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#UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels' loss at Louisville
Jan 2, 2025
#UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels' loss at Louisville
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coaching 70 to 69 with 5 minutes left
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they out SC you guys 131 look a lot like
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Florida how do you the Florida game
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where they closed against you guys as
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well very similar how do you fix the
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situation where teams were able to close
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on you like like they had in a couple of
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games also Kansas was like that as well
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well I I think it was 70 to 69 and I
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think we uh fouled a three-pointer that
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put it up four we missed a shot uh um
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I feel
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like couple of our players maybe have
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fallen down and then they came back in
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transition
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and
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um rain hit a three and so that put it
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up seven you know and I I've been
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straightforward and direct and you know
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um throughout the entire game but
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especially in you know late game
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situations four minutes to go like the
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discipline and details just have to be
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there I mean you've got to defensively
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you got to get stopped you got to defend
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without fouling you've got to box out
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you've got to get loose balls uh
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offensively you have to execute and when
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I mean execute it's not just I'm not
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talking about just being able to score
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in those situations it's also the stuff
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that sets up the shot the the screen the
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being in the right spot um setting the
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screen setting your man up going to the
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offensive glass different stuff like
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that that um we just got to get better
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at and more consistent
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at comes to I guess you know games like
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this where
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sorry um yeah games like this where you
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guys of course you know overcome a
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double figure deficit and you know kind
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of get it down even close to onepoint
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game tie things like that do you feel
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that that kind of wears on a team over
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time you know having the storm back and
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then when the game's close having to
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like you said be discipline like that
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down the stret I don't think
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this game was similar to other other
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games earlier in the year I don't you
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know I
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don't again I just initially it didn't
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seem you know those other games we were
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down 16 or 18 I don't think we were that
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way in the second half at all felt like
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we were always two or three possessions
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away the entire game it got away towards
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the end but I felt like we were right
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there throughout the entire game and
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again you know we got
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it again I I think we were tied we
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missed a couple shots to take the lead
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we were down by one missed a couple
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shots to take the lead and so um we had
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our
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chances cuber earlier than than been the
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stretch run of the game what did you
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feel like were some of the defensive
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issues that were tripping you guys up
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before you you meant like at the
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beginning of the game or earlier in the
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game like they're getting lo you getting
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mixed up on your switch
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getting these lobs to the cup um it
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wasn't getting U mixed up in switches um
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uh I would say in large part in the
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first half and we we had talked about it
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we had known it that uh they're really
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good in transition even after a maid
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shot got us Sprint back with the sense
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of emergency you've got to talk um we
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struggled uh picking up in transition
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off of uh even off of made baskets in
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the first half you talked about the lobs
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off the uh ball screen with heurn he did
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a really good job of keeping our guards
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on his backside can't allow that to
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happen have to work harder uh to be able
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to square him up and also there's got to
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be a low guy there for those lobs there
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and make him spray it to the other side
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and at the beginning of the game we
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struggle to be in that right
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position Rick I think you guys only had
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31 in the first half one of your lowest
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scoring halfs of the Season what was
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Louisville doing defensively to to slow
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you guys down
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um I don't know if they were doing
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anything defensively that was slowing us
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down I mean they're they were very
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physical um I thought in the first half
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our shot selection could have been
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better I felt like there was
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opportunities where we were open to take
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the shot I felt like there was
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opportunities that we could attack the
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basket and I felt like there were
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opportunities where we attacked the
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vasin instead of going strong we kind of
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double pumped in the lane and missed a
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number of layups whether it's at the
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post or penetration and so
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um I don't know what we went to the free
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throw line in the first
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half six of seven six or seven there was
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a reason you know you got to go strong
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and I felt like we did that better in
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the second half and that allowed us to
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get into the penalty and allowed us to
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get to the free throw line couple
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more see ger kind of figing backing off
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that hbert uh how disruptive is Chu have
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earned when he's kind of being given
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that on ball pressure on someone try to
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initiate well I mean he's a he he he is
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a he's a two-way player um defensively
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on the ball he's real and we've played
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against a number of great on ball
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Defenders uh not you know he's somebody
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that that wants that type of challenge
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he's got great hands he does a really
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good job of uh getting steals into
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deflections uh contesting without
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fouling he's very physical he's gifted
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defensively and uh he disrupts a lot of
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things uh on the defensive end and um
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allows them to play very aggressive on
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the defensive end jeremi you I think one
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of the things you were talking about um
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offensively a little bit ago was kind of
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guys setting each other up and you
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mentioned screens kind of being one of
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those things I guess from a off ball
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standpoint uh you know what do you think
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can change I guess when it comes to you
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know guys kind of setting those offall
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screens getting each other looks and and
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things like that and just kind of how
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would you evaluate I guess the way in
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which you guys have been doing that so
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far yeah I mean I I'd like to watch the
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game over again uh to be able to really
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answer that question I just you know
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again you know give credit to Louisville
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they they were very physical and us
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coming off those screens and setting
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screens and um
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you know it's just a chance and an
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opportunity for us to get better and to
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grow um you
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know let's recognize it let it let's
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admit it let's learn from it and grow
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from it and get ready to go on Saturday
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last two Adam
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Andrew do you have any update on on set
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Trimble was he closer to playing tonight
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I don't have an
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update
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Andrew go back to where jerem asking
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about about the screens where is your
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team as far as screen especially the
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bigs are they setting the kind of
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screens you want and if they're if there
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there's a lot of moving screen files
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that you guys get called how does that
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kind of affect this the shots that some
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of you guys are getting when the screens
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maybe AR as solid as they need to be
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well I I don't specifically want to
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speak in regards to any one of our
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players or group of players we just um
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it it's not just screens it's just you
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know it's everything in terms of
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execution down the stretch
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um you know that we just got to get
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better at and we just got to we have to
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continue to improve and so one of the
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areas that we have um haven't been as
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consistent has been late in games and
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that's something that's just going to
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have to change the remainder of the
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Season thanks coach yeah thanks everyone
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again I play as
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