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#UNC guard RJ Davis after the loss at Clemson
Feb 11, 2025
#UNC guard RJ Davis after the loss at Clemson
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two to three you guys went up 4321 they
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closed the half 28 to 10 was that
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stretch madebe a low Point given the
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fact what you guys have been through and
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we talked about playing with desperation
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even if you weren't desperate the other
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day and that's how you were able to win
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that game yeah was that stretch maybe on
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point yeah that was a huge stretch um
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for us and for them for us to just to
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capitalize off of and uh kind just build
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off for that lead and uh we didn't do
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that I think we went we had a lot of
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turnovers um but it wasn't just the
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offensive end it was more defensively we
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just could get stops just kept going in
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the post and um spreading out the
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defense and they was able to find open
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threes and different back cuts that led
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to them to making that lead and we just
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couldn't capitalize off that and it's a
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baset was a game of runs but it's also
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about getting stops and you weren't able
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to get stops during that run so what's
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what's your thought process going
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through that run it took about nine
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minutes is there a level of frustration
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that my God here we go this is happening
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against a good team again yeah 100% it's
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the Clemson is a really good team they
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capitalize off of your Miss turnovers
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Miss shots and they're able to uh you
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know they're a mature team experienced
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team and they did a good job kind of
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sharing the wealth throughout everybody
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and a huge you know a lot of frustration
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going through my mind during that
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stretch but just trying trying to stay
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composed and positive for my teammates
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and you know kind of staying within the
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game can't just let one bad play affect
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the rest of the plays RJ this this team
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I think back to November and December
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when you guys would dig some big holes
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but you play with your hair on fire um I
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mean do you feel like this team has lost
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its fight in some ways no um I don't
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think so I just think they were the
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better team tonight they were the more
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hungry team uh and they they played like
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they wanted more than us and I'm not
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going to sit here and say that we lost
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our fight because we did show fight uh
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throughout the rest of the game it just
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it has to be consistently and that's
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just the frustrating part about it that
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we just can't get over that hump and
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uh continuously to show that we want
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more and I think thps it was this they
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want they shared the basketball they
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played harder and that just can't happen
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especially when we're in the mix of uh
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the season where things have to go get
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going for us and Them make a run I'm
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sorry they seem to get a lot of clean
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looks from three tonight what was wrong
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defensively for you guys to allow that
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to happen I mean first half they shot
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50% and then we shot 50% but obviously
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they up more points than us so at that
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point we just have to get stops and uh
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we just didn't do that in the first half
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that kind of carried on to the second
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half a little bit I thought we we kind
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of put together a couple possessions
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together but it just weren't enough uh
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for us to make a run for us to keep
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continuously get stops and uh make the
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game close what are your emotions that
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you see the inaa chances really starting
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to diminish at this
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point it's uh I'm going still stay
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positive I'm still uh continue to lead
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this group and um I still think we could
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turn this season around obviously this
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could have been a huge win for us um but
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we still have a lot of games left to go
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um regular season plus ACC tournament so
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I still have high hopes and positivity
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for this group so yeah what are you
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seeing with Ian struggles here of like
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uh is this a slump or what what's not
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going well for him um I just think this
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is I mean he's a really great player I
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just think uh just trying to find his
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group um and Rhythm a little bit I think
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teams just playing him in a little bit
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differently now so um but you know he'll
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find this group we help
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find I guess what are the ways you feel
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you can kind of get him because
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obviously we've seen this scoring kind
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of lift you at times what are some ways
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you think you guys can either get them
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more looks or just get them more
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comfortable um I just think well for us
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we live off in transition and he did a
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good job of kind of getting his buckets
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off of transition so we we as a
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collective group has get more stops that
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way we could run and transition that way
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we could uh play our game um and just
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kind of just shoot the open ones a
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little bit I think uh um I talk to him
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during the game to hit a couple good
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shots that he shot and just happened not
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to go in so um one thing about him he's
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a confident kid and I know uh he's going
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to continue to keep shooting cuz that's
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what we need so um he'll be good though
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all right thanks thanks