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#UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels' narrow loss to Stanford
Jan 18, 2025
#UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels' narrow loss to Stanford
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RJ RJ said that he thought that the
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defensive intensity and that edge kind
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of waned a little bit down the stretch
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uh did you think that that was a problem
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and and how disappointing would it be if
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that were the case well I mean I wasn't
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there when RJ supposedly said that so I
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don't want to comment on something where
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I wasn't present but um I felt like
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today it it wasn't one thing I felt like
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it was a number of little details of
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just mistakes that we made throughout
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the entire game whether it be on both
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ends of the floor whether it was
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execution defensively out of bounds
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underneath um ball screen coverage close
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outs um take two guy and then on the
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offensive end um turn over shot
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selection
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execution the right spots so I just felt
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like it was culmination of little things
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and I always say little things uh lead
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to big things happening and I felt like
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those little things those little
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mistakes led to big things happening
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today in result of
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loss here with the shot that they had at
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the end with h the Blake step back I
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guess uh what was kind of the the
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overall I guess goal of you know
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limiting whatever kind of shot that they
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got like what was the overall like I
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guess in the Huddle we kind of
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communicating to them when the when he
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had that last 7.1 seconds left yeah I
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mean it's the same communication that I
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had in in in regards to um similar
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situation against UCLA against NC State
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and against Notre day you know whatever
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it takes we we've got to get a stop and
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we got to finish the possession with a
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rebound um I haven't looked at it but I
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mean we had a man on man he took it the
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length of the floor rose up and took a
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step back and and knocked it down and
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you have to give credit to blak's being
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able to make that shot in that situation
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and resulted in us
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losing what was the final play supposed
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to set up
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like to get a
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basket I mean it was a supposed to go A
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J wash on a screen off screen it wasn't
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much time I think it was s or0 n and so
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trying to get something um near the Bas
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to be able to put it in um again I
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haven't looked at that last play but I
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felt the ball
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curved
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and went off centered and uh went
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straight out of bounds or close to Out
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of Bounds and so
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um that's what I can remember from that
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last play you Reno obviously had 20
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points but he took over 20 shots to get
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those 20 points how do you feel you guys
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did against him because he's obviously a
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massive problem for a lot of teams yeah
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I mean I thought we competed against him
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I thought there was there were some
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mistakes that we made against him in
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terms of like uh uh it was a a three in
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the late latter part of the second half
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I got to watch it you know and um you
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know a close out
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that you know wasn't there in the first
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half and um he's he's a fantastic player
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and uh I thought he played a really good
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game and you look at you know what's on
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the stat sheet the 25 points and the 13
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but just his size around the basket too
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um also whe whether it was blocking
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shots or or altering shots uh it
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affected us sometimes because of his
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length near the basket your guys were
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coming off what was kind of called the
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most complete 40 minutes that you've had
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maybe the season some of the players
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were saying that so is this maybe just
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kind of an Asal flow of the ups and
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downs where you have that good
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performance then naturally human nature
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maybe they let up a little bit I'm not
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sure if I adopt
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that comment or philosophy I I mean
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basketball's no different than life it's
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they're going to be rainy days and sunny
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days and so we didn't make enough plays
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to win the game let's look back at it
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and see if we can learn and grow from it
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and then move on to the next game
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against Wake Forest on Tuesday I don't
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know what else you can do other than do
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that RJ and Vana said they felt that
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there were since at times you guys were
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in position to maybe hit that next gear
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go in that the little A2 spurt and sort
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of build a little cushion but weren't
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able to hit that gear did you sense that
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as well did and and why do you think
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they weren't able to hit that Gear Well
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I mean again I haven't looked at the
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tape but I you know again it goes down
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to little details I mean and sometimes
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it's as simple as you know we we did
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make a shot in made a shot you know I
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know when things go right or or things
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go wrong we want a definitive answer why
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they went right and why they went wrong
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sometimes you know there were times
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where we had wide open shot by the right
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people and it just didn't go in and they
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took a shot and it went in and
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so sometimes those situations just
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happened and again just we made too many
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little mistakes throughout the entire
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game that put us in this situation and
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take nothing away against Stanford a
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terrific team and extremely well coached
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but I just you know we just made too
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many little
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mistakes Hubert what was your overall
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message in the locker room and sort of
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the points you were trying to get across
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to the guys that's the same thing that I
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said to him about you know we just made
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too many little mistakes one of the
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things after a game IR regardless of a
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win or a loss I try to keep my comments
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um uh to a minimum um coach Smith and
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coach go always did that and I want to
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be able to let things sink in and
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process and and be able to look at the
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tape so I can be more definitive and be
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able to back it up uh more clear after
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looking at the tape but just telling
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them that you know we just I know this
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that we we made too many little mistakes
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throughout the entire game not just down
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the stretch to led us just to being in
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this situation and you know this time we
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didn't we didn't come out on the other
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end did they do anything different on
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Ian than other teams have been doing or
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was this just one of those games that
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guys have
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sometimes um well I I it would be great
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if all of our
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players could score 20 points every game
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and everything you know
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it's as I said before basketball is life
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there are times where you're rolling out
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there on the floor and then there's
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times where it just you know just
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doesn't work and I thought Ian um you
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know took good shots and again also said
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that you know their length I
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thought bothered us from the standpoint
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of that length in the
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lane I wish I felt like we could have
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attacked the basket more with that
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length in there um it does it doesn't
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show up on a stat sheet in terms of like
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a block shot but you know I felt like
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especially in the first half we could
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have gotten into the lane and we s
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settled for outside jump shots as
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opposed to put Max pressure on the rim
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what a boost that you got for Vin Allen
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in this game all
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around
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um I thought he did some good things out
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there on the floor um Force
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um you know obviously Maxim is taller
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than him but he can move his feet and so
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I thought he helped us defensively in
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spots but um just looking at not one
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particular
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person or player just looking at our
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team and just um really sad for our
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group that um we couldn't finish it out
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we couldn't get a win thank you
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everybody thanks coach