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#UNC guards RJ Davis, Elliot Cadeau and Seth Trimble after win at Hawaii
Nov 23, 2024
#UNC guards RJ Davis, Elliot Cadeau and Seth Trimble after win at Hawaii
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um AR for you guys I guess going into
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that second half I think it was a 19 to4
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run that you guys start get on what do
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you think allowed you guys to start to
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kind of break the game open from that
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point uh we was able to get stops and
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then running transition so we knew they
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weren't that good in transition so um
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with myself Elliot Seth uh Ian Drake you
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know like we could get up and down we're
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athletic we quick enough to to beat the
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Defenders down so that's what he was
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able to do he was able to get stops I
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think sometimes in the uh first half we
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was losing sight of our man they was
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able to get back door cuts and easy ones
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um so they were just scoring off our
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mistakes and we changed at the second
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half and that's why we on our run and
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then with you guys you uh set in uh in
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Kad obviously kind of allows you guys to
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get a lot of speed out there and a lot
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of Playmakers on the court I guess when
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you were you know repping it in practice
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during the off season wining it kind of
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clicky that you know that Trio as a
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starting five or within the starting
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five would be kind of a good formula for
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you yeah I mean I think uh just
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throughout the season is getting
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comfortable with it and the Rhythm um
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the offseason we did a lot of like
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competition so uh coach Davis would
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split the guards up um just so we could
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compete and I think you know iron iron
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sharpens iron so we was able to get
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after it uh but as the season started to
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pick up a little bit we tried to you
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know Implement that you know three guard
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lineup just to see how it works it's
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been working really well for us um it's
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not a lot of teams that can hang with us
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in the country especially in transition
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um and we're able to you know not only
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cre for ourselves for others but so um
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that's what we working for this Tri I
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know it's nothing new RJ but the way
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Elliott is able to attack bigger guys
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and
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change hands with the left I mean for a
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guy that's a similar size is that just
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something that continues to impress you
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about him just the ability to finish
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like that over bigger guys yeah I mean I
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think he's he's always been like an
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elite finisher uh just even from his a
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days the way he's able to use
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athleticism again to the body of the uh
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the opponent and then be able to finish
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amongst you know seven foot guys I mean
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I think it's incredible uh especially
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for somebody at his size so um just for
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him to get in lane and finish with
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either hand I mean I knew that was
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Elliot but I had to get like the the two
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back toback the left fans but that was
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tough and you can feel it when he's
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starting to turn the speed on a little
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bit can't you like you can see him sort
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of setting it up I mean I'm I'm pretty
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sure we all know soon as he get ahead a
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full speed like that um he's going to
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the rims and I don't think other teams
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know that yet um so I mean we we know
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that because we play against some
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everyday in practice so it's nothing new
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to us um so I'm just glad he's able to
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kind of just showcase his talents how
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about how important is Elliot to you
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guys considering how the game went when
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he was on the bench in the first half
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and how it went otherwise yeah I mean I
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think we uh we did a better job in the
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second half of kind of getting the ball
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moving um in the first half they went to
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two three Zone and uh the ball staging a
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little bit it was just going from top to
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the wing to the wing um we didn't push
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guys down we didn't get the ball in the
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middle so uh we did a better job of
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doing that and you know having Elliot
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out there to be able to push the the
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pace
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Elliot how frustrating was to sit for so
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long in the first half yeah it was
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really really frustrating um I don't
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like like sitting helplessly on the
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bench like can't I can't do anything I
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don't like that so it was it was hard
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for me that was the first time I did it
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this year but uh when you were in the
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offense and the transition seem to flow
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can you talk about that
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Rhythm um yeah like I feel like my role
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on this team is to push the pace so when
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I get in that's one of my main um
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objectives to do is just push the pace
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um get everybody running I do that with
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like pitch of heads I try to pass the
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ball ahead of me you guys jet lagged at
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all did you guys how long did it take
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you to adjust to the time I feel like
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we're good right now even though it's
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really late at home we had two we slept
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two nights so so I feel like we're good
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it it hit us still yesterday time
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today's better um for you on those on
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those fast break obviously had a lot of
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you know left-handed finishes not just
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with the left hand but they were kind of
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you know off balance you know over
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people can you talk about just the mid
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Air Balance required to convert on some
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of those layups yeah um for me it's like
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second nature I don't really think about
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it cuz I work on that I work on my body
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control and staying on balance when I'm
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finishing so it's just something I work
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on pretty much you like you have another
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gear when you head to the Bas yeah for
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sure I try to try to go a little bit
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faster okay all right we'll what about
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dealing with the Zone today you guys
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yeah it was good we we got to our sets
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and I feel like we executed and we're
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making shots so I felt like we did good
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what you like about the way you guys
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defended it's seemed in that second half
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one thing Hubert talks a lot about is
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the defense kind of initiating the PA
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how do you feel the defense initiated
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that PA yeah I feel like um when they're
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making a lot of shots and they're in the
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zone it's hard to get in transition
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because they'll just make it get zone so
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we're just trying to get stops and push
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the ball um I feel like our team we we
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really don't have trouble like scoring
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we have a lot we can score in a
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different variety of ways so we just we
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just like to take part in the defense
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that's what we try to focus on every G
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what do you like about that lineup you
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guys have that true of you know you said
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RJ I know you guys have you know run
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that obviously all season long so far
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but I guess having those three guards I
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mean what do you like about the I guess
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options that giv yeah I think Seth and
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RJ are the two best guards in the
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country and I feel like I'm the third
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right there after them so just having
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them on my side is great I feel as I
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said I feel like we're really underrated
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um defensively um we could guard bigger
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guys like SE was M up against a 610 guy
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and we're switching off him so I feel
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like defensively we're really good in
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that that helps in our offense I'm
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curious why do you put yourself in third
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um I just feel like they got it yeah I'm
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number three though for sure but you had
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the
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best so far three C statistically and
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just way you lead the team whether you
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want to admit it I
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guess Elliot what are you looking
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forward to so obviously last year you
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had the BP you know three games in a row
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uh what are you kind of looking forward
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to I guess in the about the second half
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it seemed like you guys really got the
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transition year what was going on there
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uh we just wanted to set the tone uh we
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thought we had good spurs in in the
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first half uh but it wasn't consistent
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enough so we just want to come on set
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tone and get out and play fast and you
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really put on the put up more points in
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the second half was working for you
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better the second
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half just a had the Swit mentality to be
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aggressive uh get pain touches and then
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go out from there so it worked want to
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get fouled so I drew a few fouls uh yeah
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it was just to be more aggressive that
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was the game how hard was it in the
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first half and how different is the
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offense when Ellie is
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sitting uh you know to be honest I don't
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even I don't even realize but Ellie is
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our best facilitator he's our best
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playmaker uh I mean when the ball's in
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his hands great things happen
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so I love I love playing that how did
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you see one thing Hubert talks a lot
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about is the defense kind of dictating
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the pace you guys get to play with how
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did you see that start to take form in
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the second half you guys getting steals
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AC yeah we saw instantly we saw once we
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got stops we got out and ran we scored
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or got fouled in like 4 seconds so we
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saw it and we know that it's more
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incapable we just have to really uh
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really commit to it and really dive in
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on defensive end we can do that for 4
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minutes we can play Fast how we want to
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play so 40 minutes got to do it how much
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how often was the rebounding mention at
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halftime and during the second half it
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was mention a lot they were killing us
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they were getting a lot of Second Chance
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points I don't know how many Second
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Chance points they had in the first half
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but it was a lot and it was way more
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than liking so is it just desire or is
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it what what was what was going on yeah
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I mean they wanted more than us in the
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first half they out hustled Us and got
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some more uh Second Chance opportunities
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how much do you think you'll be hearing
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rebounding rebound did did you ask
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probably probably every other minute
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we're on the court yeah yeah probably
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every other minute we're on the court
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it's emphasized it's been emphasized
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that we just got to continue size it cuz
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if we can win the rebound and battle
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good things can happen Seth when I guess
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the season was you know start to get
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going maybe it was you know the
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preseason or even the season opener when
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you kind of see you know three guards in
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that starting lineup you being one of
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them I guess kind of what was your uh I
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don't know if reactions right where but
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kind of your reaction we saw hey you
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know we're we're going to really be
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starting three guards out uh it's what I
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expected it's what I beted on it's what
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I thought was going to happen because I
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mean coach Davis always says when it
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comes to playing time this and that
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we're in control so I did everything I
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could to make sure that I was in control
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of you know dictating what was going to
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happen and that's what happened so I
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mean I love the three guard line that
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how fast we're able to play how
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versatile we could be on and off the
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ball I mean it's a lot of fun I was
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about to say it seemed like the speed
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that you guys are able to play with you
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know having three ball handlers three
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Playmakers out there really kind of you
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know Mak absolutely absolutely you can
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sort of feel it coming too like with the
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Steals and the attack it starts building
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upon itself absolutely the second do a
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Miss shot we're getting out trying to
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run trying to dunk with somebody so
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y'all know yall see it yeah yeah we
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enjoy watching it um I feel like there's
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a little fire from Kade Tyson in the
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second half tonight he flexed on
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somebody there at one point I mean I
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what my point is I feel like that's kind
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of a is that a good thing to see from
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absolutely he's starting to just release
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himself play free play with emotion uh
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you know not concerned about what
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anybody has to think about him and you
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know when you do that I was there that
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was me the last year and a half last two
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years so I know how it goes when he just
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let go of it you just play freely like
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he's been doing these last two games a
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lot of good things can happen one more
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where did he get the block out from uh
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he got in practice I didn't see it but I
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guess he got elbow in practice Yeah
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Elliot was really talking about the
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importance of getting a trophy in Maui
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he was bringing up how you know last
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year in the Bahamas you know losing that
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second game how much have you guys kind
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of talked about not only taking part in
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this three-day Maui invitation but you
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know winning the whole thing uh we
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definitely talked about winning it uh
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that's something we kind of have a whole
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list of things we want to we WR out on
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the preseason as a team and we sign it
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winning the M winning the Maui
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Invitational was one of them we know he
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came short last year to uh I mean you
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can say a lot of things why we lost that
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game but I think it was a game that we
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shouldn't have lost so you know it's
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kind of a get back tournament for us
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thank you sir thank you
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