no - technically he's doing it correctly. His actual problem is that the projection control is too small. The square for the projection control should be larger than the eyeball (look again at the tutorial picture!). To help with this, it might also be good to put the control back at the origin.
But, anyways, because the diameter of the sphere is larger than the sides of the square, the texture repeats. Try making it larger.
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