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#UNC coach Hubert Davis at ACC weekly Zoom press conference ahead of game at Wake Forest
Jan 20, 2025
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maybe some of the things that they were
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doing with Ian to prevent him from
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getting as many touches and he didn't
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have his productive a game you said you
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wanted to watch some film what were some
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of the things that they did defensively
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that he can learn from to maybe work
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around because teams are obviously going
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to start planning more and more for him
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because of his production over the last
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month and a
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half well I mean I mean obviously he's
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you know every game he's getting more
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and more attention um and rightfully so
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by the way
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um um that he's playing um um I I don't
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necessarily think Stanford did anything
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drastic it's just you know the way that
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Ian has been playing you know he's he's
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at the top of the list in terms of
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trying to keep him out of transition
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trying to keep him out of the lane uh
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try to keep him from the basket and um
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just in regards for the entire team I
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just uh you know we went to the free
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throw line I think 24 times made 20 of
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them um we just got to do a better job
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of that the the two best ways that we
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score is one in transition and two uh
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being able to attack the basket and be
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able to score around there and be able
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to get fouled and get to the free throw
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line so as a team we just gota you know
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we just got to do a better job of that
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was there one thing or maybe two things
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that stood out especially over the last
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uh five or so minutes of the game that
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you guys did not do well the other day
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that is mandatory that must get fixed
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that's kind of repeated itself a few
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times in situations like that well again
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I wouldn't just look at it the last five
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minutes of the game I I just you know
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it's
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um I think I said on Saturday there were
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a number of little things that we just
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made mistakes on I mean from
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um execution on the offensive events
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like setting
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screens uh spacing going to the
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offensive glass
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um out of bounds
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underneath uh boxing out those things I
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I I you know guys I don't look at just
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the five minutes I look at the entire
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game and there's there's plays all
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throughout the game um in any game that
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like The Details Matter like every
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possession matters it's not just within
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the last five minutes I it's the entire
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game that you have to look at and look
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at way to continue to do the things that
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you're doing well and also the things
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that you aren't doing well how to fix
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those and make those consistently things
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that you're doing doing on the good part
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thank you appreciate it go next to
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Jeremiah Holloway go ahead
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Jeremiah hey good morning Hubert um
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wanted to ask about of course uh Jaylen
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Washington and ven Lubin you guys are
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able to get them involved in the pick
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and roll game the other night um
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obviously we talked about uh J wash
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having a good stretch games and and
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Luben had the season high on points the
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other day uh how have you seen with
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those two at the five their games kind
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of compliment each other you know being
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able to have one in there for certain
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stretches and the other in there for
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others well I mean I I you know I don't
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know the statistics um but you know in
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terms of you know combining their stats
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in terms of points and
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rebounds um you know over the last five
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six maybe seven games they've
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consistently given us
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production um from that position and so
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whether it
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be Jay wash is blocking shots rebounding
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the
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basketball guys finishing around the
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basket running the floor in transition
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and so um that's been really good for us
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and
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um you know I'm happy that uh they're
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continuing to improve and and giving the
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team the type of production that they've
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been given over the last five or six
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games uh Michael Co go
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ahead good morning Hubert uh the uh the
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trip to Winston coming up uh tomorrow
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night that's a place that in recent
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years you guys have struggled to win
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what is it about you know the way Wake
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Forest plays the way coach Forbes
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coaches that makes them a difficult
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matchup well Wake Forest is always good
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and Coach Forbes is a great coach I mean
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um but I mean you're right the last two
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times that we've been there we haven't
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played our best we haven't played well
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and we just hadn't played well but and
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we had a good practice yesterday we'll
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have a good one today and we're excited
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about the challenge of playing tomorrow
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night uh Brett freedlander go ahead
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staying with the uh the WG Forest theme
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Hunter silus has got six straight 20 20o
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games what makes him so difficult to
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defend well I mean he's got good size
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quickness uh he's aggressive he's a
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three-level scorer so he can uh finish
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around the basket he can shoot threes
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and he's got a really good mid-range
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game and so um you know the ball will be
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in his hands a lot you know he has the
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green light to be able to attack on
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every possession and you know's and he
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gets after it defensively too like he's
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a really good Defender active Defender
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that gets Steals and deflections like
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he's a two-way complete player and um I
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think those are some of the things that
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that make him really productive and um
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why you said he's on a stretch of was it
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five or six straight uh 20-point games
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thanks a lot good luck this week yeah
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thanks uh back to Andrew Jones hey coach
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I want to ask you about RJ 's thumb he's
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talked a little bit about it but not too
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much uh two-part question here one is
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that affecting him at all and and the
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second part is as a great shooter like
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you were when you have a rap like that
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how much can it affect you over
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time you know I Andrew
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I you know I I think that's a question
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for RJ I mean you know we haven't talked
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about that at all I mean
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throughout what is it January 20th I
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mean I think you can go to pretty much
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any player in the country that's playing
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heavy minutes there there there's got to
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be something that's sore so
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um I've been blessed to be able to coach
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RJ the last five years and I couldn't
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think of a better person and a better
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player uh to coach over these last five
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years I've absolutely loved it
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thanks uh Brendan marks go ahead
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sir thank you how are you good I'm doing
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good uh just wanted to ask you a little
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bit about Wake Forest and them inserting
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Tyler Johnson into the starting lineup
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what sort of difference have you seen in
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the overall efficiency from their
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offense since he's been in the starting
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five seems like he's freed up Salis and
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hildr to do some more stuff off
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ball um well I mean one of the things
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that um you know you talk about the
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freedom in the
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spacing uh to be able you know
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to um to be scores to be more on attack
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from an offensive standpoint you know I
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I think you know the responsibility of
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getting a team in the offense getting
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everybody set um that that is
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um something that obviously both of them
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can do but it allows them um to really
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be
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impactful um on the offensive end in
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terms of thinking attack they're they're
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both great Distributors um you know they
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can create not only themselves but for
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their teammates but I think it puts them
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in a position where um where I think
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naturally where they fit from an
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offensive standpoint where they can they
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can first think score and attack and
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create as opposed to getting everybody
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else
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involved thank
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you Hubert thank you for the time
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appreciate it yeah have a good day guys
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see you guys later
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