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#UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels' win over SMU
Jan 8, 2025
#UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels' win over SMU
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where in that first half you get the
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double digit lead um holding to a low
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field goal percentage things like that
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just what did you like today defensively
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about what you guys are doing against
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SMU team that you know obviously has a
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lot of size in that front Court yeah I
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thought we did a really good job
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defending the post uh we double teamed
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um the post and I thought that was we
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worked on that the last couple days of
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practice and I thought we executed that
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really well uh with the exception of a
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couple times they're you know really
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good Shooters they were staring at our
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shoes shot to three I thought we did a
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really good job of staying with their
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Shooters and cross is a matchup
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nightmare cuz he can play on the
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perimeter he can post he can shoot
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threes and I thought we did a really
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good job on him in defending without
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fouling it was one of our best defensive
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halves um I felt like our pressure our
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presence on the ball created turnovers
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we
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finished uh defensive possessions with a
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rebound cuz we talked about them they're
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the number one offensive rebounding team
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in in the ACC and so
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uh that first half was really good
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defensively H along those lines did you
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feel like maybe the way you fought
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rebounding wise and kept some of the
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offensive rebounds alive sort of gave
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you the the juice or the energy that
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that really got you going in the first
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half I mean I do I really do I mean that
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that always gives us life I mean for us
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you know defensively and being able to
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finish it with a rebound then it allows
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us to get out in transition where I feel
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like we've been consistently good all
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season but it's something that you know
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we talked about the last couple of days
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um just in terms of not allowing them to
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get Second Chance opportunities how good
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they were keeping the ball alive they're
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a big team I felt like we were smaller
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at every
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position I felt like every guy on their
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team was two or three inches taller than
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myself and I thought we did a good job
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of making contact First and everybody
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you know we before the game we talked
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about everything that we do it has to be
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done together and we just kept saying it
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to each other whether it's hey we got to
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rebound together we've got to defend
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together we've got to take care of the
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ball together we've got to execute
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offensively together and it's just
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something that this team continues to
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say about in order for us to be the best
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at that we can be like it has to be all
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parts working together and I felt like
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especially in the first half defensively
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we're able to do that Andrew yesterday
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you said that Saturday Notre Dame was
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the game you guys talked the most
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offensively this year it looked like
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there was a carryover and that was
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something out there tonight was I do I
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really do it was um the last couple
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practices good communication today um in
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the locker room before the game on the
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court um in the Huddle guys holding each
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other accountable making sure
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everybody's on the same page in terms of
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what we are defensively what play we're
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running on the offensive end out of
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bounds
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underneath and after the game I said you
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guys did a really good job of
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communicating the things that I said and
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just making sure everybody's on the p
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agage of what we're trying to do on both
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ends of the floor with substitutions
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timeouts and so again it was another
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game where I felt like the communication
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even though I think it can get better
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was was really good the foul on Ian
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Jackson the hard one seemed to really
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get you pretty emotional fired up what
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was kind of going through your mind
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there in those moments yeah just you
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know thinking about Ian you know it's um
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you know SMU and all their players are
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fantastic kids and players um but just
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seeing Ian up in the air um defenseless
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and just making sure he was okay and
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um my reaction was my reaction that I
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have with my three kids and just wanted
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to protect them and make sure that
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they're okay and I'm thankful that uh
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Ian was able to pop back up and and
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knock down those two free throws Drake
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had 11 right out of the gate and RJ was
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saying that the guys are telling him to
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be more aggressive offensively seems
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like he's looking for a shot a lot more
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in in recent games do you see that
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confidence growing in him and what has
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what has sparked that yeah I mean I want
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everybody to be aggressive you know I
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want everyone to shoot the shot when
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they're open and I want them to take
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shots that they practice before and
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after practice and and shots that I've
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seen in practice and the shots that
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Drake took are shots that I see him work
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on all the time and the shots that he
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takes in practice and I want him to have
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the confidence to be able to step up and
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knock him down and he gave us a huge
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lift at the beginning of the game you
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know SMU started off in like a Zone and
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then it would morph into a man and and
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so it took us a while to get to a rhythm
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in terms of what we were trying to run
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on the offensive end and Drake his
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threes in the first half really opened
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things up for us and gave us the
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confidence to be able to execute on the
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offensive end take two more youber
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what's the challenge of um now that you
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have Seth back working him back in he
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was playing so well obviously before he
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got hurt missed the three games like
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what is that challenge of of working
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back in and how much practice did he
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miss was yesterday's practice the first
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time he was bad First full practice yes
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yeah um I don't look at it as a
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challenge I look at it as u a good thing
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he's
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back you know and so I didn't mean it to
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be a bad thing no yeah and and I
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understand it it does you know it it
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takes time you you know you think the
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last time that he played was at UCLA
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that's a long time and so a huge part of
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a basketball is finding your Rhythm and
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there's nothing that you can do to get
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your rhythm other than being out there
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on the floor and so he'll be much better
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at practice on on Thursday and uh he'll
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be much better um um on Saturday but I
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expected him to be a little rusty
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because he hadn't played for a long time
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but I'm so happy that he's back um
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having him on the floor uh makes us a
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really good basketball team uh because
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of his ability um to score and defend
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and I'm so happy he's back in the lineup
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last one Andrew RJ said that his shot
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was a little flat earlier this year and
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he's worked a lot on getting the arc up
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he's watched a lot of film work with
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Marcus as a shooter yourself how
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difficult is it in midseason to go from
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shooting the balls a little bit flat to
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getting the right kind of Arc that he
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now has shown the last few games yeah I
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don't think it's very difficult at all I
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mean it's I think it's difficult to make
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major changes in your shot but you know
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um changes in terms of let me get a
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little bit more Arc let me use uh my
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legs a little bit more let me get my
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elbow in let me make sure that my my
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guide hand isn't too much on the ball
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those are little tweaks and pivots that
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everybody adjusts and makes throughout a
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season and so you can that's very easy
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to do it's the big changes in your shot
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that normally can't occur during the
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year and so you know
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RJ the best critic on any one shot is
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your own
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shot it just is it doesn't it doesn't
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come from anyone else um the person that
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knew my shot the most was me and so I
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knew when I was making shots I knew when
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I was missing and why I was missing in
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the same regards for RJ and he is he's
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in more of a rhythm now and and knocking
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down shots and um that that's exactly
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the way that I like it thanks coach
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thanks
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