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UNC's Seth Trimble, Ven-Allen Lubin, RJ Davis and Elliot Cadeau after loss to Duke #UNC
Mar 15, 2025
UNC's Seth Trimble, Ven-Allen Lubin, RJ Davis and Elliot Cadeau after loss to Duke #UNC
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we had heart at 9:44 it'll close at 1014
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this ACC tournament to end like that uh
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you know lost that dad you know down 20
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could have you know done who knows what
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to our help in the tournament so I we
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knew what was at stake uh and we f as
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simple as that I'm super proud of my
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guys for that first and foremost Seth do
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you think this team has earned a birth
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in the N without a doubt 100% why why
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you say that thought in my mind just
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curious why you say that because we're a
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tournament
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team my God I believe it the whole team
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believes it the whole coach believes
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it when you were down 21 at that point
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in the halftime what do you guys say to
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kind of get back into it take pride uh
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to not go away from what we've been
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doing these last n 10 games you know the
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ball got really stagnant in the first
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half on the offensive end you it was
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just allow one do just to get easy stops
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and then get on transition and we
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weren't taking probably a one one match
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up either so a lot of words were set
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from you know a lot of different
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teammates myself included but you know
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we all pushed and each other so you know
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I'm super proud of Seth you uh you got
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to feel for Jaylen in that situation and
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he's just trying to make a play what did
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you guys say to him in the locker room
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after keep his head up this is the
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complete truth we are not here in this
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position without jayen WS in the way
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he's been playing these last couple
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through few weeks so some to keep his
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head up you know I truly believe that
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everything happens for re reason you
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know God has a plan for everybody and
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that was just his plan for us today so
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I'm super excited for this team I'm
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super excited for the bounce back that
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going to make they we're going to make a
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keep come Duke really hurt you guys on
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those lobs to to malow watch um what was
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going on there and it looked maybe like
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you guys adjusted a little bit towards
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the end of the game yeah we were going
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back and forth I think we started off
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the game uh having our big having our
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big up and you know come on he was able
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to get behind our bigs and you know with
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his L all you got to do start out there
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so we adjusted uh but once we adjusted
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and dropped our bigs back they were kind
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of too far back in the sense and Proctor
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and other guards were able to get to the
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rim and draw fouls and easy layup so we
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ended up finding balance for it but it
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was just kind of I mean it was it was a
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battle all
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game play kind of say one day one one
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game at a time you know just one minute
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at a time one possession at a time what
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was the last play set what was the set
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of for the last play for the last
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timeout I'm sorry what was the play
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supposed to be on the last after that
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last time out trying to get RJ a good
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look you know to put up a three and try
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to tr the game up it do say said you
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guys are 100% a tournament team you feel
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you guys have done enough to ear to the
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NCA tournament absolutely
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100% Can you sort of describe the
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uh last minute or so from your point of
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view what was going on it looked kind of
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chaotic but then you
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had a lot of things to digesting yeah uh
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it was just everything was Up Tempo
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everything you know you can't really
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take any time to think you know it's
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just really go out there and do it um
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try to get a defensive stop and try to
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get a good look on offensive side to get
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us up or TI the game up um so we were
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just trying to execute on both ends of
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the floor what was your reaction to the
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lane violation you don't usually see
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that in that that kind of moment uh it's
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a game of basketball I know that you
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know with you know jayen wers didn't
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mean to do that you know I know that he
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was just trying to be ready for the
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rebound um so you know those those
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things happen we're not we're not
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blaming him for that you know it's not
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as far at all you know it was it was a
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team the team uh to you know we the
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reason why we was in this position do
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you think you guys did enough to make
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the NCA tournament and how does it feel
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to have it up to chance down absolutely
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I believe we definitely have the heart
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you know just the players and the
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capability of you know being in a
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tournament and making a good run what
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changed during that big run in the
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second half when you guys cut it down we
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just stuck together you know we just
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believe in ourselves that we know we can
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get stops and you know we can execute an
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offensive Edge so you know chip the game
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away uh little by little um you know
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that the we wasn't really worried about
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the score we just know what to come in
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the second half you know 0 Z and just
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try to give it all did you change your
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ball scen coverage there toward the end
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uh for Duke just a little bit we was
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trying to you know just switch
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everything just so you know they get
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open looks at The Rim or at the
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three-point line anything dramatic
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happened at half on anything of not to
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kind of change the vibe change the move
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just we had have to play you know we
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know what we had to do why they were had
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such a big lead you know just
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defensively wasn't taking pride in our
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matchups and we was giving it too many
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chance on offensive board so once we
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limit that then we'll be good if indeed
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you have more basketball in front of you
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what how dangerous can this team be what
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makes you guys dangerous if you get
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in it just makes a d knowing that uh
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we're capable you know staying with
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teams and knowing that we can go on a
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great run you know the things that we we
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can learn from this game so just from
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this tournament by itself and just what
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we're capable of doing I believe that we
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can defin do it in the tournament and
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what would you think you still need to
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work on what needs to get
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tweaked uh just we got continue to stay
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together you know I think we can
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definitely you know just improve on just
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knowing that we're we're capable of
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doing it it's all the mindset I don't
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think there's anything physically or
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anything on the court I think
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defensively we're doing great things I
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think offens is doing great things I
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think it's all just a mindset coming in
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the tournament and dominate it'll be
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very easy to point lane violation is the
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difference in this game obviously there
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were tons
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of were those plays designed to get you
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the
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ball reflecting on your turn your ten in
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North Carolina what makes you proud
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think back the last 5 years I mean sh
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the season not
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over when it comes to when it comes to
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Sunday and the selection show and
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everything you anticipate you guys
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watching it all as a team
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that um just to see our our team be
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called on and see where we're ranked at
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and be ready to play next week so we're
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doing High Hopes and positivity so I
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mean we going to be ready to play if you
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have to go to Dayton is is that all
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right with you say if you have to go to
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Dayton in the first four is that all
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right with you basket basketball
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whereever we got to play them play in or
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where we're at I don't really care where
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we're at um this team is a a tournament
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team and uh we'll prove that to yall
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it's quite losing to D feel like be a
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danger n what you guys 100% 100% I I
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stand I support and stand 10 toes around
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my statement we are a tournament team
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and um we compete with the best of the
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best and we've been proving that these
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past couple of weeks so uh you know
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we're going to wait for selection show
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Sunday and see where we're going to be
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at and then we're going you know do our
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thing RJ earlier in the year I asked you
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perseverance and how that's kind of been
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your mantra for this team you're down 24
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the half how do that how do guys embody
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that word even as a team when come back
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and fight by tipping away possession by
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possession and understanding that you're
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not going to um come back down 20 all in
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one possession you got to take a media
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timeout by media timeout um and just
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keep chipping away and uh we kept doing
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that every time we looked up we wanted
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to uh cut the lead down a little bit we
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looked up we're down 12 next you know
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it's a four-point game so um that I mean
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that's just the the team of this team we
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persevere through anything um we're not
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going back down without a fight and uh
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we show that tonight the way we just
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constantly just battled and battled um
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all the way to the end that's a team
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right
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there thank you what changed in the last
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that last long run that you guys came
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back what changed our defensive pressure
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and the way we was able to get stops and
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kind of just like playing transition a
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little bit um you know Duke is kind of a
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hard team to play in the half court set
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a little bit so we have to do a better
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job of kind of just getting more
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transition points and exploiting the uh
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the ball screen coverage that they were
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in we was able to get the rim get foul I
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think V was a big part of that know Seth
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EC I mean took everyone today um and
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that's the type of you know games we
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need to have I'm against good teams
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excuse me we're going to take you to the
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podium in a minute if you need to put
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shoes
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on I don't really know like I I don't
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know I don't really know like too much
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how it works and stuff like that so I'm
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not I'm not too anxious cuz I feel like
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we deserve a chance and I feel like
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we're we could do a lot of damage in the
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tournament how do you think that
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comeback kind of showed that tonight I
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mean I think it showed how tough we
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could be and I think it showed that we
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can play with anybody in the country how
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would you assess how much Vin has
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improved over the course of the Season
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he a moner down there at times tonight
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going up against Mal of watch yeah he's
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definitely been one of our best players
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these past couple of games and OB just
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really proud of him because like he he
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had a slow start this season and now
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he's one of our biggest
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pieces how do you think he's been able
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to do it like what have you seen I mean
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I just think it was a matter of time I
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think he was just getting comfortable
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and just knowing his role cuz it was
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probably different at his last scho so
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did Coach Davis have any sort of message
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in the locker room you know about okay
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you know ACC tournament runs over that
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we look forward to the bracket come out
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what was his General me message I guess
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if you don't mind sharing it oh he was
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just telling like stay positive and he
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just was telling us that he's proud of
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us what was the difference during that
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big run where you cut the lead down in
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the second half was his defense I feel
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like we're stacking together a lot of
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stops and in the beginning we weren't
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getting any stops at
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all and then the the three-pointers I
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mean you haven't hit three-pointers like
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that most of the Season uh and nobody
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else hit one how weird was that um I
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don't know it it wasn't weird for me but
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I mean for for nobody else to hit one
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yeah I mean that definitely could have
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helped us for other people to hit
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but you feeling right now oh just sad
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like I really it was a big goal am to
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win this
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tournament end I wanted
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to what was sort of your Vantage Point
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and thought process when the lane
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violation happen what you
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say we were just telling him that he's
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okay we we feel like that didn't lose us
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the game like V missed the first free
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throw I missed two free throws um RJ
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missed a free throw so if we would have
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made all those we would have been up by
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four so we're just telling him that it's
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not his fault and that he's okay what
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what about what you guys said at half
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time was so impactful in terms of
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basically doing everything that you
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hadn't been doing the last five minutes
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of the first half yeah we were just like
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talking to each other telling us each
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other just um be tougher just be better
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on defense and that's what we tried to
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do in the second half what was the play
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coming has the last timeout supposed to
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how was that supposed to play out it was
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supposed to go to RJ um but they they
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were switching everything and they were
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denying everything so it was hard to get
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the ball was there a screen or something
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supposed to happen or yeah V screen for
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him and then they just switched it and
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denied it and who okay goe you're in the
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waiting here so it's Sunday what how do
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you spend the time you said how do you
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spend the time in the waiting period
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that you all are in I mean you all are
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confident that you're turnament team
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will make it so what do these next few
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days look like for I'm just preparing
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we're hoping for the best and we're just
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going to be preparing we're going to be
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in the gym every day just trying to get
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better for the tournament what would be
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your personal pitch to this selection
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why you
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think I
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mean I personal I I'll just show them
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the games I mean I I think we kind of
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prove that even though we fell short to
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most games um against like really good
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teams we were still there with them so
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yeah that how hard was it to guard
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with Duke off they have it seemed like
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there was sometimes you Blitz the
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screener sometimes it was more of a drop
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coverage guess what was the there yeah
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we're just making a lot of uh
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adjustments and changes and they got a
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couple lobs so we just adjusted to it
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and I think we kind of
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stopped what worked for you in this game
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that didn't work in the first two d
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games uh for me I was just being more
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aggressive and yeah I'll just be more
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aggressive with my shot and with the
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ball in my hands and how tough is that
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when you're in foul trouble as well yeah
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it's very tough very tough um yeah I got
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to do better being in F trouble for sure
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how do you hope to continue to build as
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a leader and
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