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#UNC's Henri Veesaar, Caleb Wilson and Jarin Stevenson after win over Navy.
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very long. We had a team meeting, but
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that's about it. We just said we got to
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have better effort and energy. That's
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about it.
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Week off until the competition really
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ramps up in Fort Myers. Where would you
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where would you assess this team and
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where they stand right now going into
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that?
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I think we're good. The way we know we
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have worked all summer. We played great
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against Kansas. We had I think we have
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played so far great. We have won all
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games. So, we just got to lock into that
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and have a good week of practice to be
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ready for those games. uh locking on the
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scout, locking on getting better,
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feeling for for the season.
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The cohesion on the court has been
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pretty apparent. Uh but tonight didn't
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look like it was as cohesive out there.
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Is that part of what the meeting was
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about?
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Uh team meeting is a team meeting, but
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yeah, definitely on the court, we could
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see that there was a couple maybe
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selfish plays or couple little no didn't
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have much effort on some plays or just
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didn't move the ball as well as we
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normally do. So, I think those are the
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things that we can definitely clear up
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in practice and watch film. We all see
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how bad it looks. You all know we want
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to do whatever is best for the team.
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Everybody looks better when the team
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wins and plays good.
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How do you think that happened tonight
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against a a Navy team that many expected
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you all to blow out tonight?
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Uh
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well, we came out a little flat. We
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started off good and then we they came
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back and then they had the momentum and
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then we tried to fight back and then we
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they got the momentum again. So, there
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was a lot of momentum changes and we
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can't let that happen. We got to we
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can't get that in our feelings and
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emotions. We just got to keep a straight
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uh face all throughout the game. Play
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with emotion and have good vibes as a
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team. Just play with effort and energy
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and then move the ball and take care of
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it. That's all it takes to win win big.
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Henry, you guys have a significant edge
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in height and length and you should be
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able to pound it inside. Is that some of
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one of the things that maybe frustrated
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Hubert tonight that you guys weren't
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consistently getting inside?
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Uh yeah, definitely like uh we expected
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to be a lot more inside than we were,
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but I think we still did a decent job of
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feeding the post. I didn't convert and
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love those things. So, I think those
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things just add up as well. When you
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don't convert, the balls come in there
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less. And I think that goes for the
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whole team. We missed a whole bunch of
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layups that we need to be better at.
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So, the coaches talked to you and then
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it was a team only meeting. Is that what
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happened?
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Yes.
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Who who called the team meeting?
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Players.
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I mean, who decided that hey,
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his players?
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Yeah. I'm not going to ask you
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specifically what was said in there.
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You're going to keep that to yourself. I
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get that. But how much of that was
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triggered by that 15 nothing run? Uh for
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sure having kind of run like that like
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it's it's unacceptable like the way we
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play it's just simply unacceptable the
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team like that maybe hats off they
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played a great game they were very
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disciplined play physical and we let
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that bother us and we kind of at the end
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of the game some of us probably thought
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the game was over and then they made a
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like big run and then everybody came
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back and our effort wasn't there where
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it needed to be and then they came
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closer even more. So what's the lesson
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from that?
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We got to keep the foot on the gas. You
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can't let it go because
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Was there anything that I guess flipped
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for you offensively going from that
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first half to second half? Like what was
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kind of that mindset for you heading
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into that second?
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I just decided I was going to be
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aggressive and just take over the game.
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Everybody out there, nobody could stop
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me. So I just went and kale it sounded
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like after the coaches talked to you,
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the players decided to have a meeting.
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Who called the team meeting and how'd
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that come about?
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I have no comments. You guys have a week
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off until you go to Fort Myers in the
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competition, you know, starts to really
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ramp up against St. Von, Michigan State.
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Where would you where would you grade
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you guys right now? Where do you stand
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going into that? How do you feel about,
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you know, this year's team?
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Uh,
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I think I'll be have a better grade when
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we go through practice this week. Uh,
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just final tuning things up, but I
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always feel like my team is prepared and
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ready. So, that's all I can say.
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You see, you seem a little disappointed.
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Was it because of the performance you
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guys played tonight?
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No, I'm just
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No, it's not about the performance. I
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just feel like, you know, well, I guess
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it is. We just got to be better. That's
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all I can say.
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Is Is it frustrating or is it something
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you easily fix for you guys? You think?
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Uh I think it's always an easy fix. You
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know, we're a talented team. We just got
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to get together.
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Why do you think the game was a lot
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closer tonight against a team that you
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all are way taller than than uh than me?
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Uh we just didn't impose our will, I
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don't think. Uh that's that's all I can
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say on that. We're going to be one of
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the bigger teams in every game we play
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with two sevenfooters and size at the
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three position we're gearing. So, you
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know, it's just imposing our will on us.
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That that that late run, what was going
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on in that late run? They scored like 15
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straight points.
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Uh lack of communication. Uh they hit
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some good shots. That's probably all I
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can say. Uh just got to communicate
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better on defense and make sure we're
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physical against teams that are going to
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play hard.
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Do you guys underestimate them?
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I know I didn't. I mean, I can't speak
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for my teammates, but I feel like we're
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we're always coming out the first half
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kind of slow. So, we kind of got to work
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on fixing that, picking it up.
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Caleb, it seemed like you played with
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like fire in the second half that we
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haven't really seen from you in these
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like mid- major games. What was the
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reason for that? Was that your first
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half experience in the foul trouble
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world or why'd you come out so far in
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the second?
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I just I just was frustrated with my
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performance in the first half and I was
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frustrated the game was close. Supposed
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to be a top team in the country. There's
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no way that game should be close.
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Do you feel like you responded?
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Just letting you know.
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Yeah, I feel like I did, but it
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shouldn't have to be.
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You'll have to make a choice at that
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point. players are humor.
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The dunks said the 15 nothing run that
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they had was a big part of why you guys
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called that meeting. But you think you
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guys were trending toward one anyway
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because it didn't look like the cohesion
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was out there really at all tonight.
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Yeah, it's partially that, but I feel
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like yeah, throughout the whole game we
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we weren't playing to our potential and
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um yeah, we got to be better. A lot of
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mistakes um let them back into the game.
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We got a 150 run. Um even like in the
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first half um we were up 10 and they're
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creeping back in and keeping it close.
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Um and yeah, we're just making a lot of
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mistakes so we got to clean that up.
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Who decided who decided to have the team
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meeting? Who initiated that?
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Um yeah, our leaders like Seth
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Seth.
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Yeah,
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sometimes team meetings don't go well.
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Sometimes they're very beneficial. How
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would you say this was?
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Um it was good. Again, we're going to
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clean up a lot of mistakes. She talked
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about a lot of the mistakes we had
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whether it's like defensive assignment
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like messing up communicating I feel
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like is a big thing. Um and
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yeah just fix fixing those mistakes. J.
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