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#UNC coach Hubert Davis press conference after loss at Duke
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4140 two minutes into the second half
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and they went on 30 to6 run.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Did pretty much everything that can go
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wrong go wrong in that stretch for you
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guys or what kind of got that goal
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going?
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>> Well, I mean it was them. I mean, you
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know, at the beginning of the game, I
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was clear and definitive on things that
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we have to do better uh compared uh to
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the first time that we played them. And
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you know, one of them and number one on
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the list was rebounding. And so, you
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know, they got 18 offensive rebounds.
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Um,
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that's just not sustainable. And we
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needed to do a better job of taking care
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of the basketball. And, you know, our 14
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turnovers turned into 24 points to him.
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So, we outscored by 20 in terms of
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points off of turnovers. And so, um,
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that's how you get on runs. And that's
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how people get runs on you is giving
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them second chances to score and not
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being taking care of the basketball on
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the offensive end. And during that
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stretch, um, we had a combination of
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both and that allowed them to get on a
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um, on a run in the second half.
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>> Over on the left, Brian,
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>> you were um, the Caleb Wilson injury.
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When did you sort of find out about it
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and any thoughts on, you know,
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>> found out about it yesterday?
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>> Ending his career or presumably ending
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his career this way, ending his season
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at least. And what it means for your
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team moving forward.
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>> Well, our team will move forward. Our
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team has moved forward all year when
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Seth was out for nine games, Caleb's
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been out for seven, and Henry was out
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for two. And so it's nothing different
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than than than
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how our team has uh reacted and
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responded throughout the whole season.
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Um obviously there's tremendous sadness
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for him. I've talked about how special
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obviously he's a special player, but
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just um how remarkable of a kid and a
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teammate he is and the passion that he
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has for his teammates, for North
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Carolina,
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for being on the floor, for playing in
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games like this. It was a dream for him
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to play in the ACC in the NCAA
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tournament, and
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my heart is broken that he won't be able
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to do that.
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And so, but
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we finished the regular season. Now,
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it's time to regroup and and move
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towards the ACC tournament.
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>> Spencer and then Andrew.
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>> Yeah, he you just mentioned moving
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forward to the ACC tournament. Something
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you talked about is this group's ability
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to just overcome and, you know, move on
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from what do you want to see from your
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group before Thursday and ACC
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tournament, how they want to move
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forward? Yeah, I mean and and it's the
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same way that this this team has moved
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forward all year. Um, you know, I just
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felt like tonight, number one, I felt
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like, um, Malik dominated the game.
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Obviously, Cameron is a gifted player,
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but I felt like Malik's presence
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disrupted us on both ends of the floor.
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um whether it was his post defense, uh
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ball screen defense, steals and
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deflections,
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um his screens,
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um passing ability, being able to rim
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run, score around the basket. I thought
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he disrupted us on both ends of the
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floor. So, you know, just the, you know,
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the competitive fight of, you know,
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going back to the 18 offensive rebounds,
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I felt like 50/50 loose balls,
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um, they got most of them. And,
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you know, in order to win games and
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against
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teams like this,
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um,
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you have to win that area. We didn't win
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it tonight.
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>> Andy, right back. you were you're you're
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heading into the ACC tournament this
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[clears throat] week. You've had seven
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games without Caleb. Is is it a silver
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lining? Not a silver lining, but sort of
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a blessing in disguise. You have seven
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games without him. So, when you go now
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into the postseason, you've seen your
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team do a lot of stuff against a lot of
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different types of teams without him.
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So, you're a little bit more ready to
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head into the more meaningful part of
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the schedule.
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>> Yeah. I mean, we do have a, you know, a
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seven game menu without them. and um you
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know what we need to do defensively um
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our attack from an offensive standpoint.
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That being said, I think it's you know
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really it's the same you know for us
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defensively you know we've got to
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rebound it. It just whether Caleb is
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here or not we've got to box out, we got
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to rebound. We got to limit teams to one
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shot every possession
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because it's it's it's two things for
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us. One, obviously it gets a stop, but
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number two, it ignites us in transition
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where we've been really good elite all
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season. And so we still want to dominate
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points in the paint through post,
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penetration, offensive rebound. We want
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to live in the paint, live at the free
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throw line. And those those type of
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plays generate open threes. And so, you
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know, the foundation of who we are and
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what we are trying to achieve out there
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on both ends of the floor really hadn't
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changed whether Caleb was in the lineup
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or not. That's the way that we play here
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at North Carolina and we've got to
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dictate that next week in Charlotte.
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>> Anybody else
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in front here?
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>> What was [clears throat] it about their
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defensive pressure that they did so far
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in the second half?
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>> Well, I mean, they've, you know, they've
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got they've got lift, athleticism.
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Um, they do a really good job not just
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also getting steals, but also getting
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deflections.
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um you know they went to their quote
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unquote small lineup so they were
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switching everything and you know when
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teams switch you have to make them pay.
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We weren't able to do that a number of
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times they had perimeter players on our
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bigs and you know
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you know we didn't take advantage of
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that but you have to give credit to
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them. um their defense is it's reason
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why they're one of the better defensive
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teams in the country is because they
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have good team defense, but they also
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have really good individual defenders.
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And I felt I thought Dame Sar was really
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good getting steals and deflections. And
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I thought uh I thought he did a really
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nice job tonight.
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>> Last two, Brian and Spencer, if you
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don't have a mic, Brian, just speak up.
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>> Uh Hubert, can you talk about a little
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about the half court offense struggles?
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a little bit at times the offense went
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stagnant and kind of where do you go
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from here in terms of kind of helping
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that happen?
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>> Yeah. Yeah. I mean that was dictated by
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Duke's defense, you know, just their
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their effort, their physicality, whether
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we were coming off screens on or off the
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ball. I felt like they dictated our
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cuts, our movements. Uh we were starting
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our offense almost close to half court
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and you just can't be efficient being
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able to do that. couldn't generate
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anything consistently in the post. Um,
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in the second half, I'm not sure if we
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shot a free throw, you know, and you
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know, for us,
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you know, what goes along with
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dominating points in the paintings,
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being able to get to the free throw
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line, and now a benefit of that is now a
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team gets to go up against your set
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defense. We weren't doing that. We're
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always in transition defense because we
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were missing. So, um, give credit to
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them and, uh, we'll regroup and, uh,
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we'll be there in Charlotte ready to go.
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Last one, Spencer.
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>> With such a quick turnaround from the
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Caleb injury to tonight's game, how
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would you assess, you know, kind of the
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the temperature of your group and kind
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of the mindset going? Oh,
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>> the temperature was great. I mean, it's,
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you know, our guys um
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one of the things that I told him is
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and and I was truthful to them.
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Now it's 31 games, but prior to tonight
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it was 30 games. 15 of the games we were
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either without Seth, out Caleb, or
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Henry. In those games, we were 12 and
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three. With a full lineup, we were 12
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and three.
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So, I said, "We have more than enough to
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get it done." And I love these kids. I
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love the fight, the resiliency, the
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perseverance of this group. And uh I'll
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roll with this team and this group every
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day.
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>> Thank you, coach.
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