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Duke coach Kara Lawson after loss at #UNC
Jan 10, 2025
Duke coach Kara Lawson after loss at #UNC
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this a a tough game all the way around
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um for
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us this
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wasn't really of the pleasurable viewing
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variety probably for everybody um you
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know it was
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a is that
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Kendrick uh
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it was just a grinded out game you know
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uh proud of my team uh you know we got
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down 16 I think there um in that third
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quarter and kind of looked like it was
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going to be it was going to be done
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there and uh they just battled back and
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battled back and battled back and uh you
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know had a shot to win it obviously at
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the end end of
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regulation and in overtime didn't didn't
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have enough um so uh you know it's it's
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what you expect um going on the road
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against a good team in our league and um
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just a lot of lessons for us to learn um
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from this game and we got to learn them
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quick because we got another road game
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on Sunday that's how this league works
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but um you know you you got to be able
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to to win some games you didn't play
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your best be in some games you didn't
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play your best and um you know so I'm
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I'm proud of of of my group for doing
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that what did they do defensively to
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take you out of office of
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Jers um you know we we didn't really
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have a ton of transition points uh
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typically we have a little bit more um I
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I thought we were able to get Second
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Chance opportunities we got 15 more shot
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attempts than they did we just weren't
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able to finish you know and um I'll have
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to go back and look at the film I mean I
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don't know it felt like we missed a lot
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of layups um out there I don't know if
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it felt like that to you as you were
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watching sometimes as a coach it feels
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like you miss more you know uh than than
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there actually are so um you know we had
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three great looks at the three
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late um and we we missed them all and
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and um you know then then 20 hits a big
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three her only make of the game right
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and so sometimes in a game this close
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it's not it's just like who makes the
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plays late and um we got three quality
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looks at it late um they got that one
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and and they made us pay so uh credit to
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them for executing late um that was uh I
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think that was the difference second row
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coach I would have told you before the
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game that Mar would had two for seven
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and four points in only 17 minutes what
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would have been your retion that she fou
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out probably as I don't think you would
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sit her down and only play her 17
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minutes uh if she's if she's not in foul
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trouble um she's a wonderful player um
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so that's probably what I would have
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said to you that something something
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happened either foul trouble or you know
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she got banged up burning or something
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like
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that coach kind of going off with the
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foul trouble you know Delany F out kind
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of late down the stretch do you think
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kind of the fouls and the physicality of
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the game had an impact on your
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team I I I listen it's this game is
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always physical it's it's it's how how
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it's um how it always is so I think we
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were prepared for it um seemed like they
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were prepared for it too it's just it's
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just how this game goes um so no I don't
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think the physicality either way was
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like a huge Advantage disadvantage for
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either
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side here how did you describe that
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third quarter as the odd in general
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watching that those two runs just
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enoy well the the third quarter was not
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a great quarter for us um we did not uh
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get off to a good start um and we had
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some turnovers there they got some run
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outs and some loose um you know it says
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they only had two fast break points but
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I don't know how they calculate that
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stuff it seemed like they had more I
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know they had a run out late um to get
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that and uh you know call a time out
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there when it stretched I think to
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either 9 or 11 I can't remember exactly
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but try to calm us down get us to settle
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in and get our defense back and then
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we're able to make a little bit of a run
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the end of the third there and I thought
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that got our confidence back a little
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bit going to the fourth that it was in
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reach you know that the margin wasn't
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too big and um you know it's it's uh
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it's all learning experience that's what
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these games are about I mean certainly
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you want to win them but it's it's all a
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learning experience in terms of being in
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pressure situations having to execute
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offensively defensively having to get
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stops um this is why you know you play
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these games to be able to um put your
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players in in this situation and get
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minutes and get tape um for them to see
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um you know where they can improve and
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that's what I told my team after the
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game like um you know I made a lot of
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mistakes tonight and and um you know we
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all did right whenever you play a game
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there's there's there's a share of um
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who made mistakes and so I've got to be
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better for them and I have to be
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accountable for those for those and then
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as individuals they have to look at the
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film and say hey where could I have been
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better and that's what this is about
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it's about growing them individually and
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then growing our team to see if we can
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improve and now have a short memory
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because we've got to we've got to play
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on
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Sunday uh coach I know Sunday you
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mentioned after the blowout went against
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Pittsburgh that
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um you know even when your offense is
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clicking defense travels on the road
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what was your assessment on tyana and
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Vanessa kind of being that Thoroughbred
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dog on the defensive side of the for
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setting that simple getting your team
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back in the fourth quarter yeah I mean
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our defense was good enough to win I
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mean that you give up 53 points in in an
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overtime game I mean that's good enough
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defense to win right I think we all
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would would say that um so I I thought
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our defense was pretty good I thought it
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was disruptive I mean we forced 26
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turnovers um you know we we we gave
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ourselves a chance our defense thank
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goodness it was that good uh you know
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because otherwise with our off it would
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we wouldn't have been in the game you
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know when we were uh tied 1616 at half
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you know I thought gosh if we had played
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good defense we'd be down 3216 at half
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so that part is good and we're growing
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as a defensive team we haven't been as
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good defensively as we've been the last
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couple years um we're trying to to grow
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and get to that point and uh we'll see
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if we
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can talking about the offense you know
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you you all entered the game I think
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Aver us assists and you finished with
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five it just felt like the ball got
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stuck a lot of times you know is there
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anything specifically you can attribute
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to that aside from Carolina's defense
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yeah I honestly I just thought we missed
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a lot of layups you guys and and and and
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those would have been assists you know
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what I mean we had we had
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uncharacteristic because when you look
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at our forward group um if you look at
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their efficiency on the season um
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they're our most efficient offensive
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players and we we just missed a ton of
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bunnies I mean on the fast break break
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variety on the roll on the putback and
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um you just got to stay with it you know
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and just I just you just got to keep
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dialing up opportunities where you get
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layups and and you just got to have
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trust in your players that they're going
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to be able to make the next one um and
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then like I said you know we we we had
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um a few solid looks from three and and
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um you know just didn't knock them down
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got time for a couple more questions go
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to then go to
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Royal Well we just talked about we we
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try to be in in problem solving mode in
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halftime um you know I don't know that
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there's a ton of value in just getting
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frustrated over what has already
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happened because it's already done so we
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tried to look at like what are we
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struggling with and then how do we fix
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it you know how do we fix it not just
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stay stay in the mode of like what are
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we struggling with how do we fix what
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we're struggling with um so we just
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tried to to talk about how we could
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maybe manufacture some more quality
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looks offensively um I thought our
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defense was good I I did think we let
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some some of their Shooters get loose
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there in the first half for like a
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couple open threes and so we talked
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about why that happened and how did we
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fix that so we we just try to do those
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types of things in terms of um
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Corrections um to put ourselves in
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position last question goes for Roy H
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coach uh Reagan scored thousand points
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on Sunday a th Career Point and then
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today comes in shoot two for 15 did you
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think her coming into this rivalry game
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was just a lot of emotion coming to this
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contest or was it just just missing easy
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shots just
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overall yeah I thought Reagan got
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quality looks um looks that she's shown
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the ability that she can make and so um
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you know if it's if it's a different
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game you know maybe she's 10 for 16 I
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mean that's how shooting goes and you
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have to stay confident uh that's why I
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kept going to her because I have great
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confidence in Reagan and her ability for
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our team and um this is a part of it
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right like you know I played at a high
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level and like sometimes you have games
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like that you know it's just the way it
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goes and you got to keep competing and
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then you got to always believe that a
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great shooting game's around the corner
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thanks everyone thanks guys
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