that better than we did
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  today. But again, they're quick, they're
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  long, um, and they did a good job, you
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  know, counteracting our bigs inside
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  today.
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  >> 17 in this game. How, you know,
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  problematic was that?
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  >> We had 11.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> Um, yeah, I mean, we we did a decent
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  enough job taking care of the
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  basketball. I think the biggest thing
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  was the free throws. Um, you know, we
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  left some points on the board, missed
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  some open shots when we needed to. And
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  again, our first half effort on Keshan
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  Hall, uh, you know, I think it was he
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  deserves a lot of credit for the shots
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  that he was making, but we we have to
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  find a way to prevent him from getting
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  23 in the first half. Now, he did a
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  better job in the second half. He only
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  scored one, so we were capable. Uh, we
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  just didn't do a good enough job showing
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  bodies, going vertical, sent him to the
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  line, and gave him threes in the first
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  half. something.