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#UNC's Seth Trimble after the Tar Heels' loss at Cal
Jan 18, 2026
#UNC's Seth Trimble after the Tar Heels' loss at Cal
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the struggles that we've been going
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through the last few days. I think the
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struggles that we've gone through have
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inherited from it's nothing coaching
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related. It's nothing
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uh you know teamwise there's there's no
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there's no beef with anybody. It's just
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having that one to and just putting
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feelings aside and and just manning up
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and just going to play.
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What's the uh
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No, I mean that's that's pretty much it.
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just manning up, coming to a realization
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that
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we we got to be some men to start
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winning some games on the road.
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Let me follow up on that. Hubert said
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sometimes bumps happen.
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I'm sorry. We got to stop this. He's
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he's not doing media today.
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Oh, he is. He is. Okay. He is
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communication.
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Yeah. Hubert says that he called it a
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bump. Sometimes teams go through bumps.
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You've been through bumps and you've
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been through the other side of it. Would
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you consider this a bump? And does it
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remind you of something that you've been
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through before?
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Yes, sir. It's just a bump. I think you
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look at all the great teams in the last
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few years. Uh they don't they don't
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succeed in March without facing
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adversity uh in in these times in these
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times. Uh it's just is what it is. 2017
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I know that team started off 0 and2 in
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ACC play. Uh so
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we're we're in a familiar position with
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them and they were able to persevere and
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and and have that outcome that every
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team aspires to have. So I'm not worried
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about it. I know it's just a bump in the
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road. Uh, and I think guys after today
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has really like we've really realized
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like this has to change. So, I think it
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will and I mean I'm right with coach
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Davis.
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One more follow is the way you guys
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closed is that maybe climbing out of
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that bump area.
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Uh, absolutely. Absolutely. Uh we were
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fighting to to to get something from
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from from from the team and that second
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half the way we closed uh the way we the
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way we came back that was that was
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definitely a step in the right
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direction.
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What did you guys do defensively in the
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second half to to limit Cal to just 30
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points and 40% of the field? Uh
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we
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bossed up, we manned up, we we stopped
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playing like some boys and, you know,
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sat down the stance and starting
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guarding like we know we can guard. Uh
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these last three games, I don't know why
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we've we've been so bad defensively
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because we know that's not the defensive
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team that we are. We've showed it. Uh,
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so I really don't know why, but that
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second half we were able to we were able
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to crawl out of the deep struggles that
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we were in the last two games on the
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defensive end. We were able to beat us.
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Was that the message at halftime was to
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just kind of sack up and play?
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Absolutely. Absolutely. Uh, Coach Davis
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had a message. I had a message. All the
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guys, we were all talking locker room
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and it was basically like just to let
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go. let go of all outside noise,
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whatever fans have to say. Uh, whatever
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your expectations on yourself are. Uh,
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whatever it is, you know, I tell guys
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that it's hard to play here and playing
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here, you're going to deal with things
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that you've never dealt before, dealt
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with before playing basketball. I think
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a lot of these guys are seeing it, but a
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lot of these guys today were able to let
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go and just be there for for one
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another, all 16.
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How hard has the noise been at like
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uh I can't speak on a team.
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Well, just the outside noise. How
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difficult? You've been through it, but
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how difficult has it been to deal with
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the outside noise of play? It's been
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hasn't been very pretty the last couple.
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No, it hasn't been pretty. Uh I think
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I'm able to do a good job of of kind of
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blowing it off. Uh you know, I think the
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one thing I let it do is I let it piss
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me off, but I see that as a good thing,
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but I can't speak on for other guys. Uh,
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but the way we struggled, the way we
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haven't been able to overcome some of
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the things that we really wanted to
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while having coaches support, while
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having our teammates support, I'm sure
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that it's had some effect on some guys,
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but we'll get over it. We're fine. I
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mean, end of the day, fans love us when
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we win and they hate us when we lose.
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So,
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we love them, but at the end of the day,
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they're
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I'm not even going to say what I want to
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say.
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I'm I'm curious um just pointing to one
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part in the first half. I think it was
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after Caleb went on that personal 80
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run, but he came back to the bench and
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he was just like yelling, you know,
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shouting. What was he saying? And maybe
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what was um kind of the message he was
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trying to send to?
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He was just saying, "Let's go." Like,
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um, I'm here. My energy is here. That's
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all he was implying. That's all he was
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saying. Uh, in the first half, you see,
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we did not have that energy. Second
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half, he did. I did. Other guys did. And
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he just he got carried away with the
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game. It was as simple as that. and he
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just let his energy burst and flow. So,
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it was super exciting to see and we
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definitely need more of that from him.
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What um I guess just going back to your
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your message um at halftime, Derek wrote
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the word drive. That's something that
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you talked about um a lot and just kind
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of playing for you know the
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logo.
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Um was that something that you repeated
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again today and was feeling too much?
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Definitely is. I told have that pride
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and I told guys how hard it is to play
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here. We're going to get guys best shot
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every night. Uh it's going to be a war
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and it's going to be a battle. And one
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thing that we have to do day in and day
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out is carry this with us. Uh and and
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wear it like like no other because
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there's so many people in this world who
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would dream to wear it and don't get to.
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So I just think we just got to continue
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to realize how special this is.
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Last one. Last one about Derek. I mean
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first college start today. What you what
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did you see from him?
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He was very poised. Uh he was very calm,
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cool, collective. Uh he was incredible.
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Made big time shots. made big time
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plays. He's only gonna get better.
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They're just fantastic.
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So, appreciate man.
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Yes, sir.
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