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UNC's Drake Powell, RJ Davis and Ian Jackson outside locker room after loss to Louisville #UNC
Jan 2, 2025
UNC's Drake Powell, RJ Davis and Ian Jackson outside locker room after loss to Louisville #UNC
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but it's not their right right now not
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matching team's intensity exactly right
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right Drake along those lines what what
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is the sense of maybe frustration that
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I'm assuming can build up when when some
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of these games are there to be one and
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and you're not able to do it and some of
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these losses do feel similar like I
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would think there has to be a sense of
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frustration definitely some frustration
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especially like when it's the same thing
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you know happen repeatedly over and over
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again but um we just have to be better
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the most important thing is to stick
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together even though adversity is here
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we just want to still remain together
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Drake what do you think could have or
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what would you have liked to seen I
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guess more offensively down the stretch
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obviously you're talking about the
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rebounds kind of getting away late but I
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guess scoring wise what you what would
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you have liked to see I think
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um our coaches half they called the
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right plays got the uh guys in the right
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spots um I think offensive rebounding
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that could have helped to get us some
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second chances like L with it
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and I guess you know and I know this
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deficit wasn't as much as you know some
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of the other ones you saw that were 15
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20 whatever but I guess kind of coming
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back from a double- digit deficit in the
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second half and then getting it close
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like does that almost wear on you if
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that makes sense to you know have the
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energy to even come back and then try to
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execute from there well not really cuz
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like when your when your adrenaline is
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going you just you know and um we want
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to focus on getting the win that's the
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only thing on the set on the task at
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hand and um yeah just we want to stay
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together and just keep just keep working
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do you think you guys get too confused
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on defense at times like I'm thinking
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about some of those lobs where it it
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seemed like you know they do ball screen
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action and get a lob to the rim earlier
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in the game you know what I'm talking
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about where I do is that a product of
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confusion what what is not confusion I
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would just say uh communication I think
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we need to um I feel like we speak to
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each other but the volume isn't there
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that's something I struggle with
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personally I think that's a big thing
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and RJ
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also
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yeah yeah this was a lot
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like offensive rebs they got scores
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couldn't really run your stuff
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offensively foul a lot and set them to
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the line what what do you see is what
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went wrong the last five minutes in this
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game and we see it before Kansas we saw
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it against Florida why does this creep
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up to you with you guys too often uh I
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just think it's um into the game
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execution we have to do a better job of
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doing
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um was a onepoint game and I think we
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fou a three-point shooter and on the
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foul line uh with the three um and just
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like the the little things that are kind
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of just um making other teams extend
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their lead cuz we have it right where we
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want it um and we had the game right in
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our possession where we uh was able to
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win the game but um it's really our end
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game execution has been you know
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throughout the year like you said Kansas
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Florida um and we just got to kind of
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stop you know putting ourselves in those
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positions um cuz kind of like sh our on
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the fo you guys did do it against UCLA
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so where does it start what do you learn
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from the close in that game that you can
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apply moving forward that you didn't
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have today yeah it's just going to have
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to be I think just um doing the better
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job of attention to detail throughout
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the whole game I think sometimes we
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Could lack concentration um on those
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ends um and just our Focus
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miscommunications um um different
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screening actions uh not having a l guy
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um mix box out so those things that that
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have been kill all year tonight that
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stood out to me RJ what you're talking
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about the the getting crossed up
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miscommunications being confused like
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what is the deal with that what's what's
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going on there um I think it
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just I'm still trying to figure it out
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as well um because we shown glimpses of
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it when we do communicate and it leads
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some great things I think it's not
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consistently it's not consistent on a
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consistent basis and uh
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when when it's crunch time and I think
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that's just um I put it on myself to be
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do a better job of kind of just leading
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the guys in that um instance in terms of
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kind of just being a vocal point you
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know telling them when to talk telling
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them when to be the low guy like cuz
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these are you know they Haven been in
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situations like this throughout um their
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careers allot of different players we
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had this year in terms of uh different
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conferences and some freshman so I got
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to do a better job of kind of just
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communicating being a leader on the
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floor um but at the same time has has to
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be a collective group in terms of
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communicating how different is is is the
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game without Seth and do you expect him
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back any down to I mean yeah I mean
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having Seth uh wave is a huge Miss for
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us you know he contributes so much to
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this team offensively and defensively um
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and he's a a focal point for this team
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so missing him was huge for us um
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especially the open up ACC conference
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play um so we definitely miss set out
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there uh he does a lot of the little
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things that we all need you know he
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plays the one through the four so a lot
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of his energy and effort plays were
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needed um but that didn't excuse us for
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the way we should have uh closed out the
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game today mean you expect him back soon
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oh hopefully yeah got him in the Le yeah
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so just want to make sure he's healthy
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um and he's ready to go so whenever that
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is I think the majority of your points
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came about the last four half minutes of
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the first half what were they doing to
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keep you from being uh affected looked
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like you were highly stressed a lot of
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the time when you got the B I mean I
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think they just did a good job of kind
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of just uh well obviously I was the
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focal point for their emphasis of their
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um defense so a lot of the ball screen
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actions what they did was either like a
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hard hedge or like a double team so what
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the coaches were telling me was since
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they're hard hedge in the double team
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you get the ball out of my hands whether
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it go to the show r or um the guy behind
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and even if I did have a switch out on a
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Defender I knew I could go by um I had
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all 10 eyeballs on me so they had guys
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in the gaps guys in the midlines and
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everyone was kind of just you know right
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there so it was kind of just hard for me
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to kind of just find a rhythm because it
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kind did a good job of um being on know
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tough of the ball screens um and then
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when I did to have the ball like in
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one-onone situation isolation they were
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just big big help how frustrating is
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that and second part of the question how
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much does it wear on you when you have
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to fight so hard just to get decent
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looks um I mean I know it's a little bit
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frustrating but I kind of just try to
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stay within the game trying not let to
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let it affect you know everything else
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of my game so like defensively I got a
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couple of uh good Steals and um good box
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out so kind of just not letting that
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affect my game when I know they're
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trying to take away my offense um but it
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does a little bit wear a little bit wear
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and tear cuz I'm working a lot harder to
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get the ball um to catch the ball and I
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do have the ball so I knew that coming
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into this year just because of know the
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year I had last year and um I knew
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coming into this year so it's kind of
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just more of a mental standpoint just
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stay in the game not
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effec eight and six how how do you how
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do you get this thing turned around get
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it going the way it needs to go yeah
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staying positive uh one game at a time
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um AC is really hard it's only one night
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so just got to keep chipping the away
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game by game possession by possession
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that's the only way have to look at the
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rest
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of I'm
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getting the I was just talking to RJ and
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Drake about the close they closed you
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guys out 13 to1 it looked a lot like the
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way Florida closed you guys out what is
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your explanation for why that happened
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today and why it's been an issue a few
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times for you guys this year
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um you got to figure out how to D tr get
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good shots and make good shot and make
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shots wi shots um for
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like this game we got in stret to get
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the best shots that we wanted to get um
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we had make the shots but it happens you
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know it's a basketball game we making
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Miss shots but we got to figure out how
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to get good shots out it was 70 to 69
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when that when that run of there started
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to get to that point you were getting
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all kinds of stuff you were showing a
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lot of your your driving game all that
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stuff that you have get back get a
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conventional three-point play I think
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that made it a one-point game what were
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you seeing in them that made you believe
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that you could take them off the dribble
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no matter who was guarding you and get
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to the rim draw a foul or get the ball
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in
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um I was just hoping I wasn't really
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it's just you being here yeah for sure I
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I'm not really sitting there thinking
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about oh who guarding me I'm just I'm
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putting a lot of work and I think I can
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get to run anybody I think score on
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anybody so I was out there just playing
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basketball taking advantage I seen them
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if it wasn't there give it to my
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teammates but just playing basketball if
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I recall I think that there were at
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least four more guys on you during that
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streak season of about 7 minutes do you
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recall more than four being on you at
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some point you talked to a couple of
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them uh I don't remember um I don't
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remember who which guy was guarding me
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but yeah I I was in the flow man I just
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into the
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game Cool appreciate oh one last
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question you guys are eight six I just
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asked RJ how you get this thing going
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the way it's supposed to go for this
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program in this team um just put our
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hard hat on put our heads down and get
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to work it's it's a long season our
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second game AC play still got tons of
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games to go uh but it's time it's time
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to put our high really get to work um we
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can't keep saying oh we got tons of
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games to go cuz the TV is and S but I we
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just got we got lock in right now go
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back to the D board and fixing things
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fixing little things that c appreciate
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it thanks