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UNC's Ian Jackson after he scored 23 points in a loss to Alabama.
Dec 5, 2024
UNC's Ian Jackson after he scored 23 points in a loss to Alabama.
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um I feel like we aren't tough enough
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yet you know uh I feel like it's plenty
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of times in the game where we could have
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came back and fought and we didn't you
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know and that's just something that
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internally Le we got to fix and we're
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going to fix you know it's a it's a
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strong group we have here and we just
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going to get better as the year goes on
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I Believe in Us how you fix toughness I
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mean it is what it is at this point
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right uh no absolutely not absolutely
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not you know uh you go through things
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you know and as you go through you build
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character and you know we having a rough
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start uh we losing losing some good
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teams losing some good games but
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you going to build character you know
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you learn from it to go to your drawing
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board and fix
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it might be a little early to talk about
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this but how fast season's going so far
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how important is that break in December
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going to be for for you guys to fix the
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toughness um extremely important every
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day every day is important you know not
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only the break every day uh tomorrow
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it's going to be important the day after
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that you know it's going be important
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the whole way through how hard is it to
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deal with opponents with such size and
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length what what do you guys got to do
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to overcome that challenge we got to get
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tougher uh that that's that's that's the
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main thing for us right now man uh we
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can't just say oh they're bigger we just
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lay down you know uh we just got to get
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tougher and compete was that the message
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from coach Davis in the locker room uh
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yeah so somewhat but that's kind of the
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message for myself also um I just feel
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like we got a lot lot of like growing to
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do as as a a as a individuals and as a
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team and we going to do it for sure what
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did he say what did Coach Davis say um
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just be ready to work tomorrow how are
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they able to just keep you guys from
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going on runs in this one
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uh I think we we we just on offense we
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we couldn't find like a a constant Pace
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constant flow um I feel like there's a
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lot of ups and downs and then that we
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make a shot and a lot of trading baskets
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so we couldn't really kind of get like a
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a real run going a lot of traing basket
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so I think that kind of stopped
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it I mean but for you in particular I
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mean you you had a pretty good night I
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mean is that frustrating to to to be on
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the way you are and to have a career
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high and to still come out on on of it
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how's that feel to you um it's always
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frustrating losing man uh uh
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individually I I compete I compete to
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win you know um and so individually I
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tried to go out there and win the game I
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came short so losing always
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frust Ian where would you say the level
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of connectivity of this team is
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especially in like the half court like
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be kind of tough for you guys to get
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into your sets just flow in general uh
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what do you mean like half court offense
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like the the connectivity of this team
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is it is it kind of just still
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developing you feeling right what do you
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think the issues are arising on that um
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I feel we always going to be developing
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you know even in March when the season
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about to be we still be in development
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stage and trying to get better still so
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uh right now you I guess you could say
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offense in the half court is not the
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best but we get better we fix it
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communication on defense they they broke
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free a lot on picking rolls yeah yeah
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that uh just being just being laxed you
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know um not not being disciplined you
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know to get back and get get Bal on
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defense and you know just like little
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little letting little lapses like that
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happen she
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