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UNC's Indya Nivar, Courtney Banghart and Lexi Donarski after the Tar Heels roll to win at SMU. #UNC
Jan 17, 2025
UNC's Indya Nivar, Courtney Banghart and Lexi Donarski after the Tar Heels roll to win at SMU. #UNC
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from coach and then we'll go to
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questions on Zoom then we'll end with
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questions in the room coach whenever
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you're ready well it's our first ACC
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game in a new time zone so really
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exciting to uh be here at SMU uh with
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one of our new partners um you know I
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thought we did a lot of good things on
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the defensive end really made it
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difficult for some of their guys to get
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what they want um and also I thought we
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showed a lot of growth offensively we
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didn't feel that we had played very well
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offensively the last time out um and I
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thought we were much better in a variety
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of ways um would be remiss not to talk
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about Alyssa you know should be here but
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she's got a lot of family here and I
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wanted her to be with them um she's got
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a she had about a million rebounds um
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and really did did a good job on the
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ball screen defense being able to switch
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out and keep bodies in front of the ball
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um and you know obviously these two do a
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lot for us so they're looking forward
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answering the
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questions yeah U both if you talk about
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the defense against Robertson she she
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was scoreless in the first half and she
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just couldn't get anything going what
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what were you what was the plan there to
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stop her yeah I feel like obviously it's
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an entire team effort especially with
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someone that's talented and as quick and
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Shifty as she is um I mean some of it
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comes down to you got to just get in a
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stand and try to keep the ball in front
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of you but I feel like our ball screen
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defense was great being able to switch
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with Alyssa and Maria or Sierra or
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anyone that was in our five position
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being able to step up and really help
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contain for one to two dribbles after
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the ball screen was critical to keeping
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her in front of us what about you Andy
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oh yeah same thing um no Islands um was
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our big thing coming into this game
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making sure we we were in the gaps to
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help the on ball def Defender and then
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making sure our secondary defense was
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there as well um so that we can draw
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draw charges or make her Force bad
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shots but but overall I mean you you had
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some amazing defensive games
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but 33 points yeah I meame we almost set
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the program record yeah um you know this
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is a good offensive team especially at
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home um but our defense we have some
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some of the best primary Defenders I've
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ever coached and then together they can
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communicate and have a lot of experience
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together so um you know and we didn't
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quite honestly we didn't think we
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defended very well against Boston
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College so they kind of owed this one
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back to themselves um and we focused
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more on the offensive end and and they
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they did what they got to do Andia uh I
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don't want to say the team was
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struggling earlier on offensively but
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you were the one that kind of got a kick
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started how did that happen for you uh
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to you know pick up nine in the first
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half oh yeah just this whole week guards
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as guards was F were was focusing on
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change of speeds um making sure that
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when we attack Retreat we still might
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have a lane to get past our Defenders
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and being aggressive because when we're
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aggressive that's when our offense blows
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that's when we get open shots on the
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three um yeah yeah I thought India was
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you know she's worked really hard on her
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offensive game I thought it's a good
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pickup she had a lot of she had a lot of
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good she'll like a lot of her Clips I
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think on the offensive end she won't
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like some of them yeah the had a nice
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20th birthday he 21st 21st 21st wow yes
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yes yeah we can't lose on any's birthday
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yeah and and Lexi tonight um you know I
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know this is kind of what this team does
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but what sets you up for being so wide
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open I I know you got to make the shot
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but these are right in Rhythm exactly
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like you want it what's happening around
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you to help set you up to do that yeah I
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mean it comes down to what our guards
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worked on all week which was changing
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speeds getting your feet in the paint or
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attacking a gap and trying to get either
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the big defender or one of the Guard
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Defenders to help to collapse on that so
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we can find open Shooters and also in
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transition so I would say it was a
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combination of both of those things and
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I would add to it you know they they put
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a lot of um they put a lot of pressure
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on our interior you could tell that and
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I get it I would too you know Maria and
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Alyssa in particular are such a hard
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matchup um and so you kind of got to
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pick your poison so I thought they were
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more willing to dig and double and pre
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help in the post um which opens up our
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guards just like when they're kind of
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face running then and and and top
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blocking were're able to feed our posts
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what you du tailing he was saying you
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weren't getting that many open shots in
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recent games and you were kind of
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struggling uh from the perimeter so to
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get that and to hit five of season high
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five uh had to been a nice change up for
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you yeah I feel like it was just a good
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a step forward offensively as the team
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um as a whole so yeah it feels good when
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they go in but I mean they come down to
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the person that was willing to attack
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the gap or the postfeed kick out is why
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those I'm getting those open shots
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it seem like you trying to get it inside
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for the initial post pass to Alyssa
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early to create things it seemed like
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that happened yeah I mean we have so
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many weapons so we were trying to pick
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on certain guys to start um just as an
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entry and then I I just thought in free
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in free play which is a kind of a
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controlled Freedom uh we were better
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than we have been they played the guards
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played with with a much more aggressive
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mindset um you know and I think at times
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they were so open they were surprised
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right and so um I thought it was AEP
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forward offensively obviously we've got
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to finish and shoot better but um in
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terms of just an overall offensive game
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I thought we picked on him in a lot of
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different intentional ways did you talk
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about how their last game went with the
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players and you know the beauty of our
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guys is they're totally into basketball
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so I don't really have to so I didn't
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mention it at all you know I figured if
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they didn't know then it doesn't hurt
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them or help them and if they did know
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um and they were interested in it they'
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asked me right um so no you know we did
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tell them that this is a team that if
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you let let them feel comfortable they
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they beat Stanford and they've beaten
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good teams so beat Syracuse they've had
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a you know a close matchup so we did
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tell them that but uh no we didn't
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really I'm sure she's tired of answering
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to that and um so I didn't even bring it
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up and uh Trey yeah Trey's uh you know
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she's continuing to kind of be evaluated
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and see she'll be back I just don't know
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quite when what what what lower body
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lower lower body but did he make the
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trip is that is that yeah that's you
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know the more if she's not going to play
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today tonight it's better for her to be
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in the weight room and and getting what
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she needs to get done versus being on a
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plane and getting back after midnight
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tonight and then you know so when you're
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out we want you to be ready we want you
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to get better as quick as possible um
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and so we left pretty early we don't
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know the time zone thing and so she'd
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missed two full days of rehab and that's
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just not not worth it where did you get
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Hur uh in the in the game in the white
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game I me not not a serious thing but
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yeah thanks everyone appreciate it
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thanks guys thank you so much