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#UNC coach Hubert Davis press conference after the Tar Heels rallied from 21 down to beat Dayton.
Nov 26, 2024
#UNC coach Hubert Davis press conference after the Tar Heels rallied from 21 down to beat Dayton.
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great Po in there you know a lot in that
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second half he obviously his defensive
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uh you know versatility was certainly a
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benefit and of course he made that shot
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to take the lead can you just speak to
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obviously Drake's defense in that second
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half as well as uh the shot you made in
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the corner well I mean Drake is um he's
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gifted um athletically and uh you know
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he's um he's a leite defensively um on
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and off the ball and I thought his uh
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length athleticism and pressure on the
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ball when we were switching caused them
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problems and then also um his ability to
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rebound the basketball I thought he
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stepped up um when he got into the game
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and and um to be able to have the
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confidence to be able to knock down that
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three in the corner to put us up by one
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was huge and so uh really happy and
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really proud of uh Drake
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tonight keber in the second half a
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couple of the guys mentioned they were
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talking about Kansas we don't want to
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let this be Kansas at halftime what was
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your message to the guys at half time
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just from your Vantage Point what was it
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like as you were steadily chipping away
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at that 21. t well I you know
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I I've said to this group that
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um the growth and the step that this
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team needs to take is to getting to that
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level that allowed us to get back to the
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game just to start the game that way and
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to stay there
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and yes it it gave us and it gave them
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confidence on what we were able to do on
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the road at Kansas um to be able to give
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them an example of there's a a lot of
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time to be able to come back it's not a
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situation where we got to come down come
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back from 21 and two possessions just a
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possession at a time actually the first
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four minutes of the second half they
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came to the uh to the bench and I told
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them they're not making comeback
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Place said you're just not you're not
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getting the rebounds you're not getting
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defensive stops you're not getting
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through screens you're not getting loose
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balls you're you're not taking the ball
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strong to the hoop you're not dunking
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when you get around the basket just not
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making those plays and I said if you
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would change that this game would flip
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and they were able to do that against a
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really good dating team but and also
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told them this isn't sustainable you
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can't do this every game it's just not
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and that's going to be one of the major
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steps this team is can they play with
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the sense of urgency on both ends of the
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floor can they start there and can they
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stay there for four 40 minutes Hubert
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straight away right here I want to have
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you expound on what you're were just
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getting at there uh there was something
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in the air in this gym today just wild
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comebacks it's probably the best single
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day in the history of this tournament
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but I'm curious after this kind of
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result and a phenomenal comeback what
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emotions are you feeling are you feeling
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concern uh for your team are you feeling
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Elation that they were able to pull
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themselves together and and you know
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provide the University at second largest
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comeback what uh where do you find
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yourself sitting in the immediacy of
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this win um I find myself
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everywhere um I'm very proud of um how
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they reacted and how they
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responded um I'm really happy for them I
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love those kids and the way that they
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persevered through adversity out there
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on the floor and was able to turn this
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around as I said before against a very
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good date
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team um I'm really proud of them I
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really am but I'm also keeping it real
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with them as well as we've got a there's
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areas of consistency and growth that we
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need to move forward with and um those
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are things that we'll talk about we
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talked about after the game and things
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that we'll talk about tonight and
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tomorrow in preparation on playing
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Auburn um super you OB did talk about
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you know the need to you know kind of
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clean things up was there a point in
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that first half where you felt the guys
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just needed to to settle down a bit you
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guys came in you know taking care of the
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ball pretty well you had you were prior
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to this game I think somebody told me
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this I don't know but somebody told me
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that we were number one in the country
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in terms of um not turning the ball over
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okay we flipped it in the in the first
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half okay how many we had 12 turnovers
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for 19 points or I don't know how many
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but that that was uncharacteristic for
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us that that's one of the things that we
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talk about all the time is we talk about
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defense they they shot 51% in the first
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half we talk about rebounding they were
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beating us on the boards and we talk
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about taking care of the basketball so
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in the second half how many turnovers
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did we had we had two turnovers three
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three turnovers then we ended up
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outrebounding them and then we held them
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from 51% in the first half to I think 35
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in the second half you check those three
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boxes you're going to be in every game
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and we're able to do that in the second
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half uh looking at the crowd levels
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today you know UNC was definitely on the
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front with the amount of fans that made
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trip essentially making like a home
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court advantage uh what can you say
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about the tar Hills fan base making uh
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showing you know showing up and making
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this trip well they always show up it
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doesn't matter if it's Maui or Chapel
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Hill or on the road um our fans are
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fantastic and um the encouragement that
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they gave our team when we were down and
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we were coming back um giving us that
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encouragement really helped and having
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that homecourt
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Advantage um from the crowd is something
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that we feed off on and I'm very
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thankful and appreciative of of the
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Carolina fans and the way that they have
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showed up for us here in Maui but also
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in Chapel Hill and everywhere
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else last question and then we to Da
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here Hubert Seth was in here and he said
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that the guys were saying that it's not
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going to be Kansas in terms of a
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comeback that that fall short did you
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feel that sort of level of belief from
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those guys that even though it was 20
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point 21 Point deficit they weren't
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going to let this one not not get there
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well I I don't know if you were here but
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I I told them at I think the 16 minute
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Mark in the second half I said you guys
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aren't making comeback
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plays you're not making the plays to be
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able to come back you're just not you're
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not getting the rebounds you're not
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getting the stops you're not getting the
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loose balls you're not finishing around
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the basket you're not setting the
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screens you're not running the plays
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right you're just not and that switch
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after the 16-minute mark and we just
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started chipping away and um we do have
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that experience of not only coming back
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when we played Kansas but how we did it
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it was just possession by possession and
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I think that gave our guys confidence
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that we could still do it against a
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really good dating
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team thanks coach thanks coach okay
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again