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Interviews with Jae'Lyn Withers, Elliot Cadeau, Seth Trimble and RJ Davis after UNC's loss at KU
Nov 9, 2024
Interviews with Jae'Lyn Withers, Elliot Cadeau, Seth Trimble and RJ Davis after UNC's loss at KU
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what was the difference in the second
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half when you guys exploded you scored
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like 44 points in 12 minutes starting at
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the end of the first half what was the
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difference um again I mean HD has a
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really really uh good ability to you
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know bring that fire out of fire out of
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us and um in the second half he did that
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we um decided that we weren't going to
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keep taking punches we going to punch
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back what was it that he didn't like and
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what was it he had to bring out of him
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um I would say he didn't like just the
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way that they were shooting what 70% in
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the first half like that that's like
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something that you you rarely do even if
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you are a good shooter like just
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shooting around in in practice or like
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in open gym or like maybe in a workout
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like that's that's not something that
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you're supposed to be able to do
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collectively as a team especially with
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us and you know us honing in on defense
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so that we can't run a transition that
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just wasn't something that uh you know
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he really took a liking of and you know
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we we fed off in this energy and really
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embraced it Jaylen what would you say
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was the overall mood at halftime when
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you got are down big and who spoke up
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and what was said and and and how did
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you guys sort of find the fire that you
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found um I would say it initially
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started with uh one of our freshman
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James Brown he came in with a lot of
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intensity saying that um you know like
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they aren't uh they they haven't worked
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as hard as us you know like just trying
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to get us going you know saying
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different things um then HD came in you
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know he matched his energy and you know
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we we fed off that yeah so James okay
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yeah he had that follow up at the end of
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the half too yeah yeah he uh he had a
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pry he had a pretty solid uh solid album
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Jaylen what was the challenge of I guess
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managing the the bows in the front Court
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I mean they kind of piled up you know
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after a while and you know guys F out a
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little bit late what was the challenge
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of kind of man's Elliot and Seth
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um I was say that's probably that was
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probably the biggest adjustment for us
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you know being the
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hostile environment and you know having
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to deal with the the uh foul foul
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account foul call you know that's
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something that we have to play you know
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against um and
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um I mean we end up persevering and
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fighting back and figuring out a way get
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P it
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second at Hal time you guys are down 15
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they're down 20 wa in the first half it
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kind of look
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like be getting away
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from yeah Co was talking about toughness
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we had a lot of talk in the locker room
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all of us together and main thing was
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for us it's just toughness we felt like
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they were they out toughed us we need to
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come out more fire and that's what we
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did second can you take me through the
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last
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possession yeah we had a play drawn up
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but they were switching everything so I
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have to try to off
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what was the play supposed to
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be
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um there was a flare in the corner and
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there was also
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a you feel like you still got off a good
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look it looked like it was a pretty good
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shot a little bit short but
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online yeah I felt like it was a good
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look I felt
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that what was sort of the mood after you
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know that UNC no world victories kind of
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thing I'm sure but again to come back
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have a shot have that weight
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more being okay with maybe what you
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showed or or more disappointed
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definitely more
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disappointed um we feel like if we came
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out how we did the first half the
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beginning of the game we would have won
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by a lot so just definitely
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disappointing no sense of
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hope so there was no timeout the signal
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that coach gave you to give you the play
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yeah it was just
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call what was coach
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message um he just mainly told us to
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keep our head
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up we're going to do a lot of probably
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like learning and talking about it
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tomorrow
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don't basketball team today was a good
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set a lot of things didn't go our way uh
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we got the fre line a lot but Kansas we
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got some calls you know that we hard but
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at end of the day you know rep calls
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a lot of things went wrong but I mean
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there was so much to take
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away
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shots absolutely how do yall stay thats
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I mean we just know we got to keep we
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got to keepo the ball we're kind some of
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the primary scores on this team so if we
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start to defer and start to turn down
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shots and start to not be aggressive
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then it's going to carry over to
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everybody else so we know we got to stay
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aggressive the
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fall shot the fall fall more so right
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second game of the year that's
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up take this through the end where you
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needed three to try to tie it I know you
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guys played it out rather than calling
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the time out what did you see what did
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you guys want maybe out of that
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possession or is that just a we running
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wild Wildcat like a freelance quick
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action type thing uh so we won the
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three Ellie coming off or RJ Who coming
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back off the uh an offb screen
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three Ellie got a great look hly it
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looked good from where I was when uh you
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guys were about to enter the hand line
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you put your arm around you
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say that he's good that he's okay uh
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he'll be all right uh he was very
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emotional against the shot uh I think he
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just kind of L his most get speci in the
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moment rightfully so you know if I miss
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that shot in that moment I might have
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the same reaction but that's just what
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teamm for you know I've been Ellie's
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really good friend and I've been his
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teaming his suppor him for two years now
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so I see him upset it's my job to
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go uh we're going to be really good as
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long as we fight and we play with the
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will and one two each and every second
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of the game which I know we can uh we're
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going to be great so lost the game just
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how we lost but you know
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L coach talked a lot about
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tough
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absolutely we got to be tough we got to
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Wi fight we got to play otion we can't
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just be on the court with face the whole
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time you know he got really emotional in
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locker room and touch he was absolutely
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right we were playing I won't say not
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slot in the first half but it wasn't one
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of our best halfs at all you know
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probably at the end of the season be one
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of our worsts All Season uh was just our
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emotion was our was one two and our
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today so all that play is want fight you
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wanted to play here specifically this
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for reason what do you think that reason
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was that's a great test playing that
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probably probably the most possible
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environment in college basketball uh one
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playing against the number one team in
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the nation uh you know playing against
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really talented front and back cour I
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mean all the fact was going to it uh so
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we want to come here we want to just
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test ourselves and see what we can do
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and I mean we lost but I'm proud of the
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fight that you know me and my does this
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feel like a bigger comp in terms of a
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place to play or how would you big no
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this is Kansas this is Kansas uh
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that's how you describ it it's Kansas uh
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smaller hostile still but this is Kansas
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you
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know okay I just didn't know if it
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compared yeah no not to me not to me
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it's different it's different Duke is
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more of comfort because they're in our
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conference you know I gu
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yeah combin not a great shooting game
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from you Elliot and RJ but you guys are
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ahead 3 minutes left and you guys
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continue to attack and play with great
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confidence what does it say about ay the
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three of you and the team to be able to
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be in that position when you guys aren't
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super hot yeah uh we know we can do it
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uh me Ellie RJ we know no matter what
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through a bad game through a big game we
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have to Contin continue to stay
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aggressive because it's going to open up
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looks for other guys and it's going
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continue just to open up looks for us
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and then it shows the depth of this team
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you know how much guys to step up uh
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I've seen you know this type of J with
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performance and practice gym whatever it
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is I know you guys happed with this so
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it may have shocking but you know Jay
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went doing what he did tonight shock one
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bit uh he stepped view for
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Ian stepped hou in the first buch
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guys
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allate thank
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you thanks yep
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appj have the final result that you
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wanted what do you think you show your
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especially second half com back in down
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20
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shot uh I think we show toughness um
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that was the main message in the
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halftime going to halftime we was down
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about 15 and um we show that we could
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climb back and it took all 15 guys in
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that locker room and um I kept telling
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them the H there always it's a
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collective group from everyone just like
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keep battling like um they got this
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until the clock hit zero and um we
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climbed the way back into the game so it
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shows that like we have a lot of ways to
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go but a lot of um good things you can
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take away from this game but uh I mean
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it starts at the first 20 minutes of the
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game so I think if we started like that
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we did the second half we would have a
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different outcome did the coach question
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your toughness at half time say again
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did the coach question your toughness at
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half time the team he question it he
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just challenged us like you guys are
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going to have to bring it and um that
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was the main thing and he knew he said I
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know you guys are tough I know you guys
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have the capability to to show me that
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and potential to uh be in this game and
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just going to be a dog fight winning on
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the road is hard and um it was more so
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challenging that's B the
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question what is toughness to Davis as
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he talks about that a lot and obviously
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know what it means but
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specifically just not giving up on
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players I mean shots are fall big shots
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but that's about how you respond and our
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response in the second half Big Time J
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knocking down three Dr the lane J Watson
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having big time put back gun like things
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like that
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um the game the game is one on the line
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that's all he always says and those the
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little things from grabbing the second
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chance rebounds
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run little stuff like that
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that's in that last two minute stretch
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what did you kind of see happening with
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the team that made hard
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to uh I mean I know we were up and I
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think we up maybe four uh and I think we
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kind of let the defense get radical let
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our defense radical us a little bit um
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they G switching and US didn't get the
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shots I know sometimes uh they had the L
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the ball screens because they were flat
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on his ball screens but me more up a
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little bit so we trying to get to the
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pocket pass to see the corner um but I
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think just late game executions we're
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not do improve that cuz we were up and
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you got to do a bad job taking care of
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the ball and stop that when you played
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them two and a half years ago in the
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title game it was 15 points at halftime
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did it happen to cross your mind at all
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tonight you guys were down 50 and the
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half yeah I mean I looked up it was it
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was it was reverse
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two years ago we were up 15 and then
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today we were down 15 so
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um did that relax you at all KN okay it
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didn't look good in the first half but
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they came back on us motivated us
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especially like in the lock room think
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everyone had a lot of chatter um was all
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good to all posi to uplift one another
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um cuz we know what we had this lock
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room was enough to win this game um we
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just had a show in the second half and
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we came out with the second half he was
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Brazilian was up he got stopped he was
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able to make shots toward
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just came I'm short but we're going to
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see them again November 8th a lot of
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teams are playing pis this time of year
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you guys come here and have this
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experience what is your primary take
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away from this experience um we have a I
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think from this game it's uh I think a
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confidence for us you know in this
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atmosphere in this environment to be
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down 15 going to the first half to end
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the half off and coming the second half
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and just take it possession by
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possession and kind of just um close in
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on on
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single digit uh numbers and I think it
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just shows how you know what we're
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capable of um where we can improve in
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where we struggled at where we did well
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and I think I have a lot of belief in
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this team um just from you know starting
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five all the way to the bench just how
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how everyone has confident in one
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another the way we battle the way we
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fight um we're not going to go down
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without a fight and um that just shows
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how much you
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know hard work we put into this this
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past off season um it's going to show so
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I mean it's not so much word from this
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so say you have faith did tonight
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increase your faith I mean I've always
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had Faith that's one thing about me I've
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rely on faith um so it definitely
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increased my faith tonight um I've had
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faith in this gam since we stepped on
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campus as one um that's just my true
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belief in God so um I mean we're going
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to be more than F I think this is just
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going to be true Testament and two step
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into to the next game RJ what did it
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feel like when you guys were making the
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comeback on the second half and the
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first half been such augle and then you
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got it in gear like what did it feel
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like as you guys were making that run to
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to take the lead it felt like we got it
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rolling um but I think also just shows
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how much uh we believed in one another
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to take it possession by possession um
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to get a stop to get a rebound then
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execute on the office again and um once
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we did that it's like you see what
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happens when we actually dial in one of
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the little things um we can change this
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whole game around we down 15 and next
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thing know it's a fourpoint game and
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just like the little things that we we
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feed in on uh just knowing the sty of
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report knowing the plays um getting the
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loose balls those are the stuff those
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are the little details that help win
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games you've been around a while college
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basketball play in a lot of places how
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would you rank this
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atmosphere it's up there um
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I enjoyed this like when I just even
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when I just walk up for shooting you
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look around obviously such a historic
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place um and this is my first time
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playing it's different from hearing it
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on on the TV the chance to actually
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experience it and um so I I rank this up
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there with do just because of the fan
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interaction fans entry the environment
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um and just the type of game that we
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play tonight it's a back and forth game
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it went down to the L so I enjoy AJ was
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saying like a lot of teams this time of
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the year are playing lesser competition
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Hubert specifically scheduled this
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second G of the year yeah why do you
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think he wants
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tou I mean that's the type of Coach
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Davis is that's the type of player he
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want the smoke that's what he talk about
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um Embrace um because he he has belief
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not only his coach St but in his players
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that we can compete among the best and
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that's when you're going to be playing
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against in the end of March so I think
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this is a good um experience for us just
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to see where we're at um early in the
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season obviously some teams like to you
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know work their way up schedules but um
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this gives
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us I think true
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display also
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week thanks thanks
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