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Auburn PG Tahaad Pettiford + F KeShawn Murphy - LSU Win · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  Todd, with the season that you guys have
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  had, especially here, just how does it
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  feel to have a game like that and a win
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  like that, both for you personally, but
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  just also for for the team as a whole?
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  >> Um, for teamwise, it feels amazing. Um,
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  you know, having a lot of downs this
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  season. Um, finally good to have up
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  going into um, you know, SEC tournament
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  and hopefully March Madness. So, just
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  try to get that momentum that we need to
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  go in there and just show the world we
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  can do.
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  >> It felt like you started to feel it a
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  little bit in in that second half. Can
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  you walk us through what your mindset
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  was, what the team's mindset was
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  offensively tonight?
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  >> Uh, do what we got to do to win. Um, you
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  know, uh, we knew we had the lead coming
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  out of halftime and, uh, you know, we
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  kind of struggled this year. Just try to
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  hold that lead against teams. So, just
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  knowing that we had to keep our foot in
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  our necks and, um, do what we have to do
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  to get the win.
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  >> Murf, I know you've only been here at
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  Auburn for for one season, but talk
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  about what senior night meant to you,
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  what this, you know, what the emotions
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  were and and getting a win on your
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  senior night. Um,
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  honestly, man, I I can't thank this
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  school much, man. Enough. You know what
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  I'm saying? Uh, I appreciate the
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  coaches, the the managers, everybody,
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  bro. Uh, down to the people that work
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  for the school, you know what I'm
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  saying? I just I just really enjoyed
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  this game today, bro. And I'm glad we
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  got a win on today. And I just want to
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  keep that m momentum going into whatever
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  is next.
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  Uh Murf, you you've been on the bubble
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  before in your college basketball
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  career. You know, this this time of year
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  when when every game matters, results
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  matter a lot. What's been your advice to
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  the rest of the team about the
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  importance of this time of year?
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  >> Um you know, seasons was different uh
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  where teams were different where I was,
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  but uh my advice to this team is just
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  focus on what's in front of you and that
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  can take us a long way. You know, people
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  take advice differently, but like like I
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  said, you know, we we focus on LSU. We
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  did. We put everything in the past and
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  we came out and play some of our best
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  basketball. So, there's areas we can sit
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  and go back watch film and get better
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  and just move on forward, focus on
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  what's in front of us.
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  >> Uh, for both of you, Coach Pearl has
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  said that he really needed you guys to
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  step up and just play better defense
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  down the stretch of the season here. Can
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  you talk about the focus on improving
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  defense so late in the season and how
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  you guys were able to turn it up a
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  little tonight while maintaining scoring
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  intensity? Um, honestly, we, you know,
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  we knew we can do, you know, we can
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  guard and we can stop teams when we
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  needed to. It was just putting together
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  multiple possessions and that was
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  something that, you know, coach, he
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  echoed a lot in practice and we as a
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  team players, we echoed it together,
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  just knowing that, you know, if we stop
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  the def if we stop players on other
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  team, we know we can score on offense.
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  So, just taking uh pride in that and,
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  you know, knowing that that's going to
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  be the major key of us winning games and
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  not winning games. for odd careerh high
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  and steals for y'all or for you and and
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  you know 13 as a team tonight. Just
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  that's not a team that turns the ball
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  over a ton. What were y'all able to do
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  to get them so rattled especially in the
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  first half?
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  >> Um just being in a position that we
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  needed to be. Um you know guys being in
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  help um you know being aggressive on
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  ball knowing the type of passes that
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  they make. You know we watched a lot of
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  film on the type of passes they make. So
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  we was just waiting for it and um you
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  know we were being aggressive on the
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  defense today and just made plays.
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  Todd, you guys now go to Alabama this
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  weekend for a game that has a lot of
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  reasons and a lot of importance to it.
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  What does a win tonight mean going into
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  a game so big like that?
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  >> Um, I mean, great. You know, just having
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  momentum going down there, another away
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  game, you know, um, it's not an easy
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  place to go and win. Um, but they came
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  in here early in the early in the season
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  and beat us. So, you know, we're just
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  looking forward to going out there and
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  doing what we have to do.
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  >> Murf, you uh, you had four assists
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  tonight, 15 for the team. Ball movement
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  looked a lot better tonight. What was
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  what was the key to that? It looks like
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  y'all were able to kind of hit open guys
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  all
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  >> uh me just having good vision and
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  finding guys in within our system. Um
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  um and guys being in position and
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  running our offense the right way and
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  that's going to come within the season
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  of us just playing together and making
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  good plays for each other.
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  >> Jeff
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  >> Todd, you had the full full bag on
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  display today with four three-pointers
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  and the big dunk and old school writing
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  floers and banks. What do you rank
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  those?
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  >> Uh like what do you mean?
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  >> Which one do you what what stands out to
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  you? Like what if you had to look back
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  at your highlight of this game, what
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  would it be?
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  >> Uh probably my dunk uh second half. Um
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  you know, just trying to get downhill.
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  You know, that's what our co uh our
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  coach preaches and I seen a lane and you
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  know, I I've been looking for that type
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  of dunk all year. So I was finally glad
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  to get one.
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  >> Yeah, my question was kind of in the
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  same vein. It seems like your eyes light
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  up every time you get a chance at that
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  dunk. you pulled it off a couple of
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  times, even maybe some facials on some
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  guys here uh down the stretch. Uh what
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  what about scoring in a groove like you
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  have been the last couple games? It
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  seems like you're really finding your
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  spots, picking your shots well, and and
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  the shot seems to be falling. Um Coach
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  Pearl has said repeatedly, we got to
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  keep letting them shoot because
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  eventually they're going to start
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  falling. Do you feel like you're
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  actually hitting that zone right now?
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  >> Um yeah, I mean um you know, didn't make
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  you know, all year wasn't making the
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  shots that, you know, I usually make. So
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  just staying in the gym uh you know
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  having my teammates around me just
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  pushing me every day telling me to keep
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  continue continue shooting continue to
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  be myself and just having that type of
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  trust in your teammates you know when
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  you have that you can go out there and
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  just play however you want and um you
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  know that's what I did today and you
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  know God was on my side and you know
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  just let it just let me play.
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  >> Two more. Yeah. For either of y'all just
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  KO shooting the way he did especially
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  from range. I mean, just we've talked
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  about the other, but how much more
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  dangerous this is offense when he's
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  hitting like that from distance.
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  >> When these guys hit, man, I don't see
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  nobody stopping us. And KO has been
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  consistent. That's the only thing it is,
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  man. When we're consistent and we we
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  trust ourselves, trust the guy next to
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  us, we we're a dominant team. And like
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  KO is going to do KO. We trust every
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  shot. KO, whoever KO, Hard, Lger,
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  whoever shoots the ball, we we trust
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  that it goes in. You know what I'm
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  saying? So that's nothing new for KO.
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  Last one.
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  >> Um, real quick for Keshan, um, when you
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  see Tahad put on that stuff that, you
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  know, the display that Jeff was talking
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  about, you know, with the D3 and
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  everything. What are your thoughts? I
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  saw you shaking your head earlier.
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  >> Oh, no. I was just I just thought my
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  favorite part was him coming off. Well,
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  he had three of my assists. So, it was
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  like him coming off handoff, you know
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  what I'm saying, for the three. That was
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  my favorite part of of the day. So, I
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  like those, too. Yeah, the dunks and
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  stuff is cool, but my assist coming off
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  the corner, it just looked good. You
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  know, that was my favorite part.
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  Thank