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#UNC coach Courtney Banghart and Laila Hull after the No. 14 Tar Heels win at N.C. A&T
Nov 13, 2024
#UNC coach Courtney Banghart and Laila Hull after the No. 14 Tar Heels win at N.C. A&T
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you guys had a great crowd uh you had a
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really great crowd it was loud all night
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a lot of great energy students were
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there supporting their team um made it
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really hard for us to communicate and
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for this young season with so many young
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guys I felt like I couldn't be as
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helpful as I wanted to be it's it was
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just a great environment for us to have
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this early in the season um you know a
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lot of good players made big shots um it
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was great to for us to do a good job on
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on their best player you know holding
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her to 12 points felt like a a win that
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was we knew that was a priority coming
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in um so you know we're as a coach you
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want to be really good every chance you
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get but I know it's a process and U this
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was a step forward from the last time we
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played and we have to keep moving for
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you talk about the stretch where they
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tied at 16 and then Alyssa made about
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four plays in the next minut to just get
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you guys going yeah you know Alyssa is
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so relentless you know um I know she's
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she's what a plus 20 I mean when she's
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in the game we have opportunities to
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make plays on both sides of the ball um
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you know I think when we were able to go
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to her in the low post a little bit to
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open her up that was helpful um but yeah
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you guys are seeing Alysa usby do what
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Alysa usby
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does obviously l in the game was
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obviously you know next to you series of
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you know knock down three-pointers
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things like that had the one stretch it
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was the the block followed by the
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three-pointer on the other end just how
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much of a lift did she kind of give
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today and just you know how have you
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seen her coming to Long recently in prf
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probably probably in a in a what
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four-month period probably one of the
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most improved players I've coached um um
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I I think sometimes you talk about
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confidence confidence comes from skill
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development and skill work and skill
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Improvement um she's much better with
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the ball in her hands she's shooting the
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ball with um better rotation um she
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understands um the the defensive
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rotations better I mean she's just a
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better basketball player which of course
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now makes her more confident um her
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athleticism is a great ad to our program
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um she's a shot maker um that's that's
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great um and we hold her to a high
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standard so when we ask her to make
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adjustments she does that so um really
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really really proud of her she had as
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you know red shirt last year um which
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was a bummer but um really from what
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June you just sort of said no I guess
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from April yeah from April she just knew
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that she wanted to be better put a lot
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of time in and to go off that for uh
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from yeah April to obviously today's can
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you kind of just describe the process of
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you know getting back healthy getting
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back comfortable into obviously get into
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know playing shape and you know doing
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the things that you've been doing uh
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first we gam of the season yeah it was
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definitely an adjustment um going into
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April you know it was kind of just like
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in between Seasons we doing a lot of
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workouts and stuff and I was still
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trying to figure out like where I would
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fit and everything and then like going
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into the summer I think was my biggest
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uh part in this I think just getting up
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and down a lot with these girls and like
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also her great teammates they always try
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to make me feel comfortable as well um
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it was really a group effort I don't
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think I could have gotten where I've
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gotten uh without my teammates and also
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my coaches um it was just a lot of skill
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work a lot of uh development you know
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just like hustling and stuff like that I
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knew that for me I would have to try to
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get my minutes and stuff making plays on
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the ball hustling defensively and stuff
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like that and I feel like that's where I
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started to show myself more to practice
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and stuff and that's why I was able to
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do what I did today and why you told IM
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media day that you can make three and
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you look confident on it has has that
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always been there in your game at the
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high school level or is that something
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you or tell your that uh I would say
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yeah more my senior year for sure uh but
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I definitely like knowing like my size
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it's really important for me to be able
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to stretch out and stretch out the floor
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and everything and be able to shoot from
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the perimeter so I kind of knew that
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coming in so I focused a lot on it what
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what was going through your head when
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you scored all those eight points in the
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fourth quarter really short confidence
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um I don't know I was just shooting it
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when I was open I mean my teammates were
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able to get me really good shots so I
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was like I might as well reward them for
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the great passes and the Great Looks
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that they were getting me um just trying
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to have confidence and myself and know
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that I put in the work to make these
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shots Bia India update yeah we we feel
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fortunate that obviously Indy is warming
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up so that obviously means something and
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um you know same thing with Maria she's
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dayto day you know we'll we look forward
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to having a full roster soon and what
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are you calling that with a knee or
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lower body uh it's lower body kind of
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fatigue yeah whatever whatever you want
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to call it but you can talk to her about
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it we're not Indian
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India's very soon yeah very soon too
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yeah they're both dayto day um India's
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Got had a boot on she kind of had a
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little ankle tweak and we just don't
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want to rush it as early in the season
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so should be fine what what your
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evaluation with getting the start Sierra
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getting a lot of time the thought yeah
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you know next man up right with us
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sitting Maria we felt like we needed to
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make sure that those guys get more and
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more comfortable um which makes us
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deeper when when Maria's back um but uh
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you know a tough environment I mean
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that's a it's a great environment ENT
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did a lot of work um and they've got a
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lot of pride in their program um and so
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as a result you know that's a lot for
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these young guys a lot of these kids on
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this on this roster haven't played
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college basketball and they got a great
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first road game to have an experience
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cor I know it's of course early in the
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season I'm figuring out L things like
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that what did you like from Triana Chis
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in that starting line
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of you know I think she's she's got some
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more size than Grace has but also having
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Grace come off the bench knowing that we
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were going to sit Maria tonight um that
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we'd have a little bit less experience
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then um and so having someone with you
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know in her fifth year off the bench
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gave us kind of that experience that we
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we felt like we needed um so it's not
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always about the first five it's about
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how they all play together um and uh so
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that was that was what we what we went
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with what about the slow starts of a
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couple games so far obviously something
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you need to solve Friday night how is
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there a common threat on there is just
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how do you evaluate I have to I'll have
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to watch it I mean I felt like we were a
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little bit of a deer in headlight we
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missed some open shots um you know they
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play with a lot of energy I mean one of
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their guys made their first three on the
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year um and you know so we were we were
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sort of wanting her to take that so you
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know um I'll have to watch it but you
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know it's not I like the adjustments we
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made from a game out like they're
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they're better now than they were last
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game and they're better the last game
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than they were the first game and that's
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with this young team I just want to be
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we have those experien core but of
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course with India and Maria out it's not
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such an experience core um and again
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what a great environment so I think it
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just took them a minute to find their
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footing coach can you tell about the
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early season schedule three teams from
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North and South Carolina start the
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season was that um intentional to play
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those teams and give them that look or
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want to stay close before the Ukon game
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um first of all hi it's good to see you
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how you second of all um you know what a
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great I mean a&t's got a great tradition
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they're picked to win their conference
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right so that's a game we wanted to play
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and the fact that we're going to be in
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Greensboro again on Friday made it made
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sense to come to Greensboro to do that
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at this time of the year um you know
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Wilmington that's where one of our our
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players we knew pretty early she's the
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Marine Science that she would be um so
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that was an important game um and then
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the opener we just knew we're going to
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have all these faces so it's a little
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bit you know it's designed a bit um but
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I like that we've got a real mix of of
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local teams as well as you know this is
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a a team that we expect to win your
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conference so we want to play them early
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on the road from your perspective I
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guess what are some of the next steps
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for you know this offense to kind of you
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know get to that next level of course
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there a lot of you guys are you know new
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and obviously know being first time what
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are some of the I guess next steps
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proding uh I think like coach said we're
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a very young team we kind of just need
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to get more comfortable like running
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offense and being more fluid and stuff
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um I think like skill-wise we have all
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that we need we just need to become more
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comfortable uh with one another it's
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only our third game so like we have a
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lot to go we just need to um be able to
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like gel a little bit
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better do you like the Tio did you play
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as fast as you would have preferred in
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this game we pass Advanced really well I
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mean we don't take contested threes
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that's not really a a shot we look for
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so to take 31 threes mean we were able
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to get out and run and win the paint to
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get great looks um and so yeah I think
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there was we we want to be able to play
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fast because we can play a lot of guys
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um so I the the the pace on offense it
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was more when we weren't sure how to
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attack the zone that was a bit
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frustrating but then I look who's in and
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I'm like I get it this is maybe the
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first time they've seen a Zone much less
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a it's the first time it's first time
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she's woring a Navy a Carolina blue
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uniform you know so I have to be a
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little more patient than
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that 15 steals how big was forcing
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turnovers all night rebounding from a
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pretty slow start yeah huge you know
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what 21 we forced 21 turnovers we won
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seven of the nine 5050 balls uh we had
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11 on ball deflections you know we held
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their best player to 12 I mean that's
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has to happen on the road it has to you
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know your defense has to travel um we
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didn't think we defended as well as we
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can over a 40 minute period the last
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game out so um yeah I thought they made
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the step that we needed on that end
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today
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any other
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questions great thanks everyone good
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luck the rest of the way you guys thank
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you