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#UNC coach Courtney Banghart talks to reporters before practice on media day
Oct 25, 2024
#UNC coach Courtney Banghart talks to reporters before practice on media day
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day and Maria tried
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to she's a
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great way more fluid and way more space
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than but last year got me better I know
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I can get certain people shot at spot
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now um but uh yeah just totally
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different
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SI is going to be a floor spacer she's
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also going to have the facilitator
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decision maker with the ball in her
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hands um she can score against sides on
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the Block shut you out pick block she's
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going to put a lot of pressure on the
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pick a top game which means you have
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Dynamic guards put your ball screens a
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lot um there's a lot of things you can
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do with SE coach I saw the video on
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Instagram when Sydney got put on
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scholarship yeah what does she do for
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this team everything everything holy
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moly yeah she is she is an everything
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kid she brings she brings energy the
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right way every every single day you
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know she lifts each kid up individually
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she's grateful for everything you ever
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do through her give her um she's gotten
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better here so hopefully continue to do
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that yeah everything Sydney isn't
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everything how's this team how is this
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team going closer
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as getting Clos some of it is just dumb
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luck they really like each other yeah
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this is a group we didn't have to do any
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sort of bonding events we haven't done
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any sort of they just spend a lot of
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time together you know so um they are
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just Happ that some of it's lock
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honestly they just really
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like you mentioned before that Trana
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Chris has this kind of old man
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y yes um what can we expect to see out
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of her this season how you SE she's kind
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of like an old school Sherman Douglas
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which a lot of you guys don't know and
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like a Magic Johnson I mean she can
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really get into bodies she's very
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physical she's an excellent facilitator
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she can really shoot it um she's big and
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strong so she can bully you but then
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she's also she has that Trace be where
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you think you're guarding her and then
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she blows by you um very exciting player
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to watch you guys will really she'll be
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a lot of people's favorite in my I heard
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it described as built like a linebacker
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is that accurate she is oh yeah she's
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like a bulldog yeah she is like she is a
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safety I mean I mean I'm sorry she's a
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tight end man that kid is we need her
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physicality yeah you're playing at North
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Carolina
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and last year
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for to a home game was that like an
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effort of like play new the next game so
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get the kids a little bit in green too
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right yeah you know you want to make
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sure that &t has been really good you
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know and so if you only have to drive 45
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minutes and get a really good game you
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wanted to be home and for that reason um
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and then yeah we can get some away games
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early before you play some of these
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other teams I didn't know if you're
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going to be home challenge so same idea
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um so yeah strategic
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back to obviously she's tall she brings
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like an intimidating presence but what
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else does she do she's the opposite of
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intimidating she is the nicest most fun
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she's very joyful that's her superpower
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um she's the joyous kid she you'll see
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her smile all the whole time while she's
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playing um but she's a shot loer she's a
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two hand rebounder um she can stretch it
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um she's just a big Target me so she's
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just as you have to be pretty biger
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scale score over over I mean's gotten
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Maria better too she takes away
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Mar's gotten a lot better not go to that
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she's the best Bon is a love she's
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almost everybody's
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favorite some of the teammates said that
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Jordan was very ined and the more you
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get to know her the more JayZ our
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shooter that's what they said um kind of
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how you kind of grow as a person I would
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say you can't call someone who has tip
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to introverted so they're all lying to
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you um I think she was more uh she was
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more reserved until she gets to know you
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but she is witty she is funny and she
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have a Tik Tok she's swaggy I say you
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have a Tik Tok I do I'm very what do
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they call it I'm a influencer oh yeah
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very I see it all over the most recent
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one was hilarious yeah they found that
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clip um but yeah we want to do a br
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light into our program if I can help
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other and the continuance of the
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Minnesota the Carolina pipeline oh my
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God and but this one totally different
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yeah this kid is like money I mean she
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was a over 50% three-point shooter in
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high school and in club love for her
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career the kid is money which is crazy
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which Aliss is totally different he's
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just like Miss everything you know yeah
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two of them it's awesome
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both and how do you kind of think
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Leila's skill set will kind of fit in
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like what kind of rol should move Ila
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can be a 3 four CU she's big and she can
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move she's an elite athlete defensively
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um I think she has her time that she
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will earn is because of how she defends
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in rebounds and then she makes shots not
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ready yet to be a great facilitator with
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the ball in her hands but better at it
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every day um so she's kind of a three
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and D type how do you contrast your leag
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guards did you expect to play two at a
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time
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T Lane is pretty big can slide over
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there too um and Bai is tough race is
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tough you know um so basically if you
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can't shoot you can't play anymore it's
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kind of fun um but yeah we could play
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all I was wondering in the offse
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to come back to did you hear from
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anybody in the W like hey to get to the
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next level if she's going spend her 50
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years she needs to work on ABCD yeah
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yeah so for we talk with the WWA coaches
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pretty often about development of our
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players and for her she's a lock in the
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draft right but it's How High um and you
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know for three-point shooting doesn't
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keep if you're looking for a 45%
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three-point shooter who's your four
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you're going to go get someone in Europe
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right if you want someone who does what
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Alysa does a lot of these guys do you
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know Nisa can make three def notely a
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huge part of her game um she's got to be
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serviceable right and so she's really
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worked hard to do that um and knew that
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you know the time that I would spend
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with her um will get get her better and
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I just you talk about her layers that
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add trust our develop I know in the past
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she's played like some three on three
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with Team USA do you think that's
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something should been introduced I think
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so yeah she she kind of tabled it
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because of the season and wanting to use
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the summer to get better instead of
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playing um but I think once her playing
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career here is over opens up a lot of
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different what kind of Legacy do you
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think that Alissa is kind of left behind
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and just hopes they Alissa is a perfect
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example of what a Taral athlete should
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be she's a true student athlete she
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cares so much about the Carolina Crosser
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chest she's not from North Carolina but
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she'll call this place home now um and
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she's selfless but she's tough you know
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I think there's a humility to Carolina
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students in Carolina programs that's
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real you know we've got so many national
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championship programs and we don't leave
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with them right we leave with how we're
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her family and how we support one
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another and that's so Alissa she is like
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when you think of a athlete
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Alissa's face was there yeah do you
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think she kind of sees the team as her
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this year and is kind of traveling with
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that kind of mindset throughout the
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season do I think what that she's kind
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of seen the team with her own oh for
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sure yeah you know I mean we've got
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Kayla and and uh and her for four years
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and then you've got her now five and
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then you've got um you know Lexi and
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Maria have had a ton of experience too
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we've got a lot of experience but but um
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you know Alysa has missed Carolina for
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sure this a car the the wrist injury on
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the scooter that's not why she why she
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red shirt was because of the knee
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surgery right no no she red because of
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the wrist what's that she rur because of
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the wrist RI but didn't she have she
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came in with a high school injury but we
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can clean those up pretty quickly she
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had she had to some more work to do to
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get to get fully cleared but we're good
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at that our our sport performance team
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was very good at so was it so so if it
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wasn't for that she could have played
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last year even with she even with the
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procedure she had in offseason oh yeah
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she would have played
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yeah what was it her right wrist
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shooting rist I don't even remember
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there's a giant screw so you can see him
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I don't know I don't even know know it's
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funny cuz I saw OT kadoo on a scooter a
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couple weeks ago oh really yeah so they
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don't have that rule no I guess not
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we're ebiking
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now just just looking down your schedule
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it's really exciting like like yall
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played Yukon last year you play
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play
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theot top of
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conference stag
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you yeah oh I think the best brands have
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to play the best brands for sure I've
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been I've been ad about that I'm not I'm
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not here for my own personal L right I'm
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here to advance and grow this brand and
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how you do that is you play other big
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friend right um so I've been very
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consistent about that um I could win I
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could schedule 13 non-conference wins
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pretty easily right that's not how we're
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going to do things here also we recruit
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kids that want to compete right so they
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want to play against the best um but I
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think our game needs the good teams the
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good programs play the good programs I
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know scheduling is so hard how do you
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you try and go about it and scheduling
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Ukon as this series is that something
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you
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guys 100% it's hard to find right we
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called a bunch of schools for their home
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and home next year to start the S fun
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will be over and we're getting a lot of
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nose it's hard it is hard um luckily the
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jump man takes care of that one Bahamas
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you can Tes care of that one and then
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the s challenge gets taken care of right
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uh but to get somebody here in the
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non-conference who's a power five is
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really hard so we'll just we'll just
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keep chipping away at it why do you
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think it's so hard why do you get I
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think because your conference games are
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so hard and so you've got like in our
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conference right there's play 18 GS of
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which all of them are hard to win and so
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you're trying to get into the tournament
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right and so you have to many in the
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non-conference that don't go your way
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you put yourself at a significant risk
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right so I get it right um but we'll
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just keep chipping away until we can
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find
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some yeah Maria's got a these kids have
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to kind of realize who they are is who
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they are she's an incredible Leader by
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example and she's great in the locker
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room she's really great she everyone
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loves her she's a connector but in terms
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of being really vocal on the court she's
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gotten a lot better but that's not her
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superpower so I'm glad she's going to
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work on it but that's just not a super
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how was her her work on
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herriage she's got better touch for sure
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um but I want her at The Rim she's just
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so hard to guard now she's more mobile
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she's got both hands got both shoulders
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Bron has got her a lot better we didn't
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have any physical size to play against
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during the season uh to prepare her now
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we do um so although she can do it
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better now and so we let her stretch out
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and shooting gr I kind of want to right
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that's
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that's do you think there's anything
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that could be done to try and
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incentivize enough teams will do it like
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we're doing it like we are like you said
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our sched this year but it's hard and I
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respect it these super conferences
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that's what you're giving up a little
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bit right because now there's not a lot
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of bad teams in your conferences anymore
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so you don't you can't guarantee those
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wins and so you're going into a
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conference where of the 18 games there's
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none that are just a G right so if you
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look at a 30 Game season 18 of them are
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already none of them are gimmies right
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and so if you play five that are really
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solid big big programs on the
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non-conference on the road too you're
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kidding right now you've got 23 of the
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30 but you could lose any of them so the
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challenge is not only then trying to
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schedule but trying to create a balance
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schedule very hard for sure yeah very
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hard
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yeah birthdays on your tattoon yeah it's
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my kids birthdays yeah I got three three
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kids but they're
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twins one of them said what about mine
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I'm like that is your
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birthday um what do you see as kind of
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the team's goals for this year it's a
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good question I haven't really asked
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them I talk about winning the day I
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don't really they teams I think that
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think too far ahead don't do the things
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they take you to get there right so I
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don't get involved in all that I just
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talk about every day we get better and
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if you don't get better I get crapper
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and then you got to deal with me with
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your other options to fight um and so we
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I don't know I haven't asked one really
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all
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righte of course get here minute