#UNC postgame interviews with Seth Trimble, Jarin Stevenson, Henri Veesaar and Luka Bogavac
Mar 4, 2026
#UNC postgame interviews with Seth Trimble, Jarin Stevenson, Henri Veesaar and Luka Bogavac
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job isn't far from finished, but all
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year long, uh, we've been hit with with
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a lot of backlash about we're not this
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and we're not that and we can't do this.
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So, I think it just shows how we've been
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able just to come together uh and
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regroup after tough losses, whatnot like
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that and and not only defend the home,
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defend our home, but take care of
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business in general.
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>> Can you put in perspective what it means
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now that your final game here has been
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played that you stayed for four years
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and that you had that forever? Yeah. Uh
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it means everything that I stayed. I
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mean I didn't run. Uh you know most guys
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in my position without a doubt they
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would have been transferred. They would
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have ran, you know, they wouldn't have
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faced the problem at hand. So how I was
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able just to
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adversity uh over these last four years
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and persevere and embrace at the same
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time and embrace my love for the
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university uh speaks so much on on the
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impact this school has had on me. I
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think uh
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>> what's it like to share the stage too
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with RJ Davis, a player that I'm sure
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means a lot to us.
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>> It means a lot. RJ is one of my best
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friends to come through here. I look up
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to R.J.
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>> I mean, I've been watching RJ since I
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was a junior in high school. So, just to
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just to have him here on a night where
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I'm celebrating celebrating as well,
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it's incredible.
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And there's also the record of going 18
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and0 at at Dean. There's a lot of
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motivation, you know, just getting the
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win is big out there. Um, so yeah, just
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a lot of different motivations getting
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going out there making plays and getting
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the dub.
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>> You're hustling hard. One one moment you
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actually you like jumped out of bounds,
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I think, and over like a photographer
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videographer there and say saved the
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ball.
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>> Um, take me through just I mean what
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what's going through your head there.
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>> Oh yeah, hopefully he's okay. kind of
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like landed on it, but um yeah, just
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doing whatever I can to help the team
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win. I saw the ball going out of bounds.
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I think we touched it last time. Just,
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you know, jumping out there trying to
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save the ball and just do whatever it
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takes to win.
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>> Take me through that flurry when you
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scored like eight points there in a
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little stretch and six and then the big
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rebound in the last minute.
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>> Yeah. Um, I think a lot of those came
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from free throws, but al also offensive
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rebounds, too. But, um, just going in
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there making plays, um, drawing fouls. I
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feel like that was huge for us, too. Um,
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going down being a post presence, too.
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And, um, you just drawing different
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defenders was big for us.
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>> What were you seeing from tonight?
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>> Yeah, he was knocking it down. He was,
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you know, coming off screens. We were
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saying good screens for him. Dicks did a
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good job. Luca just coming off ready to
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shoot. Um he did a good job doing that.
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Um I'm glad he had, you know, the
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confidence to go in there and just, you
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know, let it go cuz again, we have
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confidence in him and his shooting
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ability. We've seen it.
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>> Um so I'm proud of Luca and did a good
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job.
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>> Did those ignite you guys as a group in
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the second half?
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>> Yeah. Yeah. It helped push our lead and
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it helped motivate us both offensively
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and defensively. Um bench was getting
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into it and um I feel like Yeah.
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motivated us for sure. when he hit that
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sixth three-pointer, I think it was the
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fifth of the second half. Clemson calls
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the timeout and he kind of pumps his Is
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that the most emotion you've seen from
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him in a game all year?
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>> I think so.
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>> Was he saying anything like what was
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what's he yelling when he's hyped up
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like that?
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>> I think he said something. I forgot what
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he said, but yeah, I saw he run to the
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basket, hyping up the crowd and yeah,
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it's probably the most emotion I've seen
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from him. So, I'm glad for him, proud of
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him, and he had a good game. How
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satisfying is it for you to sort of grit
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out when you guys
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>> like just walking by here, seeing kind
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of the championship banners, seeing the
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jerseys that are in the rafters, like
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you feel like you're in company of those
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people and you play also for them, not
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just for us cuz every single person,
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every single person that's played here
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is looking at every single game, always
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like texting coaches, texting us,
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telling us like how they're watching,
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what they care, how much they care about
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the team. So, I mean, this place just
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it's a huge family and I think this is a
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house that it is. What um was going
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through your mind? I think I saw when
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Luke was taking those free throws at the
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end of the game, you were just you just
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had your hands like this.
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>> Yeah, I was just praying head there. I
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did not want overtime after fouling out.
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So, I was really hoping we can get it
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done.
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>> And what was going through your I mean,
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obviously ended up working out, but when
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you fouled out there, just what's going
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through your head?
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>> I mean, first thing I felt like I've
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been vertical, so I was like I was like
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ah cuz I felt like I had made a good
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play and then obviously the call came
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and I knew I was out. So, it made me way
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more nervous cuz it's not going to be on
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the court and I knew if overtime comes,
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I won't be able to play and help the
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team out. So, yeah, it definitely made
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me very nervous.
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>> Not to say there's not an edge already,
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obviously wanting to go out on good
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footing with the final home game and
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everything, keep that uh victory streak
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going at home. Was there an extra edge
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though with Seth and it being him and
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Elijah's senior night?
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>> No, for sure. We everybody knew that we
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kind of needed like even coach said like
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I feel like whenever we started prepping
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for Clemson he was like hey this is for
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these two guys like me sending everybody
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out from this program by being a winner.
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So we got to win the last game for them
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at home. So I think it means a lot to
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everybody just being able to fight for
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them get a little extra motivation to
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just fight extra for those two guys.
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>> Henry I know a lot of the
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>> two minutes happen like kind of waiting
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for that run of shots. Yeah, I feel like
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I I I like to this kind of shots
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especially when it's let's say many
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times. So for me it was like just
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important to keep shooting. Of course
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Davis recognized that he gave me
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opportunity to be on the court and call
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the place for me. So it was amazing.
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>> Luca, a lot of guys when they go on hot
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streaks they say it's like a physical
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feeling like you can feel like something
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in the air. Was that what you were
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feeling in the second half when you were
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going on that run? Yeah, I feel just I
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had a good reads couple times for Henry
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also to raise him the ball and some
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other other thing I I I should well. So
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for me I just play with my instincts
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>> for Derek a freshman to step up in that
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moment. Hit that big three in the final
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minute. What does that say about him?
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>> We saw also I guess he's lucky he's
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capable of doing this. So I wasn't
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surprised there.
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>> Have you hit more threes than that in a
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game before?
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>> Yeah. How many how many is your career
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high?
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>> I don't know. I never tried this.
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>> Definitely more than that though.
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>> Maybe maybe when I was younger. I can't
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remember exactly.
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>> Was it there was a long stretch where
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you guys were getting open threes but
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none of them would fall and how how
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frustrating was that? And then and then
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you're able to end that streak.
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>> Yeah. you know,
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like I don't know how, but coach Davis
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just felt that I should be on the court
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for this time like maybe offensively
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just open other guys and just give some
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rhythm, give some flow because we
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struggle for a couple times. We we had
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good open shots but just just we missed
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them. So it was important for us just to
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find a rhythm and I think we we
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>> look I know you only know Seth for a
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year but what's it been like to get to
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know him, play alongside him and things
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like that?
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>> Unbelievable. He's unbelievable guy. His
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family unbelievable. really welcome as a
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part of their family. So I hear only
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great things about him.
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>> You showed about as much emotions and I
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much emotion as I've seen from you. What
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brought that out?
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>> I don't know. You know, for me it was
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important really every like when I watch
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the book score for me was important just
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to to win this game for our seniors just
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to let them with a go with a win, you
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know, on a home court. It was important
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for for me like and I just I just wanted
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to win like and it was we did it. So I'm
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really proud. You
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>> talk about the importance of winning.
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How important it was it to go undefeated
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at home this year.
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>> Yes. This is also important just for our
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confidence to see that we we have
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ability to to really be a great team. So
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just give us the confidence for
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tournament for this last game of the
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regular season.
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>> How much do you feel like some of those
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some of your threes in the second half
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sort of sparked you guys and allowed you
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guys to come out with the win? Yeah,
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what I said before, it just give some
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rhythms and confidence to other guys and
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just keep keep your offensively and just
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live to be really um efficient and just
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to try to give give them more space. How
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refreshing do you feel like it is for
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you guys to be able to win a game the
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last game 89 82 this one much lower
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scoring but either way you're able to
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grit out a win coming off of a win like
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you guys had
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>> I feel that we have every night other
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guy who step up so it just shows how we
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can be good and in every moment we can
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expect every guy every guy to be quality
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>> what have the practices leading up to
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this look like for you especially Steph
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>> yeah you know we just have to adjust
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this is basketball but this is five
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action. So for me it was important just
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to you know keep the rhythm, keep the
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all guys accountable. So we did. So I'm
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very proud.
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