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#UNC players Jonathan Powell, Luka Bogavac and Caleb Wilson after win over N.C. Central
Nov 15, 2025
#UNC players Jonathan Powell, Luka Bogavac and Caleb Wilson after win over N.C. Central
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Uh, it was discussed a lot. I mean, it's
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something that we wanted to limit,
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especially going into the second half
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and we did a good job with that. I mean,
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we had zero turnovers in the second
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half. So,
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what do you think? What do you think was
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the cause of all turnovers in the first
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half? Just some careless mistakes or
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I think careless being careless with the
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ball and just kind of forced the passes
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that we didn't have to force. So,
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Jonathan, after the Radford game, Henry
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was in here saying the defense was
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horrible. Tonight, you guys blocked more
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shots than you had in the first three
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games combined. How would you assess how
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you guys did on that end?
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Uh, I most definitely think we picked it
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up defensively. I mean, just coming
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together. I mean, the main thing we
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talked about was just playing with some
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pride on defense. I mean, continue your
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man one-on-one, not letting him score
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and if one get beat, I mean, like
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basically helping your man out. So, I
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think we did a great job of that.
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Caleb and Henry had nine blocks combined
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going off of that. What's it like seeing
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the two of them sort of control the
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paint down low, especially defensively?
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I mean, having two room protectors like
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that, I mean, it just helps our defense
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overall. I mean, it make defenders
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second guess when they go inside. So, I
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mean, it just helps our defense. So, I
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mean, having two players like that is
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great to have on the team.
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John, do you feel like there's any
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explanation for some of these like
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slower starts in the first half or like
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not shooting in rhythm as much for you
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guys?
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Uh, no. I think it's just really just
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the same confidence that we come into
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every practice, every game, just
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basically coming out with confidence
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because every shot. I mean, I think
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that's the main thing, coming out with
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energy and confidence and that lead from
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getting stops and then us getting stops
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lead to our offense and get in a better
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flow.
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Statistic about you and your fellow
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guards.
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I mean I mean just to play our game like
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just to keep better every day like just
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to
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be the best
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self possible. So I think this is the
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key.
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One more for me. Does Caleb dunk as much
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as he does in games during practice?
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Yeah, he's very athletic. One of his
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main
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back in the hall. So, yeah.
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He's never dunked on you though, right?
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I mean, me and I think
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Hubert talks a lot about for the last
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five years about good to great, but the
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shots, passing him a good shot to get a
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great shot. Looks like that's something
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you guys already have kind of entrenched
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early in the season with all the sharing
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the ball and passing up good shots and
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getting great shots. I think the first
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12 tonight were all assisted. So, what
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is where do you think you guys are as
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far as the good to great sharing the
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ball and everybody kind of being willing
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to share the ball?
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Yeah, I mean Kai Mai did a really great
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job tonight. Uh he really involve
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everybody in the game. I mean uh as last
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game they played the zone. So it's kind
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of different to to find our rhythm
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because in a practice we don't usually
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do with the zone lot of zone but I mean
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uh I think that just show how we we we
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become better from from the last game.
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How dangerous a weapon is the Henry and
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Caleb passing to each other? They find
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each other a lot. They're able to get
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baseline stuff and dunks for each other.
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Yeah, I mean they're they have this
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pacing ability really good both of them.
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So I think that We can use use this for
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for next games for sure.
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How much was were turnovers discussed at
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halftime. And what did the coaches tell
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you about that?
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I mean, yeah, he was a little bit mad on
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us because we turn turn off the ball a
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lot, but I mean, in the second half, I
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think we had zero. So, it just showed
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that we we listen what coach said in the
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half time.
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He said the coach was mad at you about
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the turnovers.
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For sure. Yeah. Yeah, he was a little
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bit n for sure because you know we was
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practicing about zone. So I think that
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um we really step out step out the
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second half and we show that we we don't
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have to turn off the ball as much we did
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in the first half.
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Was that the madest you've seen him this
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season? Was that the maddest you've seen
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him this season?
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Oh I mean he was mad like I I mean just
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because he was our best. So it's just
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the only thing that why he was made on
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us. But I mean um every
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everything he said for for us is just to
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be
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to us to be the better. So I mean we
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have to listen him and I I mean I think
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we did pretty good.
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Last two opponents have played a lot of
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zone against you guys. How good is that
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for you to see a lot of zone this early
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in the season?
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I mean it just be good to to do a
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lot of different kind of of of defense.
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So when the big games will come, we will
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be ready for that kind of defense. So I
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think um uh this is something that can
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be useful for us.
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Thanks. Appreciate it.
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Uh Derek Derek had a great game. You
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know, I feel like he's very underrated
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and people will see it throughout the
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year.
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One more random dunk question. Do you
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remember the first time you dunked?
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Uh seventh grade. Uh, I was at Lamar
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Christian School, my my my middle
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school, and uh, I just had on some
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LeBron, and everybody was joking about
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LeBron cuz, you know, they're heavy. And
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then, uh, I was like, "Bro, I can dunk
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in these." And then I just went and did
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it. It was crazy. I had never dunked
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before. I've always been I was always
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like this close and I dunk that day. It
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was crazy. Like, I dunked it and then I
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just looked around and everybody was.
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Is that a core memory?
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It definitely is. You would never forget
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your first dunk. I don't care how old
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you are. For sure.
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Were your parents there?
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No, it was nobody there except for my
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friends. That's how it usually is though
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with me. I just
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What they say?
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Uh they just told me they was cap. Uh
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the goals was low. You know, friends
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always going to humble you. So that that
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was all they said.
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Hubert has said a couple of times that
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if you ran for student body president,
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you would win. One, what does that say
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about your impact on this school and
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this community already? And then is that
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something like you would be interested
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in?
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Uh you know, I just try to make
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everybody feel like, you know, included.
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Uh, I talk to everybody no matter what
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they have to offer me or don't have to
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offer me. I just feel like, you know,
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we're all the same. We're all human and
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everybody's everybody has something that
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they can offer me. Like, I rather just I
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rather I like having like normal friends
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that have nothing to do with basketball.
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You know, it makes it really easy to
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find them because, you know, it's it's a
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campus full of 25,000 students. But, uh,
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student body president, you know, I
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guess I can do it after the season, but
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it's not on my cards right now.
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Caleb, uh, if the name of the game on
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defense is to get stops,
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14 block shots help as a team. I mean,
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what what is what is your thought when
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you see that number right there? It was
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pretty big number for block shots as a
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team.
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Uh, you know, we just focused and locked
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down on defense and, you know, we just
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decided to be physical and, you know,
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just just focus on that end of the
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court. You know, that that's that's
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something that's very important and, you
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know, we'll play against better team
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later down the road in defense
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championships.
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Sure.
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Is there something about Henry? I mean,
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being seven foot helps, but uh like I
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mean, his timing, maybe his way, ability
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to play the angles defensively that
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makes him sort such a great room
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protector, would you say?
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Yeah, Henry he he's he's really smart
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like he he knows that he's really tall,
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so he uses his body to like to contort
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himself in different ways to get blocks
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without fouling. So, I feel like he's
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just really spatially aware of himself.
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Stretchy.
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Do the guards know that whenever you're
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down near the hoop and they they're
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driving in and they defender comes up to
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him and just throw it up to you and
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you'll
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Yeah, they could they could just put it
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anywhere. I'll go get it, honestly. I
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mean, I'm always ready to jump. So,
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whenever they whenever they are ready to
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give it, I'll be ready.
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Is that something you've told them or do
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they just kind of know?
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Yeah, I told them, but you know, you
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just it's just a trusting. I I do it in
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practice, so it has to translate to the
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game. What have you learned about this
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team through the first several
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