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#UNC players Seth Trimble, Elliot Cadeau and Jalen Washington after exhibition win at Memphis
Oct 16, 2024
#UNC players Seth Trimble, Elliot Cadeau and Jalen Washington after exhibition win at Memphis
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think about that one you didn't have RJ
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tonight and obviously a pretty good test
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for a game that doesn't count I mean
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what would you say you guys got out of
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tonight uh we got Jitters out we got
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Jitters out most definitely first half
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was uh first half was an experience that
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was probably one of the roughest first
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half here I I've played in the three
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years I played here but just the way we
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came together in the second half the way
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Elliot jayen and I and all the rest of
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the old guys way we stepped up and just
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guided everybody it was huge so it was a
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big step
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yeah uh Jaylen for you it seemed like
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you know early on Memphis kind of had
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you know their way on the boards it
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seemed like there was a a tide that
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shifted maybe late first half and into
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the second half for you guys what was
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some of the messaging that Hubert Davis
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was giving you as far as I guess the
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aggressiveness on on that side uh he was
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just telling us aggressiveness and
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physicality is one thing he can't teach
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so we just had to go out there and
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compete harder uh we had to be tougher
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on the boards um they was given it to us
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a little bit um in the beginning so we
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just had to we had to man up and you
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know just could you
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harder
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and Andrew Elliot you guys were talking
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a couple weeks ago about 3 seconds give
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the ball pass half court 3 seconds be
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the fastest team in the country there
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were some stretches tonight where you
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guys look like you were doing what the
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Mandate is from here how do you think
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you guys did with respect to the PACE um
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I think we did a very good job um given
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that we were down one of our guards um
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and everybody had to step up and play
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more minutes um that's something that
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coach that that's something that HD
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emphasizes a lot our pace so yeah we
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just focus on that a lot during the game
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we feel pretty good about what you guys
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got out of that just during that stretch
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especially you guys were as fast as you
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were at any time is that kind of what
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you think is going to be more and more a
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thing as the season goes on yeah I think
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more and more as a season goes on more
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and more we're going to get in more
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shape so I think that it'll just get
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faster and faster as the season goes
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on along those lines five back break
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points in the first half and you really
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turned it up in the second half did
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coach talk a lot abouto or what was the
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difference in the second half in that
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yeah I feel like that's something he
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emphasizes every timeout every huddle um
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during the halftime he just emphasizes
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our pace so for him to just keep saying
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that to us just makes us go harder and
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go
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faster
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Adam Seth you're supposed to be a
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defensive specialist aren't you with 33
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points tonight I
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mean you know is that is the game that
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we saw tonight I mean are you capable of
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some these do you think this season
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obviously RJ is going to be scoring some
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points absolutely yes absolutely he is
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yeah I mean I think I've been that yall
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saw in high school uh and just stepped
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into a position where I had to step into
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a role you know these last two years but
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I mean with this team with the offense
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that we play I've been able just to
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really stride and take the steps that
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you guys haven't seen but that I know
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they've seen every day in practice so I
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mean it's been there so hope to see more
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got follow up on that I remember talking
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to you two years ago you you trying to
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learn how to play with body control when
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you get in the paint and everything it
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looks like youve got to the point where
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your body control is where you wanted to
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be how much work do you put into body
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control and how do you work on that uh a
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lot a lot you just we give credit to
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Jonas we give that's why he's stronger
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that's why he's stronger uh we give
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credit to athletic strength coach uh
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Jonas he's just I mean I don't even know
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what he has is doing there I can talk
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about specifically but just work that we
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do every day with him uh even on our off
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days and even just the light lifts it's
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it's paid huge dividends and we've also
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been working I mean since we've been
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kids so it's kind of just grown into it
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I guess not anybody else for jayen the
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trainer would like to get him stitched
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up again so yeah I think question J okay
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the mic just keep the mic there uh yeah
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so Dylan for you obviously uh you know
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efficient shooting day I know you had
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you know a couple three-pointers and
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then also you know as well working um
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inside I guess you know how did you you
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know sort of find that I guess balance
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from a scoring standpoint and just uh
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overall you know leading into today you
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know leading into practice how much more
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comfortable are you feeling on from the
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offens stand point I feel really
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comfortable um I always just stay ready
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with my shot uh just try to get some
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easy points I was able to get to the
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free throw line a few times uh get get
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some easy points there uh just get some
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um easy buckets layups dunks uh it just
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got me going and then uh you know coach
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gave me up drew me up to play shoot a
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three after I already hit one just
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stepped in with confidence and and
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knocked both of those down so I'm really
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just trying to start out easy and then
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uh just rely on my shot later on really
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helped me out
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jentl that's exactly what I was going to
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ask you about the coming out of the
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timeout you drop a three-pointer for the
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610 dude um I mean that looks like a new
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Wrinkle In The Playbook I don't think
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you're doing that for armo the last
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couple years U but tell us about that
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play and that's I mean that looks like
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it could be something you guys use from
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time to time well like I said before I
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had hit one before so I was feeling it
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um I thought I was just going to come
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off and hand it off and we were going to
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like get into like a ball screen or
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something he told me to come off and
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shoot it so I was open
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knocked it down best human big in the
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country here on the left you all talked
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a lot about strength on the court I want
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to ask about strength off the court you
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were just on the St Jude um Children's
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Research Hospital campus what did that
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mean to you anything that you want to
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take away from that anything you drew
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inspiration from today and day I think
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it allowed us to see how blessed that
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like we really are in this life uh when
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we go through hard times I don't think
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it's anything like what these little
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kids and their families go through so uh
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just to hear about the research that
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they do what these little kids have to
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go through and what their families go
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through I mean I wouldn't wish that I
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wouldn't wish on anybody if that was my
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kid and one day if that was me I I
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wouldn't know what to do so I think it
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just it it it made us take a huge step
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back and just kind of realize how
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blessed we are and how we can't kind of
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take things for granted in this life any
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else you guys on the far right yes but
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this is just being an exhibition guame
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what do you guys take from this game as
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you prepare for your season and what was
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it like to face the back for me of
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Tyrese Hunter and PJ hag who is this
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for I feel like uh any chance for this
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group to get uh as much experience as we
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can is good uh we have some new a lot of
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new guys on this team so for them to
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come out here and just get some first
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game Jitters out even for us returning
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players who stepping up into bigger
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roles to you know just get that
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experience being out on the court more I
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feel like that was really huge for us uh
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we got a lot of maturity um that we that
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we gota uh make but I feel like this is
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definitely a good win for us and this is
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good for our confidence moving
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forward he what was it like to play the
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back quar
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Ty um I think it was great um I always
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look forward look forward to
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Opportunities uh to play like against
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Great guards and they're proven in
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college they've been doing a lot of good
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things in college it's just like a
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blessing to be able to play against them
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um I think iron sharp is iron so the
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fact that we playing against them are
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just making us better it was huge to be
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play against him our first game I mean
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just be a to play against a three LEL
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score like Tyrese and then kind of PJ
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can get to the rim whenever he wanted to
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you know that was that was really good
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that we got to play in the first game
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everybody good jayen I going to ask what
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happened on the play that you got the
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thing off uh I just bumped heads with
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Tyreek Smith going in for a rebound at
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the free throw
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line thanks everybody you need stitches
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he got some at half got some clean that
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up guys were good right peace guys
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appreciate you