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#UNC coach Hubert Davis after victory over N.C. Central
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After the Radford game, Henry said you
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guys were horrible on defense. Tonight,
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you guys blocked more shots than in the
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first three games combined. How would
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you assess your guys' performance on
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that?
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I felt like, you know, um
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Okay. I felt like defensively uh we just
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continued to get better throughout the
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game. I I felt like uh you know from an
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offensive standpoint they were taking us
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one-on-one milking time off the clock
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and then with 15 10 seconds on the shot
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clock they were trying to take us and I
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just felt throughout the entire game we
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just got better uh one-on-one defense um
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our um ball screen attack, our switches
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were better, we were boxing out better
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and so I felt it overall was a really
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good uh defensive night for us. You guys
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have seen quite a bit of zone the last
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couple of games. Guys said you hadn't
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worked on a ton, but it's been very
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valuable to go up against it in games.
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What have you think that you guys last
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couple?
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Yeah, well, I mean, we worked on it
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pretty extensively um the last couple
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days in preparation for North Carolina
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Central. They throw a number of
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different zones, 131, 23, matchup zone.
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Um obviously in other games, um Radford
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um played zone as well. And so just
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trying to become more efficient with
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that. Um from an offensive standpoint,
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it's still the same. We want to dominate
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points in the paint through post
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penetration, offensive rebounding, and
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so whether a team plays man or zone,
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that's something that's an emphasis for
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us offensively.
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I feel like we did a better job of that
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in the second half looking inside.
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What was your message at halftime about
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the 10 turnovers? Obviously,
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something changed in second half.
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It did. You know, we obviously we had
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zero turnovers in the second half. It's
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something that we talk about and I talk
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about to them every day. The importance
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of making the easy play. I give them
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every slogan, you know, make the easy
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play, make routine plays routinely. We
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don't need home runs. We just need
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singles. Simple, simple works perfectly.
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Everything. And trying to get them to
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understand that um it's important for us
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to get shots and not turn the ball over.
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And I was really proud of them to have
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zero turnovers in the second half after
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coming off with 10 in the first.
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Hubert Shelby and Shelby
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Hubert, how would you describe the sort
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of rim protection? Going off what
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Michael asked you about the block shots,
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the sort of rim protection that Henry
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and Caleb give you as a as a defense
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there at the at the rim? Like I know it
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helps when you're seven feet and when
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you can jump out of the gym like Caleb,
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but you know, what do they offer in that
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regard? Yeah, I mean it's real. You
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know, their length u whether if they
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don't block a shot, their ability to
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alter shots is huge for us. And so when
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guys get into the lane, it's not easy to
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be able to finish around there. I think
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they do a good job of staying out of
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foul trouble, but it's not just those
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two. I mean, Jiren is 610.
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Um we've talked, you know, about our
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positional size. So even our guards are
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6'5, 66. And so it's really helped us
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out defensively and I don't think we're
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anywhere near where we need to be. Um I
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we have so much more to improve on uh
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defensively, especially one-on-one
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defending without fouling, finishing
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with a box out. And so I think there's a
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lot more growth there as well.
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Coach, just curious, um the moment
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before the game, obviously you're able
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to, you know, recognize
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newest member of NC Central. Just what
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did that mean to you?
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No, it was great. just spending a little
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bit of time with Onyx and um
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um
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it was great being able to spend time
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with him. My hope is is that um he had a
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lot of fun tonight, but more
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importantly, my hope is that um he can
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come to more games and it was great to
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share that moment with him. I didn't get
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an opportunity to meet his family and
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that's something that I really wanted to
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do but um it was a really special
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moment.
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Rob Hubert Vladimore comes in averaging
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24. You guys made things really tough on
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him tonight team defensive wise
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switching a lot but what' you see from
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the individual defenders as far as what
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they were able to do to make things
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tough on him? Yeah, I mean, you know, we
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highlighted, you know, Cage, I mean,
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yeah, he was averaging 24, but he had 38
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on Wednesday. And so, shooting 62% from
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three-point range heading into our game.
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And so, you know,
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when we switch a lot, you know, it
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wasn't just one defender, it was a
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number of guys on them. And I felt like
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everyone had their antennas up when when
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he had the ball and and knew that a lot
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of their actions ended with him getting
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some type of screen to get free from
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three. Um he got a couple clean looks,
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but pretty much he had to really work
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hard and they were contested and so
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overall I thought we did a good job on
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him.
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You um obviously Caleb came in with a
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lot of height but anything he does just
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comfort wise you at all about how
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comfortable he's looked so far? No, not
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at all. I mean, obviously he's really
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gifted out there on the floor. I think
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he can improve a lot, too. I mean, just
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get better defensively talking on
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defense. Um,
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but he's a he has been gifted. Um, but I
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think what makes him so special is um in
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combination with who he is as a person,
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he is a great teammate and his
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personality just lights up a room
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wherever he goes and he's got this
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campus on fire and um um I think the
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fans feed off of him. They can see how
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much he enjoys and how invested he is in
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his teammates, in this team, in this
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program, in this university. I think you
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can see it in the way that he plays.
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Last two. No. And Aiden
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on on Derek. He looks really comfortable
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out there tonight. Um as opposed to
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maybe some of the other games. Where
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have you seen the most improvement from
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him over the first handful of games?
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Yeah, I mean he's a freshman, you know.
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I mean, it's been four games, you know,
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and um
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I'm amazed at these freshmen and how
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comfortable they are. I was not that way
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as a freshman. I really didn't want any
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part out there on the floor. I wasn't
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ready. I'm glad coach Lebo was my senior
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and I was sitting the bench cuz I just
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wasn't ready. But Derek is someone who's
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very confident in his game and um
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obviously he can shoot the basketball,
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but I think he's done a nice job
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handling the ball and and defending and
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getting our team into the offense and he
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has so much room to improve as well. But
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you know, four games into his career,
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I'm I'm really impressed.
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That's one Hubert. So, you know, you all
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close close game there late in the first
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half, then you end the first half on I
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think it was like a 10-2 run. You start
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second half on a 12-2 run. Whether it
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was defense, you know, something y'all
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were doing, distributing the ball or
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whatever, how did you all kind of break
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away and break the game open and
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eventually decide it with those runs or
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Yeah. Yeah.
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No, I I agree. I think that's a great
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question and I mean it to me I thought
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it was all tied to us taking care of the
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basketball. I mean in the first half not
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only did we have 10 turnovers I think we
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had like 15 balls tipped and and in the
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second half it it wasn't that we were
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getting shots and so and then also
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defensively we were getting stops we
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were rebounding and then it was allowing
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us to get out in transition but I think
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the number one determining factor was
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because we took care of the basketball.
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Coach, thank you. Face on.
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