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Auburn G/F Elyjah Freeman + F KeShawn Murphy - Queens Win · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  for you guys just the defensive start.
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  They were stuck on four points for
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  forever. I mean, Stephen was in here
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  talking about how much better it was for
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  you guys. What was the key to getting
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  off such a good start on defense and
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  especially that whole first half?
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  >> Um, most of it was practice uh practice
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  and we just kept, you know, vocally
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  talking about it. But tonight was one of
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  the nights we was just let's do it. You
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  know what I'm saying? So, uh, us
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  preaching about it and coming out and
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  actually doing it was a step in the
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  right direction to lead us up to
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  conference play. And you know what I'm
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  saying? Like I'm pretty sure he was in
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  here preaching it too. Like we want to
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  get better in defense. So like for us to
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  do it, that's a step in the right
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  direction.
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  >> Elijah, obviously career high in points
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  for you tonight, but just overall, how
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  have you felt with that change coming
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  off the bench? How has that impacted
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  your game in a positive way? Would you
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  say?
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  >> Yeah, like um SP said, I just felt like
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  it was the best um
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  like option for the whole entire team.
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  Like I'm not really a selfish kid. So, I
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  just felt like me coming off the bench,
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  I know what I'm capable of um in any
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  situation. So, putting Seb at the four,
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  I feel like, you know, he can play make.
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  He's good at that. In practice, he a lot
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  of people don't know how good he can
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  pass. So, um, just being able to come
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  out the bench with a little bit of
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  spark. Felt like that helped and
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  hopefully it shows Saturday.
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  >> SP was talking about how the parade
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  seemed to do pretty well for you. You
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  came back at practice and was looking
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  like a different guy. You kind of feel
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  that out there today as well.
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  >> Yeah. Uh, it's always good to go home,
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  you know what I'm saying? Uh, get back
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  to your roots, you know what I'm saying?
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  Your why. And that's that's really what
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  I did. I had more energy coming back. I
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  was more motivated and coming back and
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  play with these guys boost me boost me
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  and my confidence up a little bit. So,
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  I'm ready to uh lead us into uh
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  conference play.
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  Have a good run here.
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  One wanted to ask you both about the
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  career high assists and coach saying
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  that he was, you know, from the moment
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  game started he was looking to get his
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  teammates involved. What can you say
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  about the game he had?
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  >> Yeah, that's that's Tah. He's he's
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  capable of it. Yes, he's capable of
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  being on ball and making the right
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  decisions for us and um putting us in
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  the right positions and also um
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  playmaking for himself. Like he's that
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  good of a basketball player. So that's
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  nothing new for uh to high like we
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  expect that from him,
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  >> right? Um he's he's more of a scoring
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  guard in my opinion. So him at the one
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  just being able to do nine assists is
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  impressive uh to everybody and he's
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  definitely capable of doing all that.
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  You know, it's just him. So that's that.
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  >> Kean, you set the tone there with the
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  three-pointer on the first possession.
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  Can you talk about that and also the the
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  crowd? I think Stephen was in here
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  talking about he said they look around
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  and take note of this crowd during break
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  on a Monday night late.
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  >> Oh yeah, he talked about how we was
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  going to have to bring our own energy
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  and um I'm pretty sure for me to hit
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  that three to to begin with, uh it's it
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  started the team, the crowd, and it got
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  everybody involved that we was going to
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  have a good night. and uh like I said,
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  take a step in the right direction and
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  where we wanted to be going into the
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  conference play. So, glad I hit that
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  early.
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  >> Elijah Ko's had 20 or more threes last
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  five games. I mean, when he's scoring
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  like that, just how dangerous can this
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  offense be?
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  >> Yeah, it's crazy. um with as much punch
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  as we got including KO H key him both
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  keys Seb like you can go all the way
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  down the line like um just him being
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  another threat on top of the two we have
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  plus him in the post man it's going to
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  be crazy um just anytime he drives or
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  any double teams you know you can always
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  kick out the KO and it's my opinion 80%
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  chance of going in
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  >> follow for you Elijah just like how much
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  more confident are you feeling offense.
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  We're seeing you like step into some of
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  these threes and just just pulling the
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  trigger and knocking them down. Like do
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  you kind of feel a lot more confident
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  especially with what all you had to go
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  through just getting used to D1 and the
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  schedule we all played?
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  >> Yeah. Um it's definitely um just a me
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  thing, you know, my mental been trying
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  to work on that. Um and the guys just be
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  on me about shooting the ball from day
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  one. They just always shoot the ball,
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  bro. Shoot the ball. So just kind of
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  trying to do that more. Just been in the
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  gym a lot and hopefully it starts to
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  show.
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  Murphy, you've been through SEC play
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  before. There are some guys on this team
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  that are going to play their first SEC
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  game on Saturday as Ben. What's What's
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  the message? What changes?
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  >> Um, none changes, but the physicality
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  and uh how fast we play. Um, I've always
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  preached that uh it'll be a little bit
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  of different basketball, but we still
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  play Auburn basketball. You know what
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  I'm saying? So, um, throughout the the
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  week for for us to prepare, I'm going to
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  be spending a lot of, um, a lot of
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  different stuff that I know about the
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  conference and to these guys and just
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  just getting us ready, you know what I'm
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  saying? So, um, it's it's nothing to,
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  you know what I'm saying, like be afraid
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  about, but like we going to bring our
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  best basketball just like everybody else
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  and do what's best for us.
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  >> All good.
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  >> All right. Thanks, guys. Yeah.