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00:00It's going to be, you know, early tomorrow. It's like the first big game of the day in college basketball against a tough team.
00:06I think that kid Ziegler's a badass. He's coming off a really impressive performance against Vanderbilt.
00:12They come into your building and it's going to be a hell of a game.
00:16What are you going to have to do against a team that plays great defense and that has veterans that can put it in the hole?
00:22So you make a great point. I think when we talk about Rick Barnes teams, we focus so much on the offense.
00:27This is the best defensive team in the SEC. They've got great defense because they've got length.
00:32I'm with you. I think Ziegler is absolutely the engine that makes them run, whether he is penetrating or he can hit from the outside.
00:40There's just got a lot of lengths, don't they, as well with Milicic and Chaz Lanier is one of the great scorers in this league.
00:48The Aggies have to trust that defense. Scott, what's interesting is you think you have a mismatch with the Aggies on defense,
00:54but bigs will guard guards. So they will switch and you're thinking you have a mismatch.
00:59But the Henry Coleman, the thirds and the Anderson Garcia's and the Solomon Washington's, they can guard those guards.
01:06It's not as much of a mismatch as you think. But if Ziegler is penetrating and not just scoring, but when he penetrates,
01:14look, he leads the conference with nearly eight assists a game and gets everybody else involved.
01:20That becomes a huge problem. And you can't Tennessee. If Tennessee gets A&M in rotation on defense,
01:28they're going to get every shot they want. And what Rick Barnes does so well on offense is watch off the ball.
01:34They have so much movement off the ball, all the screens that they do on the weak side.
01:39That's why they're so difficult to defend. Back to the offense. Can the offense for Texas A&M set up their defense?
01:46What I mean by that, make Tennessee take it out of the hoop. Take those predictable shots. Go win the battle rebounds.
01:53That's always the key. If the Aggies can win that rebounding battle, they give themselves a chance in every game.
01:58You beat him the last two times you played him in College Station. You played them. Then he got Vandy at home.
02:03Then you go to Florida on March 1st. Then you go to Neville on March 4th against Auburn.
02:08That's hell on Earth, that schedule. Just worry about tomorrow or you'll get a headache, a migraine looking at that schedule.