Bruce Pearl
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Aides Admit Biden’s Decline & Auburn Basketball Coach | Afternoon Update | 4.4.25
When I try to explain to people how Auburn basketball is back in the final four again, or how our team, or why our team has won five different championships in the SEC in the last eight years, the only way I can explain it, it's a God thing. Like God's got his hand all over this. And why me? And why us?
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Aides Admit Biden’s Decline & Auburn Basketball Coach | Afternoon Update | 4.4.25
God reminds me all the time who I am, where I came from, and my love of my country and my love of my faith and my ancestral homeland, Israel, means as much to me as life itself.
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Aides Admit Biden’s Decline & Auburn Basketball Coach | Afternoon Update | 4.4.25
And so, you know, it just bothers me tremendously that people are going to pay attention to a basketball coach, you know, winning a basketball game when we have an American held hostage in Gaza named Medan Alexander and nobody knows his name. And I just felt compelled to to say his name when I know everybody was listening.
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No, you know what jumps out at me, Big Cat, is the fact that on that trip we went to Houston and we had to play an incredibly well-coached, hard-playing Houston team where we were going to find out whether we were going to be physical and tough enough as we progressed through the season to be able to be successful.
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And we played one of the best games that we played all year long, particularly late in that game. And I think once we were able to beat Houston, or at least be able to compete with them, we felt like this team had a chance to be pretty special.
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No, actually, that was the 2019 net. So I still am hiding this net and not sure where we're going to display it.
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That's it. That's it right there. That's kind of how I roll. I'm not really in a frame, so let's just hang it up and let's go get another one.
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Well, BFT, listen, I was not going to allow us to go in against Tom Izzo in Michigan State where he was 10-0 against the SEC in the NCAA tournament and 8-2 in the Elite Eight and let anybody say that Auburn's not the underdog in this matchup. I don't care what the book he said. And we've been that way all year long.
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You know, we were picked 11th or between 11th and 15th someplace in the preseason, and we managed to be number one for a while. And then, you know, we go in as the overall number one seed. Florida handed it to us. They put 90 on us. They made 13 threes. They had 22 assists. They played beautiful basketball in our building. And it was one of the bigger wins of the year in college basketball.
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And so they're not worried about us or afraid of us or intimidated by us. They've seen it before. But it'll be a great matchup. And I do think it'll be a matchup of a great backcourt and a great front line. And we'll have to make some adjustments, obviously. They put up 90. We're not going to be playing on Monday night.
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Well, you know what? You still look at the matchups. I see these coaches are successful because they are who they are. And this is what we're going to do and go stop it. And so there's not going to be a lot of tricks in the bag and things like that. There'll be some adjustments. We'll certainly have to make some adjustments because some of the things that we did weren't successful.
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That's what you look at. How much of these teams, two things, how much of these teams improved since the last time we played? And finally, and probably the most important, what do you have left in the tank? How much more step up do you have? Like, for example, in Atlanta, Jani Broome demonstrated that there was step up to even a guy that's a candidate for the national player of the year.
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You know, Denver Jones proved that there was step up. And so did Todd Pettiford. And a lot of our guys did. So if we can continue to step up, we'll continue to win.
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Well, Big Cat, that's why you're doing what you're doing and I'm doing what I'm doing. Because, listen, Tahad, we need him and his teammates need him. But one of the things that you've got to do to be on a great team is you've got to all have a little bit of sacrifice. You've got to share it. Myles Kelly needs shots. Denver Jones needs an opportunity.
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We've got to put the ball in Chad Baker-Mazar's hands. We've got to isolate Chaney. We've got to get the ball to the big fella, Jedi Broom. We've got to get Cap some close ones and some lobs to the rim and get him in spots to offensive rebound. In other words, we're only as good as the sum of our parts, but we clearly need the little fellow to make shots and to make reads.
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And so, yes, he does have freedom where he knows what he's supposed to do and when he's supposed to do it.
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Yeah. Well, he knows it. And, you know, there's a part of the reason why he banged one and then got three more is because my offensive coordinator, Mike Bergamaster, went to him. And those guys know the looks and they know the plays. And look, if you just let him do whatever he wants to do whenever he wants to do it. then your floor may not be balanced in transition.
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You may not have good offensive rebounding opportunities. So timing and spacing of some of the shots that he takes is absolutely vital, and he understands that even though he's a freshman.
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I didn't notice it, but that's the freedom you give your players.
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Yeah, and I'll tell you what, Big Cat, even though he didn't score great in Atlanta in the Sweet 16 or the Elite Eight, he affects the game in a lot of ways because he gets his hands on a lot of balls at 6'8", with those long arms. He has a great understanding about how to defend, how to communicate, and he makes a lot happen.
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A lot of times when you give the ball to Todd, for example, when I give the ball to Todd, I want him to score first, score second, then make the easy pass. With Chad, I just want him to play because he'll score, shoot, pass, and make the right read nine times out of ten. And so he's got a great field. He's got stuff you can't teach. He's got feel, and that's why I think you like him so much.
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And, yeah, he wears his emotions on his sleeve. He's passionate, and he's just got to channel that emotion into being something positive. And he really tries to do that.
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One hundred percent. Absolutely. You know, teams are going to go after him. They're going to cheap shot him. They're going to grab him. They're going to hope that maybe he can lose control. And, you know, a missed shot or a bad call or things like that. You could tell if he's going to overcome it quickly or just just get him out, give him another minute or two, and he will always recover.
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But that's a good feel that you have to have that he has. And he always bounces back.
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Yeah, I was. I thought that we were going to have to play the last 10 minutes of the game without him. And I knew that Dylan and Chaney and the rest of the guys could hold it down defensively. I also knew that without him, our offense would be compromised and we'd have to do some different things.
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But when he came back out of locker room and I heard the crowd first, and so then I sort of turned and saw him walking towards me, kind of a stoic look on his face. I wasn't sure whether he was just coming out to support his teammates or whether he was going to go in the game. And so I looked at him. I said, are you okay? He said, I think so. I said, do you want to go back in the game?
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He said, yes. I said, well, then get your ass in there. And it was good timing because Dylan Cardwell was popped. I was either going to have to sub somebody or call a timeout and let Cap rest for a little bit. So it worked out. It worked out pretty well. It was a Willis Reed moment.
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And if Jani Broome or his family were ever wondering how valuable, how much he is appreciated by the Auburn family, that State Farm Arena was as loud when Jani Broome walked out as Madison Square Garden was when Willis Reed walked out.
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Big Cat, I wouldn't do that.
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Okay, so he's good. He's good to go. All I can tell you is that he's not going to practice for a couple days. He needs to rest and recover. And all year long, he's bounced back from injuries, a shoulder, an ankle, and I have no doubt that he'll bounce back from this, but we probably won't move him much until Thursday.
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Yeah, he would be as long as we were cutting off the right arm, not the left. He needs that left arm pretty much. Yeah, he needs it.
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You know what? I don't think so. You know what? Not only did I hire Todd, but I hired Todd when I first got the Auburn job. In other words, when I hired my son, Steven, and I hired Todd and I hired Harris Adler and a couple other guys that worked with us that first year. You know what? I surround myself with friends and family. Tony Jones joined me. He was with me at Auburn.
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And so, you know, and then we brought in the legend, Chuck Person, who was a great, great player here. And, you know, so I trusted Todd. And he really got his teeth cut here. I think he watched the way we wanted to try to run our program, saw some things that we did well, saw some things that we didn't do well, and then went on. And he's obviously played for a great coach at St. Mary's.
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He's worked for some great coaches. And so it's no surprise to me that he's done big things at such a young age already at Florida.
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Yeah, I think there's a little bit of that, but there's more than anything. Look, they know how we play. We know how they play to the best man win. I mean, I just think that sometimes at this point of season, we're going to tweak, but we're not going to tinker. I mean, we are who we are, and we know how we play best and the things that we do best, and that's what we're going to roll with.
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Well, Big Cat, we score 48% of the time on under-basket, out-of-bounds plays. Okay. And that ranks in the top five in the country. So it's a very, very dangerous place to have the basketball. Purdue does certain things in their coverage with how they – X out off the inbound passer.
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Calvin Sampson knew that, so he put their inbound passer in a position where he would anticipate that he would jump off the ball, therefore leaving that window of opportunity available. And he probably had that one in his bag. He just used it at the right time.
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It does. It does. We had a pretty good blob against, I think it was Michigan, where we actually slipped Chaney Johnson to the basket, anticipating that Wolf would jump out and switch. We hadn't run that play all year long. And it was about six or seven minutes left to go in a game, and it was a big bucket for us. So, yep, coaches have got to have some of that stuff in their bag.
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Look, Charles, I think, picked Florida to win it from the jump. I think his bracket has Florida, and I think Charles' bracket actually has Florida advancing and winning the national championship. So, you know... Charles is large, and he's in charge. Yeah. And he's in charge of his own bracket. I do think he had us getting to the Final Four, though. I do.
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I just don't think he had us going all the way.
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I think he did. I think he did.
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Yeah. Well, we – Charles is a great entertainer, so we try not to take everything he says seriously. But, listen, there's nobody – I'm happy in so many ways for Auburn. I'm happy for the university. I'm happy for our leadership. I'm happy for our student body.
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I'm happy for the students – the student athletes and their families that have all, you know, done so much to get their sons to this point in their lives and now being rewarded with, you know, being at the top of their game. I'm happy for my coaches and their families. And I'm happy for my family. You know, there have been –
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so incredibly supportive and and we just shared in this life and we share in this you know in in this success and you know we're incredibly grateful and i won one national championship in division two back in 1995 and um i've uh i i um i'm getting closer to you know where this is sort of i'm playing i'm clearly on the back nine i don't know that i'm playing the 18th hole yet um but i'm running out of holes i'm running out of time
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And there'd be no time like the present to get a national championship.
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You know, I probably would because of Todd. But I got to be honest, I've got great relationship with both John Shire and Kelvin Sampson and think a great deal about them as competitors. So, yeah, but they would understand that Todd would be more personal than just about the league. But, man, you know, at some point there's going to be a picture of the final four coaches.
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I'm glad to be one of them. And I'm even gladder to be in that picture with three guys that I know and respect really well.
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Yeah. I thought we would have been a little bit over 500 in conference play, but that one caught me by surprise, too. Okay. Unfortunately, we were a lot better than that in non-conference play. We had to overcome all season long. And no matter what we did all year long, we just couldn't get over that 500 mark. Yeah.
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Like overrated maybe? There you go. That's not the spin that I'm looking for right there. And I'm not going to be a party to that. Fourteen out of our 16 teams went. Seven got to the Sweet 16. Four made it to the Elite Eight. And two are in the Final Four. So, you know, sometimes you don't deliver. I think the SEC has delivered. It just means more.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you.