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#UNC's Caleb Wilson and Henri Veesaar after loss at Stanford
Jan 15, 2026
#UNC's Caleb Wilson and Henri Veesaar after loss at Stanford
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to start. Um, Coach Davis, I notic on
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his radio show that um, these past two
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games he thought were the four worst
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defensive halves for you guys in the
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season. Just what were some of the
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defensive things he emphasized what you
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guys going into this one? How well
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defense you guys?
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I mean, he emphasized everybody didn't
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do at the end of the game. He emphasized
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on being physical. Feel like for the
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whole game, we had like five minutes
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playing good defense. That was at the
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start of second half where we really
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turned it up and then we kind of just
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let go and they kept coming. what he
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said to us was just be physical, kind of
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try to play our defense, you stick to
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our principles, everybody communicate
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and talk loudly and we got to listen.
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Those are the main things, just being
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able to communicate and listening and
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doing what we say.
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Henry, pull that mic closer to you,
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please.
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Hey, just for both of you guys, what do
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you think is wrong with the perimeter
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defense the last three games? That's 44
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threes that opponents have made the last
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three games. I
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mean, I feel like we could be more
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physical, just being better overall. I
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think that's not our job to say. It's
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coaches are better at it. They're going
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to tell us what we got to change. This
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got to change quick for us to be able to
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win games and consistently.
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When you're in the midst of the game,
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what do you think is giving you trouble?
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You guys are doing what you're doing. I
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see those guys wide open for three. What
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do you think? What do you think? What do
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you see when you're out there leading to
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those open shots? I mean, we clearly
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have a lot of mistakes on defense just
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being like not communicating or not
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talking or not listening cuz we got to
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be just aware to have a lot of more
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defensive awareness than we have right
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now cuz we like double a ball screen and
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then we have a wide open guy right next
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to it where we're still supposed to
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somebody steal that pass cuz it's a one
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pass away. So just overall like little
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those little things like we can't win
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that way.
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Uh
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I just think we just got to make a miss.
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I mean, we
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people people are hitting shots. We just
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got to make a miss. I mean, that's all I
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can really say. And when somebody got
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somebody has 36 points on us and I think
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two other players had
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20
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20 can't happen. That's all I can
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say.
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Caleb, I guess just um can you describe
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your emotions after this one? Just the
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emotions kind of in the long run.
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Uh me, I'm I'm I'm frustrated. Uh, I
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hate to lose and
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I hate losing when we don't have to. So,
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uh,
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that's all I can say. I mean, the motion
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in the locker room, nobody was really
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talking. So, that's all I can say.
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You guys can speak up on your questions
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with the band playing. Thank you.
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I feel like everybody, like personally,
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I think everybody's pissed off because
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we know that those are our controls that
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are in our control that we can play and
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we can do. So, I think just clearing up
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those little things and maybe like in
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some of the ball screens just be more
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aggressive as bigs or like guards can be
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more physical and just taking those care
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of and just one-on-one taking pride in
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your matchup, not letting a guy score on
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you and just being proud to wear this
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uniform and do what we can do to win the
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game.
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What's what's missing when you guys
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repeatedly last two games built 12-point
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leads and you can't hold them? I feel
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like uh when we get the shot like our
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shot selection or just the turnovers,
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careless turnovers or bad shots, those
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make a huge run because sometimes we
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have shooting turnovers or we just give
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the ball away. When we get the lead, we
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become like careless and just having
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those shots, they get the ball long
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rebound, they push it up, they have a
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advantage and they shoot a quick
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transition three. Like those are things
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that we can take care of with shot
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selection rather than even defense.
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Caleb, I'm just curious. What was kind
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of they held you to six points in the
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first half and then second half you came
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out and on your own had an 80 run. What
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was kind of the key for you to get that
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run going? Personally,
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I was just thinking to go get it done. I
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know most times I'm playing a team their
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their primary focus is probably me and
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Henry. So, if I don't go and assert
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myself in multiple ways in transition or
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doing other things, I won't get open
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looks or get good touches. So, I just
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decided to be more aggressive and
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finding open looks.
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Caleb, can you talk about what it's like
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guarding uh well, you know, North
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Carolina as a whole, you know, having to
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guard a guy like Kabuka, Cory, and kind
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of what he brings to the table?
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Uh, he's just he's a good player. You
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know, he's fast. He was able to do a lot
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of things to get open looks and get his
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teammates open.
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For both of you guys, what now? You got
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a couple days to play Cal and then
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you're going to go up to Berkeley for a
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couple days in practice there. How do
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you get your minds back right to go deal
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with what you're going to deal with
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there? I mean what's done is done. Just
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being able to take like have the next
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shot mentality like this game is done.
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We have another game coming in a couple
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days just go back learn from this game
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watch film in this game and then
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concentrate on the next opponent and do
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whatever we can do to have the best
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defensive game there and just really
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change our identity as a team and show
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how physical we can be and how good we
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can be defensively because I think
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that's what coaches take pride in and
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we're not doing our job as players.
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When you say change the identity, what
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identity do you think needs to be
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changed? I feel like we just have to
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take pride in playing defense and
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playing one-on-one matchups overall. And
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like just as a team being help like it
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ain't a one so if somebody scores 36
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points that ain't like a one man job
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like one guy has to guard him. It's the
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whole team. We got to be more in the
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gaps. We got to be more helping. We got
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to just rotate better, be quicker out of
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it. He did an incredible job of passing
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out and they got a lot of threes and
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just making the easy simple plays. But
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we got to do a way better job with the
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being disruptive on defense. One thing
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Hubert uh mentioned after the Wake
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Forest game was you guys, you know, took
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your foot off the gas against Wake
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Forest and then tonight you guys have
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12-point leads in the first half and the
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second half and then kind of Stanford
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comes right back out and goes on these
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big runs. I guess what's what's the key
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for you guys to be able to keep your
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foot on the gas and not let situations
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like that happen?
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Uh I mean
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he said it earlier. He already kind of
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answered that.
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Yeah. I feel like
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turnovers and shots.
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Yeah, that's basically what it is. I
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feel like it's not even that we let our
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energy drown and we like lose focus.
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It's more if we take a couple bad shots
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or like get a little bit careless with
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the ball or don't value the possession
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as much when we get up.
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I think we we got to stick to what
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works, what got us the lead. That's my
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opinion.
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For Caleb, I guess Henry was hitting on
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it earlier, but just um again, they seem
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to really be attacking the switches.
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What did you see as maybe some issues or
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lapses there for you guys?
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Uh
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they
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ran the same play pretty much every time
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down the court. They ran a horn set, uh,
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brought the three and the four up, came
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off the right side, and basically just
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played isolation basketball. So, I mean,
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I guess I mean, I guess at the end of
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the day, it's just being about being
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able to guard your yard. Uh,
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I mean, that's really all I can say.
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They stuck to exactly what was working.
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They ran the same plays over and over
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again. It wasn't like they were doing
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anything special.
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All right, guys. Thank you. Uh, I got to
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check and I'm not