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#SMU coach Andy Enfield at ACC Zoom press conference ahead of Mustangs' game Tuesday at #UNC
Jan 6, 2025
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first one of the first year huh yeah
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yeah you get a yeah you get to start us
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off so uh your first question will come
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from Royal how go ahead Royal good
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morning coach how you doing doing well
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thank you good morning yes sir coach I
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wanted to just jump right into it um
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first conference LW Saturday what is
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your main takeaways from playing against
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Duke a defensive moned team and then how
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do you kind of wreck that ship going
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into uh UNC in your next match up
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tomorrow night what do you need to see
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from your team to kind of bounce back
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shed weight from that loss and kind of
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get back on the right
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track uh yeah Duke is very good
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defensively but we uh we beat oursel in
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the first half we were able to move the
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ball get good shots get to the foul line
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and we missed too many free throws the
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first half at halftime it should have
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been a one possession game in our eyes
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because we just missed gave too many
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free throws away and then missed some
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easy ones and it's hard to do that to be
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down seven or nine nine and a half time
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and uh and then the second half they
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they uh they defended but but we uh we
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really didn't help ourselves we played
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poorly on offense we've been leading the
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league in shooting from the field from
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the three-point line and been shooting
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75% of the team from the foul line so we
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we did not play well enough to to uh
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beat a team like Duke
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offensively thank you
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coach we'll go next to David
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teal Andy you mentioned your your team's
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offensive efficiency for most of this
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season as you gathered this group during
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pre-season what was it one that struck
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you that was going to be quite good on
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the offensive
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end a lot of our players have averaged
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double figures in the previous
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University we took seven transfers and
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then three freshman had three returnings
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we had a brand new team and we thought
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we could score the ball because guys had
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proven themselves at the college level
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and then big cement coming over from
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Turkey we we thought he would be to
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score the ball for us as well so uh we
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have done a good job of sharing the ball
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lead the league and assists and uh as I
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said we lead led the league in scoring
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maybe we still do but but certainly
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going into the last game so we have to
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try to come out in the next few games
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and keep sharing the basketball and take
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open shots uh but we had felt pretty
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confident as a staff based on the
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prior uh they're uh they had done a lot
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of players had done it at at different
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levels had scored the ball mentioned the
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transfers is it comforting at all as you
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hit the meat of the ACC schedule to have
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former ACC players on your roster such
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as Miller and
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cross bopy and Matt cross both played
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well the other night they uh you you
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could tell they had ACC
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experience uh they they played their
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games uh and it's nice to have that
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leadership because they've been there
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they know the league they they've been
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to North Carolina like we're going
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tomorrow
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they play Georgia Tech like we play on
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Saturday so it is nice to have those
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guys leading our
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team all right your next question will
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come from Billy embody go ahead
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Billy coach uh when you look at North
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Carolina's back court with Davis and
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Jackson and Trimble uh what do you see
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out of that group and and the challenges
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they present for tomorrow night well I
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think they're a lot like us they're
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second in the league and scoring we're
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first so both teams like to push the
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ball in transition they're outstanding
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in transition those guys are dynamic
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they can score the ball themselves they
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put pressure on their def on your
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defense and they drive it uh within the
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first four five six seconds of the shot
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clock they're they're at the rim and so
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our transition defense will be important
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and we just have to try to wall up and
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make it challenging for them at the
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rim and uh the first your true road test
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in at North Carolina how exciting is
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that for this team to get a chance to
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head to Chapel Hill and play in a place
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like that
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oh it' be nice uh we played Boston
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College on the road right before
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Christmas so our guys have been on a
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road trip within the league and uh we
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perform well there so this is a uh uh I
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know North Carolina has the the
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tradition but we have to try to win a
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game and uh we it doesn't matter who our
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opponent is right now we we're coming
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off a loss and we have to play better
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and we have to play harder and we have
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to play
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smarter do we have any any other
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questions for
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Randy seeing none coach thank you good
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luck this week thank you appreciate
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it we will have uh
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