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Caleb Wilson and Seth Trimble interviews after the Blue-White scrimmage. #UNC
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Uh, where does that confidence come from
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and what do you think about how y'all
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played today?
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I feel like the confidence always comes
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from work. You know, preparation is
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always key. So, as long as you put the
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work in, which I knew we were doing, I
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feel like we was going to win. And uh,
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your other question was, can you repeat
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it?
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Yeah, just what what you saw from your
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teammates overall. Who stood out?
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I feel like we just we got a lot of
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great pieces. Honestly, I feel like as a
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team, we're versatile and we just got to
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jail together. I feel like it's going to
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take time, but I feel like it's
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happening slowly. So, that's all we need
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to do. Got so many talented players.
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Once it comes together, we going to be
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the best team in the country. So, as
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long as that happens, we're going to be
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good.
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Obviously, that was your first time
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playing in front of the Smith Center
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crowd. What was your kind of raw
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reaction to that and kind of be able to
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play in front of a a crowd that's more
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than just your teammates?
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It was great. It was great. Uh,
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honestly, I I love hearing the roar
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after I dunk, even when I missed my
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duck. I should have missed, but
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but uh it's great. you know, always
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having knowing that there's going to be
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some support behind you and uh knowing
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that you have someone that you're
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playing for. So, it was good.
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How do you feel the chemistry from when
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you guys started practicing to now? I
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know Seth told us it was pretty quick.
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How do you feel the chemistry sort of
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translated? I know you're playing
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against your teammates, but how do you
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think the chemistry has translated?
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It's translating well. You know,
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honestly, it's so hard to come together
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as a team. We're all from different
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backgrounds. We're not even from the
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same places, and some of us speak
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multiple languages. So, it's it's
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definitely something that's
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going to take time, but I feel like it's
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come a long way for sure. And I feel
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like mentally we're all like in it for
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the greater the goal of winning the
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national championship, which I don't
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even want to talk about. Win the first
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game first, but we're all in it for the
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greater goal. So, I feel like it's it's
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going along pretty well.
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I think JP was saying that um you guys
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really feel like you really mesh and
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bonded with the open gym sessions and
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those runs early in the summer. What do
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you remember from that? What stands out?
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Why do you think maybe that was so
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crucial to you guys coming together in
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such a short amount of time?
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Uh cuz we competed. Um I feel like as a
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man like you always figure out how you
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feel about somebody based on the
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respect. So if you don't respect
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anybody, you're not going to want to
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play with them and you're not going to
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the right. So as long as we were playing
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in the summer, it was definitely kind of
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conflicts and confrontations, but it was
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all to gain respect for one another. So
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once we gain respect for one another, it
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kind of led to a positive outlook on
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everybody, which is our teammates and
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what we do on and off the court. How do
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you perceive all the turnovers? Good
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defense or just sloppy offense?
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We haven't got our chemistry together
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yet. Uh, you know, it's it's a process.
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You know, we playing two and a half
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weeks and I feel like some of the
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mistakes, even I made mistakes. Some of
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the mistakes are just not knowing how to
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not knowing where your teammates are
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going to be because you have
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expectations. But, uh, I feel like
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turnovers, we're working on that in
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practice. So, it's not going to be an
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issue when the season actually starts.
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But, a lot of people out out there
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today, we were just having fun. So, I
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don't feel like it should be taken too
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seriously. But I feel that you'll be
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better at it. You
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kind of mentioned that missed dunk that
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you have,
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but you went right back down the court
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and kind of got a three-point play. Can
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you just kind of talk about what it
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means to undaunted when you kind of make
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those mistakes in the game?
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Uh, honestly,
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I feel like uh if I mess up, like this
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might seem crazy, but like if I miss a
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shot, I feel like in my head I'll be
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like, "Bro, the rim moved." Like that's
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what I that's what goes out of my head
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cuz I feel like you can never like
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really have that much confidence that
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you need to have if you're always
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worried about what happened in the past.
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So as soon as a shot misses or soon as I
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make a mistake, I know that I did
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something wrong, but in my head I'm like
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crazy enough to say like the goal moves,
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that's why I missed that. And I'll go
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back on film and look at it later and
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see what I did to make it better. But
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game moves fast, so there's no point of
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throwing on the fast play.
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Obviously that was our first time seeing
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Luca play out there. You need a few
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threes today. what have you seen from
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him in practice and kind of getting to
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know him?
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Luca's a great player. He's a shooter
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and he he's kind of a veteran. You know,
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he played professional basketball
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overseas. We went to dinner last night,
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talked a lot of basketball and he's just
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a great guy, honestly. And uh he's going
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to be good. He's going to be good. He's
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he's a very good scoring guard.
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Just following that. Where'd y'all go to
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dinner?
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Stony River.
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Stony River.
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Stony River. It's great food.
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Do you feel like you got the chance to
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show the impact that you can have
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defensively in the scrimmage? Yeah, but
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uh I feel like I can do so much more.
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Like I don't I don't know I don't even
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know my stats or anything like that, but
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I always feel like I can make a bigger
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impact. It's all about looking seeing
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what you could do better and
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progressing. That was my first time
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playing in a with a crowd with with
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people around. So, I'm definitely going
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to go back and look at things I could
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have done better. And once that happens,
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I feel like I'm going to be even better
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player than I was then.
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Did Hubert have anything to say to you
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guys after the game? And if so, what did
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he say?
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Hubert just said have fun. uh cut down
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on turnovers, but we said have fun. Uh
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the scrimmage is often taken serious by
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a lot of people, but for us, man, we're
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just having fun, bro. Cuz we know when
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it's time to go, it's time to go, so
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that's all that matters.
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Know it's exhibition, but you get get
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any nervous coming out there in front of
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a girl like that?
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Nah. No. I I
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didn't did some crazy stuff in my life
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in front of a lot of people.
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Oh my gosh, Caleb.
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It is Caleb Wilson.
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Caleb. Caleb. Oh my gosh. It's going to
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s
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uh even this morning like I spoke in
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front of the crowd of ludicrous like I I
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have no fear of public speaking or being
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in public with a lot of people.
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Everybody has their own opinion so it
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don't really matter.
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What did you guys play
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from the scrimmage? Obviously it's
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October so not getting too crazy now but
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what were your main takeways from?
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Uh sloppy sloppy but expected of course.
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Uh I'm really happy about how aggressive
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guys played. Nobody I think shied away
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from the moment. uh you know guys had
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the right to have feel a lot of nerves
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or anything like that but everybody
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stepped up. I feel like everybody played
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well for the most part but just got to
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clean up some sloppiness but you know we
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expect that right now it's early
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October. Uh I had four turnovers. I know
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other guys had turnovers so comes with
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it. But for the most part been
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impressive.
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What do you attribute the turnovers to?
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Just chemistry or what?
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Uh just being early. I mean, you look at
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any team early in the season, you gonna
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see more turnovers than midway through
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the season. So, it's just part of it.
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What's your assessment of Caleb and what
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he showed out there tonight? What have
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you seen so far over the summer and what
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type of impact he had?
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Yeah, I mean, Caleb had all year's been
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consistent. Uh he's he's been really
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incredible. I mean, obviously, he's had
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some of his days where, you know, he
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looks like a freshman, but for the most
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part, Caleb has been incredible. I think
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he showed that today. He's getting
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downhill at ease. uh he's shooting the
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ball whether he misses and makes it, you
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know, he's he's shooting, he's
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continuing to shoot it, which is huge.
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Uh but he's just being such a force and
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such an impact, not only on the
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offensive end, but on the defensive end
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as well. So, he's going to be an exacer.
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He's going to be incredible. Uh and I
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just can't wait to continue to watch him
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grow. And years prior with like live
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action, stuff like that, you guys kind
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of had a lot more popping circumstance,
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per se, or like player intros, things
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like that. And this was like purely
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basketball. you kind of prefer that as a
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player or do you kind of miss some that?
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Uh, I appreciate both. I appreciate the
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aspect today where, you know, we're just
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about business, just get on the court
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and playing basketball. But then I
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appreciate, you know, the the live
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action part where guys can get
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introduced, you know, guys can get
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embraced, guys can show their
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personality, and everybody gets to see
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these guys for the first time. So, you
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know, I appreciate both aspects of it.
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Uh, but, you know, I did mine today just
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getting on the court and playing.
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Nothing wrong with that at all.
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Can you just kind of talk about what it
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means to be a leader on this team this
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year? You know, you're a senior, so can
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you just kind of speak to that?
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It means a lot. I've came a long way. Uh
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I've worked extremely hard for it. So,
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just to be able to be in this position,
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for my teammates to see me as this guy
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and for my coach to see me as this guy,
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it just it means so much. Uh but I just
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have to continue to embrace it. You
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know, there's going to be nights where
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I'm off my game, where things are going
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my way, but that doesn't mean I can step
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down as a leader and and get in my
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feelings. So, a lot comes with it, but I
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mean, I've been working for it for the
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last four years, so I'm ready for it.
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What' you tell the young guys about this
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game or any words you had after it?
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Uh, just what I told them that it's
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real, you know, like we're coming out
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here to compete. We're coming out here
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to play. This isn't some fantasy land
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where it's allar game. We're throwing
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lives on the backboard to each other,
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something like that. But really, that
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simple as that. Guys have been working
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all summer. Guys have been preparing
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themselves and getting themselves in the
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right mindset. So, I haven't had to say
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too much.
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Two more. So, you're going to see them
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on Tuesday in Charlotte. really quick.
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All the summer preparation, I know that
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um some of your teammates were talking
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about they felt like those open runs
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kind of early in the summer was really
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big to help you guys bond as a team. Do
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you see that? And what do you think it
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was about those runs that maybe helped
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you guys mesh so early?
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I mean, of course, the the more you can
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get on the court with each other as a
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team, the more you can bond, the more
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you can gel, the more you can grow. And
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it's just that. So, we try to get on the
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court as much as we could when we
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weren't practicing because it just
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allows us to learn each other faster. It
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allows us, you know, to see the spots
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that we like to get to, where we want
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our shots, and where guys throw passes
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from, you know, literally everything
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like that. It just it it allows us to
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just to know each other and it goes such
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a long way. I think without open gyms,
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guys wouldn't be confident. Guys
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wouldn't be able to load and grow and
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grow just in practices. So, those open
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gyms are really important for us.
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One more. What was the first time we saw
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Luca play? Um, and what did you think of
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him playing today and shooting shooting
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the way he did? Yeah, I mean he stopped
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the ball extremely well. That's what we
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need from him all year, just for him to
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continue to stay aggressive. He's
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incredible shooter. I think we all know
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that. So, we tell him he knows it. Just
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not shy away from it. Just keep going
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and we going to keep embracing him. He's
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going to keep embracing us. It's going
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to go a long way.
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Thank you, Seth. Appreciate y'all. Sh.
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