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Auburn F Keyshawn Hall + F KeShawn Murphy - Arkansas Win · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  key another 30 point game. You only
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  missed three shots all game. Just kind
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  of when did you when did you kind of
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  feel like this was going to be a
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  different or a special kind of night for
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  you I should say?
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  >> Oh man, I come out thinking it's going
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  to be a special night every night man.
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  You get what I'm saying? Uh all glory to
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  God. He pushed me through it. But my
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  teammates, the coaches, they get me
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  through and give me the confidence. But
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  in real life, if I have to be personal
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  with you guys, I know it's going to be
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  bulletin point uh for the next game, but
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  I took this game kind of personal
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  through I came through the transfer
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  portal. um obviously came here um
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  Arkansas as one of my top four schools.
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  They didn't recruit me as hard as the
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  other guys they wanted to. So I I give
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  them that like so I treat this game
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  personally. You know what I'm saying?
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  They they thought guys was worth it
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  worthy more than me. So every time I
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  play them it's going to be personal.
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  >> Uh you seem so comfortable in every spot
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  on the offensive side of the floor
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  behind the arc in the lane shooting
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  mid-range jumpers. Where do you feel
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  most comfortable right now on the
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  offensive end of the floor with the ball
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  in your hands?
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  >> The ball in my hands. That's where I
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  feel most comfortable. as long as the
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  ball in my hands, you know what I'm
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  saying? I don't care where it's at.
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  Like, I always just work on my game. Um,
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  everywhere on the court, my father told
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  me, you know what I'm saying? You have
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  to be a versatile player. You can't just
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  be onedimensional. So, things like that.
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  I try to do a little bit of everything.
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  >> As you mentioned, the effort you guys
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  gave sort of thinking that 0 and three
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  in the league was was unacceptable. Did
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  you feel like the team kind of had that
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  that fight and kind of that desperate
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  mentality to to make the plays needed to
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  win tonight?
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  >> Yeah. No, the whole team. The whole
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  team. We all came in locked in. Like I I
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  was talking to the radio. Um this
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  coaching staff is one of the most
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  positive coaching staff I ever been on.
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  Like we don't let it go down after three
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  games, four games. Like they try to pick
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  us up and say, "Man, if you think about
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  it and put it put it into perspective,
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  we we really could we could be only lost
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  three games so far this year. You know
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  what I'm saying? By one possession. We
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  only lost three games by one possession.
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  So they just try to keep us like say
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  we're there. We're there. We can we can
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  do this." You know what I'm saying? Try
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  to just make us keep going. You know
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  what I'm saying? And keep fighting. You
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  know what I'm saying? So that's why we
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  came out playing hard and we knew what
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  we could do.
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  >> T you mentioned, you know, taking a
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  little person to play in Arkansas, but
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  what do you think it means to Stephen
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  Pearl to get that first win against
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  coach the caliber of coach?
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  >> Man, it's great, man. Uh, I'm happy for
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  him. Like I said, he's one of the most
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  coh positive coaches in the country. You
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  know what I'm saying? I know it's his
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  first year, but he's got a lot of
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  potential, man. He's doing great. Um,
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  and if you look at his two biggest wins
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  right now is against two Hall of Famers,
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  Patino and Kip Perry. So, um, he's going
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  to keep working. He's not going to let
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  it get to it. Get get to him too high or
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  too low.
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  >> Coach Cal said he felt like you all
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  played like a desperate team. Did you
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  see it that way?
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  >> Yeah, I mean we did. We did play
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  desperate, but um we knew what we can
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  do. You know what I'm saying? Arkansas's
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  a great team, but we knew how we can
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  play. You know what I'm saying? We knew
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  we can the level we could play to. So,
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  we did play desperate. We played, not
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  going to lie, we talked, me and a couple
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  guys got together at the team dinner the
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  night before the game. And like we said,
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  we just going to play for the fans this
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  game. They deserve it. You know what I'm
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  saying? They've been at the games.
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  They've been at the games telling all
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  the games out and things like that. And
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  we lost two controversial games and
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  things like that. So, we're just going
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  to keep just playing hard for them guys.
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  >> All right. The SP was in here saying he
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  was more proud of your defense, your
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  offense in this game. What was what was
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  the key for you tonight for for defense
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  and for the team as a whole? Because
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  that's a really good offense. Y'all slow
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  down.
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  >> Oh man. and um just stand in the gap.
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  So, I just try to like like I say, I
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  came to this school obviously to be a
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  scorer, to be SEC player of the year,
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  things like that. But one of my biggest
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  things to get to the next level is just
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  to play defense. This school has been
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  top five, top 10 in defense for the last
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  five years. So, that's what I was
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  preaching to to BP the whole time coming
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  through the transfer portal. I want to
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  be on a great defensive team. So, I just
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  try to listen to them guys. They know
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  what they doing. I just try to stay in
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  the gaps and um keep listening to my
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  teammates. like this guy played in the
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  SEC um his whole life. So, and he's been
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  playing on good defensive teams. I try
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  to take his advice and things like that.
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  Like um um the first one of the first
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  players in the game got a good weak side
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  block just by helping by being in the
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  gaps.
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  >> Kan, we got time for 10 more questions.
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  >> Oh, no. Come on, man. Come on, man.
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  >> You're good.
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  >> All right, man. Thank you guys. War
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  Eagle
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  >> Murphy, if you want.
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  >> Okay, we got time for 10 questions for
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  him.
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  Start here with Jeff.
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  your first Auburn double double. Yes,
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  sir.
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  >> Coming after such an emotional game
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  finished the other night. What did it
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  mean to you to deliver for your team
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  like that?
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  >> Um, it meant a lot to me for my first
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  double double. You know what I'm saying?
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  Um, what meant to me the most was the
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  urgency we had tonight as a team on
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  defense and and want the willing we had
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  to win as a team tonight.
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  >> All right.
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  >> Cal was in here talking about how
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  Arkansas wants to get the rim. They want
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  to be they want to be a post touch team.
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  They only had 11 baskets at the rim
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  tonight. Just what was the key for y'all
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  to hold them out of the paint and then
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  when they got there contesting it as
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  much as y
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  >> um it was the u I say more the ball
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  pressure uh to be able to not even have
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  it have it as a look on the inside and
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  being in the gaps and not even giving
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  them the opportunity to even get that
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  far and as a team
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  >> like a good shooter. You got to see one
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  go down rather than shooting like this
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  team get a big time win knowing that
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  they can build that confidence, that
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  relief. What's the vibe like in the
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  locker room knowing that's you work so
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  hard, you come short a couple of times,
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  now you've gotten over that hump and now
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  you can work your way through SEC play.
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  >> Um like like we always say, you can't
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  get too high, can't get too low. Um um
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  we took two losses, we didn't get too
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  low, you know what I'm saying? This win
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  is just a win, you know what I'm saying?
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  And let's just we look at it more as a
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  momentum to go into the next game and
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  get more
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  left.
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  You mentioned how proud you are of the
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  team or how how proud you were of the
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  team for not letting that result Tuesday
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  affect them. How difficult was that for
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  you personally with how the end of that
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  game went and how were you kind of able
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  to to internalize that and move to the
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  next game?
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  >> Um
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  like I said um they get too high, too
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  low. Um I took it as a as a win honestly
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  uh us to come back from a 12-point u no
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  deficit and to be confident in us as a
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  team. Um
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  the shot the shot meant nothing to me.
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  It was other things that contributed to
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  the game. So I didn't look at it as a as
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  a moment honestly. Uh we took the loss
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  so that's all that matters.
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  >> All right.
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  >> Murphy plus N rebounds off to a really
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  good start and rebound play. Just how
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  how far do you think that that party's
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  game can carry?
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  >> Like uh like Keith said, uh the coaching
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  staff give us conf confidence in that
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  area. They tell us um we're top five,
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  we're top 10 offensive rebounding team
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  and they were pretty big on bigger
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  onsides. So um we preached all week more
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  of rebounding defensive uh activity and
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  the glass was going to be a big piece of
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  the dub this today. Anything else from
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  her?
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  >> All right. Good. Thank you.