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00:00 There's nothing on there that's really going to be the difference.
00:02 Result from what happened while y'all were down there.
00:07 What what did Alabama do?
00:09 Well, and what did y'all not do?
00:11 Well, their effort was noticeably different and not noticeably different
00:17 from the time before and noticeably different than ours.
00:19 It was glaring this pointing because it's February shouldn't be that way.
00:30 If you don't play good, okay, fine.
00:31 If you don't shoot good, okay, fine.
00:32 If you don't do other things, good.
00:34 Okay, fine.
00:34 But if you don't play hard in February, I just challenged him.
00:38 I said, I don't know why we weren't not going to have a big meeting or come
00:42 come to Jesus talk or anything like that.
00:45 But whatever it was, it's got to be bigger than it's got to be less important
00:50 than whatever this team needs.
00:52 What, why, whatever the reason was.
00:54 Treaty was at practice two days ago.
00:56 Saw it coming, didn't we?
00:57 I did.
00:59 Talk to Mac about it, Mac.
01:01 What is it?
01:01 I don't know, coach.
01:02 Let's find out next day.
01:04 Same thing.
01:05 We saw it.
01:07 If we're having to coach focus and effort on February the second or first
01:13 February 1st against the team that, you know, we know what they're going to do.
01:18 We guarded it before they didn't run anything different.
01:20 They just ran it better.
01:21 They ran it harder.
01:22 They were much better in transition.
01:24 They attacked the glass harder.
01:28 They did everything.
01:29 And again, give Christie and her staff credit on what they did in between the
01:33 two games, because they did a lot better job with their team than we did with our
01:37 team.
01:37 And I told the team more often than not, I come in here and take a lot of it and
01:42 it still will take all the blame because I did see it coming and we couldn't get
01:46 anything done about it.
01:46 But I don't profess to know what goes on and every 18 to 22 year old kids mind.
01:52 But whatever it is, we got to get it fixed before tomorrow practice at one.
01:58 And I don't talk to the team after games.
02:00 I did today.
02:01 I went in there and talked to him and told him that I had a lot of head nods.
02:04 I told him to show up and fight like the line the third line at Noah's Ark and
02:09 it's raining.
02:10 So we'll see.
02:11 Again, the sky's not falling, but that effort was poor.
02:14 It's disappointing.
02:15 We had a good crowd for a late tip and we we didn't give him anything to cheer
02:19 about till halfway through the fourth quarter.
02:21 That's too late.
02:22 It's too late to try to play hard.
02:24 Then it's too late to
02:26 you got to do it when it's zero zero and we just didn't have it.
02:30 She didn't have it
02:31 out of there and said that this one really hurts and that she saw it coming
02:35 from the practices as well.
02:37 Just
02:37 I know you've mentioned your team being very just player led.
02:41 Is that encouraging at least your player said that?
02:44 No, I mean,
02:45 we talked about it.
02:47 We look at each other Mac.
02:48 Y'all look at our practice schedule.
02:50 Y'all been I give the team three timeouts every practice.
02:52 I give them three
02:55 hardly ever use them.
02:56 He's all three of them the other day.
02:58 Couldn't get it going.
03:00 So as a coach, it is my job to find out and I will if it doesn't show up if it's
03:07 not better tomorrow.
03:08 I can give them I can give them a little leeway because it's really the first
03:12 time we've played like that.
03:13 And I told him if there is a reason rather than an excuse.
03:18 I need to know about it.
03:19 If it's just an excuse,
03:21 then we got to get past it.
03:23 If it's a reason then let's talk about it.
03:25 Nobody said that was the case, but I mean, I am proud that Saylor can see it
03:31 coming.
03:31 I think you could have had anybody in here
03:33 and seen it coming if they were being truthfully honest, and I'm not calling
03:37 anybody out by name.
03:38 I will say this.
03:40 I would exclude Michaela Daniels from that
03:42 some degree
03:44 because she tried she called the timeouts.
03:47 She tried to get them going.
03:49 Y'all see her come over there to me and go.
03:52 Why does everybody have an attitude?
03:53 I say my guess is good as yours.
03:55 I don't know,
03:56 but this is not the time for us to figure it out.
03:59 So
03:59 we'll figure it out.
04:01 I think they will figure it out.
04:02 It's best if they do.
04:03 It's best if they figure it out.
04:05 Sometimes you just don't know, you know, there's certain things we did that
04:10 were good.
04:10 I mean you look at the stat sheet and as long as you don't look at their half,
04:13 it's pretty good.
04:14 But
04:17 it will be a very
04:21 a very good film session for just me.
04:24 I'm not sure we'll watch it as a team.
04:25 We just don't have time in the turnaround if you're going to get ready,
04:28 but I will look for answers.
04:30 I will look for some things that maybe I've
04:32 neglected,
04:33 but at this point in time, I didn't,
04:37 I don't know what it is.
04:39 You know, and I know everybody's gonna say, well, that's it is my job and I'll
04:43 figure it out, but
04:45 I do think that was encouraging to see him fight at the end.
04:50 Long answer to your first question.
04:51 We may never get out of here.
04:52 Yeah,
04:54 this one's from a Andy Hodges.
04:57 So if you have a problem with it, you can take it up with him.
04:59 And he said, is it is this kind of like I guess a heat check down to earth
05:03 moment for this team that you know, kind of
05:05 he may be a little premature with that one.
05:08 He knows I can say it back to him.
05:09 I mean, we're four and four,
05:10 you know, it's we're not we're not at the bottom.
05:13 We're not in dire straits.
05:15 The sky is not falling but
05:16 I see where he's going with it
05:18 because of the way it happened.
05:20 Yeah, so
05:22 maybe some of that but not all that.
05:25 Firstly on Talia when she checked in for the first time, you know, the
05:31 crowd gave her a nice, you know, cheer.
05:32 What does that say that you know, someone as a freshman has already
05:36 I wrote it on her card to be sure she listened to it because that's you know,
05:40 that is
05:40 a good sign for our crowd to be excited that she's back.
05:45 We knew it was going to be and she's worried about her timing.
05:47 That's what we talked about.
05:48 We we want to take it slow.
05:50 You can't there's not a ramp up period like we had in the preseason where we
05:55 had the foreign trip and we had all offseason.
05:57 It's hard to be out for that many games and find your rhythm.
06:00 But I was proud of our fans
06:04 and in the way that we've responded to it, you know with Keats being out,
06:08 especially
06:08 it was really important that that she
06:11 get her feet back in there.
06:13 Not only just for tonight, but for the stretch run here.
06:16 Yeah.
06:17 Spoken to her postgame at all or anything and
06:21 you know, Talia just to just talk to the team.
06:24 Yeah, it's for I usually like say, I usually don't
06:26 but I did talk to the team and said a few things to people on the way out.
06:30 So I but I did speak to all of them in there.
06:32 Kind of just different result in the first go around.
06:36 It's
06:36 darn the first team in the SEC to have this happen this year.
06:39 I'm sure you won't be the last just how much of a dogfight I guess is the SEC
06:43 this year.
06:44 Unlike any year I've ever been in it,
06:46 whether I was an assistant coach or a head coach here.
06:48 There is
06:51 there's very little separation
06:54 between whatever number you want to pick out.
06:57 I heard I was watching the SEC now the other day and they were kind of trying
07:01 to
07:01 put people in spots already and we're not even one time through.
07:05 We're not even eight games in are we?
07:07 We are now.
07:08 So we're halfway there.
07:09 Most everybody's halfway there.
07:11 So it's a good time probably to do it.
07:13 I mean,
07:15 it's crazy, but it's like this in a lot of leagues.
07:17 That's somebody on the committee that's got to figure it all out here in the end
07:21 going.
07:21 It's it's
07:22 I think it is a result
07:24 of
07:25 everything the stacking up of COVID kids,
07:28 the transfer portal
07:30 and everything.
07:32 I think it has
07:34 shrunk the
07:35 the difference between tiers in every league.
07:39 So
07:39 it is that way.
07:42 I mean, we've got
07:43 like you say flip games like this, like we went on the road by I don't know what
07:47 about this margin.
07:48 They come here and went on the road,
07:50 you know, I don't think that
07:52 prognosticating or forecasting has to be much fun right now.
07:57 Because again, if
08:00 if we show up with a lack of effort, anybody in our league can make us look
08:04 that way and it's the same way every night.
08:06 So
08:08 I think it's that way in every league.
08:10 I don't think our league is unique.
08:12 In that way.
08:13 I look around every league and I think they're all going through it at some
08:15 point, but I think it's a result of all those things.
08:17 We've got
08:17 a very
08:19 minute separation between
08:22 certainly the middle and the bottom.
08:24 The top may still be the top.
08:26 There's a few leagues that have a team that's
08:28 South Carolina.
08:29 You know, I think everybody feel pretty good about saying they're where they're
08:32 at.
08:33 But after that it gets, you know, they were having a hard time putting is it
08:36 Ole Miss, Mississippi State,
08:38 LSU,
08:39 Tennessee.
08:40 Who is it in that next four spots?
08:42 Then who is in the next four spots?
08:43 There's going to be a really good team playing on Wednesday.
08:46 Down there in the SEC tournament this year.
08:48 It's just the way it's going to be and then
08:50 it may be a indicator of where we're headed in college athletics.
08:53 I don't know that yet,
08:55 but it certainly is going to be that way for the rest of this year.
08:57 I think good luck Greta.
08:59 Yeah,
09:02 I mean
09:03 16 point loss.
09:04 I got outscored by 17 in the second quarter and I'm sure the six points right
09:09 there just really glare to you.
09:10 Yeah.
09:11 Yeah.
09:12 What,
09:12 what changed I guess in that quarter?
09:14 Our defensive transition because we took awful shots.
09:18 Their defense,
09:19 the transition has defense has no chance if you were taking shots that we got no
09:24 chance to stop.
09:25 They're not turnovers,
09:26 but they should count as a turnover.
09:27 We took some shots that we're not capable of making
09:32 and we are a very offensive sensitive team.
09:35 If we don't take good shots,
09:37 then we don't run back in transition and they made us pay every single time.
09:41 That's that.
09:41 That's why that 23 is what it is in the six is what it is.
09:45 Most nights though,
09:47 when we have the six that 23,
09:49 you know,
09:50 coach Todd brought it up.
09:51 That number is usually a 12 or 14,
09:53 you know,
09:54 when you overcome that
09:55 you can't overcome and I've said it we've talked about it prior like this
09:59 isn't volleyball
10:00 where you can have that one bad set and
10:03 you flush it away and you go in the other three,
10:05 the other three sets.
10:06 You can't do that.
10:07 That's too big of a deficit.
10:09 And again,
10:11 it was the why the how it happened not necessarily that it did happen,
10:15 but I felt like we got
10:17 ball stuck on one side of the floor.
10:19 We weren't cutting with a purpose.
10:22 They were switching screens and we were cutting right to them.
10:25 And I'll tell you we made some adjustments.
10:29 We talked about it and we just we went out there and just didn't do it.
10:31 And that's that stubbornness that I
10:33 talked about on maybe I talked about on the radio,
10:36 but I felt like we got really stubborn at times
10:39 to make some changes in that second quarter and
10:42 it'll be easy for to point that out tomorrow when the kids and they'll see
10:45 it.
10:45 I won't have to point it out.
10:46 They'll look at and go wait.
10:47 We got outscored by 17 and we only the game was single means we won the rest
10:52 of the game.
10:52 It's what it takes in basketball.
10:54 Just one
10:55 and it can be enough to
10:57 make be the difference in the game.
10:59 Thanks for staying late everybody.