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#UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels' loss to Alabama
Dec 5, 2024
#UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels' loss to Alabama
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said that kind of going on what you said
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Monday about defensive uh energy and all
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that kind of stuff they said that lack
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tonight and it's carry over from they
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said it lacked they didn't feel like
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they had the right energy that they had
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the right intensity defensively and they
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felt that it carried over from Maui what
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did you do the last couple days to maybe
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change some of that and why do you think
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that that is a problem that they're all
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acknowledging tonight that's a great
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question um you know we've clearly
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identified a number of things uh
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throughout the season and spefic
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specifically coming back from Maui that
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um for us as a team to have success it's
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really tied to two things it's our uh
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energy effort will want to preparation
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play on the defensive end and our
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ability to rebound the basketball just
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is what it is um that allows us to be
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efficient on the offensive end and from
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a defensive standpoint um I didn't feel
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like Alabama felt us I think they did
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the first two and a half three minutes
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of the game I felt like we had a defens
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of presence of physical presence on the
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ball um our communication was really
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good and then from there it just dropped
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what is the level of frustration that it
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dropped and it dropped as much as it did
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very frustrated you know one of the
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things that I've consistently said is
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that uh this group has shown flashes of
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playing at the level that is required in
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order to be successful but the next step
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for it is is to start there and to be
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able to stay there uh full 40 minutes on
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both ends to the floor so that's
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something that um we've got to get
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better at and address and
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um and be ready to do that uh at 2
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o'clock on
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Saturday one thing we were you know kind
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of asking about the other day or one
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thing you were talking about the other
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day excuse me was you know kind of
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looking at everything to you know start
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off well in the first half one thing you
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mentioned was lineups rotations things
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like that I knowing that first half
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especially kind of Shuffle guys in and
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out of their L I guess how much of that
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was intentional going into the game of
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you know just trying the different
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lineups early seeing what sticks Ste
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what works and Ste seeing what kind of
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flows that Mak well it is I mean you
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know as I said you know the
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the the level of intensity attention to
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detail that has to be there on every
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possession and um the rotations in the
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subs throughout the entire game was to
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try to have a a fresh energized GR group
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out there on the floor that could
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execute that I I just you you can talk
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about ex's and those but you can't even
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get there until you bring that sustained
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will want to energy and effort technique
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has nothing to do with that when when
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you can't get there and
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um one of the things that I said to the
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team before the game is is I said that
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and this is for every game but
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specifically this game because we were
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playing tonight was that um you you you
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can't be quiet in a game like this your
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personality in your game cannot be quiet
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it just can't
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and what is required is to empty the
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tank um in every area whether it's
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defense or offense and that's something
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that I was clear and definitive before
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the game and that uh we just didn't play
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well enough tonight at all you were I I
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totally hear you on the effort emptying
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the tank also defensively do you feel
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like there's just a level of
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confusion sometimes that is tripping you
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guys up um you know it seems like some
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of the switches and Shooters get left
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open even in mauian tonight you know
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like it seems like there's a confusion
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you guys are fighting is that do you
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think that's accurate um I would say I
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would say yes I would say that is
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accurate um
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um the way that I communicate I I don't
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speak in tongues or interpretations I'm
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straightforward and direct and
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um but that that is something that we've
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had to work on uh not just in games but
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in practices being able um to
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consistently execute things that we've
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been told and taught and are talented
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enough to
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do Drake start getting his first start
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in jail and playing Just 12 minutes how
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much of a work in progress is your
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rotation in the specifically it's a
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working Pro process
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yes RJ was answer the game about his
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perseverance being tested especially on
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the three ball KN Bing teams defending
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him differently like that but he said at
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the same time he was trying to do to be
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the leader you want him to be say the
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right things in the Huddle those kind of
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things that help the team uh but how do
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you get him over that
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frustration because you know he's been
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so successful with the three his career
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here this
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especially if they going to be different
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Defenders taller
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Defenders well I I've I've my
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communication to RJ and for everyone is
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I I believe that everyone should be a
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leader within their own personality I
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I've never told RJ to lead the same way
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Armando or Cormac or Harrison or PA did
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I my conversation with each player has
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been um you have have to be a
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transformational leader within your own
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personality so that that's been my
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conversation with him um yes teams are
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loading up on them um comes off ball
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screens they're they're they're trapping
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them they're putting physical big guys
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on them um it's hard for him to get
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loose off of screens we've got to set
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better screens we've got we've got to
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find a way to to get him more open looks
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and um but that's an opportunity for
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others to step up as well and so it's
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not not um the University of RJ even
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though I love have coached them it's the
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University of North Carolina and so we
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all got to step up with the confusion
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Adam asked about how much of that is
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connected to the lack of communication
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on defensive
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end
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um I think it's
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some um I I've never seen a
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team um defensively and I've never seen
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a a good team that is
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quiet um that goes back to like
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like your personality in your game has
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to be
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loud
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and um there's a there's an
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emotion that just naturally comes out
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when you put on this uniform when you
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run out of that tunnel and you play on
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that floor um it's impossible to be
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quiet um the experience of being a part
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of this team in this program in this
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University um it creates uh a loud voice
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uh on and off the floor and that's
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something that um that we just got to
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improve on that can't be fixed couple
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more Ian said that he didn't think the
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team was tough enough tonight does that
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go with the will and the want to that
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you preach about and what do you think
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as far as you guys' toughness of the
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evening well I just didn't I didn't
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think we I didn't think we played well
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enough enough to win tonight and and we
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didn't do the things consistently to put
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yourself in a position to win a game
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like this and so
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um you know when things don't work out
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your way I mean there's there's not a
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choice but there are two choices you can
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stay down you can whine and complain you
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can point fingers and make excuses or
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you can get your tail back up and step
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forward and start swinging so I told the
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guys that get your timberin boots on
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your overalls your shoulder pads in your
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helmet and tomorrow you're going to get
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dirty and we're going to go back to work
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Thursday and Friday in preparation to
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play against a very good Georgia Tech
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Team in conference at 2 p.m. on Saturday
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going back to the work in progress in
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the post what are you seeing and what
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are you not seeing from that group right
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now um I I specifically you know not
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looking are you are you speaking in
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regards to our big guys yeah the ration
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that yeah I'm just I'm I'm looking at
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the team I'm not specifically looking at
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one group or a couple of individuals
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like for us to win games like this
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whether it's Auburn or at Kansas or
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Michigan State like
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we us as a team we have to play better
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and consistently better and not in
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spurts and so though
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that's that's the thing that I'm looking
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at and want to improve last one the
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reason for one more Dr getting into the
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starting lineup and then how will you
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evaluate his impact in that role um
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nothing more than we we've been we
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haven't played well in the first halfs
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and uh coming off the bench had been uh
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either two freshmen or two transfers and
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I felt like uh um Jay wit has been
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really good for us but bringing someone
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with um experience veteran leadership
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Off the Bench I thought might help us a
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little bit in terms of the RO ations so
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was something that I looked at tonight
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but it was no more thinking other than
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that last one Adam thank you H what do
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you make of the it seems to be a
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recurring thing these last couple games
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where your guards are able to get into
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the paint they're going to the cup and
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they're running into a dude who's a foot
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taller than them and you know I mean
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they get caught in there where it's an
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incredibly tough shot you're trying to
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get it all like I mean do you feel like
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you need to tell these guys to stop and
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shoot the floater more or is are other
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teams sucking you in and you know
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allowing you get to get there because
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they have the rim protection and you've
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got smaller guards they're trying to
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score over them like what do you make of
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that thing because it seems to be
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another thing that's you tripping you
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guys up on offense yeah I mean I you
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know
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um our guys can shoot the floater they
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they they can shoot that um that's a
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shot that they can make and that they
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can take but I don't I don't I don't
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know the percentages I'm not sure if
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we're making those either yeah um but I
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do know
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that we've done a really good job of
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drawing fouls and getting to the free
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throw line and you're right the last
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couple games it hasn't resulted in that
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and
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um we've got to do a better job of
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either um taking that floater uh being
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stronger getting to the basket I I will
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say there was a number of times that we
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went in there and we moved the ball
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around a lot yeah and when you do that
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and I told him in a huddle a number of
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times and I told him in preparation to
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the game you will miss the shot and you
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will not get a foul called if you go
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into the lane and start moving it around
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it just has never worked and so that has
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contributed to it as well you know we
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just got to go in there and dunk it go
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in there to the body and and and go in
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there to score as opposed to try to not
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get it blocked and so I think it's a
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combination of things but again those
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are things that can be fixed and um um
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we'll get better at that thanks coach
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thanks
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