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Vanderbilt HC Mark Byington - Auburn Win · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  Um, you know, the first thing comes to
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  my mind is it's such an incredible
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  environment and in a hard place to play
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  and um there there's different types of
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  wins and and to be able to win here. I'm
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  really proud of the guys. Um that Auburn
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  team is is is difficult to stop and um
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  they have so many threats and in this
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  building I just think they play at a
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  high level and uh for us to have a
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  response after the way after we played
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  poorly against Oklahoma and um we wanted
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  to show that wasn't us. that didn't feel
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  like us. And then uh to be able to
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  bounce back here and and then we just
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  had to deal with so so much adversity
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  and and and and not cave in. And um we
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  just kept having responses with foul
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  troubles and lineups and uh we got some
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  injuries and things like that. The guys
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  were just set on getting a win and and I
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  thought they just had a um a tunnel
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  vision on getting that.
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  >> Second row.
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  >> Coach, first win here in a decade for
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  Vanderville basketball. You talk about
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  the injuries and guys that didn't get to
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  play. How did you power through that as
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  a team and what does this win mean
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  moving forward for your squad?
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  >> Yeah, I mean my big guys played really
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  well today and um you know with Jaylen
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  Washington and De Mclaclin and we were
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  in a bigger lineup and um we got thrown
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  off with AKO Carrick getting foul
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  trouble. This is back toback games in
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  the first half and that kind of hurt us.
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  Um but I think those guys stepped up um
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  really really just kind of made plays
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  and we're we got to reinvent oursel. I
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  mean, we're we looked a certain way in
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  December. We looked a certain way in in
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  January the first couple weeks and and
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  now right now. And and uh we're still
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  fighting. Um you know, I know it was a
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  funny stat after we lost to Oklahoma.
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  And this is a way of framing things. And
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  and they the the stat was that um we're
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  three and four in our last seven games.
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  And um maybe now they'll say they've won
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  four of their last five. Um you know,
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  I'm more of an optimistic, sunny type
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  person. So, um, maybe that'll be more
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  more the the the line
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  >> back. Coach Tyler Tanner made a couple
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  really difficult shots. Just how
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  comfortable you with the ball in his
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  hands. What kind of difference does it
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  make to a player like that?
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  >> Yeah, I mean, he's obviously he has my
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  utmost trust and um I feel comfortable,
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  our team feels comfortable with him
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  making a play. Um, he just puts so much
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  pressure on the defense. he just goes
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  after him and you um you know he's he's
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  got a baby face but he is he is very
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  very competitive and um so I I think
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  we're feeding off his competitiveness
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  and um you know for him to be able to
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  play the minutes he did under the
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  pressure he did I mean we don't have
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  another option right now so he knows a
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  lot lots on his shoulders and he's
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  delivering second
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  >> coach your team shoots 77% from the free
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  throw line tonight you were 26 of 30
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  possibly an elementary type question but
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  what does the free throw I mean,
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  especially when you're on the road to
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  handle the runs that the home team's
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  going to give you throughout the night.
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  >> Yeah, we knew Auburn was going to fight
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  back and um we we did a great job of not
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  turning the ball over to get to the free
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  throw line and I thought our guys came
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  to the ball and and show composure. Um
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  but that was the first part and the odd
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  thing was we had a terrific free throw
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  shooter go 0 for two in that segment. Um
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  so um you know it's it's something we
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  work on. Our guys like being in this
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  situation and you have to do something
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  like that to beat a good team on the
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  road. I mean, you can't go up there and
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  shoot 60% or we're not winning the game.
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  >> Coach, uh Jaylen Washington probably had
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  the most efficient night on the floor,
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  seven for eight. Uh didn't miss a free
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  throw tonight, 22 points. Can you talk
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  about uh what was working out there for
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  him tonight?
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  >> Yeah, so proud of him. Um he's a people
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  pleaser. He wants to make people happy.
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  He's such a a good person, great heart,
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  and um you know, for him to go out when
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  the team really needed him, you know,
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  like right now like like this is this is
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  the night like we really needed him to
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  play that well. And um he was making
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  threes, he was finishing around the rim,
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  he was rebounding with presence and uh
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  his defense was great. We we lost things
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  when he wasn't on the court defensively.
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  Um that hurt us when he was in foul
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  trouble. But I could tell you this, I'm
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  so happy for him. I can tell you
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  everybody in the locker room is so happy
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  for him just because type of person he
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  is.
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  >> One more front left was 11 for 27 on
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  layups. I guess what was the plan to to
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  stop especially guys like Kean Hall
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  getting to the basket and what do you
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  think it was that you guys did that made
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  Auburn so comfortable around the rim?
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  Yeah, we we wanted to take away the
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  uncontested layups where they they saw,
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  you know, a clear look at the rim and we
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  wanted to try to shoot into bodies and
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  um we did a great job of of getting
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  there and getting vertical of trying to
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  make them score over us and you know, it
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  was one of those things we were going to
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  see if they'd make the pass out of there
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  and then if they missed the shot, we had
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  to get the rebound and times we did and
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  times we didn't. But it definitely was a
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  game plan to make sure that we're we're
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  staying vertical in there. We're trying
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  to make him go through us.