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UNC's Drake Powell, RJ Davis and Seth Trimble postgame press conference after rally to beat Dayton
Nov 26, 2024
UNC's Drake Powell, RJ Davis and Seth Trimble postgame press conference after rally to beat Dayton
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uh can you just describe that play real
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quick just um when you have a very
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talented player like RJ on your team I
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feel like he draws so much attention and
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so it's just important to always stay
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ready I feel like he can um create for
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others very well and um yeah just set my
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feet knock it down it was a it was a
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good
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experience question for all three of you
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guys uh you just heard curs how's the
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second largest second half comeback in
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program history it's also the third
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18-point comeback today in this gym just
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can you sort of describe what it was
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like playing in this game it was
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electric I mean it was like a high
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school atmosphere so some we all kind of
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missed uh but just it was a super loud
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gym you know we had I don't know however
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many percent of the gym packed out with
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our pans so just to have behind our back
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while we were making that comeback uh
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was amazing we knew we were super
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capable of it we knew we were going to
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do it uh but yeah just to do it in this
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kind of atmosphere with how loud it was
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you know how tight the gym is it was
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super fun
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uh RJ right here Straight Ahead straight
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ahead right here oh down 21 um what was
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the conversation in the locker room at
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halftime was emotionally coach Davis or
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did anyone on the team you or anyone
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else kind of speak up and part two of
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the question is when did you truly feel
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like you had the daylight to pull off
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this level of comeback if you can
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remember the play or the sequence when
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that may be materialized in the second
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half um it was a lot of motivation um
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going to halftime for myself and Seth um
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we were kind of like the voice in terms
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of just trying to get guys going uh and
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just build our spirit um obviously we
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went down uh big in the first half it
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wasn't the first half we like to play
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and you know myself and SE we just told
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him like we got to stop shooting
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ourselves in the foot always put
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ourselves in these positions and they
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got to climb our way back into game so
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if we could just put together the second
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half like we did tonight in the first
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half for full 40 minutes we'll be
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wouldn't fine but I feel like um in the
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second half the way we battled we
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competed we just shipped away possession
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by possession I think that's when we
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knew that we could come back to this
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game um and it was from everyone it
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wasn't just one person uh it was a
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collective uh contribution from you know
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Drake in the corner three Seth fast
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break layups Elliot making nice pass to
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Jay W um Jay wi Jay was talking on the
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the defensive end on the switches just
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those little plays and little details
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make big things happen and that's why he
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was able to come out with the
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win uh with the game set tomorrow
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against Auburn how are you guys
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preparing for that what are you guys
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looking forward uh to playing against
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uh we'll get back tonight eat and then
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start prep right away watch our
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Personnel uh watch what they did today
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watch their plays on the year uh so yeah
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but Auburn's a really good team they're
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very competitive they're very physical
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uh I mean I think they're top five team
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so we really got our hands full we got
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our handsful it's going to be a good
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game and uh we know we have to prep
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ourselves mentally cuz we know that we
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got to put two halves together tomorrow
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you know we can't sustain this 15-point
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comeback every second half you know we
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just can't do that so prepping ourselves
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that way you
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know yeah um this is for any of you guys
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obviously you guys had you know just
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been touching on it I know you're not
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thinking about past games in a you know
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current game but you know the Kansas
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game was a similar one go down 20 make a
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you know a light push what do you think
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was I know you said that's not
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sustainable formula but what do you
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think was the difference of coming out
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on top uh this time around I would just
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say it's hard and not giving up and one
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to compete and one to win
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uh it took the starting five and the
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bench so we went into Alam obviously was
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some explicit words being said but that
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was the way of trying to get everybody
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uh to compete harder because they they
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were kicking our butt on on both ends of
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the floor um and out hustling us and out
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toughening us so U we didn't allow that
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no more in the second half and um like
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you said like we kind of did that again
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against uh Kansas and um it's not
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sustainable for the whole year because
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it's a long year and teams are really
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good so we can't keep you know coming
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out flat in the first half and then
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trying to put a comeback in the second
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half so um but I'm really proud of the
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the group effort that we had tonight and
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uh it just shows how really talented and
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uh gifted this team is so uh but we just
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got to do a better job of putting both
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Hales together one more thing going up I
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just said we had a kind of like we kind
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of I don't know if we made a promise to
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ourselves but you know we really better
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ourselves that we weren't going to let
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this like Kansas we weren't going to let
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it end up by Kansas you know losing by
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three losing by you know the last 30
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seconds of the game so we said it at
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halftime you know we're not let this be
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Kansas and then we said it uh with about
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3 minutes left to go as well so we kept
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re reiterating
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it guys I was going to ask you something
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something different but RJ said there
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was some explicit words so uh who was
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saying the explicit words if you don't
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mind me
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me yeah not
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me we know
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that well also could you Argie could you
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sort of take us through the play if
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you've been asked this I'm sorry I just
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got in here but where you found Drake in
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the corner me you were obviously hot
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there in the second half what did you
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see to sort of trust him in that moment
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and and just how did the play unfold
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from your vage well I remember Ellie had
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the ball we CAU five up so Jay was was s
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the screen um and then I kind of like
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lifted up but then I realized I brought
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my Defender towards Ellie as he was
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driving so I kind of just spaced out and
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uh did like a little back door cut and
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as I was driving I saw the big pull in
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and I was able to get around the big and
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then um their defense shifted and
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rotated and I found Drake in the corner
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trusted him I know he's going to knock
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it down and um that was a big time shot
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for me and uh that's what I saw that was
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the play that happened last last
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question for the players no move on RJ
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and you both had four fouls for extended
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period as well as
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Elliott does that change your approach
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you just put out of your mind how do you
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deal with that we got to be maybe a
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little bit more t on defense on the
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defensive end but it kind of allows us
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to play smarter so honest kind of helps
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us as it has it kind as well but I mean
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we've been here before we've all played
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in P before this wasn't my first time it
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all wasn't his so we were used to it but
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help us play smarter I mean you can't
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play as aggressive you know you kind of
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want to play more aggressive coming back
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you know when you're down 21 but we're
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able to do it so it worked out all right
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thanks guys