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Elon coach Charlotte Smith after loss at #UNC
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you um received the word on the possible
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leg or nothing yet?
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No word on Jada's injury.
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Hi, I'm Lily. I I interviewed you a
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couple days ago. Um so obviously this
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was an outofconerence game, but like
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moving forward, what's the kind of game
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plan or attitude for when you guys are
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going to be in conference versus um your
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opponents? Well, these are the types of
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games that we play for preparation for
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conference play. And we learned a lot
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about ourselves tonight that will
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definitely help us get better down the
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road.
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What what turned the game around? You
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were only trailing by five with about
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two minutes left in the first half and
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things just went went on for for your
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team. What what turned it around?
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I think, you know, just the emotional
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toll of losing Jada. Um I mean that's
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that's our CIA allconerence selection
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that went down. um and just dealing with
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the emotional toll of that. And then
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when things got tough, um just we have
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to do a better job of just kind of
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staying together. But we turned the ball
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over too many times in the second half,
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which afforded them easy transition
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buckets and uh we did a much better job
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of boxing out uh in the first half than
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we did in the second half.
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What What was Carolina doing to turn?
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Their defensive effort is always pretty
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good, but it was really good tonight.
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Yeah, I just think our decision- making
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wasn't good. You know, we talked about
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not making crosscourt passes, not long
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passes because that gives them the
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opportunity to intercept it. And I think
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just I think their physicality um also
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probably contributed to us uh turning
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the ball over.
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Um Shanti Fox um she um provided some
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buckets um in the first half
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offensively. Um what really impressed
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you um I guess about her performance
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especially as she continues to get
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active
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just her confidence her confidence that
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she came into this game you know I felt
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like the entire team came in fearless
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and and that gives you a chance to be
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successful um and just as far as
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Ashanti's concerned you know we're still
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working to get her uh in conditioning
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good top-notch conditioning because she
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was out she missed a couple of weeks of
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preseason practice so I feel like once
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we get her to where she needs to be in
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terms of stamina
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um that she'll be a really potent player
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for us.
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After an injury like that, what do you
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tell your team in the huddle after she's
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laying on the on the ground? What do you
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tell your team in that moment?
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Play for Jada. Play for Jada.
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Any other questions for coach?
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All right.
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All right. Thank you for your time.
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