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#UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels beat Georgia Tech in their ACC opener.
Dec 7, 2024
#UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels beat Georgia Tech in their ACC opener.
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just the response after Wednesday did
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you did you see what you wanted to see
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out there from you guys well I I I think
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our guys
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um one I you know when I came in the
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locker room after the game I told him I
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was really proud of him I think it's
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very difficult very hard to win a game
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um I think it's very difficult and hard
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to win a conference game and so um and I
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even told him before the game that
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playing here playing at this level is is
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difficult and hard and so you you have
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to find the joy and
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enjoyment of
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um of how hard it is to individually and
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as a team to be successful at this level
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and you just do
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um and um and I told them I was really
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proud of them that through the hardness
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of this
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game um yes there's some things a number
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of things we didn't do very well or to
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the like of the way that we would we
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would want to perform in terms of having
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18 turnovers and um but um there were
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some good things that we did tonight and
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I wanted them to have a smile on their
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face I know for a week and a half losing
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three in a row it was um it was hard and
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I think our team a little bit um has
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been wounded by that and um didn't play
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fast and free but play tight and
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tentative and uh my hope is this week
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before our next game it comes at the
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perfect time for us to heal so that we
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can play fast and free and play the best
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that we can play some of the guys said
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that they've been playing stressed is
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that kind of what you're alluding to a
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littleit and do you think winning a game
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like this even when it wasn't the
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prettiest game can kind of work them
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through that it gives them a spring
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board from which to Spring from yes I do
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I do I I think you feel a lot better
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after a win than you do after a loss and
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I think uh that's somebody else's alarm
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that's not mine um
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and we needed something good to happen
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to us and
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um nothing gets Georgia Tech I mean
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obviously we didn't play our best game
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but to be able to get a win I thought um
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goes a long way for this group and us
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trying to find ourselves sethan RJ said
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you pulled out the 33 the other day that
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RJ said he ended up you hadn't run that
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since Roy was head coach why did you do
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that and did you get what you wanted to
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out of maybe going to playing that card
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if you
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will well you know in order as a head
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coach whatever I play whatever card I
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need to play in order to get them
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because I I told them the only thing on
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my plan or my agenda is for them to max
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out everything that they can do on the
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court off the court in the
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classroom I like I just I want them to
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be great and so I'm not going to settle
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for anything less than the best that
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they can be out there on the floor and
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so if it has to be 33s then it does if
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it has to be sitting on the bench then
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it does um but um they have a coach that
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loves and cares about them so much that
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I'm not going to settle for nothing but
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the best out of each one of these kids
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youber you guys through the first four
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or five games of the Season we leading
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the nation in fewest turnovers um yeah
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we've gone opposite direction my point
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exactly
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what I yeah it was yeah we're thinking
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the same but why what do you make of how
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loose y'all have gotten with the ball
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sometimes it just seems like you're just
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too too loose with it at times well I
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would character characterize that
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especially tonight uh one of the things
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that I always tell them is that we don't
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need home runs we just need singles um I
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got that from uh coach Bob mckillop and
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Davidson when I was with the ESPN I did
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number of their games and specifically
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when stephh Curry was there and the last
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year that he was there he said that to
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Steph Curry all the time and it stuck
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with me and I felt like specifically
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tonight we were going for home runs
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oneand passes behind the back passes in
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between four people you know one of the
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things that I another thing that I say
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all the time is make routine plays
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routinely and simple works and those
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turnovers I like to go I'm going to go
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back to them and show the team how it
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wasn't simple how it wasn't a routine
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play that it was trying to hit home runs
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and that's something that we got to get
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away from because it's really hurting us
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I mean you get 10 assists and 18
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turnovers and you get a win you got to
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be really fortunate enough to be able to
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have that you thought a common threat
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and OTS turnovers the last couple of
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games a Common Thread yeah um not
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specifically with with Elliott I I don't
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think you know you know looking at one
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player I'm looking at 18 turnovers as a
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team and we just got to do a better job
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of taking care of the basketball we were
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doing that at an elite level at the
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beginning of the year and since Maui
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we've averaged more turnovers and
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assists and we really hadn't played a
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team that's pressed or trapped or double
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teamed and so we just we got to do a
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better job there ke we asked you about
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you know Seth before as far as his game
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uh but it seemed that in Maui and then
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R.J was saying you know throughout the
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season he's been a more vocal player I
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and everything how have you seen him
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step up from a vocal Center he has he's
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been uh very vocal and you know I have
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told this year's team it's a lot quieter
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than years past
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and I said I I've never seen a good team
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quiet especially defensively and so this
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group is going to have to find its own
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unique voice doesn't have to look like
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previous years doesn't have to look like
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somebody's other somebody else's
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personality but each team you have to
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have a voice and Seth is tried to bring
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that consistently every day and I think
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he's doing a terrific job of it Hebert
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what did uh then show you in those
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couple days of practice that uh allowed
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you to give him the start today and how
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would you assess his performance yeah
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you know in terms of the start lineup I
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mean it
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it's we haven't gotten a good start
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start S in the first half it it's
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nothing more than that just trying
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different combinations to see what
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sticks what what works what's better and
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so I don't know who's going to start
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against lowl um but we've got to find a
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way where we've got the right rotations
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in um the right groups on the floor that
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can play at a high level and so it's
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nothing more than that just trying
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things I I started washing the second
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half and you know I'm just trying to
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find a rotation of players that that
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work really well together out there on
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the floor H you guys haven't had the
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opportunity for a lot of preparation
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with all these games now you get a week
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to to kind of go through some of those
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things do you feel like it's kind of a
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good chance for a reset perfect chance I
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agree with you fully 100% I think it's
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the perfect chance for us when I say a
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chance for us to heal that's that's what
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I'm talking about a chance for us to
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take a deep breath and and practice you
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know it's um again it's it it is a
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blessing to be able to play in the Maui
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Invitational but like it wasn't just
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that it was we were at Hawaii so that's
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four games in six days with a time
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change of five hours and then coming
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back home and you got Alabama and on
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Wednesday night and now you got Georgia
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Tech at 2 pm so you're right it's a lot
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of preparation as opposed to practicing
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and so having a week off off will give
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us a chance um to practice before we
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prepare for Lal and I think it's exactly
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what this team needs couple more what's
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number one on the list this week that
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you want to
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change there's a lot on the line you
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know just I thought we did I thought we
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did a really good job defensively I
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thought we um did a good job of um
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protecting the paint um especially
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because you know Georgia Tech runs a ton
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of ball screens and their bigs are
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rolling they were bigger than us and we
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outrebounded them so that was really
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good um obviously the
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turnovers um you know we got to get back
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our flow offensively you know we were um
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we were really good in terms of our pace
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and I feel like our Pace has slowed down
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um at times um and so we got to get that
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from an offensive standpoint our flow
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and our Pace back and then we just got
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to find a way to be able to get to the
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free throw line you know at the
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beginning of the year you got guys you
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talk about you know being able to score
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our ability to be able to get to the
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free throw line was really good and you
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know lately it's we've struggled with
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that and a lot of shooting drills we're
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not shooting the ball well from outside
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just how can we generate really good
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open looks for our guys and um give them
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the confidence to be able to step up and
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knock down those shots because again
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having 18 turnovers and shooting five or
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24 what was the last night 5 28 5 for 28
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that's just not sustainable and so we've
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got to get better in those areas last
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one Adam Hebert along those lines you
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talking about drawing the fouls it says
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on the sheet here uh Seth Trimble six
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drawn fouls um I mean is that maybe one
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of the most important numbers that lets
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you know the way he's playing is how
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many fouls he's he's drawing yeah it is
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you know um but
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we again it's not sustainable to put
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that all on
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Seth or RJ or Elliott like we've you
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know in years past we were we were able
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to attack the basket through post and
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penetration we've got to find a way to
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be able to do that it just can't be on
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penetration um cuz another area that
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we're not anywhere close to the level
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that um I want to be at and we need to
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be at is is is offensive rebounding you
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know when you score you
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go you always try to find more ways to
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score if you just go I score he scores I
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score he score how do you break it up
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well there's other ways to score you got
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to turn people over you got to get to
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the offensive glass you got to get to
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the free throw line we got to get to the
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free throw line more we got to get to
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the offensive glass and we got to find a
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way we had 14 turnovers but we got to
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find a way to create more turnovers to
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give us more chances on the offensive
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end thanks everybody thank you