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RJ Davis, Cade Tyson and Seth Trimble after #UNC rolls to a win over La Salle
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room when this happened they brought
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bill out yeah they did yeah what was uh
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well tart what was your reaction when
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you saw he was named and then also just
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like your thoughts on obviously him
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being the next football well leaning up
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to it I didn't know if he was going to
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get the job or not because like I mean
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there was speculation about him getting
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the job and just to have a Hall of Fame
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coach like him he's done one a lot of
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Super Bowls of Patriots and Tom Brady
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and just to have a Prestige coach like
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that um to kind of just you know help
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this program out in football I think
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it'll be huge for us and
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um I mean I'm super happy for him and
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just for this program because I know how
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much Carolina basketball and football
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just what overall Sports means to these
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University but also to these fans so I'm
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looking forward to it a lot of big names
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in basketball now you get a big one in
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football as well yeah but you like a
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conscious effort to get the big guys
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open off screens and post up more can
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you talk about that emphasis in this
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game as opposed the earlier games um we
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really just trying to um make the big
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guys a threat down low um we did a lot
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of you know practice and working with
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our post post entries um pick and roll
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defense um and offense just making sure
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the big guys giving the touch because
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obviously uh the guards are going to
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have the ball in their hands a lot but
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we got to do a better job of kind of
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getting the ball uh ball to The Bigs and
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getting them involved so we did the
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better job of doing that in practice and
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kind of translate to the game whether
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that was finding them through post
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entries um finding them in transition
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because they did a good job of setting
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screens and we had to reward them so we
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did that today so there was a lot of
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post UPS uh before this game uh that
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seemed like a big point of hip since
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during practice Yeah post ups but then
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also kind of just sending the screens
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and kind of just spacing up the floor a
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little bit I think Ty V uh J wash JB
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they did a good job of kind of just
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spreading out the floor a little bit
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sending the good screens not only to get
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themselves open but for the guards as
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well create the lead so um that was a
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good job on their end and they was able
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to uh capitalize over that you're
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talking about all the guys that got
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involved today how big of a deal is that
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to really make you guys gel and be fluid
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and also how happy you see pop off the
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way he did today n I'm super happy I
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love when we play those type of games
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where everyone's um playing really well
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and I feel like that was our best game
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in terms of just a collective group it
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was a collective group effort on both
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ends of the floor he was able to share
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the basketball and then for Kade I'm
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super happy for him the way he was able
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to go out there and knock it he made
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five threes today 50% from three and
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just go do what he does um like he did
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that last year at bont super happy for
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him I mean that's the type of you know
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basketball player that we we know he
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could be um so I know this is something
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that it's a confidence booster moving
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forward and you you and others talked
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about the head space you guys were in
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about a week ago how big is this to get
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get you out of that it was good I think
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we all hit like a reset button um just
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having like this little week break of
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just not games but just practice and
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kind of just finding our our our spirit
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and just jelling together more on the
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court cuz I feel like we show glimpses
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of that in um the games that we played
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this year but not for full 40 minutes
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and I feel like we kind of need that
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reset button a little bit just to get
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our head space right um um and
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physically right cuz I know couple guys
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were wounded a little bit just playing a
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lot of games went from Mau and right
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into Bama and Georgia Tech so there was
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really no stoppage of play so um I feel
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like we needed that and I think it it
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moved well for us it moved the needle
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well for us um going to this past week
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so yeah I know you haven't but I try and
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keep my confidence high and just focus
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on getting better every single day don't
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worry about the uncontrol how do you do
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that shots after shots or how do you how
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do you fix that yeah just getting in the
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gym doing extra work uh shoot till I
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feel good about it honestly and then uh
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trying to get some extra work in on my
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body range of motion in the waight room
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stuff like that you realize if you can
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give some some minutes like this to this
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team this team could be really good I
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mean do you realize that yes sir I'm
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excited about that I think we all know
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we're pretty good team and we can be
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even better did you feel anything
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different coming into today where you
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felt okay be good game for me uh not
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necessarily um I felt I felt good all
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week through practice and whatnot just
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feel like I've been getting a lot of
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extra work in and feeling more confident
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about my extra work there was one
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sequence where you hit the consecutive
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Corner threes where Elliot jumps off the
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uh jumps off the floor comes over and
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like you know push you in the chest what
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was that moment like yeah it was awesome
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uh you know I feel that in practice a
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lot uh it was a little different with
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being out there with a bunch of fans but
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it's still the same special moment in
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practice as it is out there with the
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guys Kate how tough was the transition
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if at all uh from Belmont to here and do
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you feel like you're kind of filed
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finding your at this point you feel like
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there's more to go what do you think
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yeah I mean it was definitely pretty
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tough it's always tough change is tough
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um but I think my teammates and my
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coaches and just people in my circle did
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a good job of helping me handle it and
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work through it and that's what I strive
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to continue to do how do you build on
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what tonight was and kind of keep it
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moving going forward yeah just uh put my
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head down and stay the course same thing
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just trying and get better every single
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day uh individually and with the team as
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well K what today you know I just you
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had a season high in UNC bestest but at
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what point today did you start to feel
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like you were in a rhythm you're like
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okay I might do something special for my
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team today yeah I mean like I said I
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never know what's going to happen when I
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go into the game uh just try and control
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the controllables um but I felt good all
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week just due to my extra work I feel
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like off the court and on the court as
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well um my teammates did a great job of
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setting me up today so real quick shots
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went in and real quick off of that Kade
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you know I
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obviously I know it it has to be tough
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you know recently not not being able to
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see your shots fall you know what do you
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think changed I know you alluded to you
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know practice and stuff but what changed
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to kind of help you have like a career
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day today yeah I mean I don't think
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anything changed uh I kind of just let
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it fly today um I think extra work has
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been really good for me um both in the
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wait room and on the court and I think
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those help my confidence a little bit
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and confidence and just to let it go and
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hope for the best so what what were the
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coaches telling you during that stretch
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where you maybe only got in for a minute
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or two and and had to be frustrating
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stretch for you what were the coaches
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telling you yeah uh just to control the
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controllables um compete every day in
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practice and work on getting better
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every single
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day through that last three-pointer you
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made that bounced off the heel of the
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rim and like cared in I'm sure you
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didn't it probably didn't feel good
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coming off but I'm sure it looked good
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going in yeah yeah I cannot believe that
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went in
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I was like oh I must be having a day of
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stuff like that's falling so but it felt
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good for
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sure talking about just kind of getting
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in r in the second half just more fluid
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shot did you kind of feel the same way
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with your shot there in the second half
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just kind of getting into the the game
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yeah I mean like I said I felt I felt
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good about my shot even before this week
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but I've started to feel a lot better
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since I've been getting more shots up
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after practice and before practice so
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that kind of helped me just get in the
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Rhythm a little bit more and it gives me
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a little bit more confidence to just let
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it go the the the uh Big Ben seem to be
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more active and more conscious effort to
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get them to ball today was that a kind
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of a something that you guys went
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through in practice a lot uh yeah it
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definitely was I mean they're working
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their butts off down there we got to get
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them the ball when they're open um and
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we have confidence in them so get them
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the ball down there and they just score
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it but when you y'all have stepped back
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and looked at it maybe on film has it
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been shocking how few post UPS y'all
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have had I mean like there been days
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where you haven't had a post you know
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mean yeah it's definitely been really
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shocking it's been really shocking just
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kind of watching the film back on it uh
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some of the opportunities that will be
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there with our big Expos up and us not
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getting on the ball yeah
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it's not like intentionally selfish but
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you know selfish in the way so we made
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sure that you know we made some type of
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adjustment on that to get to get Kade to
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play the way Kade played today how much
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will that help this team in the future
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if he could could play similar to this
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every game it's huge cage gives a size
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and he stretches the floor like one of
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the best stretch floors in the country
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so for him to be able to knock down
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those shots and just to get that
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confidence going and for him to put up
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10 of them you know it's not like he
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went one for two two for three you know
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he put up 10 and had a very high clip so
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really needed that for him so to have a
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basketball basketball one for you but
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before that just quick one your thoughts
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on B going to the to the football
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program wow it's good for us it's good
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for us good for this good for this
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school uh he's the goat I mean The Goat
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Who wouldn't want the go coach after
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school I hope he brings a lot of money
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in because the more money they get the
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more money we get so I mean I'll be a
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lot of games I'll be at a lot of games
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for sure I'm excited for that as you saw
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it unfold as you saw it unfolding I mean
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what what was going through your mind is
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this this could
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happen I don't even know I really didn't
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even think myself I saw it on Twitter I
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think one time and I was like it's just
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I was being delusional what not you know
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Bill b is come coach college but then we
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saw him we hired him and I just kept
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hearing more about it I was like oh wow
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and then we were walking in and I saw
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him while we were walking into the
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locker room and I just like stared at
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him kind of you know I want to no this
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is during halftime I want to say hi to
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him but I was in a I was in a yeah so
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it'll be it'll be a really good thing
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for this school I'm excited for it right
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so you guys were coming off the court
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and he's getting ready to go on he's
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right here yeah right here was no time
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yeah it was blue suit look good yeah RJ
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said this might be a reset for you guys
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the way you guys play today can you can
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you agree with that absolutely we wanted
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to use Georgia Tech as a reset game but
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didn't prob our best game uh didn't give
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away the game but we just didn't really
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play our best game so we knew this game
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was a chance for us to come in
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and reset play really well with our
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principles and do the right things and
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make the right play and be unselfish as
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a team and we did that today so it was a
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huge reset the jump man coming up now in
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Charlotte a couple days I mean how cool
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is that how cool is that event super
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cool The Jump Man especially Us Michael
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Jordan UNC uh and it's some Charlotte so
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it's a home game for us we have to take
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advantage of that opportunity to get a
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qu win and just play our hearts at you
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seem like you found different ways to
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get it inside maybe your your Center's
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coming off screens what what was some of
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different ways that you were able to to
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get them the ball open inside and fast
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break if they were posting up off the
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pick and roll the guy shaking up
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uh just looking for him I mean just
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looking for him all throughout all
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throughout the offense and in fast break
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and transition and in half court and in
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half court I was saying earlier our bigs
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are much more deserving of the touches
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of the amount of touches that they've
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got earlier in the season so I'm glad
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that we really found them today in all
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aspects of the game you want to talk
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shocking we're sitting here typing new
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North Carolina Coach bill bellich I mean
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the is wild yeah no it's very wild
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it's very well I didn't think that this
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would happen but here we are you grew up
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a fan of him at all all uh honestly
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always grew up chearing against the
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Patriots cuz they always won
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