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#UNC coach Hubert Davis after blowout win over ECU
Dec 23, 2025
#UNC coach Hubert Davis after blowout win over ECU
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and half. Obviously, you were making
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shots, but it seemed like there was more
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energy, more life for both halves. What
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do you think kind of fed into that
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compared to Memphis?
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I felt like we were consistently in
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transition. You know, I felt like we got
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back to our uh, you know, transition,
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fast break game against Ohio State. And
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I felt like we took levels up uh
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tonight. Obviously, it um it depends on
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getting stops and getting rebounds, but
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I felt like consistently we had five
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guys um sprinting to the offensive end
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and we were living in transition and um
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I think it's the fourth straight game
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that we've had 20 assists or more. So,
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just sharing the basketball and we're in
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a good spot in regards to getting
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everybody involved. Keith
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Hero, I know you've been waiting for a
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night and you guys kind of ran it from
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three. It was 12 made threes tonight. I
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know some of them were later in the
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bench, but you had eight for 15 at one
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point in the second half. What was
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different about today? I know Henry
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shooting the ball well kind of a
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three-point shooting there.
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Well, I mean, obviously, you know,
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having Henry, his ability to shoot the
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basketball is real, you know, so
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obviously can score around the basket,
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but he's he's pretty good beyond the
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arc. But you can see, you know, us
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trying to throw the ball to Kale up and
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Henry down low on the post. They're
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they're getting met with two to three
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guys. And so, um, when that happens, you
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have to make teams pay. And the only way
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you can make them pay is either hit from
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three or drive off of closeouts, get
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fouled, get to the free throw line. I
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felt like we took really good threes and
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uh, we stepped up and were able to make
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them tonight.
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Spencer the Andrew.
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Yeah, Hubert. Last couple games for Luca
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have kind of been kind of rough. Four
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points in his last two games and a down
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tick in playing time, but tonight he
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came out five points in the first five
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minutes. I guess what did you what did
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you see from him and like about his game
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tonight?
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Yeah, I mean he's, you know, he's a
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skilled um aggressive offensive player
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that can I always think he's like a
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fourlevel scorer like he shoot from
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three mid-range, get to the free throw
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line, finish around the basket. Um he
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was aggressive, he was on point tonight
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and it's exactly what we need, you know,
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when you're out there, especially with
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the starting lineup with Seth and Kai
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and um his ability to be able to score
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on the perimeter and pass and make
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plays. You talk about Henry's threes,
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like the pass in the second half that
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Luca made to him, that was real. And so
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he's a gifted passer as well and I'm
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glad he had a good game.
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Andrew, then Michael,
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I have two unrelated questions. First
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one about Henry. He had five assists in
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the last 16 minutes on Saturday. Gets
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those four threes today. Just describe
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the overall uniqueness of someone that
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his height that can do all the different
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things he can stress a defense and
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enhance you guys.
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Yeah, he's,
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you know, his talent is real and um he
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can just do so many things on both ends
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of the floor, but specifically
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offensively. I mean, he can score with
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either hand around the basket. He's a
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gifted passer. It's got a nice floater
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mid-range game. He can shoot from three.
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Um, you know, you saw against um Ohio
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State and give him the ball and put him
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in ball screen action and so he can make
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plays off of that. And so, um, being
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able to move him around even more, put
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him in different spots is going to be
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key for us to be able to take advantage
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of his skill set and I'm looking forward
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to building that out and looking forward
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to the rest of the season.
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Mike, sorry. The other question, you
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care deeply about the jersey, everything
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that's in this building. For your son to
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hit that three and now he's in the
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scorebook here, what does that mean to
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you?
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feel like as uh
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I'm the head coach, so I try to be head
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coach, not dad.
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It was a really awesome, cool moment. I
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heard his little brother took off his
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shirt and started waving it and then
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Elijah hit the three. Um, mom was really
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happy. You know, their sister was really
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happy. And, um,
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somebody else told me that, uh,
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Henry wouldn't come speak to you guys
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unless um, Elijah could come. And so it
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just speaks to
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the chemistry of this team and for them
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to
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adopt him as their teammate and not the
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head coach's son has been something that
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I can't put into words and how special
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it's been.
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Follow that one. Michael,
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y'all trying to make me cry. I'm an
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emotional guy.
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He said you did.
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He said I what? He said that you had
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tear in your eye when he saw you. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Understandable.
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Unbelievable.
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This was your guys' fourth game in I
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believe 10 days. I know you love
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spending time with the guys, but are you
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looking forward to
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I'm out of here.
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No, I It's time to spend uninterrupted,
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unhurried time with the family. It's a
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great time to take a deep breath and
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pause, refuel and recharge and when we
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get back to work on Saturday in
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preparation for conference season and
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specifically Florida State on Tuesday.
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So, I'm looking forward to that, but I'm
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really really looking forward to getting
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away and taking a deep breath.
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Last three, Shelby Rod NRL.
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All right, going back. I had another
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question about Elijah. I'm trying not to
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make you cry here, but just speaking to
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um you know what he provides for the
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team, a lot of his teammates just in the
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post game and they've said this before.
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We're talking about um him as a captain,
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how active he is in huddles, him kind of
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doing the derby work um in practice.
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Just what has been the value of that?
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What he's kind of been able to do in
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that leadership?
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Yeah, I mean I learned this from Coach
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Smith and obviously, you know, Coach
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Williams. I I just no one could move me
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off of this. I feel like everybody on
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the team has
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an important role to make this team the
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best that it can be. And I just it
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doesn't matter if you're a starter, if
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you're coming off the bench, if you
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don't play minutes, if you're a walk-on.
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Um it is of utmost importance to bring
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your giftedness
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to the to the circle in order to make
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this team complete. And one of the
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things that Elijah loves, he loves being
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a part of a team and he is he is the
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best encourager that I've ever been
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around. and
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in practice, in shoot around, his
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encouragement in the huddle um just
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lights up the team and uh his
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personality without it like his
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personality is needed
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for us to be the team that we can become
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and I'm so thankful that he's a part of
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this this team and this program.
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Rod Schubert, with non-conference play
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complete, how do you feel about what you
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guys accomplish? What do you like and
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what do you need to see get better as
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you move into ACC play?
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Yeah, you know, I am I'm, you know, I'm
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happy but not, you know, not satisfied,
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but, you know, happy with the way we did
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non-conference season. I feel like we've
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been through every scenario. We've gone
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through a lot in two months and we've
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been able to persevere and be able to
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find ways to be successful. And so, um,
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another encouraging thing is I I don't
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feel like we're anywhere close to where
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we can be. I think we can be a lot
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better defensively rebounding the
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basketball. I think we can be more
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efficient on the offensive end. We can
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shoot the ball better even though we
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shot the ball well from three tonight.
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And so that's the encouraging thing that
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I think there's a lot more room to grow.
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And so I'm looking forward to the break,
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but really excited about what this team
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could look like in the future.
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Last one.
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Yeah. Some of these major games, you've
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had bad first halfs. had games where
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there were real walls in the last few
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minutes and the teams had the other
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teams had big runs but it didn't really
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happen today. How much have you talked
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about that? What made the difference in
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putting two good halves together
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tonight?
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Well, I mean I think that's you know
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growth. You know, I think, you know, at
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the beginning of the year, we had 11 new
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players and we're all trying to figure
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out roles and rotations and um you know,
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we've had injuries and different lineups
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and you know, one of the things that we
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have talked about is obviously getting
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to that level, but staying at that level
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and we had known that you know, East
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Carolina um a number of times have been
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behind at half and they've come back and
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won or made it close and so it was
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really huge for us to to put together
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two halves uh on both ends of the floor
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and I felt like um irregardless of the
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score like we were locked in and trying
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to get better and understanding that
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each minute was important for the growth
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of this team.
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Thank you coach. Thanks everybody. Merry
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Christmas.