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#UNC players Seth Trimble, Caleb Wilson, Henri Veesar and Jaydon Young after win over Wake Forest
Jan 11, 2026
#UNC players Seth Trimble, Caleb Wilson, Henri Veesar and Jaydon Young after win over Wake Forest
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and he made it happen. So, you know, I'm
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super proud.
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Seth, you've been around this program
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for a long time. Coming here as JP's
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brother first and now as your own man.
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To be a part of the 500th win in the the
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history of this building. What does that
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mean?
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Uh it it's incredible. Uh it's a
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blessing. Uh and and we're super super
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thankful, grateful just to be a part of
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this history. Uh there's many greats
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that came before us, many great coaches,
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uh many great accolades that these
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players and coaches have brought and
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just for us to be an extension of that
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means means a lot.
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There's been a few games recently where
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there have been some stretches Caleb
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isn't getting a lot of touches late for
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like I think it was like a 4-minute
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stretch um tonight in the second half.
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Just what have you seen maybe from your
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perspective that's leading to that?
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Touches as in
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just shots for him. Yeah.
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Uh yeah, I mean well he he's he's
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getting touches. He's getting touches.
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We're moving the ball. We look for Caleb
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uh because we like to play through Caleb
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because he's he's an incredible player.
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Uh but he draws a lot of attention. He
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draws double teams. He draws crowds uh
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because he's an incredible player. So
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there's going to be times where uh maybe
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he doesn't get the shot that you guys
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are used to seeing or things like that,
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but it's because of how he draws and you
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know sucks the defense in. So that's all
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it is.
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He had a double digit lead and it went
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away. What happened in the last 10
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minutes? Uh
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they made shots. Uh our defense wasn't
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there. Uh switches
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were a little lousy. Uh to to go off of
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that a little bit, there's been a few
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games throughout the year where you you
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know, you've had a pretty decent lead
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and then other teams have got back into
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the game. What has that trend been like?
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And do you feel like that's a trend with
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this team that you know, you can't put a
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game away when you should be able to?
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Uh
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Yeah, good. So, I mean,
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I take accountability for that. Uh, I
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mean, I played a terrible game. I think
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if I played
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uh what I call normal game, uh, an
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average game for me, uh, we win more
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comfortably. I think a couple other guys
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step up, we win more comfortably. It's
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just
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uh, we just we just didn't play our best
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match. We just didn't I really I don't
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have really
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What it was when you said the switches
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were too loud. Elaborate on that. Uh, I
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mean the first half I specifically
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remember a few switches where we would
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call it out. Uh, but you know, we
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wouldn't listen to each other. We would
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be in transition. Uh, if guys get a wide
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open three or there's a go screen coming
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or something like that and we're talking
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but we're not doing it. It was just I
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mean it was lousy. I really don't even
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know how else to put it. It was just it
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was very lousy.
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Going negative.
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He's got two minutes. He's got to go.
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She does.
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Going negative. But you guys are still
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trying to figure things out in the back
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court. been some some of the close games
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lately. Couple guys that maybe start or
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play a lot earlier or not in late your
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point late goes SMU today. How much are
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you guys still trying to figure out that
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situation?
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Uh, you know, that's on the coaching
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staff. That's on the coaching staff. Uh,
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I'm not in the room when they're having
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these conversations. Uh, my job is to be
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the best team I can possibly be to every
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single one of these guards. Uh, try and
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get them to step up each and every game.
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And sometimes they have their off
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nights. Uh sometimes they have their own
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nights like JM tonight. He was
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incredible. So I don't know. That's not
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really my worry. Uh but yeah, I'm just
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I'm just worried about the locker room
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making sure.
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I'm curious just there was a stretch
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late where you um looked like you got a
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steal and you just kind of lost
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after that. Um I mean you had that dunk,
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you had the block at the other end.
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You're able to hit some clutch free
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throws. How much in maybe a stretch like
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that is that something where you rely on
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kind of some of the mental work mental
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like training that you've done you spoke
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about?
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I mean huge in in the in the crunch time
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your mind starts to race all this. So
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you got to rely on the work that you put
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in here. Uh I mean I feel like I had a
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terrible game until the last 6 minutes.
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I had the worst game of the season uh
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for myself personally but I was able to
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persevere a little bit bounce back and
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make some things happen fortunately.
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which speaks on first being a veteran,
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but second, you know, putting the work
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in here.
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Thank you.
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Thank you,
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as a tandem.
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For sure. Yeah. You know, we play we
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played a lot together over the summer.
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You know, it's been shoot seven months
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since I've been here. So, just playing
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with each other over time. It's
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definitely allowed for us to make a
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chemistry.
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In the last two games, you only got like
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one or two shots in the last 10 minutes.
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What's going on there? Is this what
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defenses are doing or just denying you
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the ball?
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Uh, I really I I don't even want to
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speak on that. I don't I don't think
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nobody's defending me differently.
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It's just just the way the head get
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that's the way it's happening.
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Y
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man, plus eight on the boards, man. Just
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talk to me how big that was to win this
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game.
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I feel I feel like that was humongous,
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you know.
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It's just really important that we get
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get uh a lot of rebounds and as a team,
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you know, I feel like that's one of our
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strengths, you know, starting 610 610 7
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foot. Um, you know, rebounder basketball
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is always going to be important.
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How do you balance like knowing that you
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guys won this game? I know you said
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earlier, like obviously that's most
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important. How do you balance that, but
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also knowing that there's still some
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improvements and things that you guys
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need to do differently, especially down
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the stretch in some of these games?
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Uh, I just feel like, you know,
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it's always good to win. So, you know,
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you take that, you you learn from that
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and, you know, you can always learn from
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a win, too. So, I mean, I won the game,
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so I'm excited about that, but at the
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same time, it's like, what's next? What
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do you think happened in the last 10
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minutes when you you got a double- digit
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lead that just went away? You had a long
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the team had a long scoreless drought.
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I feel like you got content and
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you know, we just didn't stick with what
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was working. That's what I feel like.
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You know,
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what was working?
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I mean,
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in the first half, we built a big lead.
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Uh I think I was able to get more
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touches. We were able to dominate points
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in the paint. A lot of our buckets were
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probably assisted, I think. So that's
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what I feel like was working, but we
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just didn't get to that later in the
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game.
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What do you think was the biggest key
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when you guys were up that 15 mark that
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you guys could have done differently
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that would have allowed you to maybe
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pull away that 20 mark and sort of put
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the game away?
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Still what was working?
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That's what I was
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obviously so many different facets to
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your game. Um, but it seems to me that
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one of the maybe underrated aspects is
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your ability as a passer. Just curious
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how you think about your ability to pass
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and find your teammates and how that's
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kind of developed and what importance
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you place on that in terms of your own
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game.
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Uh for me I mean I try to get my
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teammates involved as much as I can and
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uh I mean I feel like even today I feel
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like I could have had 10 assists if my
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teammates made the shots that I gave
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them. But
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you know it's all it's all about you
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know trusting your teammates and you
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know I feel like throughout the year my
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teammates will hit the shots.
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the way every the fans are just care
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about everything and how the fans are
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every here every night here bumping up
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they were you know giving us energy and
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it's just a special place to be at
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appreciate you
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what was working so much better for you
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in the second half
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I feel like I was just getting kind of
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more in the rim we be able to hit a
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couple pocket passes in there but I feel
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like first half we kind of had it the
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same way and second half I just was able
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to connect a couple of the threes and I
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got some open looks and I think that's
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the only difference How do you explain
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the last two games over the last 10
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minutes? Uh Caleb hasn't gotten many
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shots. What's happened there?
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Uh I mean I feel like defenders just
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pulling in on him. Like they know he's a
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really good scorer. Whenever he
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one-on-one, most people can't guard him.
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So him just having that like it's a
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scouting thing. Like most teams are
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going to know that he's probably the
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best one-on-one scorer that we have. So
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we have to they have to get the ball out
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of his hands.
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Henry, you got a double digit lead to
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get to Ohio State. like you have a
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15-point lead tonight, both games. Each
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team was able to come back. What do you
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think is leading to that and not being
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able to put the game away maybe a little
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bit earlier than you should be able to?
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I mean, I feel like it's taking quick
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bad shots or turnovers cuz they're even
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back quick bad shots or kind of like
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shooting turnovers where they get the
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ball and run and then we are not matched
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up. They get an easy layup or open three
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and kind of the first half of all those
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like transition threes like we can't let
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that happen because that's the way the
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teams are going to play against us and
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now it's on film. So, you have to be
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ready for it every game. What what what
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do you say about the the close outs on
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the three-point shooters in the last two
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games? I mean, there have been a lot of
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wide open threes. Is it just uh missing
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switches or what?
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I mean, shooting by pier.
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They shot Yeah, they shot 40% from
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three. Like, that's really good. I feel
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like part of it is just them kind of
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beating us on the pick and roll or we us
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like losing our one-on-one matchups and
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that way it's not even really the
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closeups. is more guarding the ball and
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then they just create advantages and use
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that to get open shots.
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With with late in the first half about 3
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minutes left, they had hit four straight
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wide open threes and it looked like uh
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Coach Davis really lit into you guys.
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What what was what was that timeout
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like?
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I mean for sure like we had just messed
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up multiple times in transition defense
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where they they were just able to like
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dribble in threes or one pass threes and
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just all that. Like we can't let that
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happen. Those are very easy, silly
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mistakes on our side that have nothing
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to do with how good they are rather than
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how like poorly we play defense and
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those are we're going to obviously watch
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film when we come back to the arena and
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then we're going to clean up the
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mistakes.
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Thank you.
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I do whatever it takes for my team to
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get away.
9:30
Extended minutes for you. When the horn
9:32
would sound like someone's checking in,
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did you happen to look over think maybe
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you might be coming out?
9:36
Were you a little surprised that you
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stayed in that long?
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Not necessarily. Um, it tells us a lot.
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Uh, when you get on the floor, you can
9:45
earn to stay on the floor. So, that was
9:47
my mindset. I'm earning to stay on the
9:48
floor. I'm not coming out. So, um,
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no, I didn't really look back from
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Did it feel a little bit like late last
9:54
year when you were kind of the guy
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getting a lot of shots drawn up for you
9:57
and you just out there losing yourself
9:58
for 36 minutes?
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Um,
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did you feel that? Did that comfort come
10:02
back, that groove come back during the
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second half?
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Um, a little bit. I kind of stay in my
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groove. But I don't really try to not
10:09
too high, not too low cuz my dad always
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told me. So I'm right level. Um always
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at where my feet are. So
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I don't think I know when we talked to
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you in September, you told a great story
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about coming here as a kid and you just
10:22
want to wear this uniform, but you're a
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competitor. You're an athlete, so you
10:25
want to play, too. So how do I know
10:27
Brendan asked you a little bit about
10:28
this, but how do you balance that
10:30
wanting to be here, wanting to wear the
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uniform, you've got that dream box
10:33
checked, but also wanting to be a
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contributor to wins here? um never
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settling. Nothing's enough for me. Um
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but that was drilled in me since I was
10:42
little. Uh I could have had 35 points
10:44
and my dad told me I couldn't be 40 if I
10:45
did this, this, this, and that. So, um
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that's always my mentality like stay
10:49
locked in. You can always be better. So,
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this is what I try to keep in my mind.
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What is that what does that lineup what
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makes the lineup work with you, Seth,
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and uh Jonathan together there in the
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last few minutes? What makes that lineup
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work? all three competitors. No matter
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where you put us on the floor, I think
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we're willing to figure it out and do
11:09
whatever we have to do to get a win. So,
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um that's three guys that'll definitely
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compete and just give you everything
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they got. So, I think that's why it
11:15
works.
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Thanks, Jaden. Appreciate it.
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No problem.
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You're just talking to Caleb and you
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said that one of the things that
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impressed him the most about you is just
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kind of the like sacrifice that you put
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in week after week just in the sense
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that you can go play really well. It's a
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really deep team. Maybe you're not
11:28
seeing the same as someone like him. Do
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you see it that way or I'm I'm just
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curious as a sacrifice?
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Not really a sacrifice. I think I keep
11:36
it positive for my teammates. I'm a I
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try to stay in it. Uh clap for my guys,
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celebrate them when they do good, and
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obviously they doing the same thing. So,
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it's a really close group of guys. All
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these guys are like my brother. So, um
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tell Caleb I appreciate
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what I'm sorry. Just really quick, what
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meant the most to you, if that makes
11:57
sense, the threes you were able to make
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or just the fact that coach kept you in
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in the late game?
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I can make threes anytime.
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I can make threes anytime. Him leaving
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me out there was definitely like, okay,
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I trust you. You can make the right
12:11
decision and I know you'll guard for me.
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Things like that. Just him trusting me
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enough to keep me out there.
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J, you mentioned you can make throws any
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time. as good as Caleb Mckenry has been
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this year, how important is this team
12:22
moving forward for you and and the rest
12:23
of the perimeter to be able to continue
12:24
to make shots, provide some relief to
12:26
defense back in the game.
12:28
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I think we
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definitely has to step up as a guard
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unit. Um just because a lot of guys are
12:35
doubling stuff like that, but we
12:36
definitely have the talent, we have the
12:38
skills. Uh and as we mess more as a
12:41
team, I think that'll come and then when
12:43
it does, I think we'll be one of the
12:44
best teams. Caleb said one of the things
12:46
he appreciates most about you is that
12:47
you sort of pull him aside a couple
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times, especially today, and just sort
12:50
of use your experience to let him know
12:52
what's going on. Why is that important
12:53
to you?
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Um because I was in those shoes. Uh I
12:57
wasn't really playing as a freshman, but
12:59
I saw a lot of things. I saw a lot of
13:00
plays. So everything that I learned, I
13:02
try to give to Caleb or Isaiah Dennis.
13:05
That's like my little brother. So I try
13:07
to look out for those guys anyway I can.
13:08
Uh if I see something out there or if
13:10
they see something, they'll come to me,
13:11
too.
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You're coming in, like you said, just
13:14
with a lot of veteran experience.
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