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Postgame #UNC player interviews with Henri Veesaar, Caleb Wilson and Seth Trimble
Oct 25, 2025
Postgame #UNC player interviews with Henri Veesaar, Caleb Wilson and Seth Trimble
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seemed like you had a really good
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chemistry with Caleb down low. Can you
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talk about that dynamic? I
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mean, he's an amazing player. I feel
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like sometimes it doesn't really feel
0:09
like chemistry because if you get him
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the ball, he will make the right moves
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and like he'll very when he ever plays
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hard and he gets to the paint, he's just
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an incredible player that way.
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We talked to both of you in September
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and I guess Caleb earlier this month
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about how you guys can play off each
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other. Early on, you got a rebound, you
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fed him cutting, and he had a dunk.
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looked like early chemistry is kind of
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what you guys were talking about
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tonight.
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I feel like Yeah, like we're both pretty
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smart players. I I would like to say,
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but you can say it,
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but so it's like whenever he makes the
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right cuts. I think the hopefully the
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right reads. Whenever I make the right
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cut, he makes the right read. So,
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but we didn't get much of a high low
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today. But I think that's something we
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got to work on and be more aggressive
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with. But besides that, we were pretty
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good.
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We also saw some chemistry with you and
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Ken, especially in the second half. Just
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kind of
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Yeah, Ken is awesome player. He's a good
0:56
shooter. So, first a couple first
0:58
possession, we were just sloppy as a
1:00
team and it didn't go exactly how we
1:01
needed to. We just didn't execute
1:03
coach's plan. He gave us a great plan
1:04
and we were just being sloppy and we
1:06
came out a little flat. But in the
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second half, he picked it up and we
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tried to come back. We just didn't
1:10
convert all the layups that we needed
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to. Didn't convert on defensive end. But
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yeah, his chemistry, he's a great, he
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reads the game really well. He makes the
1:18
easy plays, the simple passes, and that
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helps me. Henry, I know I know you guys
1:22
want to win the game, but I'm sure you
1:24
also want to learn things and grow. And
1:27
did you think the fact that it's so
1:29
close laid against a highle opponent in
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a foreign building, you're able to like,
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you know, work on late game things that
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will be important during the season like
1:40
late game situations, stuff out of
1:42
timeouts.
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Yeah, we we definitely we were actually
1:44
good at the end of the game. They missed
1:45
a couple free throws because the shot we
1:47
were going at, we just didn't convert
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it, man. Like it happens. That ain't
1:50
nobody fault. We had multiple during the
1:52
game where we just didn't make layups
1:53
and they just got to go strong and
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convert. That's something.
1:56
Did that last one work out the way you
1:58
wanted it to getting the the little hand
2:00
off to Seth and he's on the rush toward
2:02
the goal?
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I mean, yeah, Seth is an incredible
2:04
athlete, a great at finishing and it
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just that one didn't work out and we
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know that nine out of 10 times he's
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making.
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We heard you guys talk a lot about
2:12
competitiveness and how chippy things we
2:13
get every once in a while sort of in a
2:15
good way. Did you like how the
2:16
competitiveness kind of rose to a March
2:18
level in that game tonight? Yeah, now
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that was on March level. We need to pick
2:21
it up cuz
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Well, in terms of the competitiveness,
2:23
the Hubert said like obviously the
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performance wasn't in March level, but
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it looked like competitiveness there
2:29
were like little moments where it kind
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of felt like no less.
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Yeah. Like we definitely felt like we
2:32
need to win this game cuz that's when to
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day one first game is the one where you
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start building your team and just
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building the trust that every time at
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the end of the game you can execute and
2:41
if you're down four or five you can
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build and walk them down and then
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execute and get the winning layup or
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winning basket. It's something we just
2:47
need to do. And I feel like in the
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second half, yeah, we picked up our
2:51
energy and we had like a moment where we
2:52
all wanted to came together and wanted
2:53
to win, but first half we came out so
2:55
flat and that's like kind of
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unacceptable. So it's like we can't
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that's on the players.
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And that's kind of what I was leading to
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was sort of late. It kind of felt like
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okay, we like Caleb was playing like we
3:04
got to win this game exhibition game.
3:07
Yeah, it's definitely like it doesn't
3:08
matter. We want to compete no matter
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what game it is. If it's scrimmage, if
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it's expedition game, if it's game, it's
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March, we need to win no matter what.
3:15
Have you have you decided to be a vocal
3:17
leader on this team? It looked like
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talking to you're talking to a lot of
3:20
guys out there. Sometimes there were
3:22
things that broke down. Look like you're
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telling Jaden Young at one point, you
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know,
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he deviated from the play maybe. I don't
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know. You know what I'm saying? But it
3:29
looked like you were directing traffic.
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I mean, it just I feel like I'm a senior
3:33
player and part of it is like we just
3:34
got to be all vocal. It ain't me. It's
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everybody like it's one to five.
3:37
Everybody from court, everybody's on the
3:38
bench. You got to talk to everybody give
3:40
everybody gives their effort and their I
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feel what they have. That's something
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when we build on each other that's
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supposed to win the game.
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What were you telling Jaden in that
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moment was in the second half?
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Yeah, honestly. Yeah, we kind of we were
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in the wrong s like wrong spots and then
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they ran it but then I was too slow cuz
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they just had split the spots and that
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was kind of on me too. So I I would say
3:59
that was on me. He wasn't even doing
4:00
nothing wrong.
4:01
Looked like looked like it was a screen
4:03
situation that didn't get accomplished.
4:06
Uh J on that play he's talking about
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like maybe he was supposed to come off a
4:10
screen or something like that. I mean, I
4:11
thought so cuz we were just they started
4:13
on the opposite side, so I thought they
4:14
had switched, but they already had ran
4:15
this stuff and then I was late and that
4:17
was on me. It was bad communication and
4:18
I didn't get to play. That's on me.
4:20
You said this wasn't March level. What
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are the one or two things that bothered
4:23
you the most about this game?
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I feel like just our stopiness on the
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court and that's something that comes
4:29
with intensity and the effort that we
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play with. So March level, you can't
4:33
have I don't know exactly how many
4:35
turnovers we had, but it was way too
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much. And like
4:37
19, I think.
4:37
Yeah, 19. That's unacceptable no matter
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what. Like coach Davies preaches every
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day about no turnovers and uh boxing out
4:45
and going to offensive class and we did
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I did me personally the whole team we
4:48
did a pretty bad job of boxing out. They
4:50
got a lot of rebounds. I think at one
4:52
point it was like 50/50 their offensive
4:53
rebounds and our defensive rebounds and
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that's just something the players had to
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execute. get held in every day.
4:59
When you guys went through a stretch
5:00
where you had an edge in you because you
5:02
were down by six on the glass at the low
5:04
point where you guys caught them was
5:06
when you had that 135 run and you were
5:08
able to get in transition because of
5:10
getting the rebounds.
5:11
I mean, yeah, for sure. That's how you
5:12
go. You get stops and you get rebounds
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and you can run the floor. Offensively,
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you got to crash your glass cuz every
5:17
time they get a bucket, they don't get a
5:18
rebound, we get a rebound. So, it kind
5:20
of shows it and whenever we just are
5:21
able to get exit possession, it's so
5:23
valuable because it's another
5:24
opportunity to get two points.
5:26
What are you most hopeful about this
5:28
team?
5:28
I mean, we can definitely tell that this
5:30
game didn't go exactly how we wanted and
5:32
there's a lot to build on and we saw
5:33
that if you played
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I'll say that we have so much more to
5:38
improve that shows how we play. We only
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lost two.
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That's something we can definitely build
5:42
on next time and I know we're winning
5:43
that game.
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Thanks.
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Sam and Caleb.
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Oh, we got
5:55
Caleb, you obviously did a lot of
5:57
things. What What were you most pleased
5:58
with your performance? I mean, you give
6:00
us all around blocks, rebounds. You got
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a double double in your first appearance
6:03
in the Carolina for
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uh I was most focused on my rebounding.
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I'm 611, 610, so I just wanted to be a
6:10
great rebounder. And I feel like that's
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something that we need as a team because
6:13
we have a lot of size, but it takes a
6:14
lot to rebound at a high level,
6:16
especially against a physical team like
6:17
BYU. What disappointed you about this
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game overall?
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Uh, nothing really disappointed me. I
6:22
just feel like we have a lot to get
6:23
better on. Um, I feel like, you know, we
6:25
got to limit turnovers. Partly to do
6:26
with me not saying it's anybody else on
6:28
the team fault. And also, we just made
6:31
kind of simple mistakes down the stretch
6:33
in the beginning of the game. I think we
6:34
had a little bit of nerves and, you
6:35
know, once we get that together, we'll
6:36
be great.
6:37
I mean, it looked like you were on right
6:39
from the jump, a steal, a layup. Uh, you
6:42
were going very very I didn't seem like
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any jitters for you.
6:46
No, no jitters for me. Yeah, I I I feel
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like I'm prepared. I've been working for
6:51
this for 5 months. So, I mean, it's a
6:53
dayby-day thing and, you know, I'm keep
6:55
getting better, but I'm always prepared
6:56
for this.
6:57
And there was a lot of hype about you
6:59
and AJ. I know you guys played together
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a lot uh during the summer circuit. What
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were your feelings around that? And and
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basically, you outplayed him overall.
7:09
Terrible, but we're going to be
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I feel like I'm a competitor. Uh people
7:15
see people think that he better than me.
7:17
So all I'm going to go out there to do
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is show that I can do the same thing and
7:20
do the things better than him. That's
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what my whole mindset was out there.
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AJ's a great player and I feel like he's
7:25
one of the best players in college
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basketball and in high school, but my
7:29
job is to go out there and show what I
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can do.
7:31
So what did you think you showed
7:33
National fans on a big stage tonight
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that maybe they didn't know about you?
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Um I didn't get to pass the ball well. I
7:41
feel like people don't even know I can
7:43
pass or assist as well as I can. Um, but
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I feel like I I just showed I'm a hustle
7:49
player. You know, I'm going to do the
7:50
dirty work. I'm going to rebound. I'm
7:52
going to make shots and uh you can trust
7:53
me to play in the clutch.
7:54
And I've heard people compare your
7:57
performance today to Marvin Williams. Do
8:00
you know anything about him? And do you
8:02
know how your game might compare with
8:03
him? Um, I was told I was like Marvin
8:06
Williams when I first got here. And uh,
8:08
I've watched the old tape, of course.
8:09
And you know, I feel like we're similar
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but different in ways. And, uh, I just
8:13
want to keep doing it so I can say they
8:15
can say Caleb Wilson is his own thing.
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That's all I want to do.
8:19
Thank you.
8:19
No problem.
8:20
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
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Caleb, hold up if you can.
8:23
It's simple. I mean, simple as it said.
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Like, once we put it together and we
8:26
will very soon,
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we're going to be a very, very good
8:29
basketball team. So,
8:30
are you sick?
8:31
I am sick. I am sick. I am sick. I've
8:34
been I've been dealing with some
8:35
sickness, a little bit of tonsillitis
8:36
and just the co the last few days. So,
8:38
we're blaming on that.
8:40
Okay.
8:40
We're blaming on that.
8:41
That's why you gave Sanders the look
8:42
there after the dump. I mean, after that
8:44
in the
8:44
You see, it took me a while to get
8:45
going. I mean, that was part of I think
8:47
as myself, I got to be
8:49
better on the court leader uh as soon as
8:51
I can be once the game starts. And I got
8:52
to just take control and set the tone of
8:55
the game. You know, beginning the game,
8:56
I was just kind of in the days going
8:58
through the motions and it wasn't good
9:00
for us.
9:01
Your first shot was the was the dunk,
9:03
the onehanded alley,
9:04
right? I don't know how far that was
9:05
into the game.
9:06
Yeah, pretty deep.
9:07
Yeah. So, just got to make sure I from
9:09
the start.
9:10
Did the high altitude make your sickness
9:12
worse?
9:13
Uh, I mean, it Yeah, I didn't feel the
9:16
best getting here, but I was more sick
9:18
in Chapel Hill than I was here, but
9:20
it is what it is. Play through it. So,
9:22
you probably went through it earlier,
9:23
but could you could you tell me what the
9:25
play was going to be, the last play, and
9:28
how that played out?
9:28
Yeah, it was a play for me to get
9:29
downhill. Uh we executed it perfectly. I
9:32
just shied away from contact at the end
9:34
uh instead of going in using the
9:36
athleticism that I had and trying to
9:38
create a foul or get an end one or give
9:40
a chance for Henry to put back. But I
9:42
didn't do at the end, but we definitely
9:43
got what we wanted.
9:45
Tip off.
9:47
He's got to go. His They're kicking his
9:49
parents out of the building. So
9:51
good.
9:52
Appreciate it.
9:52
Thank you, Seth. Thank you.
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Got him one time. It was a situation
9:56
where I think you guys switched on him
9:58
and you end up probably got Seth and you
10:00
blocked the shot. Walk us through that
10:02
and how do you think you did against
10:03
him?
10:03
I think we both had a great game. Um
10:05
he's a very talented player just like I
10:07
am and so I feel like I can say I did
10:10
really well but his team still won so
10:12
don't know that that matter.
10:13
So when you're going into something like
10:14
this are you thinking a lot about that
10:16
or you just thinking about the team in
10:17
general? How much how do you process
10:18
that coming into this? Cuz nationally
10:21
people that are talking about this game
10:22
were talking about the two of you. Um, I
10:24
don't look at my phone or social media
10:26
before I play at all. Uh, so I don't
10:28
know anybody, but you know what the deal
10:29
is.
10:30
I know. I know what it is. I know what
10:31
it is.
10:31
So, how do you process that when coming
10:32
in?
10:33
Uh, I'm just going to do me like he has
10:35
no he has or anybody else I played
10:37
throughout the season that's supposed to
10:38
be good. Has no effect on how I play.
10:40
Um, I'm going to play the same way every
10:42
single game. I'm going to apply the same
10:43
effort no matter if I'm playing the
10:44
worst player in college basketball or
10:46
the best because everybody going to get
10:47
my best shot.
10:50
You hear mom?
10:50
Good. Adam.
10:52
Yeah. My
10:53
I was trying to My video is screwed up.
10:55
I don't know what's going on.
10:57
They said my storage was full or some
10:59
crap. Good.
11:02
How excited were you to play in this
11:03
matchup?
11:04
I was extremely excited. Uh, of course
11:06
it was a big game against a national
11:08
national team just like we are. And uh,
11:10
honestly, it was the most fun I've had
11:12
playing in a very long time. Playing in
11:13
front of a crowd like that. All the
11:15
energy and seeing how college basketball
11:17
really is or getting a taste of it was
11:18
really fun. Seth said he thought you
11:20
guys played terrible as a team, but that
11:22
also was very encouraging for him
11:25
because of how close you came to almost
11:26
winning the game.
11:27
Yeah.
11:28
Do you have feel the same or how would
11:29
you sort of characterize it?
11:31
We had a lot of turnovers. Turnovers
11:32
lead to easy buckets. Uh we didn't start
11:34
the game off aggressive like we should
11:35
have and we didn't set the tone. So
11:37
knowing that we did that and knowing
11:38
that we didn't win and we lost by two
11:41
points like we do the right thing. We
11:43
went by 10 to 15. But this game is a
11:45
theoretical is what happened out there.
11:47
So, we just got to be better. It's a
11:48
fair, very fair point.
11:50
Staying on that, when Seth said that, I
11:52
asked him, I said, "Does that mean your
11:54
standard significantly higher for this
11:56
group than it was a year ago?" And he
11:57
said, "Absolutely." Do you, what is the
11:59
standard? How high is the standard for
12:01
this group, or is this something we're
12:02
just going to see kind of evolve over
12:04
the next few months?
12:05
Yeah. I I me personally, like I feel
12:07
like we're the best team in the country.
12:09
You know, I've said things that I should
12:11
have said, but I I think we're the best
12:13
team in the country, honestly. Uh, I
12:14
feel like nobody can mess with us and I
12:16
feel like when we come together in jail,
12:18
which we're going we're starting to do
12:19
very well, I feel like it's going to be
12:21
over with. And, uh, like Seth is a great
12:24
leader. Seth is going to push and he
12:25
said he had to be better today. That's
12:27
something you'all have to listen to and
12:28
learn from cuz I could have been better
12:29
too in certain things and certain
12:30
aspects of the game. So, although
12:32
although we lost, although we lost by
12:34
two points against a quote unquote top
12:37
10 team, like
12:39
we better. So if you believe it's that.
12:42
What do you attribute the sloppiness in
12:44
the first half to? Had a lot of
12:46
nerves. Nerves. A
12:47
lot of turnovers.
12:48
Yeah. Nerves. Uh and plus like that's a
12:50
season team. They played three games
12:52
already. So you know us coming in, we
12:54
got to get the jitters out. We got to
12:55
play basketball like we play in
12:57
practice. So I feel like that was all we
12:59
had to do.
13:00
But you said you didn't have any nerves
13:01
or jitters, right?
13:02
No. I feel like I'm prepared. So I have
13:04
no reason to be nervous if I'm prepared.
13:06
We saw a year a step premiere you all
13:08
the film I've looked at of you. I don't
13:09
recall seeing a euro step.
13:11
Uh yeah, I got a lot of stuff I can do
13:13
that nobody know. I did I I I should
13:17
have I should have euro step my when I
13:18
got that block early in the game. I
13:19
should have spin dunked it, but I got to
13:22
learn from it.
13:23
And you were fired up about the block on
13:25
Deansa though in the first half when you
13:26
got the shot clock violation. I mean,
13:28
you wanted that one.
13:28
Yeah. I mean, I if it was Robert Wright
13:31
or if it was any other player on the
13:32
team, I would have been the same fired
13:33
up. But as a shot clock violation,
13:35
that's great team defense. That's
13:36
exactly what we want as a team. So, it
13:38
doesn't matter who's who am I going
13:40
against. Like I said, like I'm going to
13:41
be the same excited no matter what.
13:44
Luca just walked by here. Are you guys
13:46
concerned that
13:47
uh No, I'm not concerned. Uh Luca is a
13:49
great player. I feel like he'll be here
13:50
and uh he gives us all the practice and
13:52
he's a great great teammaker. You got to
13:54
be around. We go to Stony River to eat a
13:56
lot. So, right,
13:57
I'm not I'm not concerned about Luka at
13:58
all.
13:58
I know he can play. I'm saying are you
14:00
concerned that he won't be eligible to
14:01
play? That's what I mean.
14:03
No, I don't if it's not in my control, I
14:06
don't worry about it. So you can control
14:08
what you can control. If that is us
14:10
winning or losing by 20 or 30, if I can
14:14
control it, then I have something to say
14:15
about it. But if I can't control it,
14:16
then forget it.
14:17
And if you add him to what we saw
14:19
tonight,
14:19
sure,
14:20
he stretches things on.
14:21
He can shoot the ball. Like he can flat
14:23
out shoot it. Like I can get to the
14:25
basket at any time I want to. Luke can
14:27
shoot the three at any time he want to
14:28
because he's elite player, elite elite
14:30
shooter.
14:31
So like I said, like when this comes
14:33
together, like it's going to be
14:34
special.
14:36
Thank you for waiting around. Sorry.
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