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Ian Jackson, Seth Trimble and Jae'Lyn Withers after win over Notre Dame. #UNC
Mar 12, 2025
Ian Jackson, Seth Trimble and Jae'Lyn Withers after win over Notre Dame. #UNC
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came back and kind of put our foot down
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again and game we got weight next we
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lost to him by Point down there but it
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was about 11-point game with with a
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minute left what are your thoughts on
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taking them on and what are some of
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those challenges say again you got wait
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tomorrow what are some of the challenges
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of facing them um man we just want to go
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win we just want to go win we got our
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own our own Scout on we want to do our
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own approach so we we got there and
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capitalize what we going to do and we
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going to get a do appreciate is there a
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little get back for that game since they
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beat you guys I know that Seth brought
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that up where it was he heard the noise
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about them winning is there a little get
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back about that absolutely absolutely
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huge our should you know um you lost
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early in h season and now and if you
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playing in the tournament you definitely
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going to win you know uh to go to the
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next round
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andon when you guys are getting so many
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open threes why is there such an
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emphasis in tournament I got
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you um when there's an emphasis on uh
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getting P Touches for you guys to get
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those open threes why is it vital for
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you guys to get into the paint in order
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to create those outside shots for you
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guys um I think we play inside out it
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creat good good looks for us um it gives
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us a high percentage made those shots
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and I think we've done that like
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tremendously actually but getting in the
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paint and kicking out and
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findings now you can play well when
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you how much better is this team than it
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was maybe 6 weeks ago a l when you had
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that facial I mean we're a completely
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different team than six weeks ago and I
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mean it's everybody's had big contribute
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to our walk on to to RJ everybody all 15
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guys on this team had such a huge
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contribution and
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uh we'll just continue need from
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everybody each and every day you know
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everybody's everybody's playing really
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well everybody's happy for each other I
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think that's one of the biggest things
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also you know we're we're expressing
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each other and and it's taking us a long
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way what I think is interesting a lot of
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people wonder how you guys would respond
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to sa cuz you want to six straight you
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know being most teams play for large
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margin then Saturday happens how would
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you respond how quickly did you guys get
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rid of Saturday when were you on to this
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one Sunday morning so me I tried to get
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rid of it Saturday night cuz I knew how
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big this tournament was for us uh what's
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at stake for us and how you can't take
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one team for granted in March you know
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find we look past nor D the day and try
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to look forward to potentially seeing
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Duke again looking past nor Dame and
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wake it wouldn't turn out good for us so
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I think we were all able to drop this
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loss
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but you know what's at stake and you may
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have to win the whole thing here in
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order to get into the tournament so how
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do you balance one day at a time knowing
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that you may have to do a lot more
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damage can't win the whole tournament if
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we win tomorrow so one day at time that
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question about Jay when he hits his
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third
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four after the third round I mean when
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whenever somebody gets hot I'm going
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just keep shooting it you're hot so I
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mean all seven threes he shots today how
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many threes eight nine he makes you
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seven for 10 7 for 10 that's a Carolina
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record ACC tournament yeah that's
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incredible that's incredible I mean
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every time he shot a shot today I had
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absolute F A lot of times a guy's hot
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first half he didn't hit him in the
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second half but he hit hit one in the
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second half too he only hit one in the
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second half think it was one six in the
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first half five or six that's incredible
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it was hard to keep up we'll need that
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from him all week all week I can't count
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seven is about my you guys had weight
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you have weight coming up of course you
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had one game with them was a close one
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what are you looking ahead I know it's
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hard after this win but can you tell
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look ahead preview kind of that match up
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tomorrow uh for
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us an emotional game a get back game uh
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is what we call it you know wake knock
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us off at third place
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uh a game that we didn't shoot good at
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all a game where we may have collapsed
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in some aspects so tomorrow is a really
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important day for us uh not only just to
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keep going and put ourselves in a good
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position uh just for the rest of the
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tournament but it's a get back game for
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us you know so get this game back inate
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te how about confidence do you have
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knowing that you're a different team
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than you were when you went to winon S
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uh a lot a lot a lot I mean know we're a
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different team we have a homecourt
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Advantage I feel like tomorrow
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uh yeah I mean there's a bunch of
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aspects that go us having more
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confidence in this
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game much different team what kind of
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work have you seen with put into his
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three-point shot during practice uh a
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bunch he's just not deferring shots not
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turn down shots continue let him
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continue to shoot them I'm sorry he had
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you can say somewhat of a rough ear
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until until he got hot but I just give
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so much kudos to him cuz at that point
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it's not too much about the physical
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work that you're doing it's about the
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mental so he's really persevering he's F
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you know I'm super proud of him you
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telling him not to pump fake the one he
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pump faked he a couple in the first hit
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two or three or four I'm not pump faking
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pum fing
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a he does that a lot though he he pump
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fakes nothing so we're trying to get
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that trying to get that out of his even
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L took a three Tak one all year
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M guys are feeling that's what we need I
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want guys with all time confidence
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playing free so I'm all for it what
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would you point to as the major
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differences in this team from when you
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played W seems like a life time ago that
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you played them in Winston um what what
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would you say are the difference cuz I
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do think it is a different UNC team you
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guys are expressing each other guys are
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believing in each other and guys are
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just playing free and together things as
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simple as that early in the year I don't
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think we were playing much together we
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didn't really had that Unity on the
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court we had it off the court but I
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think we were still trying to build for
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it off the court but I think we really
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found it now and it's just allow us to
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jail as a team as as friends and it's
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taking us a long way this game almost
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seems like tomorrow winners really good
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chance to go NCAA to Loser may seem that
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way I guess none of us are thinking it
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that way uh we're just looking at
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tomorrow as a game as we get that game
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the game just continue to keep going
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and I mean yeah I guess we don't want to
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Seas so we want to take care of business
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it's I mean you could view it as an
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elimination game loser has to go home
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you I mean you think that's a fair way
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to no definitely fair definitely fair
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and I'm sure as we as we talk more about
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it starting T night starting in a couple
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hours we'll slowly start more start to
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view it you know like that but I don't
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want to put any extra pressure on these
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guys you know we're just here to play
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basketball here to win some games and
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just here to play fre you know we play
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playing our best
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basketball any opinion night like that I
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think that's you know something that
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anybody really want how many how many
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friends and family did you have here
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today um I say about six grandparents
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Uncle um Mom Dad and had a couple other
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people you mentioned that how cool is
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that to be able to do that in come back
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here it was great I say like the start
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of the game it was um it was a bit of
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nerves you know coming back and playing
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this SP in front of uh
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you know a lot of people that that know
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me personally and uh you know I said
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after warm up you know just confidence
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in
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that second the first half how much does
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that really let you know how
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much um I say it lets me know I'm
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definitely in the Rhythm something that
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I talk to manager to about is get I like
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yeah that was more or less what they
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were
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start that close St who were you
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shushing after that one in the corner
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you were shushing
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someone um I feel like that's a setup
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question but let me say uh it was uh
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towards a couple fans it was you know
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usually CR in front of uh other team
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bench usually a lot of trash talking
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that goes on told me talk to him so it
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was just simple I'm say what's the level
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of confidence that you guys can do what
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needs to be done here to make the N
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tournament um I say
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it's has to be at a high level you know
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we have a tough route to get to um you
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know the championship of the tournament
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but um more or less it's
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just you were able to come out here
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today and make a statement along with
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your team taking care of business how
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are you guys going to use this just
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going forward this um we're going to use
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it uh is momentum again um I think like
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you know with our with going through the
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hardships and you know chemistry getting
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better and better each game uh whether
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that be somebody else getting off next
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game whether that be you know our
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coaches just telling confidence like you
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we're just pretty much building off
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rolling off there no jayl what was your
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reaction when you found out you had the
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ACC record ACC tournament record program
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like that I would say it still hasn't
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hit me yet but uh yeah I guess like once
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I talk to my
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parents really really home you going to
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do a homecooked meal or you going to go
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out to
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din turn on what we got team for the
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team events but uh if I get a home I
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definely
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take it might be Arena um but uh I think
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it's just more so uh you know being in
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front
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of the family and friends and you know
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my my coaches you know and players being
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confident with me you know steing
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confidence how' the fridge kiss start
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uh be honest with you I'm running out of
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celebrations I need some more I need uh
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some more uh about to start pulling out
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2K 2K animations I guess maybe that'll
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help but um I would say it started uh
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Florida State um it was
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uh really really good mate didn't touch
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anything but net you know it was just a
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chef's kiss and you get a reaction from
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the opposing benches to those what more
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time do you get reactions from the
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opposing benches from those
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uh not that one I think I'm I'm about to
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stick with this one you know I got to
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keep it simple stay composed so I'm keep
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this when that first three went in was
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it like cuz I've heard Shooters say when
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that first one goes in you know that you
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might be on a roll for sure I definitely
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think like the first shot I shot was uh
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a bit strong you know went over the rim
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a little bit but uh again being
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confident and rolling off of you know
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previous games um it's just been the
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mindset of you know let the don't let
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the previous one affect the
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RJ just said you look like lamelo in
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pickup games during the off season and
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that you got to you got to wants you to
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be more aggressive when it come
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offensively and how important you are to
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this team have you grasped that yet have
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you taken on that role fully I wouldn't
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say so I would say it's been more so uh
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trying to stay within you know the role
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that my team needs me to play think
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that's been the biggest thing what me
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need just to have your teammates there
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uh you know elbowing you and everything
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uh you know after the game like that uh
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that meant a lot um especially it being
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my last year and I guess breaking the
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record in Charlotte that that meant a
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lot for them to you know support me and
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build me up like that Jay kind of going
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back to you know the point about RJ he a
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lot of times when we talk to him he says
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he actually asked you to shoot more
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because you have a you know you shoot a
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high you know clip and percent I guess
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how often does he kind of reinforce that
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to you and how often is he kind of just
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being like you know shoot him more shoot
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him more um a lot that's a lot of times
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in practice where I'll pass it up and
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and throw it right back to him you know
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trying to get a little bit more movement
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instead of just firing them off and uh
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you know he kind of gets on me and tells
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me you know bro you shoot you were
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shooting 62% at win you got to keep
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letting it g Jayla knowing what's at
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stake tomorrow