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#UNC's Lexi Donarski, Courtney Banghart and Reniya Kelly after win over UNCW.
Nov 8, 2024
#UNC's Lexi Donarski, Courtney Banghart and Reniya Kelly after win over UNCW.
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well so far that's two you know it's a
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it's a group that is still coming
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together um I thought we played to the
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score a little bit in the second half um
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and kind of lost the sharpness that we
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need to play with meaning discipline on
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the defensive end and then offensively
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you know um getting a great shot um but
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there were some really good things in
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the first half obviously I think we
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charted what 36 of our 40 possessions
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were either open shots good shots just a
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miss or a foul um and about half of that
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in the second half so we just played to
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the score a little bit too much um
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missed a lot of free throws um but uh
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yeah good to have the second one and
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we'll move on to the
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third was the defense something you were
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extra pleased with especially in the
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first half yeah I thought they did a lot
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of nice things in the first half for
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sure we're still working on their
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activity kind of not deterring their
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discipline you know um I think sometimes
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they're so competitive they think I'm
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going to make sure the other team
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doesn't shoot it's more about they I
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want the other team to take a shot we
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don't want them to take right so that
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led to some I thought some cheap fouls
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and some going for things that we didn't
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need so we're still working on the
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discipline but I'll take activity all
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day and then we'll we can always
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continue to tweak the
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discipline um the only two departments
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that you guys didn't lead in were threo
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percentage and free throw percentage um
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but in some of the preseason talks you
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were really excited about how well
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everyone was shooting from three what
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were some of those struggles just coming
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from from outside the perimeter that's a
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good question I mean I think the the the
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guys that we want shooting threes I
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think we we can make we can make we can
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make more than that you know um
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obviously they're worth mathematically a
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lot more so 33% from three is better
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than 40% from do right so part of it you
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play that out um but uh the free throw
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line you know I I don't know what to say
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I mean they're free throws like they are
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free right so I don't know how to help
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you with that we shoot a lot of free
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throws we've tried everything under the
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sun um it comes down to I think I think
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it I think free throws come down to if
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you're how are you as a shooter for sure
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but also it's like
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what do you say to yourself like do you
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walk up and say I hope I make this or do
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you walk up and you're say I made this
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shot a thousand times in my life and I I
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can't speak for that I I don't know but
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leaving 14 points on the free throw line
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is going to be really hard to beat the
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top 10
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team and back to that three ball um Ria
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and Lexi were shooting it well but um
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Alyssa was having some trouble not only
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from three but just from the field
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tonight how important were they in
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stepping up yeah uh you know I think
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they're both really key to what we're
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doing um you know we know Lexi can shoot
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it you know I like that she was able to
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go off the dribble a bit more I thought
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she was more aggressive in in passing
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Lanes with her hands on defense um when
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your a fifth year kid is still getting
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better that's a good thing um you know
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she's more than just a shooter but we
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needed her today to to knock down shots
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and and R is aggressive you know when
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she can continue to stay aggressive um I
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think she can make some better decisions
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um but you know her being aggressive I I
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always like where we are in that when
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that's the case
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Lexi I'm sure people expect you to be
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making some perimeter shots and to hit a
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few tonight just that kind of in game
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two you've kind of shown all right this
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is what you can do is that what's that
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feel like yeah it feels good I mean we
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trust this team shooting it from three
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we've shot it really well in practice
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and I feel like that'll just continue to
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get better the more that we're able to
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play to play together and just play in
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front of a crowd get some more games
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under our belt I feel like it'll just
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percentage wise continue to keep getting
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better so it feels good to have a couple
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more going compared to our first game
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and I just hope that we can keep Turing
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in that direction
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you had one really nice little Euro Step
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in the third quarter and the bench was
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super hype um just talk to me about like
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how your bag is deeper than just catch
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and shoot or just threes in general yeah
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I think coach and I have talked about
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this but last year I was just a little
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too
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content standing outside shooting threes
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and so she's really challenged me my
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teammates have challenged me just to do
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more pretty much and put the ball on the
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floor more win the paint more for myself
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for my teammates and just yeah be more
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confident with the ball in my
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hand R what's your take away from the
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game today what what do you think is
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gonna be super proud of the team like
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you know we've been fighting a lot
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during practice just everything but we
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do have to get better you know we have
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better competition coming and we just
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need to get better so we have to
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get been fighting and practice no like
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just the energy passion yeah we've been
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having a lot of passion lately and
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that's we're trying to keep that up for
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the next competition
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yeah shout out to you know Blanca got 10
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boards it's her career high here uh with
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basically in foul trouble a lot of it um
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you know and needing her to get
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experience so that was key and then you
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know Sierra almost a double double you
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know that was that was uh you know so
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these guys are coming along they're
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young some young guys that we're going
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to lean on so it's good for them get
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some
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experience according to how important is
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next week stepping out of your comfort
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zone a little bit at least a different
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venue a couple different venes how how
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important is yeah it's great great we'll
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have our we had our first our first game
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this tonight we had our first night game
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uh next one we'll have our first away
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game and then um you know our uh the
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next one after that your first DV game
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you know it's just a lot of Firsts for
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this group so you know it's why you do
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it is that you get you find out kind of
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each one where you're at and what you
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need to work on and this group has
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responded you know um there were moments
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where we really didn't play well um but
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if I'm being real I know part of it is
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it's hard not to play to the scoreboard
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and you could say they need to be better
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and I get it right but you know we gave
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up 16 first half points when the score
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was was more in the game right um so
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yeah next week will'll be it'll be two
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new experiences for us and then we come
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back and we um have our first you know
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long road trip so we kind of have a lot
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of Firsts over the next of the next you
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know kind of these first three weeks by
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Design as we know our ACC is coming and
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that's a a formidable challenge for this
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team Lexi you said you're challenged
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you're challenging yourself and your
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teammates are challenging you to go
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beyond the three is that still your
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favorite shot and if so like on the
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court you like the wing you like the
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corner um I don't know they're open
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right yeah wherever I'm not guarded is
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the best spot um I would say transition
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threes are the most fun though just a
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off the slice or off a throw a head um
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when you can hit one of those it it's a
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big energy boost for the team I saw you
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working with Sydney before the second
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half and she was tossing in those
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transition like like passes um is that
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what you work on a lot in practice too
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and a lot in the offseason mhm yeah for
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sure and personally I had missed a
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couple in the first half that I wanted
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to make that were that exact type of
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shot and so yeah I said with her um at
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halftime uh she was passing me the ball
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to get some of those looks to hopefully
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make them in the second half yeah
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