Darrell Dapprich

Houston, they should have won that game, should have won that game.

You can't miss 12 free throws and say you shouldn't have won that game.

They absolutely could have.

So when you look at the totality of it, but what I'm doing is if you break it down

and look at and peel back the onion a little bit, I think Auburn will be fine against teams that don't have massive front courts.

I really do.

And there are some teams in the SEC –

that aren't good offensive rebounding teams, that aren't good around the rim, that are very fast, play transition, play tempo.

The problem I see right now, Zach, that's very concerning to me, two things, number one.

Number one, Pettiford has not answered the bell.

Sorry, I'm going to say it.

I don't know what his NIL is.

I understand that – but he has not played up –

to the expectations that Auburn expected or needs or what his evaluation is from an NIL standpoint.

He's regressed.

The second part of this, and they may be connected somehow or they could be related, is that the offense looks like all they try to do

is a lot of isolation basketball, a lot of one-on-one, a lot of freelancing, a lot of being stagnant, standing around.

And again, a lot of dribble, dribble, dribble, one-on-one stuff.

And that was my concern going into this year with a team that hasn't played together for a while.

So Stephen Pearl is going to earn his stripes as a coach by having to get into SEC play and figure out what style, what lineup combinations, because I don't think Pettiford will play against Queens next Monday, nor should he.