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#UNC coach Hubert Davis press conference after blowout win over N.C. State
Feb 20, 2025
#UNC coach Hubert Davis press conference after blowout win over N.C. State
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State obviously you know closer down to
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the wire game lower scoring game and
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this time you guys offensively kind of
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more in the blow what do you think was
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the difference and what do you think was
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the kind of the adjustments and changes
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um I our our defense and our rebounding
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I thought our defense was really good um
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especially off of ball screens um you
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know we stayed with their Shooters we
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didn't allow Lanes um to get to the
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basket that you know the first time that
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we played they were you know scoring at
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will in a paint and then the biggest
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reason is the rebounding you know we out
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rebounded them by I think it's
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19 and I mean they had 16 offensive
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rebounds against us that's something
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that I communicated to them every second
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of the day um the last couple days at
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practice and so like it was huge for us
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to finish the possession with the box
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out and we felt like if we could box out
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and rebound we would be in perfect
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position to be able to to um get out in
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transition and that's what we were able
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to do some of the guys said the mission
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going in was to put them away early and
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they felt like maybe the pressed and
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some other things want to do that how do
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you get them to bottle that up and move
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it forward they thought that that gave
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them a lot of uh fuel well I mean I I
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you know the the message was to box out
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and rebound the message was to take care
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of the basketball because I felt like in
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the first time that we played NC State
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our turnovers our shot selection wasn't
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very good at all um and so those are
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things that we wanted to clean up we
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wanted to be better defensively
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obviously wanted to do a better job in
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terms of
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rebounding and then taking care of the
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basketball and then something else that
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I think we did the best I don't know
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statistically but we finally had to
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three four and five get to the offensive
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glass I mean we got Second Chance
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opportunities and just the activity
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level of giving us more cracks
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offensively to be able to score or just
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you know Drake Jay wit Vin all of them
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it was it was really good our most
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Second Chance points since the first
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game of the year we had 22 against Elon
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21 tonight that's awesome Heber what do
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you like about what the Press seems to
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give you guys when you when you put it
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on in certain spots of these games I do
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I I think it does two things one well
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three things one you're right the energy
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level like picks up I think two it
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creates turnovers and then three um it
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speeds a team up and so I think we
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created maybe three or four turnovers
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off that press but that doesn't account
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for the Times where they took a quick
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shot yeah and then we were able to get
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the rebound and and be able to go and so
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um I like it more at times with certain
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individuals out there on the floor so
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I'm always thinking about that as well
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but it's something that's just really
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been good for us and it's something that
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we're going to use every game
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obviously an unusual situation with the
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crowd in the storm and all that but what
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what did you feel the energy from the
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crowd brought you again no it
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um I felt it and the players after the
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game felt it as well like the energy in
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the Smith Center was a huge determining
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factor of our energy out there on the
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floor I just I can't thank the fans
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enough in this weather to be able to
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have 14 almost 15,000 fans come in the
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middle of a snowstorm to be able to
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support this team um a number of
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students came to be able to support
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their fellow
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classmates
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um and again it's really neat that you
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know they were able to walk here you
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know and to be able to support their um
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classmates as well so it reminded me I
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think it was
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2014 when we played um a makeup game
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against Duke and um the crowd
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just the energy level and so when I
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walked out I felt it and felt it
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throughout the game just much thanks for
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everybody did you feel a difference of
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having students down low compar as up
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high for well I mean I just felt like
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the energy um it was just loud from the
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start you know and it
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um I felt it the players felt it and it
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really did make a difference for them
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and they showed it just a just a couple
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more cuz it's late I and we're back here
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in two days couple more uh Harrison
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Ingram was at practice this week and you
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think it's coincidence that the team
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took on maybe a little bit of his
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personality tonight with the rebounding
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and being more aggressive overall well
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it was great having him back I mean I
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told him the only bad part about
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Harrison is that just had an opportunity
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to coach him one year and so it was
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great to have him here the last couple
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days at practice just to be around the
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guys but even just more importantly just
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being able to spend time with him he's
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such an unbelievable person and what a
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blessing it was to be able to coach him
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last year and he's doing great great
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things with the Spurs right now how
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important was it for those guys coming
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off the bench to provide over 40 points
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today I know they I mean the the the
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energy level um stayed the same or is
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even better coming off the bench you
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know you you got Seth coming off the
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bench and giving his energy on both ends
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of the floor Ian Cade came in there
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knocked a couple couple threes in I'm so
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happy for him and I thought he played
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extremely well Jay wash and
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so everybody was smiling in the locker
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room after the game and so that puts a
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smile on my face Hubert do you I think
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this is the second time in a row you
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guys have led wire to wire in in a game
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um do you feel like this team is kind of
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turning the corner what have you seen
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over the last week or so with these
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guys well I thought it was one of our
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most if not the most complete game that
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we we played all season I just you know
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I
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thought you know our energy our effort
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our attention to detail on both ends of
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the floor was really good um the energy
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from the bench was sustained or even
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better um and so um I'm really happy
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about that and you know I turning a
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corner I don't know but I I know that we
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played well tonight I know that our
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practices over the last week have been
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been very spirited and it's been the
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best practices that we've had all all
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season in terms of
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competitiveness and we'll do that uh
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Thursday and Friday in preparation for a
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really good Virginia team thank you
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Hubert so an ACC