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#UNC player interviews with Drake Powell, Seth Trimble and Ian Jackson
Oct 27, 2024
#UNC player interviews with Drake Powell, Seth Trimble and Ian Jackson
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play there can you sort of walk us
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through sort of how you maintain that
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intensity of the defense um just I think
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one thing that uh coach Davis mentions a
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lot is that we're fued by defense and
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then um really when I played back in
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high school is like defense is the thing
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that travels like when we go on the road
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that's the thing that we can rely on
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most cuz there's going to be some nights
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where you know offense isn't clicking
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right and for this team too I'm assuming
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with how much he wants to play in
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transition that sort of naturally leads
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itself to right yes sir how fun was that
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uh Drake you to Ian to back to you again
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AL you on the F yeah yeah yeah that was
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fun that was fun that's my guy yeah and
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just too um at the end there with like H
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Brook I mean I just saw the going crazy
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when he's able to get that done yeah
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yeah yeah that was great um John worked
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hard and um yeah he deserved that dunk
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I'm happy he got it with a two-handed
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block there at the end that that's just
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something I like doing a lot that's just
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yeah have you found that you're really
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meshing with your team well yes
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definitely definitely I um yeah off the
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court as well um I I really don't have a
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like a a least favorite teammate I think
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you know we're all we're all friends
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yeah also want to get just your reaction
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to the you know Ian windmill I mean he
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he told me he's been waiting to bring
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that one out so was it like to see yeah
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he he's been telling um Elliot and I
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about it but so him doing that in
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environment like this that was that was
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great obviously you know him well you
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know roommates and everything already a
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very naturally comp guy but have you
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seen his confidence in this game grow at
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all like over the first few kind of
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weeks no I think I think it's natural I
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think like you said he's always been
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confident I just think um you know it's
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something that he's always had what's
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been now that you've had a few I mean no
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official games but you know exhibition
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things like that like what's been the
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biggest adjustment adjustment definitely
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the physicality and I say the the speed
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of the game is pretty fast like close
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outs yeah exactly some things you've
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been doing um just you know trying to
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stay in the gym as much as possible and
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um yeah just working on my uh stamina do
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you have anyone from Northwood here at
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the game today uh not that I know of but
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if they did come yeah I I really
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appreciate that it seemed like you guys
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were taking Air Jordan to to kind of
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heights by with with with taking flight
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is that you see that in practice every
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day a little bit yeah yes sir we try to
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um you know Implement that however we
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can
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you were second on the team rebound all
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it is I can do the same thing last year
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just didn't have that same confidence
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that's all it is the confidence come
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from uh I learned that just reminding
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myself you know Ty of person I every day
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uh you know I've seen each and every day
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what I do to these guys in practice so I
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know I can do it uh so I was just
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reminding myself that it's very much
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possible and you know I got dreams so if
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I want to achieve those dreams I got to
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play with full confidence first game of
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the three yard lineup with you ell RJ I
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guess how fun is that line together you
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off oh it's I mean it's super fun I love
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it we haven't really been able to play
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against each other we haven't been to
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play with each other all summer it's
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kind of me against them all year so to
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finally just be able to play with them
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you know to play at their pace and just
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get open looks for them create open
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looks for them and just be to th off the
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opportunities they build for me it's
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super fun seem like there a lot of high
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fly and dunks and kind of picking the
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Air Jordan theme seriously here uh how
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fun is that to be taken left and right
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oh it was fun it's fun to be able to
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jump high uh you know but it just speaks
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to our advantages on the defensive end
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you know we did what we need to do uh
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got stops got in the passing lanes and
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we played fast so we take care of that
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we'll have as much fun as we on offens
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was when you turn up the defensive
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intensity like first 10 minutes it was
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kind of choppy was defense what turned
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things around absolutely I mean that's
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going to be the biggest thing with us as
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long as we keep up the defensive
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intensity we'll be perfectly fine but
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like you saw you know we played kind of
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like a days ago nonchalant I guess no
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matter who it is they keep up what's the
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biggest benefit of you and RJ all being
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ont at the same time experience
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experience I think is the biggest one
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pace uh you know just all of our ability
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create our shot and ability to create
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our shot for other teammates uh they got
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me some open looks earlier uh I got
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watch back and knew I should have taken
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some uh we got them some open looks you
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know how this
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is I mean it's F you know we're all old
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so we know what we're doing does that
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feed into he really stressed how much he
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wants to play in transition this year
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faster I would assume that help as well
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definitely I mean I think us here in the
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court you can put whoever two you want
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we're going to be the fastest lineup you
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could possibly have so you know
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definitely speaks on it the pick and
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roll game was really good you picking
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and rolling better this season so far
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than last season you think I guess so
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like yeah yeah we are I mean we got
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Elliot who gets an assist every other
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possession uh AR who cated a shot so
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yeah and then our BS are doing a great
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job rolling out they're doing a really
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good job just putting pressure on the
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rim and creating advantages for outside
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guys so spacing better as well
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absolutely absolutely we don't have
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armanda this year so you know Armand was
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such a dominant Force you had to sit him
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on the Block and give him the ball
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because that's what was most efficient
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but you know we don't necessarily have
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that this year so it's a lot more
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spacing I guess on the topic of
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different
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bigs Elliot lot dunker
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spot guess what are the differences you
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kind of see with more athletic you know
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Ranger kind of you guys have this year
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Losing Myself losing yourself in the
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game just fully scaned in the game and
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playing your game from when I same way
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same way in Memphis Memphis just one of
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those games you know you have a bad game
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and it happens to everybody so Shake
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anything change anything it happens to
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freshman a lot they have that little
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freshman moment you got to get over
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that's kind of what I'm alluding
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to yeah back it happened you know it
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happened next game um so it didn't shake
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my confidence I stepped on the floor and
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felt the same way as I felt in every
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game you know I believe in myself
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putting a lot of work and it showed how
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much fun was it it was extremely fun man
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especially watching my teammates John
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get a dunk uh watching Everybody Just
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score have fun smile and be a
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family I know I know was going up uh me
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and Drake that's my guy we play play
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together time we together all the time
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and it was two on one I knew he could
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throw it and I was going back right back
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to him I want to see him score I want to
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see him do good and I'm proud of him
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tonight when you guys are playing the
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way you areally YouTube how much does
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that raise this team possible you guys
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drastically you know uh me and Drake uh
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impa in a lot of different ways scoring
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defending uh we can do a better job
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rebounding but it's going to get that
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rebounding so we on the floor playing
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like this playing at a high
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level and you played the most minutes
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out of anyone on the team tonight what
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do it mean to you that coach Davis has
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that confidence in vi just a couple
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games in uh means a lot you know coach
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Davis from day one you he told about how
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much confidence out of me and his
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expectations for me out there on the
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floor and how how you look at me for me
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to perform so he been and tonight was
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just I'm
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just did you know you were going to hit
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that windmill or was that just
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improvisation uh that was I of know it
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just happened um I had open open Lane I
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I think I had a dunk before where I got
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high up but I missed it so I just
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knew it might not be the case in regular
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season but for now what do you like
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about coming off that
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Ben
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um just my my ability to come and just
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take the game from one level was another
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you know uh start of the game always can
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be slow some top the team so me come off
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the bench and kind of bring the energy
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up holding the not Notch and do what I
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need to do to win and help my teammates
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out so for me that's fine how good
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defensive player do you think Drake can
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be uh one of the best in Carolina
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history for sure uh Drake athletically
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he's he's super gifted his length
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physically he just a way different
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different player you know his defense is
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something he lays lays his head on and
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so he could be one best I think really
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good defensive players are annoying to
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deal with what is annoying about it when
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he's guarding you on and off the ball um
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it's his length you know uh you think
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you got him but you don't got him CU he
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recover with that so much left he's he's
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not he's quick as's taller but he's
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quicker and at the shot and at the REM
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contest him every
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shot what tell me through the one that
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you missed where you hurdled the guy is
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that about as high as you've been and
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how great would have been if that had
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gone down honestly I didn't think I was
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that high I thought I got higher on the
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windmill than than I did on the the one
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I missed but hey I tried it I missed it
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came short but it was
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good Elliot said tonight he learned the
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dep you knew you guys had taled roster
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but how the especially that transition
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that move so quickly um it help us like
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tremendously um our team is super deep
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you know from from RJ all the way down
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to the last player on the bench you know
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so I feel like everybody impa win at a
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high level and out there we show it
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tonight tonight was your first kind of
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go around and a game like atmosphere
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what was your experience out there uh it
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was amazing same as like the blue white
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game you know the energy was high uh
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crowd never stopped chanting so for me
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it was great I'm looking forward to
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every game here so if you did a windmill
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in an exhibition what will it D be like
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a real game do you think oh man uh it's
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going to be it's going to be it be
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something different it be something
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different different feeling just
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now uh it was it was great it was great
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if you could give a few points of
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improvement for the team what do you
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think like if you had to be a little bit
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critical um we took care of the ball
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great tonight uh I just I feel like uh
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we can continue to grow and rebounding
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you know uh tonight we dominated off the
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the boards uh but as as the year goes on
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we can keep getting better so tonight
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was a great step of stone towards the
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right right area um so yeah rebounding
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we going to get we going to be great at
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it one of the best rebound teams in the
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country by end of the year would you say
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everybody on the team on the floor
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absolutely absolutely these guys put in
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a whole bunch of work to even get to
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this spot so I watch them every day go
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in the gym work out and putting a lot of
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hours in the gym so I trust everybody
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what was the message of the coaches when
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you're only up back two with 11 minutes
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into the game uh let's play our game you
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know let's play our game uh we knew they
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we knew they was going to come in here
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in the first few minutes just lay down
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and let us beat them so they came out
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with a lot of energy they made shots and
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we just made adjustments uh like the
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last 11 minutes of the first half kind
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of separated us especially in defensive
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end you got stops you stack stops and
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May baskets and stack stops basket sorry
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if you asked this already but I mean
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like it feels like when you look at
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eight fouls dra I think was there an
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emphasis for you personally just be more
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aggressive attacking the the r yeah for
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sure for sure I feel like um from the
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first expedition game I settled a lot
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you know I didn't really attack attack
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attack the basket so tonight shot 10
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free do um got to line a lot so that's
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definitely emphasis I feel like I can
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get to the rim at any point in the game
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and get draw fouls HD believes it also
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so we got it done tonight how how much
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of that is just you getting more
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comfortable playing on this level I mean
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the right yeah uh it's a lot you know
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it's a lot uh being able to go out there
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and understanding what coach Davis wants
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and what I could do on the floor without
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without messing disrupting the floor of
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the game you know my teammates trust me
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they put the ball in my hand uh they
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tell me to go make a play you know so
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I'm I'm comfortable now you sometimes
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want to create contact M you're driving
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yes sir how much Lear experience was
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that game I'm sure it's probably been a
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while since you scored that few points
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in the game what was that kind of
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experience like for you um it it was for
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me it was great it was great it go out
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there and kind of get my feet wet for
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the first time uh understand what the C
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game is really like I didn't play the
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way I want to play but it it was great
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for me you know I went out there uh I
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feel like I competed um didn't make as
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much shots but it was I love it was the
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the aggressiveness and the attacking
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emphasis did someone tell you that going
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to the game was that more like a mental
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thing that you kind of understood the of
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this kind of game um just yeah just for
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my coaches like um I feel like all my
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teammates and coaches know who I am as a
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player uh and the way I played against
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memph definitely not who I am you know
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uh tonight kind of showed who who I am
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as a player and how much my teammates
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believe in me so they told me you know
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go out there and play a game it almost
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seemed like you enjoyed that contact
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when you would like go drive what made
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you like get that aggressiveness like
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um that's something I always had you
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know I always been kind of a bigger
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guard so I usually have a lot of small
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Defenders on me so they want to kind of
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ride my head first things like that so
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just just bump them and kind of let them
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foul me I I make free throws um get take
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the easy ones on the free throw is that
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like a little shiny at the
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throw Kevin Durant ask or is that
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something you kind of just picked up on
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over the um yeah I mean it's kind of
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kind something that just happened you
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know obviously Kevin Durant is known for
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it for sure but for me something that
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kind of just happened uh I started it
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prob last year beginning of the season
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and ever since then i' I've kept it and
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it's been going in for me for a little
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bit I'm sure you been asked
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us what moment in the fast break did you
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know you wanted to do uh soon as I got
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the Ste soon as I got the Ste uh my
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adrenaline was pumping I feel like I
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could jump to the roof so I got it and
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made made a High play seemed like you
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were kind of upset I think they fouled
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you on that other that you going to have
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another yeah yeah yeah yeah I need to
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make a play yeah I need to make a play
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and I have to s next play and made it
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happen appreciate you man no problem did
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you kind of have some Jitters at midf
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was it kind of good to get that one game
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the way yeah for sure for sure for sure
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uh I feel
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like like I said everybody had one of
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those games and one of those games
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happened and we got by it and now we
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here getting ready for reg season how
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much fun was that today it was great man
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it was great I'm I'm proud of all my
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brothers man proud of all of them we
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family we we took a huge step in the
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right direction today uh so yeah I had
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fun out there with my guys apologies if
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you been asked this but what was going
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through your mind on was the one the one
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dunk where attempt rather you just
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jumped over I mean you hit the floor
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pretty hard but what was going through
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your mind like take me through what
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you're seeing when you're sizing them up
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and deciding to go for that PO discour
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uh for for me she um when I caught the
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ball I I I seen this one guy down there
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he's about he was a little bit smaller I
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seen this one guy and but prior to that
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I missed probably like two layups or one
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layup I like let me just try to dunking
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out you know let me TR dunk it and I
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tried and he took a charge I came up
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short in the dunk but it was it looked
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good you jumped out of a
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shoe I think so yeah you did yeah fell
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off no you got yeah when when you had
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the the next play when you had the win
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was that kind of your attempt to make up
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for
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it yeah yeah it was definitely
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definitely attempt to get it back you
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know uh go back out there make a good
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play I told my teammate before the game
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I told OT before the game I'm going to
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get a win today if I get a fast break
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I'm wi so so d