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UNC's Ian Jackson, Elliot Cadeau, Seth Trimble and Drake Powell after win over #UCLA
Dec 21, 2024
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game but I don't have too much or
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college or was it NBA watch the Nick the
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nck play the Spurs last last last season
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I came out here to watch it that was
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your first time time W still growing up
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in the Bronx though you were a Nicks fan
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or tell me about your absolutely
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absolutely man I grew up with Nicks fans
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uh L Le years I started hooping man how
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many friends family do you have to have
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here today do you know how many people
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were here for you shees it was a lot
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like 30 to 40 there's a lot of people
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man there a lot of love in the crowd
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today
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what was the message he brought um to us
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it was just he he's asking us what is
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our identity you know we got to find an
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identity as a team like every night we
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this team going to come out and do well
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you know that's something that's very
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important to us and something that we
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got to find and we still trying to find
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but I think we took a right St today and
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getting a win and and growing that
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identity they nerv New York yeah it was
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great I was I was so happy for them how
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they came out just did that in their own
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home I told during the game I told him
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like this is your city we can't lose
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this game it's your homecoming how big a
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win is it just for the team after kind
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of some struggles that not conf yeah
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it's a big one for us especially going
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into the conference play going into the
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Break um having that momentum and yeah
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just a big um win because all our other
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losses we were kind of in the same
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position like at the end of the game
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said the news and the fact that we learn
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from Long play in that building watching
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games there
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every late game here to
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florid um for me personally the
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difference was I didn't I was focused on
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taking care of the ball and not turn the
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ball over so that was just in my head
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the whole like last four minutes just um
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be strong with the ball cuz UCLA is
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really good at for and turnover so that
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was a big thing for me and for all of us
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the other night when you walked off the
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floor you were emotional today you get
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you're on the floor with the ball with
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one tenth of a second left you're
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emotional but different kind of emotion
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can you kind of ju toose the difference
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there yeah I was just a lot I was just
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really happy that we won and um I was
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really down on myself last game but um
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yeah I'm happy that we was there a
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little anxiety as you had the foul
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possession and then relief when they
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didn't score can you what were your
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emotions that a lot of like tension um
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but we know what we have to do we had to
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get the Stop and most importantly we had
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to box out after the stop so uh we were
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just focused on that we were
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I
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wasn't what is the is relief the right
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word since you've made all these
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comebacks and they just haven't worked
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out some of them I mean like what what
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what are you feeling now that you're
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able to get this one done and get it
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secured yeah we just we just feel really
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good about this win cuz as I said we've
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been in this position for like three
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four games so um I think we all learned
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from our mistakes I feel like last last
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game our mistake was we didn't box out
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we missed box outs we turned the ball
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over so that's what we're focusing on
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everyone was running around telling the
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whole team that was in the game we were
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all running around tell each other box
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out box out we said it probably 100
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times so it's good that we learn from
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our mistakes and J you kind of let me
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know ahead of time obviously guys you
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know spend a little time together
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yesterday how much do you feel like that
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kind of helped you guys going into today
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just that extra time as a team uh
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definitely helped it just gives us more
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Union every time we spend time together
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off the court as a team it's always just
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an extra boost uh you know we going
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through a little bit of a rough P rough
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patch getting wins but then stacking
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some wins but then getting losses too so
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trying really hard to kind of balance
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everything so just take some time away
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from the court and spend some time and
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get it off the court really help so as
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you guys were you know spending that
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time I mean how much of that was did you
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talk about basketball like at all during
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that time or was it just you know
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looking at the city yeah yeah yeah we
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talked about basketball it's kind of
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inevitable to not talk about basketball
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anytime really as at the position that
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we're in it's just going to happen so
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often but I mean a lot was everything
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was pretty much off the court talk let
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me basketball here love you too B after
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RJ split the pair of free throws tell me
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about the defensive play that you made
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how did that come about it's just me
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trying to make a play for my team uh cre
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pressure we knew we wanted to try and
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get a trap first and then foul uh trying
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to get opportunity to get a steal before
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he foul so that's all I did that's all I
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tried to do work among some of the late
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moments that gave indication that maybe
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you guys were going to close this one
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out you pump F the three went and drove
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and you scored over how big was that for
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you to see that good three that because
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you had had a lot of yeah it was it was
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hug the three before that was even
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bigger for me it was it was a long night
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on the offens points 40 seconds or
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something yeah it was a really long
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night on the offensive end for me but
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stay through it persevere I know I'm not
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going to have great nights shooting I
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know I have great nights shooting I know
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there's just a balance that comes with
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it so just got to stay locked on the
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defensive van continue to do what I do
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but it was I mean it was huge see
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another one of those late game
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situations you guys flipped the script
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from the other night against Florida how
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did you do it intensity uh and just
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determination on the defensive end when
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we just when we apply ourselves to the
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defensive end we just really just tell
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ourselves like hey this is what we're
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going to do and we make it happen it's I
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mean we're a whole new team we're a
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whole new team what were the emotions to
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possibly feel the little anxiety with
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Kansas's last possession to getting the
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stop in the rebound and finally breaking
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through what were the emotions during
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those seconds I don't think about the
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pass at all I don't think about the pass
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one bit Kansas was Kansas they
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capitalized off the post uh but we were
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focused on getting a stop that's all we
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were focused on we know we couldn't let
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up an easy two cuz it was a two-point
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game and we know we couldn't let up an
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easy three so but no anxiety from Kansas
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no anxiety from any past games every
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game is the OWN game for me Ian seems
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pretty Fearless for a freshman what have
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you seen out of him and what do you
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think of his performance today really
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going at the defense a lot he keeps
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growing and growing I think him playing
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in the garden him playing back home in
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front of his friends today that was huge
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for him that was a huge step that I mean
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that Comfort was there for him and it
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showed it show he came out the gate and
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take a transition three and knock it
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down right away so he looked comfortable
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from the get-go and that's just what we
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that's what we need from him you know we
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need a guy uh whether he staring come
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off the bench whatever it is but we need
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a guy right now he's coming off the
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bench we need a guy off the bench just
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to continue to have that spark on the
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offensive end and on defens you think he
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fed off the crowd too I mean the crowd
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got behind him in I mean yeah absolutely
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could you sort of feel that happening
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absolutely absolutely absolutely he hit
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that first three like I said and the
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crowd erupted I think from then it was
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just he was in that zone March is a long
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time away but you guys needed to pick up
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a win outside the league like this you
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got two of them now Dayton probably stay
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a quad one game do do you ever sit back
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and think man we've got to get a little
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bit for our resume because the League's
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yeah yeah yeah we knew we needed Florida
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we let Florida slip away from us in the
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last 3 4 minutes uh but this one was
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literally do die so when we went down
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the second half we went down 14 whatever
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it was uh their big went on a run by
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himself kind of and they went up 14 but
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we knew we just had to sit down to lock
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in and just say as a team like hey can't
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let it happen again you know I've been
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through this too many times so this one
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was was desperately needed were there
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conversations specifically about needing
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to get one of those kind of wins
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absolutely we talk all the time about it
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me and Ellie have talked about it us and
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the rest of the team have talked about
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we've all talked about the coaches
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talked so we knew what we need to do
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today Huber kind of talked about with
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you know The Comebacks that y'all
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haven't closed out that what was
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different about today was it wasn't
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panicked yall looked at it from
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possession to possession instead of in
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his words trying to make a 16-point play
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what does that look like from your
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perspective it just focus on one play at
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a time H said the best uh we're just
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trying to when we're down and we're
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trying to get it all back in a two
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minute span it's it makes it even harder
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we end up making more mistakes teams end
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up scoring easily so when we just take a
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possession as a possession and just say
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hey this possession we're going to do
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this next possession we're going to do
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this this and that it it I mean it
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really helps and what was different
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about tonight was it just that do die
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mentality or what was it we
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just learn from Stak from our mistakes I
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guess we've been here many times this
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season already so about time we finally
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closed out on one off the court Tuesday
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and how
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you um I feel like I feel like the we
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trusted each other really that's what
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that's what I was telling him but um we
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just just relied on our defense and
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rebounding did did you get the sense out
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there that you guys had a little higher
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level of scrappiness throughout the game
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today even defensively the communication
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was there seemed like you guys were on
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the ball a little bit more not as many
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uncontested shots left we just wanted to
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have that same intensity of the second
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half against Florida that's what we want
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and your thoughts on Ian just kind of
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fearlessly attacking and the crowd sort
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of getting behind him Contin to do what
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he doing yeah I thought that was great
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for Ian it was great to see him put on a
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show in his City and um yeah yeah I'm
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happy we got to win how much of a relief
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was it after you got the stop at the
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rebound there at the end after you know
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so many times you guys had a tough time
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finishing M it was great it was great I
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was happy that we got the stop we
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secured the secured the rebound uh
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Elliot he made a great defensive play
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and I was able to get the rebound I just
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going to ask you about the uh that last
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Elliot
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you know he was
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guarding just what was your vage point
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on that play
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like I I remember that he walled up good
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he walled up good and um just forcing
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force him into a tough shot without
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fou Seth said you guys had talked as a
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team about the need to get a good
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non-conference win kind of build the
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resume you know it's only December how
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much did you guys talk about that and
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can you put anxiety on yourself needing
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to get a wi like that when we talk about
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it some
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oh we did talk about it a little
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bit to play competition and um just uh
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just to compete at a high level every
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game brings up was the cool
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