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#UNC players Luka Bogavc, Seth Trimble and Jarin Stevenson after loss at #SMU
Jan 3, 2026
#UNC players Luka Bogavc, Seth Trimble and Jarin Stevenson after loss at #SMU
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0:01
Nice to see a few three-pointers go in
0:03
tonight.
0:04
Yeah, I mean two or three points. I
0:07
think it was important for a team to get
0:10
this little boost and
0:12
to try to win the game.
0:14
What was some challenge of dealing with
0:17
their athletic ability on the per drives
0:19
and kick outs and all the success they
0:21
had by attacking from the per
0:23
I think that we don't doesn't understand
0:25
what will works for us. Basically every
0:28
time when we touched the paint with the
0:29
ball or with the drives, we get
0:30
something think that we wasn't
0:34
u ready in second half to play like that
0:37
to just um repeat would give us a good
0:41
result in first half just to get touch
0:43
in the paint with the ball and after
0:45
that it's just easier when you have a
0:47
and on the other end of the court they
0:49
were defending the post. They were
0:50
keeping Henry and Kevin from getting
0:52
touches. Is that maybe the most physical
0:54
from your vantage point of the program?
0:55
Have you seen the teams deny and bump
0:58
those two?
0:59
I mean, we should adapt us to this
1:02
because u moving forward we will face up
1:05
the teams who will for sure play double
1:07
team and low post. So for us we we
1:09
should we must uh learn how to manage
1:13
with this and how be efficient uh when
1:16
when when we have this difference uh for
1:19
us. Apologies if you already been asked
1:20
this, but I know obviously FSU shot a
1:23
lot of three-pointers. Coach Davis had
1:25
talked after that game like maybe the
1:27
overhelping on the dribble drives
1:28
something that contributed to some of
1:30
those open looks for FSU. What do you
1:32
think maybe it was just tonight that
1:34
allowed, you know, I guess at SMU to
1:38
have such a good three-point shooting
1:39
night?
1:40
We were soft on defense, I think, in
1:42
couple things when we want to double
1:43
team and their point guard. He wasn't
1:46
really double him to to he has open
1:49
vision to to be able to look which pass
1:53
he will uh made it. I think that
1:57
uh we just expected them to miss the
1:59
shots and tonight they made it.
2:02
It seemed like it was hard for you guys
2:03
to stay in front of their guards. What
2:04
were the challenges they they built
2:07
defensively? Yeah,
2:09
I mean they had good guards, quick
2:12
guards, able to do a lot of things on
2:14
the court.
2:16
We knew before the game what
2:19
we uh in front of us about their
2:22
perimeter
2:24
uh players, so we just didn't do a great
2:26
job, I think.
2:28
What did you feel like was the biggest
2:29
challenge from their point guard their
2:31
shorter point guard?
2:32
I mean, they shot the ball extremely
2:33
well tonight. So some of that is
2:37
cuz we didn't defend exactly how we
2:39
should have, but a lot of that I think
2:41
was it was their night.
2:43
A lot of that came out of the drives.
2:44
Like they got a lot of open looks from
2:46
the drives, but they had a lot of
2:47
success scoring off the drive as well.
2:49
What was the challenge in not just
2:51
dealing with Boopy, but they had several
2:52
guys out there that could do that?
2:54
Yeah. Uh I think we just had a hard time
2:56
staying in front of the ball today. uh
2:59
you know with a guy like Boopy uh super
3:01
quick guard, little guard, he's not a
3:03
guy that you're going to stay in front
3:05
of all game. Uh and you know that. But
3:08
with other guys, uh I really have no
3:11
idea.
3:11
Yeah,
3:12
it was just it was one of those games
3:13
where we didn't have that tenacity. We
3:15
didn't have that physicality and we let
3:17
them get going and they stayed hot.
3:19
Offensively, they were really physical
3:21
with Caleb and with Henry. They were
3:22
bumping them a lot. They were denying
3:24
pretty physically. How much did that
3:25
challenge you guys just getting into
3:27
your sets because of the way they were
3:28
playing them?
3:28
Uh, I mean it definitely did challenge
3:30
us. Uh, but Henry and Caleb did a great
3:33
job of making plays out of the double
3:35
team. Uh, and it kind of took us a while
3:37
for
3:39
guys outside of Henry and Caleb to make
3:43
finish those plays uh when when they
3:45
kicked out the double team and stuff
3:46
like that. So, I thought I mean they
3:49
didn't have their best game obviously,
3:51
but I thought they responded well with
3:52
how they're being guarded and you know,
3:54
SM's gameplay.
3:56
How hard is it when you're starting your
3:57
offense so far ahead?
3:58
Two more for Seth, please.
3:59
Okay. Sorry.
4:01
Excuse me.
4:01
How How hard is it when you're starting
4:03
your offense so far away from the
4:04
basket?
4:05
Uh, it makes it harder. I mean, that's
4:08
one thing that we preach is starting our
4:10
offense closer to the basket in the
4:12
scoring area. Uh, because it allows us
4:14
just to get to our actions quicker. It
4:16
allows us to see things and just allows
4:18
for a better flowing offense. So, it
4:20
definitely uh made it harder.
4:22
Uh sorry.
4:24
Yeah.
4:25
Just you were handling the point a lot
4:27
in the second half particularly. Just
4:28
what was your um comfort level with that
4:31
and what do you think as a whole just
4:33
wasn't allowing maybe you guys to kind
4:34
of get things going there late?
4:35
Uh I mean I played point guard my whole
4:37
life. Uh, I know I haven't in games a
4:39
lot over the last couple years, but I've
4:41
been a punk guard all my life, so that
4:42
comfort level is definitely there. If HD
4:45
asks for it, I'm there to do it and I'm
4:48
there to do it with a happy face. Uh,
4:51
but I could have been more aggressive
4:53
uh, and starting offense more by the
4:55
three-point line. I let Edwards pressure
4:58
and I kind of just let him do it instead
5:00
of, you know, exposing the pressure,
5:01
maybe blowing by him or anything like
5:04
that. So, just learn from it.
5:07
Thanks, sir. appreciate your
5:08
appreciation
5:10
to start. Obviously, probably not where
5:11
your mind is after a loss like this, but
5:13
you had three three-pointers. Obviously,
5:15
the shooting hasn't really been coming
5:17
for you from beyond the arc. Just how
5:19
good was it for those to go in?
5:21
Um, yeah, it feels good being able to
5:23
knock down threes, um, paying more
5:25
attention to it, getting in the gym. Um,
5:28
so yeah, keep focusing more on it. So,
5:29
it feels good. That work's paying off.
5:31
What did you feel like gave you guys the
5:33
most struggles in terms of their
5:34
offense? Was it quickness? But what did
5:36
you sort of see in that?
5:37
Um, we just got to defend better. They
5:40
were quick. They were knocking down
5:41
shots. Um, they were hitting the open
5:42
guy. I mean, they played really well.
5:44
Um, so so yeah, we just got to work on
5:47
our defense playing one-on-one and um,
5:50
just yeah, talk better and yeah, just to
5:52
be better.
5:53
Did you feel like their penetration
5:54
affected you guys a lot?
5:56
Um, yeah, they had a a lot of different
5:58
players able to attack the paint, kick
6:00
it out, knock down shots. Um, so yeah, I
6:03
feel like again they're a very talented
6:04
team. So, um, yeah, again, it's
6:07
one-on-one. Keep them out the paint and
6:09
work from there.
6:09
Felt like they played with a pretty
6:11
physical presence in the front court, I
6:12
guess. What were you seeing down there
6:13
in the made life so difficult for you
6:15
guys today?
6:16
Yeah. Um, they had very physical bigs.
6:19
Um, Jaden Tombs and, um, is it Sam?
6:23
Sammit. He was pretty physical down
6:25
there. He's big. So, um, having that
6:27
presence down there, um, it was tough.
6:29
shrinking the defense and that also
6:31
helped them hit their threes.
6:32
How much do you think the switching kind
6:34
of you got caught in some bad switches
6:36
today with third quickness and you guys
6:37
would switch and they would attack as
6:39
the switch was happening. How much do
6:40
you think that affected you guys?
6:42
Um yeah, it affected us. Again, it's
6:45
one-on-one. Um we got to um um force the
6:50
defense to do what we want instead of
6:51
letting them just do what they want to
6:53
do. Um so yeah, we just got to work on
6:56
it. Um and it'll be better next time.
6:58
Obviously, it's early. You guys haven't
6:59
had the chance to review film yet, but
7:00
what do you think you guys can take away
7:01
from a game like this?
7:03
Um, just yeah, definitely defense. They
7:05
scored 97 points on us. That's that's
7:07
unacceptable. We got to be better than
7:09
that. Um, offensively, uh, I feel like
7:12
we had turnovers, too, that we got to be
7:14
better with. Um, but yeah, mainly the
7:16
defense I would say we got to work on.
7:18
I know that Caleb only took, um, three
7:20
shot attempts in the last 16 minutes.
7:23
You guys were having some trouble
7:24
getting into your sets. Just again, what
7:25
do you think was maybe the cause of
7:27
that? just not being able to get into
7:29
him late.
7:30
Yeah. Uh Caleb's a big part of our team,
7:32
so um just getting him the ball, whether
7:34
it's him drawing two, kicking up to the
7:36
open person or him getting shots. He's
7:38
very good at finishing at the rim and um
7:40
he's just playing. So yeah, just getting
7:42
him the ball is a big part of our
7:43
offense and um even him like playing
7:46
defense and stuff that also gets him
7:47
locked in offensively and just us, you
7:50
know, cheering them on and um keeping
7:52
them motivated is going to be important.
7:54
Jiren, going back to defense today,
7:56
what do you think the starting point is
7:58
when you guys go back and look at what
8:00
went wrong? What did it start with? What
8:02
was the first line, a defense, so to
8:04
speak, that you guys struggled with that
8:06
kind of allowed to snowball? Yeah,
8:07
defensively.
8:08
Yeah. Um,
8:10
was it just on the ball with the
8:11
quickness? It just seemed like you guys
8:12
were kind of pulling back too much.
8:14
Yeah. Yeah. I say, yeah, mainly on ball.
8:16
There's also some transition that, yeah,
8:19
we didn't get back on. on them. But
8:21
yeah, mainly just on ball defense and
8:23
then that gets into rotations that leads
8:25
to open threes. Um so yeah, we got to
8:27
work on that on ball.
8:29
Building off of that, um Coach Davis
8:30
talked about overhelping against Florida
8:32
State. He felt like that was something
8:34
that maybe had contributed to some of
8:35
their open looks. Do you think it was
8:37
more of that today, something different?
8:40
Um
8:42
not exactly. Again, uh we also have to
8:45
just have confidence in ourselves that
8:47
we can play one-on-one like that. Um, I
8:49
mean, Coach Davis emphasizes being in
8:52
health and stuff like that. So, that's
8:53
it's part of our game plan, but um,
8:56
again, just Yeah, I feel like our
8:58
one-on-one and just keeping them in
8:59
front of us and forcing them into a
9:01
tough shot.
9:02
One more.
9:04
Good.
9:06
Just it was just hard for you guys to
9:08
get in front of their guards. What Why
9:10
was that so difficult to
9:12
um again, they're very talented. They're
9:14
very quick. Um, so yeah, just,
9:18
you know, whether you're forcing them to
9:20
do what we want them to do instead of
9:21
letting them um do what they want,
9:24
whether it's like forcing baseline or
9:25
forcing to a contested jump shot instead
9:27
of them getting to the rim. Um, force to
9:29
a certain help or um, yeah, stuff like
9:32
that we got to work on. For sure.
9:34
Thank you, Jared. Thanks, everybody.
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missing.
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