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#UNC postgame interviews with Seth Trimble, RJ Davis and Coach Hubert Davis after loss at Pitt
Jan 29, 2025
#UNC postgame interviews with Seth Trimble, RJ Davis and Coach Hubert Davis after loss at Pitt
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Seth what did you feel like we wrong
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down the stretch there you guys missed
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your final seven shots miss the uh with
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that uh I just think we over DED a lot
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throughout the game and just had a lot
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of silly turnovers which pit definitely
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executed on so you know I feel like we
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take away half of that uh you know take
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away half of our Force shots that we
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kind of force up from was over dribbling
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just the ball just being stagnant
0:23
whatever it was take that half that away
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and it's a different game so when you
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talk about the over dribbling what do
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you think leads to to that like what do
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you I guess what breaks down in
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offense yeah we'll have our primary and
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second actions and we'll have our
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primary and secondary actions and then
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uh I think we just maybe rely on one
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thing too much after that and it's
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really just simple as that so if you
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guys are up four with 6 and a half
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minutes left they out score your 14-2 to
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close a game this has happened a lot
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this year how do you put your how do you
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wrap your arms around something like
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that to kind of understand why it
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happened so often
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to watch film uh continue to hear you
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know what our cousins are telling us cuz
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what they're telling us you know if we
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can translate it into the game come
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crunch time uh crunch time and whatnot
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we can win these games but I don't know
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maybe there's just this barrier with us
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right now I don't know what it is but
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you know we got to figure out how to
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translate you know what we learning here
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in the film room uh to the court cuz
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like I said it keeps happening over and
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over again apologies if this has already
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been asked just got down here but pit
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started switching screens in the second
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half switching everything thing how did
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that affect you guys
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offensively
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uh I don't know probably made our ball
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movement uh more stagnant uh we had to
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force a lot more tougher shots in the
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second half uh and like I said we just
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started over dribbling cuz we saw they
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switching and we just kind of try to do
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too much one-on-one you know leading to
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late shot clocks uh late four shots
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whatever it is so I guess I guess it
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threw I guess it threw it off you know
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didn't really realize is it is it a
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matter of over dribbling or not
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dribbling with a
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purpose that's what over dribling is
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okay yeah sorry sorry not to giving yeah
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no no that's a great answer I I I I you
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you just you're standing in place
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dribbling instead of yeah that you know
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over dribbling is not dribbling
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purpose how does that I'm sorry how does
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that get rectified is it just a matter
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of having certain sets and staying in
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the set or the actions or how do you
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guys fix that having certain sets but
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then just not shutting down after you
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know our set goes down uh just continue
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up our ball movement continue to set go
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screens uh we did that Network a little
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bit today just continue to be active off
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the wall you know we just sit and watch
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somebody that's part of the reason why
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the ball gets stagnant you know I can't
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blame it on just the ball hand because
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we're just sitting there watching
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somebody so it's on us too Jeff cable
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noted that they they to try to negate
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what you guys were doing in the first
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half they left their bigs on you guys on
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the perimeter what did that do and how
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did you guys need to adjust to that when
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they when they did that when they let
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their bigs on us yeah uh I mean we tried
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to attack him more we tried to attack
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him more I feel that could help us out a
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little bit
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uh sometimes it didn't but I don't think
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you know that play the biggest effect on
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what went wrong in the second half does
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it make it particularly frustrating set
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when you see how you guys did fight on
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the boards I mean you outrebounded them
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by 10 without Jay wash out there I mean
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is that does that make it this one
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harder to sort of digest when you when
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you know how active you were in that
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area absolutely absolutely we know if we
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take care of the boards uh and we can do
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that we know we put ourselves in a good
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position so to do that
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I mean some means that we did something
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terribly wrong hand so what it was turn
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the ball over and them executing off of
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it being St whatever it was but that's
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something that we always we always just
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push on each other get into the boards
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and outrebound another team and we
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always want to be 10 plus so we hear
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that today that's kind of shocking
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that's really shocking that we end up
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how quickly are you able to turn
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yourself towards Saturday was such an
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important game ahead of he's got to be
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right now that's rival uh du top two
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team the country right now they got
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incredible players if we want to sit and
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M around about this loss it's not good
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so the second we leave this Arena our
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heads have to be towards do you know
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what we need to do go on camera and get
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a win you guys had fourth game stretch
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of you know four consecutive wins these
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last four three losses in four games
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just what do you think has you played a
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lot of close ones obviously but I guess
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what do you think is kind of
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Chang I don't know
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I don't know I don't know I know we
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haven't shot the ball as well in these
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last uh threee Forest games I had a
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terrible shooting night you know I make
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two or three more shots maybe it's a
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different game whatever the fact is I
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know we haven't shot the ball as well
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but I you know I I really don't
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know you up 10 pit kind of goes into
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flurry I guess what kind of kept you
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guys from you know holding that League
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going
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into uh I turn the ball over two times
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inow that led to them capitalizing to
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two threes and then um that's why we
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went from up 10 to uh up to most the
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half
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time let me wrap your mind around the
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fact that you guys again lose a close
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game that you lead l and other team
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closes on a big run well it's kind of
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just like the same movie over and over
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again at this point
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um just like not executing and you know
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not finishing plays like like Sid plays
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here and there when we had the lead then
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uh like one little mistake leads to
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another um big three or big play by the
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opposing team so it's kind of just like
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the same thing over and over again that
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at this point we just got to eliminate
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Seth was talking about too much drivve
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dribbling because when the set breaks
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down you guys just kind of get into
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stand round mode and somebody's
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dribbling trying to make something
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happen how how simple is that or how
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difficult is that to fix given the fact
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that you guys are 22 games in what
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happen uh well I think you know for pit
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they were in like a 15 so they switched
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one through the five and we were trying
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to just get the mismatch with the five
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and then set go screens and I think
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sometimes we did a good job of doing
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that but then other times it got a
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little bit too stagnant um more times
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than U that we needed so um we look back
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at the film and then correct what we
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need to correct and then move on to the
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next game how much did RJ did you think
6:23
Elliott's foul trouble sort of slowed
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you guys down because it seemed like
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when he was running the show things were
6:29
going pretty decently sometimes but the
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fouls kind of kept forcing him out of
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the game yeah I mean Ellie is a big part
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of um our game plan and he does a good
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job of just getting guys um in the right
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spots and finding them so um that's just
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you know just wasn't him and fouble uh
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we had a lot of timely fouls as a team
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that kind of um affected our momentum um
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so we just got to do a better job
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defending without fouling so yeah what
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was coach Davis's message after you guys
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um just got to stay together and talk
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more about when we get back to chill how
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hard is it to move on to uh Saturday uh
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such a big game after after a difficult
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like game like this I mean it's hard uh
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CU yet again another game that we should
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have won um but obviously we know was
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coming Saturday it's a a rivalry game so
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um we got to use this as motivation and
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kind of just see what we did right see
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what we did wrong and then go to
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Saturday with uh a sense of confidence
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and you know positivity at the end of
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the day that rivalry game has changed
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seon in the past obviously 22 going to
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Duke and doing what you guys did changed
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everything can you look at it like that
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yeah I mean yeah 100% I mean how I'm
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looking at it is just another
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opportunity and another game where we
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can put ourselves in a good position
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moving forward and um you know Duke's a
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really good basketball team so we have
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to come ready to play so um I mean
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that's just the main message as are
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right now what what you guys' plan that
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got you so many open looks for three in
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the first half and how did that what
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changed to get you guys out of out of
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that in second um they were switching so
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uh whether that was be a ball screen or
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a goal screen kind of just get the
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defense um confused a little bit so I
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think that allowed him to get some open
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looks in the first half um so um and I
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was able to confidently just knock him
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down RJ thank
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you capitalize on you know guys turnover
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I don't remember the exact number of
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points off turn 22 points off 14
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turnover yeah just how I guess even the
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the timeliness of the turnovers I mean
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how much do you think that kind of you
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know changed the ti I do I think um the
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turnovers were costly I think uh the
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time of the turnovers were costly and I
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think the conversion of the turnovers I
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mean that's
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almost a pick six every time you turn
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the ball over you're scoring and so
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um very difficult to
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uh to withstand something like that some
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of the guys were saying that sometimes
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the the over dribble you know on
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and just what do you think kind of leads
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to that and just what kind of leads to
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against guys just kind of you know over
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dribbling and play talking well one of
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the things that we talk about all the
9:10
time is um 0 five mentality on the
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offensive end as soon as you catch it
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shoot it pass it or drive it um we never
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talk about holding it or over dribbling
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it it's uh um so um those are the things
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that we talk about on offens you guys
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were up four with 6 and a half minutes
9:30
left they'll score you 14-2 to close the
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game this has happened a lot how how can
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you
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characterize the the the differences or
9:37
the similarities in these different
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closes by opponents yeah I don't I I'm
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not sure if we can lump all of them
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together I I
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just
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um yeah we had costly turnovers but we
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missed three or four layups we had shots
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around the rim that just didn't go in
9:56
that would have tied the game put us up
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by a couple and so
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um you know we had three looks at The
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Rim to tie it within two minutes to go
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and just weren't able to
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convert what is the level of frustration
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when it continues to
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happen um I I think it's a combination
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of a number of things frustration
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disappointment
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um I think it stops there and I think it
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has to stop there you our next game is
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on Saturday
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and we've got to find a way to get
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better in that area especially in late
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games and not just late games throughout
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the entire um game you talk about down
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the
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stretch I I don't know how many points
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we had but I mean we had a lead in the
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first half up 10 yeah we're up 10 in the
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first half so that's a common thing same
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thing against Stanford same thing
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against wake far first you know we have
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leads and then we go into halftime and
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we're only up by one or up by two I
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can't remember how much we l in the
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second half you know it's just seven um
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seven yeah so you know and one of the
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things that we always talk about is you
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know we can get there but can we stay
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there you know with that level of
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attention to detail and consistency and
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so um I
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wouldn't I wouldn't Point towards just
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the end of the game I would say
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throughout the entire game where we've
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done a good job of building the lead and
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then we have those stretches throughout
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the entire game you hang on if you want
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Elliot he's heading out so grab Elliot
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right now too please you you guys had a
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really good shooting with shooting
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around the perimeter in the first half
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what changed that got you the guys out
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of that Rhythm or what did you guys need
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to do better to maintain that throughout
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the rest of the game well I mean um
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defensively they switched up and started
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switching everything on in off the ball
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and so when teams do that they make you
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play one-on-one one and as I referenced
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before I felt like instead
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of you know moving the ball I I felt
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like at times we tried to attack maybe a
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little bit too quickly you know off
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those switches but you know you got to
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give credit to uh Pittsburgh and then
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Austin had five blocks he's a perimeter
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player and had five blocks and I don't
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know how many of them were on jump shots
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and so you
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know sometimes who individual or an
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opponent makes better plays than you do
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he in your opinion what do you think
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Elliot still needs to learn about
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playing with fouls and not committing
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more I've seemed like his foul trouble
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tripped you up some in the second half
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because when he was in you know you guys
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were crisper it seemed like well I think
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um I wouldn't characterize it in regards
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to a specific player I would say
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our foul
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troubles 90 ft away from the basket
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those types of fouls yeah they they they
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may seem little but that's one towards
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the penalty sorry about that and so that
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gets a team towards a biling so that's
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been another thing you know we lead the
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ACC in free throw attempts and free
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throws made and we lost a battle at the
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free throw line um in large part because
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Pittsburgh in both halves were able to
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get into the penalty because um you know
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we had unnecessary
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filing how do you keep these guys
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together and spirits up oh that's easy
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yeah that's easy is it I I do I do what
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what choice do you have I mean yeah you
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do I mean
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um I love these kids I love this team
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and um it's great lesson for this group
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and this team it's a great lesson for
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life
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and I really believe that there is no
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choice the choice is to get back up and
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step forward and continue to
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competitively fight and prepare
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and continue to improve I I just don't
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even think there is a choice do you look
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at it like we're close over and over
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again in these late game situations or
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do you more look at it like we can't
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find a way to to close it out outside of
14:29
Austin College yeah again I I
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don't I wouldn't look at it in late game
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situations I I would characterize it for
14:36
the entire game you know for you said
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we're up by 10 in the first half you
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know I I it's those stretches and you
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know we have a thin margin for error and
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those stretches throughout the entire
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game you know really hurt us hbert we've
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all seen the rivalry games change a
15:02
team's Focus get them really together to
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an extent we saw that with you guys in
15:06
22 what happened at Cameron seemed to
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change the whole season um do you look
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at Saturday as an opportunity to for
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this team to really lock in and and get
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moving in the right direction No I um
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Saturday is
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um we'll prepare we'll practice and
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we'll play with the same type of uh
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competitive enthusiasm that we played
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with tonight you know I I don't believe
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in one game being more than I I think
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every game is a Super Bowl whether it's
15:42
a preseason game I I just anytime you
15:45
get a chance to step out there on the
15:46
floor it's you should be ready to go
15:49
Wonder most of these guys you're going
15:50
to get them again on Thursday and it's
15:52
midnight so how how close was Jaylen
15:54
Washington to playing tonight I mean he
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warmed up S yeah he wasn't close but
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he's um
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um
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improving um fast and um we were really
16:06
scared um because of the history of his
16:08
knee and what was going to happen and
16:12
everything came back negative and um
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he's improved dramatically um every day
16:18
since uh the Boston College and but he
16:21
was he wasn't ready to play he didn't
16:23
practice the last couple of days but um
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he's improving um a lot every every day
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thanks coach than
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