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You want some water? Are you good?
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Need a pen. Are you good?
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>> I'm good.
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>> Okay.
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Okay, questions
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>> front row.
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Dan Toro, wakeup calld.com. Henry, I
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mean, it it looks like you it felt like
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you made about six threes toward the end
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of the game. just bring me into the way
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that you played on the outside, trusting
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in your shot and getting this team from
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what was an 18-point deficit down to
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one.
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>> I mean, we're just playing as a team,
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just trying to be aggressive. I know
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they play long possession, so I knew we
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kind of had to go do quick offense
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because otherwise the clock was going to
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run out before we go get there.
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Yeah, just really trying to be
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aggressive, trying to make the get the
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best shot, get our early shot that and
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then fight as hard as we can for
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offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds,
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trying to just get us back into the game
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cuz obviously we have to dig ourselves
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in a big hole in the second half, first
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half. So, we had to kind of we play
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desperate, but we play good when we're
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desperate. So, I think we just kind of
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keep that mindset whenever we go into
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next games and into March.
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>> Back to the rim.
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Yeah, Henry, how has your role sort of
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changed without Caleb? Obviously, sort
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of being the number one option, a lot of
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the offense is running through you. Have
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you had to change the way you prepare
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for games or or the way you play or the
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way you kind of um pace yourself in
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games as well?
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>> Uh
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I don't really think that has changed
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much. I think there's just more
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opportunity because obviously Caleb is
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an amazing player and we miss him, but
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but I'll say that I just have gotten
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more opportunity. Obviously, he was an
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aggressive player. He got a lot of the
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shots. He got a lot of possession cuz he
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deserves it by any chance. And I think
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now just coming my way, so I'm going to
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try to make the best I can from every
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opportunity to give us a chance to win.
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>> Third row in front of me.
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>> Yeah, Kayen Reinhardt, Virginia Tech on
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SI. Henry, you drew seven fouls tonight.
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What went into you drawing that contact?
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>> I think a big part of it was just the
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we're trying to have an emphasis of
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trying to go inside. I was just trying
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to do what coach told me to do, trying
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to get to the basket, trying to draw
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fouls, trying to make contact first, be
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physical, try to get to the rim. I think
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that's a big part on offensive rebounds.
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If we just go, we're going to get
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offensive rebounds. They're going to
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foul us because they're trying to grab
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and hold because I think I'm more
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athletic than most bigs. I can get
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around them. Just trying to get a good
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position and when I go up for it,
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they're going to try to push me, foul
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me. I think that's how you can draw
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them.
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>> Any other questions for Henry?
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>> Okay, Henry, you can head back to the
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locker room.
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>> I'll wait. I can wait.
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Okay, questions for coach.
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>> Yeah, Aaron Beard with the AP. Hubert,
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where do you think were the one or two
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areas in particular this got away from
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you guys to put you in the hole you guys
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were in?
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>> Yeah, just the um uh um inability to
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respond uh to physicality. I felt like
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it was the same thing uh uh Saturday of
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last week. Um um and for most of the
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game uh tonight um Clemson's always been
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physical defensively. Um and one of the
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things I always say is you never let a
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defense dictate and decide how efficient
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you are on the offensive end. And I felt
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like their their physicality took us
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took us out of our offense, took us off
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of our cuts, our screens, our moves, and
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didn't really respond to that until the
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latter part of the second half. And then
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also just, you know, and I've been
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straightforward about, you know, for us
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um to be a good team, we've, you know,
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we just got to be good defensively. I've
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said defense and rebounding and taking
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care of the basketball. And so, you
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know, when you allow a team to shoot 50%
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from the field, especially this time of
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the year against good teams, that's just
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not a recipe for for um success.
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>> Front row.
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>> Coach, despite the loss tonight,
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obviously more to play for in March.
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What can you say to the strength of the
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ACC overall and just what's happened
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with the parody this year?
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Yeah, I you know I I think that's a
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great question. I just I'm not there.
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I'm I'm here w with with our team and so
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you know big big picture questions
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that's it's not that I can't answer it.
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I'm just not thinking about that right
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now. I'm thinking about our team and um
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thinking about these kids and
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thinking about um the NCAA tournament
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next week.
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Hey, coach Tim Donnelly 999 the fan. Uh
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Henry brought up that when you're when
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you were down 18 played desperate and he
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said you play good desperate.
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>> Uh is that something you can
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artificially create at the beginning of
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a game? Something you can take into
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March in the first half.
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>> Yes.
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specifically at uh talk to the team.
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What is today? Thursday, Tuesday,
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Wednesday, and today
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about having that hunger and that
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thirst. that hunger and that thirst to
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compete, hunger and thirst to
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to prepare, to practice,
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hunger and thirst to play together as a
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team and as a group as long as we can.
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And so, um,
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we've talked about that at great length.
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front row to our left.
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>> Coach Seth Trimble, just his leadership
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that you've seen throughout the season,
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what he's done, his resolve, and his
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play as you move forward.
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>> Well, yeah. I mean, Seth is um
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one of our leaders on the team.
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um
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somebody that um should be celebrated
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for obviously his
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his career thus far.
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But
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being as accomplished as a player,
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for him to be a four-year player,
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committed to his team, committed to this
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program, committed to this university
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for four years is something, as I said
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before, should be highlighted and
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celebrated. And so, if you were to have
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someone to lead a team, you would want
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somebody that's been in the program for
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a while. and and Seth definitely has
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done that.
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>> Right in front of me, coach.
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>> Yeah, coach, just five points from your
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bench tonight. Was there anything you
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would have liked to seen to get them
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more activated tonight?
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>> Well, I think you know, Clemson's bench
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um
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was really good tonight. you know, they
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had guys in there that really stepped
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up. They talked defensively that we were
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able to guard their actions, but it just
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basically came down to could we guard
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them whether it's in the post or the
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perimeter.
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Uh they took us one-on-one and for most
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of the game they were we're able to
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execute and able to score. So, at the
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end of the day, it just comes down with
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getting stops, finishing those
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possessions with a rebound. And
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the last couple games we haven't done
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that consistently.
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>> Okay. Thanks, coach.
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>> Thank you. [snorts] next week.
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[snorts]
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