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Auburn G Kevin Overton - NIT South Alabama Win · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  made a career-high seven three-pointers
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  all in the second half. So, with that,
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  we'll just open it up to questions for
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  KO.
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  >> Go ahead, Kurt.
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  >> Talk about having the confidence to keep
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  shooting. I mean, you go over in the
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  first half and then couldn't miss hardly
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  in the second half. Just you feel like
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  you just the shots were going to fall
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  for you eventually. You just have to
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  keep taking them.
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  >> Yeah. Um
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  I knew I kind of had to get my legs back
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  under me. That's just kind of the player
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  I am. I've never in my career had three,
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  four days off like I'm just waiting. So,
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  just had to get my legs back under me.
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  But shots were falling in the second
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  half. First half, like I said, trying to
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  find that rhythm, but the zone was kind
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  of funky. I thought I took some bad ones
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  that weren't typical for me, but second
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  half, I just tried to find better
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  windows to take them. And then when you
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  make those simple ones, the other ones
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  become easier. So, yeah.
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  >> Nathan,
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  >> as Pete mentioned that, you know, maybe
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  it was kind of expected for you guys to
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  come out a little flat because human
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  nature. Y'all were disappointed about
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  selection Sunday. What were the
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  conversations like early in the game
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  when y'all were trailing? And from you
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  as a leader, what kind of keep the
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  team's head up early in the game?
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  >> Yeah. Um I think it had more to do with
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  our physical more than our mental state
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  up until that point. Um before the game
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  and during the game, it was more so like
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  let's just keep playing. Let's let's get
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  the flow. We're missing our our big man.
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  So let's let's just try to fill the
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  spots and keep playing together and the
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  game will open up. Shots will fall.
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  We've never we've never played with that
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  ball in that gym also. So, there's a lot
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  of different factors that played into
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  today, but second half I think was
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  better overall. Yeah.
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  >> Defensively, specifically in the second
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  half, it feels like y'all gave up a lot
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  more patience, I guess. What What were
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  you guys able to do that made them
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  uncomfortable in the second half?
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  >> Yeah, just being the aggressor. Um,
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  uh, I heard him speak more to pick our
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  pickup point. Um, that was definitely a
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  difference. I wasn't on the ball as much
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  in the first half. That's always be
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  that'll always be a difference in our
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  team if you pay attention. But I think
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  being more aggressive with
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  the start into the finish of the
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  possessions was was the difference. We
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  weren't letting up through the course of
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  the possession and just being the
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  aggressor.
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  >> What does it say about K that, you know,
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  had played in two months, he's been
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  scouting guy for y'all. He comes in, you
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  know, has a huge second half, just kind
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  of staying ready. What does that say
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  about him?
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  >> Um, yeah, I said earlier just his
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  ability to prevail through the season.
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  um ups and downs, long season for
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  everybody, but specifically his
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  situation to just stay with it and to
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  keep giving us great looks every day. Um
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  his opportunity came and he knocked down
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  shots. Um that's something we knew he
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  could do all the time, so it's nothing
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  new for us. Just good to see it on the
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  court.
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  >> How tough was it for you guys that that
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  decision by Murf, especially I know that
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  you guys have talked about him as being
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  one of the leaders on this team?
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  >> Yeah. Um he just he's doing everything
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  he can for himself at this point and um
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  it's all love. Um, we all love him for
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  his whatever decision he has made and
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  we'll continue to move forward.
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  >> SP was talking about how in the second
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  half y'all did a better job like getting
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  the ball in the paint than getting those
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  threes. You feel like that was kind of
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  the big difference especially for you to
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  get kind of get in your rhythm?
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  >> Yeah. Um, it's always um statistically
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  better to get the ball into the paint
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  before you shoot a three. So, I mean
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  that was obvious, but yeah, like I said,
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  just finding those windows after the
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  ball has reached a certain point to take
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  the shot, I think was better. our
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  selection.
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  >> Anything else for KO?
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  >> All right,
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  >> go ahead.