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#UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels rally but come up short at No. 1 Kansas
Nov 9, 2024
#UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels rally but come up short at No. 1 Kansas
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last Play Elliott ends up with the uh
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three-pointer not able to knock it down
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uh what kind of went into letting that
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play just kind of play out rather than
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obviously you know calling this time
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up we just didn't execute Ian we we just
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didn't make make the
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shot coach they were up 20 with a minute
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nine left in the first half and you guys
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going think 5330 over the next 14 15
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minutes whatever it was what was the
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difference in what you guys did exess
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that you were not
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doing well we were playing defense I
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mean they shot 60% against us in the
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first half uh they were getting
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everything that they wanted they were
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running their offense like they do in
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shoot around they were getting threes
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they were getting layups they were
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getting dunks they were getting to the
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free throw line um didn't feel
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any pressure or physicality from us from
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a defensive end and so you I was telling
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the team during the first half uh told
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him at halftime that uh things can
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change and things can can change quickly
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if our will and our want to and our
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desire on the defensive end raises and
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that's what we did in the second half I
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thought we got stops even though they
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scored 50 points in a paint I thought we
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did a better job in the second half uh
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we didn't turn the ball over I think we
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only had four turnovers in the second
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half and then we started attacking the
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basket and that allowed us to uh score
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at the basket foul get to the free throw
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line and then be able to knock down some
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threes and so I was really proud of them
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how they got back into the game over
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here on the left Dennis hbert this was a
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game worthy of March I guess number one
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would you expect anything less and
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number two why do these teams bring out
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the best in each other well I mean you
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know anytime that you bring two
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unbelievable programs that um have
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terrific kids and talented kids you know
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competitive kids it doesn't matter
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whether it's in March or November it's
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going to be highly competitive I mean
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when you run through the tunnel I think
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it's the last time Carolina's played
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here was 1960 you run through that
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tunnel and you see that crowd and um you
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see Kansas across the court if you can't
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be fired up to compete and play in this
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type of atmosphere against that type of
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Team then something is wrong with you
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and I think we bring the same thing out
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in an opponents and I thought we brought
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the same thing out in Kansas as
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well coach what were the main points of
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emphasis for The Bigs heading into this
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game yeah you know just um you got to
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make you know their bigs are are big you
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know they're uh really talented not only
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scoring around the basket but getting
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positioned close to the basket we talked
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about uh having a physical presence
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before one of the things that we always
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talk about you got to play defense
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before you play defense and if you start
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playing defense when they're already on
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the block or posting up it's just too
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late for those talented type of players
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and I really felt like in the in the
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first half they were getting everything
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you know Dickinson was getting the ball
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right underneath the basket uh uh
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everybody else there were getting lobs
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and I felt like in the second half we
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did a better job of that and uh um that
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helped us get back in game I'm the left
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here Andrew what made you want to play
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this game hbert what do you think you
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got out of
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it I wanted to play this game because I
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love playing basketball I love competing
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but scheduling Kansas here well they got
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to come to our place next
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year and I just the game is a game you
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know
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just I just love competing
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Andrew Coach Jay Wick gave you a huge
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stretch there in the second half after
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having some fouls in the first half only
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playing six minutes youve talked him up
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a lot the last couple weeks is what we
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saw in the second half of him what
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you've been seeing all along since
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practice started yeah no he was um you
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know uh much better on both ends of the
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floor I felt
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like um defensively he was playing
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defense before he's playing defense
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being more physical with their bigs um
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you know it's tough they're really
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talented players and it's really hard
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because their guards are good getting
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downhill um and it puts a lot of
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pressure on you defensively and then on
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the offensive end I thought he did a
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really good job rolling to the basket
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attacking the offensive glass and just
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giving us a rolling presence to the rim
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and I thought he did a good job of that
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quick followup he his confidence is back
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from the perimeter he said last year he
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wasn't very confident out there how have
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you seen the confidence shift is it just
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a matter of making shots or was it the
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work that went in it well yeah I mean
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he's he can he can really shoot the ball
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and you know having a big guy that has
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the ability to to knock down perimeter
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jump shots especially from three um
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Dickinson can do it as well and it puts
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a lot of pressure on opposing defenses
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and it's a part of our offense that we
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want to continue to develop throughout
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the season of having him pop more and be
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able to knock down that three that that
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gives us more space for our guards to
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get downhill and attack the basket Rod
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here on the left and Adam H going off of
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that with your guards attacking it can
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be easy for guys to lose confidence when
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shots aren't going down but they were
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attacking and get you guys points in the
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free throw line what's it say about that
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Trio and and what they can provide
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moving forward when shots aren't falling
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but still attacking yeah you know one of
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the things that I always tell them is
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that shots go in or they don't go in I
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mean it just doesn't matter how good a
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shooter you are there's times where they
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go in and there's times that they aren't
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the thing that we always talk about is
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focus on things that you can bring every
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day and that's defense that's rebounding
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that's energy effort attention to detail
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um attacking a basket and that's why one
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of the reasons that it's important for
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us to be able to get to the free throw
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line is because in those times where
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maybe the three-pointers are not going
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as well as we want you're still able to
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score effectively by getting to um the
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free throw line so it's it's been an
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emphasis for us and um I wish we made
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one one more three but you know we just
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didn't take two more Adam then here in
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the front Hubert and to have what did
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you have to try to figure out with the
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foul trouble with the bigs because ta
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claw had three the two jayen had two uh
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then all Luben had to like what was
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going wrong there and what did you you
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had to change something what did you
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what did you want to well I did you know
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differently look I you know again they
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have talented post players um for me
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it's always you know you guys ask
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question about our size and I and I told
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you before it's not I don't look at it
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that way I look at the size of your
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heart guys I've been there before I'm
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I'm not a coach that hasn't played here
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or hasn't played in the NBA and hasn't
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been been on the floor with guys that
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are taller faster more athletic it it it
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that doesn't matter it's your will and
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your want to and I felt like uh um in
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the second half those guys competitively
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fought better than they did in the first
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half here it looked like you guys tried
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to put hunter in a lot of ball screens
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especially late what what were you
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trying were you trying to get to that
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and what advantages you feel like you
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have there well one of the things that
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we were trying to get to in the first
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half we weren't is because they were
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scoring what ignites our transition game
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is getting rebounds off of stops we got
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more stops and so it allowed us to run
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you know after we get misses and it all
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ties back to defense like our
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transitioning from defense to offense is
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real and so in the second half we were
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able to get to that yes we were trying
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to involve their five in the ball
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screens but we were trying to get up and
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be able to attack before the defense got
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set and so I felt like we were able to
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do that better in the second half and
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the reason being is we were getting
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stops and rebounds and allowed us to go
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so like one last one you've been you
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mentioned just defending the post how
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difficult is it when you know the
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possession with a minute and a half left
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and Hunter's already on the Block when
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when you guys are starting to set up
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your defense and they're able to LV over
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the top is how difficult is that that
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that play to defend well it it's very
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difficult and there's a reason why they
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run that play because they run it where
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he can catch the ball in the middle of
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the floor um very difficult impossible
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to double team we were going to fire and
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have them pass the ball out and have
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somebody make a shot which they had a
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number of guys that could make that shot
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uh but it's very difficult almost
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impossible to be able to do that in the
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middle of the floor and they run that
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play specifically to do that that's not
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uh they run a number of actions that put
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him in those situations and that's the
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number one reason why they do that is
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because in the middle of the floor you
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can't get double teamed thanks coach
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thanks everybody again
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