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Video: #UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels' blowout victory at Virginia Tech
Mar 5, 2025
Video: #UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels' blowout victory at Virginia Tech
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Elly that just picked up his second foul
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and if you spam both has you guys went
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up took a scor him 48 to 12 was that the
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best basketball of the Season by this
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group and and what did you see that kind
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of triggered that I thought it was
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really good I mean I I thought we were I
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thought we were on point on both ends of
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the floor I thought our ball pressure
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was really good we were defending
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without fouling and more importantly our
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ball pressure really bother them you
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know Virginia Tech is a really good team
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uh when especially on the offensive end
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when they're able B to connect the dots
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and run their offense and I felt like
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our ball pressure created turnovers
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allowed us to get out in transition and
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then when we were down by two I I don't
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I don't think we turned the ball over
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the rest of the half and so we were
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getting shots and then I just you know
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I've you know I've said you
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know what has really allowed us to shoot
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the ball better from the outside has
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been our persistence to dominate points
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in the paint you know through post
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penetration offensive rebound I think is
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generating good threes open threes um
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and a number of people are hitting those
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open shots and it's um from that point
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on I thought we played really really
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well to stand your point about the
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threes how much of it also is just a
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greater awareness everybody has there's
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a lot of recognition out there they know
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when guys are openly to do the extra
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pass and there's a lot of catch and
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shoot right now they are they're a lot
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of catch and shoot threes um they're
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good threes you you know they are
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um you know the passes that are coming
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to the shooters they're on point and on
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time and they're coming at the right
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time
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and uh puts us in situations where we
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can attack
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Closeouts um we're passing up good shots
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to get great
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shots
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and I think I said this before but we
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just have a number of guys that are
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settled and very confident in playing
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at a high level at the same time and as
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a result we were able to get a another
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road win here against Virginia Tech it's
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it's six straight wins obviously but
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five by double digits um what have you
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noticed about this group's sort of
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increasing ability to turn an eight or
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10-point lead into a 20-point lead and
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sort of you know step on the opponent
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and not let them back in a game that's a
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major difference than what was happening
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at the beginning of the year pretty
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much almost three quarters of the Year
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especially at the beginning um we were
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generating leads and then it wasn't
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sustained Play We would give that back
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up and we're not doing that now you know
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when we're playing well we have
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consistent sustain minutes of playing
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well on both ends of the floor it's
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allowing us to extend the lead
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and I think the more that we do it the
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more conf confidence that we're getting
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from it
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and the guys you know you can talk about
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it but it's it's even better when you
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can see it and experience it I feel like
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every game our guys are seeing and
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experiencing what it looks like to
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consistently play at that level stay at
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that level and what that does for us as
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a team Mark may ask you about your
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defense do you do certain things
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defensively to make it a tough shooting
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night for a Virginia
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Tech well I mean they've got so many
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Shooters out there I mean it's not just
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one and as I said before you know their
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combination of ball and player movement
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is Elite and so one of the things that I
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kept telling them in regards to Virginia
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Tech is whatever it takes and something
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is always coming there's never a time
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where you can take a deep breath and
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think that you're out of the play you
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always have to play defense before you
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play defense I thought our guys were
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disciplined in terms of um defending
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without fouling I felt like every shot
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whether it was from three or mid-range
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game around the basket was
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challenged and um I thought we did a
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really good job of um keeping them off
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the offensive glass they they couldn't
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get Second Chance opportunities and so
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that's always been good news for us CH
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yeah he looking at se troubles game and
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I get the big block in the first half
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you about playing defense without fou
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but can a you play with a degree of
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toughness tonight see can a team feed
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off that kind of play that he gave you
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definitely I always say we just need one
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one person to step forward and and make
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those type of plays and then another
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person will follow and then now you've
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got two or three others following and
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then by the end of the day you have the
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whole team and those are the little
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things um another little thing is RJ
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diving on the floor in the corner I mean
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it's not going to be on Sports Center
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they're probably not going to put that
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on Instagram but those are huge plays
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for us that ignited us um and allowed us
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to be able to take take the lead and
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never look back those those little plays
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and I think we're consistently making
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more of those than we were at the
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beginning of the Season alll another
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game with five double figure scores yeah
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how much easier does that make how how
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different is the game when you don't
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have to depend on one or two
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players well that I mean that's
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obviously that's great I mean we
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can you know from an offensive
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standpoint you want the most Firepower
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that you have out there you know you
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want guys to be a
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you want five guys out there to have the
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ability to be able to score and we've
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been consistently doing that over the
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last three weeks you know whether it's
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Vin in the post you know RJ and Ian from
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three Drake driving it's just we're
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getting impactful
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plays um from a number of different
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people and that goes back to I think the
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confidence and a comfort and and how
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comfortable we've got a number of guys
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that are at the highest in in terms of
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confidence and comfortable out there in
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terms of their role and what they need
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to do out there on the
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floor uh coach 31 to 17 margin for your
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team on defensive boards what do you
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like about your team's effort on the
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class that's huge I always think
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rebounding is the number one determining
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factor of outcome of a game and we talk
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about rebounding the three things that I
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talk about every day since we've come
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together in June is defense rebounding
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and taking care of the basketball and if
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you can check those three boxes doesn't
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matter whom you who you play it'll put
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yourself in a position to be successful
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Jeremiah and Andrew yeah I know
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obviously since you guys have you know
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Gone Big you know two of your top three
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scorers you know come off the bench and
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Seth and Ian and they were obviously
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your leading scores today I guess how
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much of I know you know starting five is
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you know the you know number one you
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know but how much of a lift is it when
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you can have you know guys like that you
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know come off you know off come off the
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bench and obviously be well it's huge
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you know
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um you know having those type of players
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not not only does it sustain the level
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but at sometimes even raises the level
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you know and when you have those guys
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coming off the
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bench um and your play continues to rise
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that's something that's really good as a
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coach and really good as a team um but
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also when I said that the guys are are
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comfortable just the willingness to if I
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start come off the bench I just want to
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get in the game and I want to contribute
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I want to play
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and that's the attitude that's coming
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from this team it's just I just want to
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come in and just help the team
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and just a nice place to be 46 bench
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points is the most in an ACC game and
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second most all year to lell two more
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questions cuz coach's ready Andrew the
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Adam going back to rebounding I think in
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the last five games now you guys are
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averaging about plus 13 14 in each of
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those games games was this just a simple
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matter of want know want being elevated
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or are there some other aspects to
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rebounding that they're collectively
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doing at a much better level now than
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they were previously I think there's
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more of a one I mean at the beginning of
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the year I said our goal was to be plus
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10
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rebounding if you ask them they know it
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plus 10 you know we weren't anywhere
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close to that I
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think we only had seven offensive
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rebounds tonight but I think what has
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contributed to our dominance in regards
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to rebounding has our been our ability
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to get Second Chance opportunities as
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well and that's something that we had
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not been doing pretty much the entire
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season so we've got consistently the
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three four and five get to the offensive
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glass so that helps out and you know we
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just talk
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about you know finishing the possession
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with a rebound and there were a couple
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times on free throws that we didn't box
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out we talked about them in the Huddle
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but those are things that we've gotten a
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lot better at and consistent at and it's
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something that's really helped us be
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better last one Adam youber Ian LED you
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guys in scoring tonight RJ had 15 points
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in the first half but it seemed like
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just the way Seth played in the first
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half changed the game um you know chip
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mentioned the block shot he's dunking
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the ball you know one point Doug's
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checking his nose and mouth over there
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because he's sticking his no you know
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like what he gave you in the first half
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did that sort of take you guys to
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another level do you think um yes his
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play did take us to another level
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I Seth has the ability to do so many
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things out there on the floor and just
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be impactful in so many ways you know he
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just he's our best and most disciplined
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on ball Defender so he can pick up full
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court he can guard guys in the post
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obviously in the perimeter in transition
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his ability to run the floor and
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athleticism to be able to finish him
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Above the Rim um he's starting to knock
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down his three now uh getting to the
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free throw line he's one of our better
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free throw shooters and just he's the
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one he's one of the guys that from a
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vocal standpoint has raised his level in
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terms of communication in the Huddle in
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the locker room and I've been
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encouraging him just to continue to
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build that because we need it and and
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the teammates are feeding off of him
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thanks coach