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UNC's Hubert Davis, Ven-Allen Lubin and RJ Davis after victory over Notre Dame
Mar 12, 2025
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then Ellen
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Luben need water you good I'm good thank
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you
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com question to that's
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fine okay we'll start with a couple of
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questions for uh coach Davis then we'll
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take coach questions for the players let
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them go back to the locker room and
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finish up with Coach Davis first
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question front
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row yeah hu um obviously you know Jaylen
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Withers has the seven threes and you
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know we've talked a lot about him you
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know being able to space the floor as of
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late but I guess you know for him to hit
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those especially those three early ones
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how much did that kind of open things up
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for you guys well it does I mean
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initially I thought we had really good
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spacing uh combination of ball and
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Player move movement and um one of the
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things that you know us as a as a group
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as a team have talked about is
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generating good threes and coming off of
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you know dribble Drive uh attack of the
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paint through post penetration even
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offensive rebounding and that's really
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helped our three-point shooting over the
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last month month and a half and
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especially today I felt like not just um
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Jay wit's threes everyone's threes there
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were good threes generated by good
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offense un selfishness and as a result I
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thought we shot a really good percentage
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reminder to identify yourself and your
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affiliation one more question for Coach
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Davis uh Ian Shure Niner times coach a
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lot of the media has you guys on the
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bubble not making the tournament what is
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your pitch after the win for why you
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guys should be in the
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tournament um the pitches we are um
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focused we're very fortunate um to be
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successful against a really good uh
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Notre Dame team that uh was a one-point
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game early ear in the year in South Bend
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um our eyes and our preparation is on
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what is real and what is real is our
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preparation in regards to I play
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tomorrow against a very good Wake Forest
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team okay questions now for the two
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players RJ Bradley winterling with 3304
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Sports you guys had 19 assists on 28
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made shots today do you feel like ball
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movement was sort of a big component for
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you guys yeah it was a huge component
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for our success um in today's win I
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think we did a good job of kind of just
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like coach David said penetrating um and
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finding open guys and that's how we were
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able to shoot a good percentage from
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three and when you have that type of
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basketball especi like in the first half
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when the example of um there was like a
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close out drive you hit Jay wit Jay wit
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hits Seth I then Seth hits me and I hit
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V like that type of ball movement um is
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winning basketball so um and at the same
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time we're having fun with it so um when
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you got when we have 19 assists uh as
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team that's huge so we're going to
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continue to share the ball um and you
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know move forward tomorrow middle aisle
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Bob holiday.com Van Allen you had an
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all-around game today with offensive
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rebounds assists stuffs jump shots
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tomorrow you go against the Wake Forest
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team that is a little bit bigger in the
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interior talk about the challenge of
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going against Fon Reed and and his mates
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yeah you know with his size and just
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athleticism uh I think it will be very
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challenging for me to you know get some
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shots around the rim uh I just know that
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you know my teammates going to continue
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to find me and just trust me in those in
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those areas in our offense and um you
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know just to continue to build
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confidence and just KN I can score
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around the rim back of the
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room uh Michael Co wch chaper bro.com
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for both RJ and Vin this will be the
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first time that you guys have played
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backto backs uh since Maui uh what is
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the what differences are there in the
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recovery process versus based on a a
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normal schedule yeah I mean it's a quick
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turnaround so uh you know we'll get out
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of here after we finish interviews get
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something to eat and then recover
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because uh we play tomorrow and we make
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sure our body's a healthy and you know
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full of energy so um but I think that's
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the great thing about a tournament you
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know just have these quick turnarounds
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and be able to play the next game so
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yeah then yeah like R.J said you know
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just a a it's a quick turnaround you
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know just to really prep our bodies for
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a good game to uh against a good team
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tomorrow um so it's really just trying
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to fuel ourselves with the right food
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and just the right rest for tonight and
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just to get us ready for tomorrow
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back of the rim uh RJ Brian Murphy WL
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you you've been in um a lot of different
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situations coming into this Tournament
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being a number one seed being on the
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bubble uh knowing you're going to the
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tournament what have you tell your
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teammates before this event about what
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you guys need to accomplish and and what
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it's like to play in this event just
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have the one game at a time approach um
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that's the mentality we have to have you
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can't look too you know far ahead into
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quarterfinal semi-finals you really got
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to takeen one game at a time and um I
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think we're doing a good job of kind of
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staying in the present moment with that
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right so obviously you hear the noise
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you hear you know being a bubble team
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and me experiencing you know being the
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number one seat not making the
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tournament it's really just about
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staying present and understanding that
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um anything's possible with in this
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March so um and enjoy it at the same
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time I think sometimes we could get
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caught up in you know the the negative
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comments and negative opinions uh but
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this team is having fun and we're doing
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a good job of kind of staying in the
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present moment and uh you know it's been
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carrying over to our wi so um that's
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really just the main message for the
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team other questions for the two
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players okay guys thanks head back uh
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the Carolina locker rooms open till 510
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we'll
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continue with Coach
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Davis Locker to
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our auxiliary locker room for those
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players questions there
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coaches yes ER re Sports Talk Radio uh
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coach Davis initially to to me it seemed
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like you had uh Drake on Burton seemed
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like that really kind of bothered him
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initially uh during the beginning of the
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game seemed like it set the tempo
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defensively for for the T let's talk
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about that if you will yeah I mean Drake
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is a gifted uh defensive player he has
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um um obviously he's very athletic but
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he's got tremendous length he's at 67
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and so um I think one of the things that
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is most difficult against a score and
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especially
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um Marcus who leads the ACC in scoring
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is going up against length and so we
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just felt like uh starting the game off
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with Drake would make it even more
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difficult for him to be able to score I
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mean Marcus is a great scorer because
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he's you know he can score from all
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three levels he can get fouled get to
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the free throw line he can go either
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direction but I thought Drake's length
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bothered him and made him work a little
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bit harder than usual front
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left K maker with the Del Tar Hill coach
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has there been anything specific spefic
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you've done in crafting jaylen's shot
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since he's come in from Louisville it's
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speciically it's three-point shot no I
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mean you know last year he was coming
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off of his first year with Carolina he
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was coming off a a thumb injury where he
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was out pretty much most of the summer
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and so
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um but you know Jay wit is he's he's his
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most in terms of being comfortable out
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there on the floor and settled in his
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role and in regards to what he needs to
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do out there um his shot selection is
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great as I talked about generating good
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threes and it's not just that I thought
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his activity defensively was Elite he
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was rebounding blocking shots running
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the floor just giv us that uh veteran
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experience that this this this team has
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needed All Season to
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left
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Bob Bob holiday nw.com coach since you
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settled on the lineup changes for the
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Syracuse game adding jwood and settling
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on vanen and Drake uh your shooting
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percentages are way up um back in uh
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mid-February you were shooting 44% in
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conference only games now it's 48 and a
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half I would say second only to Duke uh
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the threo percentage which was a woeful
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32% in mid-February is up to 37 it's not
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number two but it's you know like six or
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seven how has how have the lineup
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changes improved your field goal
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accuracy I don't um yeah no I don't um I
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wouldn't attribute it to the lineup
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change I would attribute it to um the
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type of shots that were generating uh
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one of the things that we always talk
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about is dominating points in the paint
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through post penetration and offensive
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rebounding I think our rebounding
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numbers have grown a lot over the last
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month month and a half um we're driving
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and I think you saw in this game uh
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we're not selling for the good shot
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we're we're making the extra pass to the
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great shot and so I just think uh
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overall um our ability to create good
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threes whether it's through post
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penetration or offensive rebounding
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sharing the basketball has been the
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number one factor in our percentage from
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three rising over the last month month
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and a
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half third grow yeah aen stansky with
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the daily orange Elliott had 10 assists
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today how important is his facilitating
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to kind of unlocking how great your
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offense can be at this time of the year
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no it's huge I mean Elliott is he's
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gifted in regards to being able to find
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open teammates you know he's our best
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penetrator where he can break down a
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defense anytime he wants to not only
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create for himself but create for his
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teammates and when he's
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making the simple easy play for him it's
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for everyone else it's elite and I
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thought he did that for the most part so
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I think it was a couple lobs that he
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threw up but when he keeps it simp Le um
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I think he's one of the best
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distributors in the
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country any other questions for
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Coach take two
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more looking ahead to Wake Forest
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tomorrow you had a tough battle with
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them and Win Second what makes them
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their defense challenging to
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attack well I think um one of the things
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is they're really good individual
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Defenders you know they're um they can
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guard the ball they take pride in their
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individual one-on-one
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matchups they have clearly as a team
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identified for them to be successful
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they have to be good on the defensive
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end and they've got athleticism and
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length they do and so they make it tough
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to be able to get consistent good shots
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high percentage shots on the offensive
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end and so um we're looking forward to
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the challenge tomorrow afternoon and
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understand Wake Forest is a very good
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basketball team last question for Coach
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uh Zack wol for the daily orange uh you
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guys got 38 points out your starting
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pair in the front Court I was just
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wondering what that sort of does for
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your offense especially considering you
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guys have start three guards but what is
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that do for your offense when you're
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able to get that production from your
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front no that's huge because I mean I
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know Jay wit hit seven threes but Vin
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was dominating points in the paint uh
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notra Dame went to a switch attack where
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they were switching everything and so
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you know we were able to um take
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advantage of smaller guys guarding our
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big guys down down low on a post but to
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Vince Po and Jay wash is just their
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ability to hold off to be able to be
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strong around the basket and be able to
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finish when you can have that
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versatility offensively and being able
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to score beyond the three and also
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points in the paint and be able to get
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to the free throw line that makes you
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really efficient on the offensive end
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and and then go along we had less than
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10 assists and that's something that's
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always been a goal for us to to have
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less than 10 assists each each game okay
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thanks coach thank you see you tomorrow
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see tomorrow
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