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Auburn G Kevin Overton + F Keyshawn Hall - Texas Win · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  We've got Keshan Hall to the left, Kevin
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  Overton to the right. We'll start with
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  Ferg.
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  >> For both of y'all, uh second half, y'all
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  almost averaged two points a possession,
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  couldn't really miss. What what what
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  changed for y'all from the first half
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  the second half on offense?
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  >> Um uh I feel like we just stayed
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  consistent to what we doing. We knew
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  they collapsing. So once we got a c
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  couple catch and shoot threes like by
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  this guy right here and a couple guys
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  guys just catch shoot threes and make
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  them fan out to their man. And once they
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  fan out to their man, it's a one-on-one
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  game after that. And once it's one and
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  one, it's kind of hard to stop us.
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  >> Uh yeah, much of the same. Just playing
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  in the flow, shots falling. Um I don't
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  really have too much to repeat. He said
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  everything. So yeah,
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  >> Keshan, uh Coach Miller from Texas said
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  that you're one of the best players in
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  the game of college basketball. What
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  does that kind of praise mean to you
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  from a guy like that?
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  >> We knew that.
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  >> Um you know, coach Coach Miller, he's a
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  great coach. I've been watching him a
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  minute now. So, uh, I really appreciate
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  that for him. That's that's big time. I
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  mean, I'm happy he see it. A lot of
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  people still don't see it. I don't know
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  why, but hey, it is what it is. But we
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  just going to keep I'm not even going to
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  worry about individual stuff. We going
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  to keep trying to win, keep trying to
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  roll. Right now, we we're we're
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  streaking right now. But like I told you
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  guys, and uh at the beginning of the
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  year when we was taking some L's once we
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  get high, just going to get rolling. So,
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  we just got to keep getting better as a
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  team, staying consistent every day.
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  >> Got another one for Keshan back here.
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  You only had three points in the first
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  half. What's your mindset at halftime as
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  an offensive player? You obviously
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  attack on that first drive, you get the
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  bucket to go and then it was kind of
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  bombs away from there. Just your
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  mentality.
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  >> Um, my mentality is not like my my
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  teammates give me confidence, coach give
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  me confidence, but not to be cocky. I
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  feel I'm feel like I'm the best player
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  in college. So, that's my mentality. So,
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  I just come out, keep working, keep
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  going at it. You know what I'm saying?
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  And try to just stay consistent what I
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  do. Like I said, you know what I'm
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  saying? They was taking me away. So, if
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  I they take away, try to get the ball to
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  everybody else. try to move it as much
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  as I can, but like I said, once they go
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  one-on-one, it's a different game.
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  >> So, KO, they started seven to 10 from
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  deep and then went like three of their
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  next 14. I mean, SP was in here talking
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  about how y'all just stuck to your guns
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  on defense. Y'all kind of had that
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  mentality. It was like, all right, if we
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  keep doing our thing, they're they're
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  they're not going to keep hitting these.
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  >> Yeah. Um, I'll probably say I I panicked
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  the most when that started happening.
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  Like, I'm I'm telling guys, hey,
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  [laughter] we we going to just let them
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  go one-on-one or this going to happen.
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  But I thought I think that was the game
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  plan and it worked. Um, we knew just
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  percentage-wise what they shot. So, it
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  wasn't really a huge emphasis to take
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  away those shots because we knew down
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  the stretch they would help us and they
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  did like he said so. So, I had to calm
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  down with that one. Yeah.
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  >> And Kevin, only three turnovers tonight
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  as a team. It's the third straight game
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  where y'all had um less than 10
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  turnovers in a game. Just kind of what's
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  been the key recently to, you know,
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  protecting protecting the basketball in
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  these close games?
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  >> Yeah. Um,
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  I won't give away the recipe. I just say
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  we try not to take bad shots within our
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  offense. Um whether that come whatever
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  time it is, we have pretty much
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  something to back up if we don't have
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  something. So if you don't have
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  something, it's very easy and very
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  quickly to get into something that can
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  still help you when you're on the ball
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  or off the ball. So we just get into
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  those those breakdowns and they help us
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  for sure limit turnovers.
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  >> Keith, Texas is a team that fouls a lot,
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  sends guys to the free throw line. How
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  much you enjoy seeing a match up where
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  you know that know the other team's
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  going to hack? Yeah, I did see that clue
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  what coach Miller said, "Yeah, we have a
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  virus or something. Some filing virus."
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  Uh, so when I seen that, I was happy we
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  was playing them, especially here. So,
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  uh, I mean, you know what I'm saying?
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  That's why I just got to stay in the
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  gym, you know what I'm saying? Make my
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  free throws and just try to lock in cuz
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  I still miss three of them things. Yeah.
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  So, got to just stay locked in. The
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  whole team, we we shot it good. We
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  missed 10, but we still got to the We
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  still shot 29 of them. So, that's that's
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  great for us.
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  >> Yeah. KO, uh, your coach talked about
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  shooting threes and whether they're
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  going in or not going in, as long as
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  you're shooting good ones, he wants you
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  to continue to shoot those shots. What a
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  good threes look like in this offense
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  and for you in particular.
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  >> Um, I think for everybody is just in
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  rhythm shots. I mean, it looks different
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  for every player. Like for example, me
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  and him, whenever he's in rhythm to his
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  shots, those are good shots. Like we
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  just try not to take bad shots where
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  you're going away from the rim or fading
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  away or anything crazy like that. But
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  for me, it's just if I can see the rim
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  off the catch, I think that's my best
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  shot. And then obviously playing off the
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  dribble, just making myself open off the
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  catch, I think is where I can I can
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  affect the game off the three ball. So
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  yeah,
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  >> Keshan, it seemed like at one point you
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  and Dan Swain was going shot for shot.
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  When the game is kind of turned into a
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  one-on-one like that, how much does it
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  go in your favor as a bigger guard?
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  >> Um, I I enjoy, like I said, I enjoy
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  one-on- ones. That's my game. like um
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  come in since a kid. That's what we used
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  to do a lot. Um just play one-on-one
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  basketball, king of the court, things
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  like that. Um Dalen's from Ohio, so I've
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  been knowing him since high school. He's
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  from Columbus, so you know, we got a
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  little history and never played him, but
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  that's that's my guy. He's good people.
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  So, um I enjoyed it, but um just got to
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  lock in a little more on defense. He hit
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  some big shots today we didn't think he
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  was going to hit, but that's what that's
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  the SC report was to make him shoot
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  contested heavy threes, and he he proved
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  us wrong. So, he had a big game today.
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  KO Hod struggling from shooting the ball
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  right now, but still, you know, playing
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  a lot and having positive stuff. How how
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  important is that for y'all? And then
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  how much confidence y'all have that, you
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  know, it's it's it's going to come on
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  eventually for him as a scorer?
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  >> Yeah. Um, [clears throat] I give him all
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  praise. I give him like the utmost
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  respect towards just understanding that
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  he doesn't have a crazy role with this
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  team, especially having a Keshan Hall on
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  your team. There's not a lot of scoring
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  that has to be done. So with him is just
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  understanding that you impacting the
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  game might not be scoring and he's done
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  a tremendous job of controlling our
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  offense, not taking bad shots. And even
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  when he understands that he's not he
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  doesn't have it going, he creates for
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  all of us. And like you said, with zero
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  turnovers today, that's all we can ask
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  for from
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  >> him. Anything else?