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#UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels' win over La Salle.
Dec 14, 2024
#UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels' win over La Salle.
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it seemed like there was a a more
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concerted effort to get post touches
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today and your guys he that message and
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Ben had some some good moves down there
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what was it like for you to see that
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play out yeah it was great that that's
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been an emphasis for us you know and um
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it felt like we were missing
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opportunities to get our bigs the ball
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close to the basket and I felt I feel
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like if we get it to them close to the
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basket one they can score and number two
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they could get fouled that allow us to
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get into get to the free throw line and
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I just feel like it it'll open us up uh
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our perimeter players and uh just more
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efficient on the offensive end and so
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that's just a start but it it has been
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an emphasis all week uh to not pass up
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and and to get our big guys involved
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close to the basket just to follow up on
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that just to follow up on that real
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quick thank you AJ did you think in some
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time in some games you had gotten a
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little too stagnant on the perimeter
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talking about the post touches and maybe
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more of an emphasis on posting
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well I I don't I don't necessarily know
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that I I you know I today we had you
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know 22 assists I felt like the ball
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just instinctively you know it's like 0.
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five mentality soon as someone caught
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the ball they either passed they either
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drove it or shot it it was
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just there was no hesitation I felt like
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maybe the last three games three or four
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games it um we weren't consistently
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making the extra pass and I felt like
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today we did and so in terms of ball
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movement and um spacing I thought that
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was much better but I thought our just
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um willingness to just instinctively
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quickly just hit the open teammate I
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thought we got back to what we were
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doing at the beginning of the Season
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yeah staying on that RJ and sea said
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part of that was the kick out and
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because the entry stuff was there some
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of the prer guys were a little bit more
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open yeah and a lot of those shots were
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less contested than they had and
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obviously made a higher percentage Yeah
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it is you know I I say to the team all
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the time I want to dominate points in
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the paint through post and
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penetration and until today we really
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hadn't looked at the post and it's
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something that uh that we're going to do
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even more um I just believe in it and I
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believe our guys um can be successful at
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doing it and I thought it was a good
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start today by um um not passing up
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those opportunities and getting J wash
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and and Vin and JB and and Tai um around
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the basket I think the only thing that
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we could do better is shoot free throws
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we missed 12 free throws and we're a
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really good free throw shooting team I
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think going into the game as a team we
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shot 78% and we definitely didn't do
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that today and one of the guys that was
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benefited from some of those kickouts
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obviously was Kade yeah he hadn't hit a
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field goal since Hawaii game he said
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afterward he told us that he'd been a
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little frustrated but he was trying to
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avoid fixating on the frustration
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because it could take him down even
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lower how you seen them kind of work
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through this and what do you think a
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game like this can do for a guy's
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confidence well I you know the the
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biggest thing for Cade is and this is
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for any player there there are ups and
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downs throughout the season they just
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are and you have to you have to stay
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focused you have to stay uh connected to
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um all the fundamentals and all the
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things that you do in order to be to get
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to the point where um you feel confident
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out there on the floor like you know
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it's very easy when things don't go your
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way is to point fingers and make excuses
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and Kate has never done that um he's
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shown up to work every day his
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preparation is fantastic and you know he
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showed up today and played extremely
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well it's not about a shot he's a
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basketball player he can rebound he can
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handle the ball he can pass he can
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defend um being able to stretch the
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floor and shoot from three is one of the
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many things that he can do but his
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ability to shoot at multiple positions
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is a huge benefit for us and it was nice
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to see his shots go into tonight some
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guys referred or you know maybe agreed
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that this is kind of a I guess reset
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game so to speak in the sense that they
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got back to like you said you know uh
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offensive movement with the 22 assists
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and just you know everything like that I
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guess in the week leading up to practice
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what did you kind of observe from them
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like did they seem like you know they
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was a uh like they they played free or
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anything like that just how did You
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observe their I guess approach and play
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and practice that kind of translated to
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obviously the the pre- flowing game we
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play today well I turned up the level of
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me you know and we want primary primary
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if we don't have that get into secondary
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and there's specific lanes and specific
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spots that you need to get into and uh
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there's a job and responsibility out
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there and um there's no more my bad um
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I'll get it the next possession every
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possession counts and so um if you go
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ask the guys one of the things I said
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all the time is Let's Be deep detailed
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in our approach and uh and I told them
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what is detailed in our approach and I
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said you know tying ourselves to the
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Small Things the discipline and details
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that allow us to be successful so
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setting the screens executing uh getting
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to our spots sprting the offense boxing
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out making contact First diving on loose
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balls getting to the free throw line
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making free throws talking on defense
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all those things and so um I turned up
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the level of me at practice so when you
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say you turned up the the level of me
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how quickly do they know that it's
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something else like how quickly do they
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know that
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it's no they don't they know any more
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33s this week I don't know if they go to
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the offensive glass
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no if they do what they' been told and
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taught and talented enough to do
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no anybody
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else we good all right thank
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you there a bike drop for you
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