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Belmont transfer wing Cade Tyson press conference ahead of the #UNC opener Monday
Oct 30, 2024
Belmont transfer wing Cade Tyson press conference ahead of the #UNC opener Monday
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level play with this kind of talent not
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that Belmont's got really good players
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too but this is a little bit of a
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different level how how has your process
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been becoming comfortable playing with
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these guys yeah I'm really comfortable
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um it's a lot of fun just playing with
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you know super athletic guys um so yeah
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most most of all it's a lot of fun and
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I'd say I'm pretty comfortable by now
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and staying on that are you at B up they
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were in a lot of play for you had a lot
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of shots that were there for you it's
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maybe a little bit different here what
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was the adjustment in finding your shots
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through the flow of everybody sort of
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doing what they do here as opposed to
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having more set stuff run for you yeah I
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mean it it took a little while um you
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know I'm still trying to manage you know
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where my shots coming from and when to
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shoot the ball and when not to shoot the
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ball um I think mainly I just don't need
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to think too much about it and just
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whenever it's there just shoot it um and
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yeah I'm not too worried about when I'm
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going to shoot or when I'll find my
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shots I know I'll be put in the right
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positions by my teammates and my coaches
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hey did did you have like a green light
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in Belmont shooting them allall and
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maybe had to adjust to obviously
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different system uh I I did have Jud yes
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sir I did have a green light at um at
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Belmont and I have a green light here
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too um so we'll just see how it goes I
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guess yes sir yes sir might have been a
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little Greener at Belmont though right
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the greenest of green maybe a little bit
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but not necessarily so we'll see how it
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goes K what has been the biggest
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adjustment for you since you got on
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campus and got to play with these guys
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yeah uh just the attention I'd say that
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comes at being that a school like North
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Carolina with the history and everything
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like that um the good attention and the
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bad attention as well um I'd say that's
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the biggest thing is just you know
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fighting through all the noise and you
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know keeping it in your tight-knit
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circle of of the team and our coaches
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and stuff like that do you have to
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adjust your shot any going against I'm
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assuming longer Defenders or anything or
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is there any thought on that or how do
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you approach it you just play yeah not
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really I just try and play not think too
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not think too much about it not get my
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head about it and just let it go okay
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one thing that Hubert obviously talks a
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lot about you know is rebounding and he
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actually mentioned you as a player that
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you know kind of mix it up on the boards
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I know that first exhibition you led the
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team to rebounds how much and I know you
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had you know a good amount of Belmont
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too but how much have you I guess kind
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of taken that message to heart you know
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when it comes to
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crashing yeah um I know on this team I
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probably won't have the ball in my hands
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as much as I did at Belmont
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um so I I'll take pride in doing the
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little things like rebounding not saying
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that rebounding is a little thing by any
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means it's super important to the game
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but I want to do the things that you
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know the coaches find important and
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anything that I can do to compete and
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help my team win the game from a team
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wide perspective and standpoint what do
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you think you have learned about this
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group just through two exhibition games
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obviously it's a long season ahead of us
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here but like what are your impressions
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that that jump out about the way you
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guys play who you guys could could be
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after you've been on the court now for
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for two exhibition games yeah I mean
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obviously we're super fast super
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athletic um I think the biggest thing
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for us is we love the exess or we love
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to watch others our other teammates
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succeed um it's fun when you play like
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that you know get up and down the court
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you know watch Ian fly through the air
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and hit a hit a a windmill or something
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like that lob it to Drake stuff like
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that just gets the team really hype and
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makes it more fun to play the game of
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basketball and you know do you know go
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through hard practices with your
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teammates so turning on the film after
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Memphis and after Johnson C Smith pretty
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fun thing to go through with the group I
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guess is what you're saying uh I don't
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know if the film session was super fun
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just cuz film's a learning experience U
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but like being in the moment and you
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know talking about the plays after
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that's always fun K if I remember
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correctly you said uh during the
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preseason that before you came here you
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talked to a lot of former tarel who had
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transferred into the program uh was
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there anything that they said to you in
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the summer that you didn't quite get and
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now that you have had the experience of
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running out of the Smith Center tunnel
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you're like oh I get it like it's quick
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um yeah so they all of them told me
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basically the same thing about the
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family atmosphere um and I kind of knew
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what that meant a little bit but I
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didn't get the sheer you know volume of
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it until you know you walk out there in
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the Smith Center and there's you know
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couple thousand fans you know in there
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and really you just got to focus on
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who's on the court with you um those
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four other guys and the guys on the
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bench as well that's jering you on so
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that I think that's a little bit what
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they meant by family and keeping it in
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that you know tight-knit Circle coach
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Davis was talking a lot about how RJ's
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really stepped up in his leadership role
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uh this season at early in this season
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what are some of the little things that
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he's done for newcomers like you to just
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make you feel more comfortable yeah I
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mean he just you know hanging out
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outside of the court is big you know
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just go get something to eat he does it
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with you know groups and we'll all like
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try and do some fun stuff together other
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than basketball and eating and stuff
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like that so I just say he's being kind
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of him being kind of the connector um
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I'd say is a big thing you pick up
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a he should no he does not well he has
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not yet but I wouldn't be surprised if
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he
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does no no sir I said a green light
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thing again if you're coming down on the
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wing and you're open the ball com you St
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in the corner you got a shot but you see
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RJ coming down the wing wide open too
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what's your decision there am I wide
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open yeah you're open you got the ball
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you see R coming down from the top of
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the key wi yeah I'm a shoot it if I'm
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wide open yes sir so Kate in those film
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sessions and conversations with the
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coaching staff what what have been your
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takeaways through two exhibition games
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yeah just getting up and down the floor
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quick is going to be a big thing for us
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another huge thing for us is going to be
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rebounding you know just being tougher
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on the glass and stuff like that so I'd
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say those are the two main things what
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was the pace of Elmont just in
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comparison we tried to be fast um but I
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mean obviously the ACC is a little
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different with the you know athletes
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that are on the floor um so I'd say we
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played we played faster than most teams
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definitely um but I'd say Carolina's a
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little bit of a step up when it comes to
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the PACE about two more minutes what
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would you say your uh your thoughts or
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impressions of Seth Trimble were before
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you got here before you really got to
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know him and now after seeing all the
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different things that he could do I mean
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have you in any ways been surprised did
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you know he was capable of what the way
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he's looked this preseason I guess is
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what I'm saying yeah I didn't really
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know Seth uh that well before I got here
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um but you know the first impressions
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were that he's super athletic um he's a
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great guy off the court and that he'll
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be a big piece for us so I wouldn't say
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anything surpris me just cuz I didn't
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really have any expectations for him but
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he's a great player and and a great
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allaround guy so uh when it came to so
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when we talked to you in the preseason
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you said you spent a lot of time at the
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four in practice these first couple
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games they started you at the four as
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well uh was there kind of a process for
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you leading into the season of like
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embracing essentially being okay I'm the
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you know first Dream four you know as
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opposed to you know just playing the
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three like was there kind of a a process
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of embracing uh not necessarily I mean I
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played the four before so I went would
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say it was anything necessarily new it
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was just you know just putting in a
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little bit of a different position um
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but other than that I mean there was
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nothing I really had to embrace other
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than you know being with my teammates
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and having fun on the court so last
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one not I want
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to all right thanks everybody appreciate
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it