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Auburn F Filip Jovic - South Carolina Preview · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  Philip, your offensive rebounding has
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  been really big these last few games. Is
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  that something you've always been good
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  at? Is that always something you've
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  taken a lot of pride in in your game?
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  >> Oh, I like crashing the glass and
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  because I'm the guy who play with a lot
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  of energy in this team and every
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  possession if I don't make a from my
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  players, for my teammates, I will go on
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  to crushing to glass to make offensive
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  rebound.
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  >> Philip, what what areas of your game do
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  you think you have improved on the most
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  this season? Maybe over the last few
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  games or the last month or so, where do
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  you feel like you've made the most
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  growth?
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  >> In defense, defensively, because I start
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  loving to play defense here and uh I
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  love to
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  everybody on the court and yeah maybe
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  this thing and uh
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  I am like how to say um more improve in
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  offensively because I'm more relaxing
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  here because I I I have I had time to
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  adapting to college basketball and now I
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  think I'm better and
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  Stephen talked a lot about you guys
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  needing to play with energy for all 40
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  minutes. Felt like the team didn't do
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  that as a whole against Missouri. What's
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  it kind of been like these last couple
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  days trying to get that back going again
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  and playing like you guys did against
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  Arkansas?
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  I think
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  we we we played against Arkansas as the
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  best game this this season for sure. Uh
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  against Missouri.
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  Our coach say we we lost this game
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  before before game start. Uh and we can
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  to repeat
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  uh in next games. And yeah, we we need
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  to start on Saturday
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  first minute uh to to play with hard
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  energy and to to keep this energy from
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  deep off.
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  Philip Steven was in here a few minutes
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  ago and and said because of of the way
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  you are playing that he said he needs to
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  reward that with more minutes. Do you
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  feel like you have more in the tank that
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  you could you could uh continue to
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  produce at a high level with more time
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  on the court?
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  >> Yeah,
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  I
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  I just I just do everything what what he
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  say. If he say I need to guard this guy,
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  I play full front post from big bigger
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  guy than me uh to to like guard
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  point guards or everybody to crashing
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  glass. I just listen listen my coaches
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  and absorb this information every time.
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  And yeah, because I'm freshman and I I
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  just need to to listen my coaches and to
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  do whatever they want to meet.
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  >> Murf is a guy who's played your position
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  a lot in this league. What have you
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  learned the most from him about having
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  to play down there in the SEC?
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  >> Marf is my big brother and um I love I
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  love Marf and
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  he he teach me a lot of small things in
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  this in this college basketball
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  and like maybe to breed when I keep when
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  I bring the the ball on on short short
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  uh pick and roll or to see to like
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  breathe because when I when I came in
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  United States because this is faster
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  basketball uh than Europe and I just
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  wanted to to be fast than other guys and
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  make and in this moment I made mistakes
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  a lot of mistakes because of that and he
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  he just told me you need to relaxing
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  you're a good player and yeah,
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  >> in Southeastern Conference SEC games,
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  you're 10 for 11 shooting, only missed
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  missed one shot. What And they're not
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  all dunks. So, what what's working well
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  for you? How have you been able to have
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  that success?
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  >> I think I just use the good shots and I
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  trust in my teammates. uh they they look
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  at me in good in great spots and so I
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  would say the
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  yeah they they this is just for for them
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  because they look at me in various spots
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  >> the importance you've had a lot of
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  putbacks where you get the offensive
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  rebound and put it back in.
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  Do you sense that those take a toll on
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  the other team where they they've played
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  defense, they've stopped you, they
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  forced a miss, and then you get it and
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  put it back into you. Can you see that
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  taking
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  making an impact on the other team when
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  you get those shots?
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  >> Yes. Um, offensive rebounds and you put
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  it back in for how how valuable are
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  those plays?
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  >> Oh, yeah. These plays is giving me a lot
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  of confidence.
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  Because yeah, we are team who had the
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  who have the maybe the best offensive
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  players in this league and they they use
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  a lot of shots and uh I just follow my
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  teammates and to make I like to make a
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  space for them for for make better them
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  better my teammates and when they use
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  the shots I I just crashing the glass
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  Hey