Auburn basketball coach Steven Pearl challenged his starting point guard Tahaad Pettiford.

Despite Pettiford’s recent improvement as a shooter, Pearl wants to see Pettiford facilitate the offense more and get his teammates more involved.

Pettiford only averages 2.6 assists per game to go along with his 15.7 points per game. As a team, Auburn is averaging 13.4 assists per game.

“Yeah, we don’t really have like a true point guard on this team. We have – [Kaden Magwood] and Tahaad are more like scoring point guards, right? You don’t have that guy that’s just, like, wired just to get eight or nine assists a game. So, yeah, I said to Tahaad yesterday, I’m like, listen man, I said it in front of the team, I was like, obviously, we need you to score the basketball, but we also need you to get

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