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#UNC's Seth Trimble, Henri Veesaar, Jarin Stevenson, Derek Dixon and Caleb Wilson
Mar 20, 2026
#UNC's Seth Trimble, Henri Veesaar, Jarin Stevenson, Derek Dixon and Caleb Wilson
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your mind right now?
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>> Just regret, you know, things that when
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we're around during the game, things
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that, you know, you wish you could have
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spoke up on and trying to change or
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suggest or anything like that, of
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course. But,
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uh, yeah. Yeah. Just regret.
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>> I know that this game is the biggest
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priority right now, but is there any way
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you can kind of encapsulate your four
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years at the Carolina?
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>> I mean,
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It's been like
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the best journey that you know I could
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ever dreamed of.
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You know, I faced everything here. You
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know, I succeeded. I failed and each and
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every day I just put in so so much and
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and you know, a lot back, you know, a
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lot was given back to me. And a huge
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part is that a huge part of that was was
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because of where I was and you know, the
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jersey I put on and the university I
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attended and I'm just I'm just super
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super grateful for that.
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What what happened the the final 15
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minutes? How would you describe kind of
1:01
just the slow slow trickle there and
1:03
getting ability to get a basket?
1:05
>> Yeah. Yeah. Our offense thought out uh
1:07
for sure, but I don't know. I felt like
1:10
we we we started switching things a lot
1:13
more and uh that last half after their
1:16
big hit two threes and it kind of just
1:18
went downhill from there. Uh but
1:21
offensively we were still getting good
1:22
shots and uh they they just they just
1:24
didn't fall. But defensively, I feel
1:26
like we made that one little change and
1:29
and you know, it just kind of went down
1:30
after that.
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>> How fatigued were you guys?
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>> Uh I mean, I was pretty fatigued. Uh I
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don't know how how much I played today,
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but I found a way to push through. Uh
1:41
cuz I was eager to win and you know, I
1:43
really really wanted it. You know, I
1:45
missed a free throw at the end of the
1:47
game. Uh I know I wasn't perfect, but
1:51
the one thing I can say is that, you
1:53
know, I really tried. I really want to
1:55
win and you know I really gave
1:56
everything I had. So
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>> Seth, what was Hubert's message to you
2:00
guys after this?
2:01
>> Uh we going to talk later. We going to
2:03
talk later. We're just everybody's kind
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of been sitting in their own emotions
2:08
the last 15ish minutes or so. But yeah,
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>> people will use this game and and parts
2:13
of this season to make a referendum on
2:16
Hubert Davis and and his potential
2:19
future if he should be the coach. What
2:20
would you say about the job Heard has
2:22
done in your time here in his future?
2:24
>> Uh, he's been my coach for four years
2:26
and he has helped me grow. He's helped
2:29
me persevere and he's just, you know,
2:33
he's helped me become a better man.
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Everybody has their flaws. You know,
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Coach Davis, he isn't the perfect coach,
2:38
but he's a coach who's made me better.
2:40
He's a coach who's made guys better and
2:41
he's shown that he can win here. So, I
2:44
know he gets hate. Uh I mean over the
2:46
last four years I know he's got a lot of
2:48
it but I'm going continue to ride with
2:50
him.
2:51
>> Seth, did you get the sense down the
2:52
stretch that a lot of your teammates
2:53
were kind of fatigued as well outside of
2:55
just you?
2:56
>> Uh yeah. Yeah. You know, our rotation uh
3:00
you know shrink up a little bit in that
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second half. Uh and I think it
3:04
definitely got the best of of some guys,
3:06
but yeah, for sure.
3:07
>> You think now looking back on it that
3:09
maybe you would like to see some more
3:10
subs down the stretch or something like
3:12
that to get some fresh legs down there?
3:13
I know it's hard now to look at it and
3:15
think about that.
3:15
>> There's a lot to look back on and, you
3:17
know, wish differently. So,
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>> when when you're feeling fatigued, does
3:20
it ever cross your mind to to get fresh
3:23
legs for you or I know like competitive
3:25
spirit, you want to always be in the
3:26
game, but does that ever cross your
3:28
mind?
3:29
>> I mean, yeah. I mean, it definitely
3:32
crosses, but
3:34
end of the day,
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>> you going to do what you want to do and
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do what you got to do to win. And if
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that's what the coaches felt like,
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that's what they felt like.
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Sorry. When you when you think back to
3:44
the high after the first Duke game and
3:46
and kind of with the way this season
3:48
really kind of unraveled with Caleb's
3:50
injuries and now this, do you kind of
3:52
look back and think what might have been
3:54
had things gone according to plan?
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>> I don't really like to live that way.
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Uh, you know, if I live that way, you
4:03
know, I can say what might have been if
4:04
I would have went to a different school.
4:05
What might have been if I would have did
4:07
something different that one day? I
4:08
don't like to look at it that way. Uh, I
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mean it was brutal and fatal to have
4:14
Caleb go out as everybody knows. But,
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uh,
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you know, that's life. Things are going
4:20
to go your way and you're going to have
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to push through and persevere and, you
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know, I'm really proud of this group. We
4:24
found ways at times this year. Uh, and I
4:26
can be proud about that. But, you know,
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obviously there are a lot of things that
4:30
didn't go away when after he went out.
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>> Seth, obvious apologize, but I see the
4:34
tears in your eyes. Can you verbalize
4:36
how you're feeling right now
4:38
emotionally?
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It just sucks, man. Sad. Uh, first one,
4:43
you want to make a good run in March and
4:47
this team had the ability to do it, but
4:51
we fell short with the things we kind of
4:53
been struggling with all year. That's
4:54
one really frustrating part. Uh, and
4:58
then the other thing is just knowing
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that you won't be able to get to wear
5:01
this jersey again. Uh, you know, you
5:04
won't be able to represent the
5:05
university in the way that you dreamed
5:07
of as a kid. Uh, you know, it just
5:09
sucks. Uh, but super super grateful. Uh,
5:13
it'll be a bittersweet feeling for sure,
5:15
but right now it's it's kind of just all
5:18
sadness, you know, just looking back at
5:19
the time. So,
5:20
>> if you could pinpoint one thing that
5:22
went wrong, what would that be? Uh, I
5:26
mean, our offense got flat in the second
5:27
half and, uh, defensively,
5:30
uh, I feel like once we started
5:32
switching more and more, uh, number six
5:35
and and other guys just, you know,
5:37
started getting match ups that they
5:38
liked, etc., etc., uh, you know, I feel
5:40
like when we had that lead,
5:43
each guy was was playing great, amazing,
5:46
individual defense, and obviously during
5:48
that run that that was not the case. So,
5:52
>> do you feel like the fatigue was it all
5:54
a part of down the stretch there?
5:56
>> Yeah. Yeah. When you play a lot, you're
5:58
going to get tired. It's going to be
5:59
harder to play. Uh, but everybody gets
6:01
fatigued. So,
6:03
>> following the losses to Duke and
6:04
Clemson, you mentioned you felt like the
6:05
team was lacking toughness. Do you think
6:07
you guys lacked toughness down the
6:08
stretch today?
6:09
>> Uh, I mean, down the stretch? Yeah, down
6:12
the stretch. Yeah. I mean, we got stops.
6:14
We got a lot of stops down the stretch.
6:16
Uh, and we had a lot of possessions that
6:19
we just didn't capitalize on. I don't
6:20
think because the reason we lost was it
6:23
because of a lack of toughness, but you
6:25
know, when you lose a game in overtime,
6:27
a close game like that,
6:29
>> that that's going to play a part for
6:30
sure.
6:30
>> What do you hope people in this locker
6:32
room, regardless if they're on this team
6:34
next year or not, take away from the one
6:36
and done feeling and what what you guys
6:38
feel right now?
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>> Just how bad it hurts. How bad it hurts.
6:44
Uh, you know, I've been chasing
6:48
a tournament run. I mean, since I've
6:50
been here, we had we had a good one that
6:53
we fell short my sophomore year, but
6:54
since then, you know, I've been really
6:57
feeling for it. And these guys, you
6:59
know, I'm sure some of these guys have,
7:00
too. Uh, so to, you know, really really
7:02
want some and, you know, fall short of
7:04
it more than once or however many times
7:06
it was, uh, it really hurts. So,
7:09
>> guys will take it in. Guys will get back
7:10
in the gym this summer and, you know,
7:12
guys will get better from it. How do you
7:14
describe what Terrence Hill was able to
7:16
do in the second half?
7:18
>> Yeah. Uh
7:21
he took
7:23
great advantage of uh his matchups, you
7:25
know, every time he got a switch that he
7:27
really liked, he took advantage and he
7:30
went to work. Uh and and he was
7:33
incredible. You know, you know, uh it's
7:36
probably one of the most frustrating
7:38
things about this game. You know,
7:40
>> he was still having a good game, but I
7:42
thought you know, I was doing somewhat
7:45
of a good job containing him and, you
7:46
know, making things tough. Uh, and I
7:49
don't know,
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>> I'm never going to pinpoint things on my
7:52
teammates. That's not the reason why we
7:54
lost, but when we went away from that, I
7:57
I feel like it made it easier for them
7:58
for sure.
7:59
>> Did coach try to change any of the
8:00
defenses in the second half to do
8:02
something really special on him?
8:03
>> Uh,
8:07
don't remember. I'm sorry. So sir, if
8:09
you can ask what did you see on the
8:11
steel break
8:16
>> just to get down the court and get a
8:17
shot up. I saw Henry but I saw a man
8:18
with him so I didn't want to force
8:20
anything and
8:22
a miracle from VCU happens and they
8:24
chuck on him or something like that but
8:26
uh I got the steal
8:29
saw an open middle but then push
8:32
sideline and try to get a shot up as
8:34
quick as I could. You know, it all
8:35
happened really fast, but was just
8:37
trying to make a play.
8:38
>> Did it feel good coming off it at all or
8:40
>> I knew it was long. I knew it was my
8:41
momentum that carried me a lot and uh
8:44
yeah, I mean, I knew it was long, but
8:46
you never know sometimes you're wrong.
8:48
>> Seth, at one point, I think BC was
8:49
shooting 33% from the floor and then
8:52
they made 15 of their last 19 going into
8:54
or at the end of regulation. What
8:57
changed for them offensively, if
8:58
anything, or was it just the fact of the
9:01
shots going in? Uh, I think part of it
9:05
was definitely tackle shots going in,
9:06
but
9:08
they got great looks the last 15
9:10
minutes. They got the looks that they
9:11
wanted and they capitalized off of it.
9:13
Uh, you know, they drove us. Uh, they
9:17
they just executed a lot better and and
9:20
you know,
9:23
you see how good we were in the first
9:25
half in the first 25 30ish minutes of
9:28
the game.
9:29
You saw what it was last. So, What did
9:32
coach do guys when he got back in?
9:34
>> Uh, you just
9:37
>> let guys really just,
9:39
>> you know, just sit and just
9:42
>> take a breath. Uh, we're going to talk
9:43
later, but yeah. Yeah, we haven't we
9:46
haven't talked too much yet.
9:48
>> What do you was able to do particularly
9:50
in the second half?
9:52
>> I mean, he killed us. He was walking
9:55
down mid hit the big three. He was just
9:58
on fire. He kind of got what he wanted.
10:00
He got downhill so well. He got in the
10:03
like pain off two feet and shot the medi
10:05
and he's really good player. Incredible
10:08
player.
10:09
>> There's big things ahead of him.
10:11
>> What What changed for you? I mean you
10:12
were you were on such a role in you know
10:14
for the first 25 30 minutes. What
10:16
changed down the stretch?
10:20
>> I wish I could tell you but I mean I
10:22
feel like they did a good job of just
10:23
packing the paint. I really couldn't get
10:25
anything up. I wasn't able to find any
10:27
shots
10:27
>> as that run was occurring. I maybe I
10:30
wasn't as aggressive as I should be, but
10:32
I'll definitely go look back and watch
10:34
the whole game again and see every
10:36
little single detail I could have done
10:37
differently and learn from it.
10:38
>> And obviously I don't think you sat on
10:41
the bench at all in the second half and
10:42
don't want to make any excuses, but how
10:44
much was maybe just being tired and
10:46
fatigued kind of a factor lately?
10:47
>> Wait a second.
10:48
>> Just what factor do you think just being
10:50
tired, being fatigued played for you
10:52
guys?
10:53
>> I I don't know. I didn't really feel
10:55
anything like I feel like just playing
10:58
the game. when we play the game like
10:59
this is more like this is what you live
11:00
for. So the emotions are so high. You
11:03
have adrenaline kicked in off of like I
11:05
didn't at least like person I didn't
11:06
really feel tired. I didn't feel
11:08
anything. Maybe in the timeouts you were
11:10
like for a second but when you're on the
11:12
court you weren't think about it at all.
11:13
>> Just the adrenaline.
11:14
>> Yeah. It carries over.
11:17
How would you kind of sum up this season
11:20
as
11:21
>> this season?
11:23
>> I feel like we started off really good.
11:25
give a lot of hope all the fans for a
11:27
hovering team and then obviously losing
11:29
ending the season on three three game
11:32
losing streak horrible way to end it
11:35
losing the last game losing in the
11:38
tournament losing here in this
11:39
tournament I mean it definitely gives
11:43
leaves like a stain on the season just
11:45
the way it feels but I mean I'm so
11:47
grateful for everything this school has
11:49
given me all the teammates everybody how
11:51
we push each other and the relationships
11:52
I made it's second to none Thank you,
11:55
Henry.
11:55
>> A good formula to win.
11:57
>> Do you feel like you guys got tired
11:58
going into that game? There wasn't There
12:00
weren't a lot of subs. There weren't
12:01
there was weren't any until the final
12:03
seconds of overtime. Do you feel like
12:05
that played a factor at all?
12:07
>> Um, it could, but I feel like we just
12:09
took our foot off the gas. Um, let him
12:11
get momentum and that really just was
12:14
the main thing.
12:15
>> Felt like you guys kind of struggled
12:16
offensively down the stretch. Was it
12:18
something VCU was doing defensively or
12:20
or what was what was leading to those
12:22
offensive struggles?
12:24
Um yeah, yeah, VCU is a good team. Um
12:27
they're doing good. They were pressuring
12:28
the ball. They were doing a good job
12:30
with that. But again, I feel like um we
12:33
could have controlled that. Um we got
12:35
good players. We could have got into our
12:38
actions, but um yeah, again, BCU did a
12:41
good job. They pressured the ball, got
12:43
us out of our actions, and forced tough
12:45
shots.
12:48
What was the biggest determin
12:50
determining factor in in giving up that
12:53
big lead in the last several minutes?
12:56
>> Big factor.
12:57
>> What was the biggest determining factor
12:58
in giving up the lead?
12:59
>> Um I think is mindset. Um again, we were
13:04
up big and we thought we, you know,
13:05
making it to the next round and um we
13:08
just got too comfortable. Um and you
13:10
know they're calling they're fighting
13:11
you know to survive and they're able to
13:13
come back get on the run and um yeah I
13:15
feel like the mindset
13:17
>> you think you're already thinking about
13:18
Saturday.
13:19
>> Um yeah
13:22
>> you mentioned yesterday that the feeling
13:24
of a one and done you guys felt it from
13:25
the ACC tournament and it stunk.
13:28
>> Can you compare or put just how it feels
13:30
now going through it again being out of
13:32
the tournament the whole elimination
13:34
thing? Um
13:37
yeah, I feel like this this feeling is
13:39
even worse because you know this is
13:40
really our last game and um you know
13:43
just being with the guys I'm going miss
13:45
all the memories and stuff and
13:46
especially like the seniors like this is
13:48
like their last game of college
13:50
basketball and um yeah I feel like this
13:53
feeling is even worse
13:56
Jiren with college basketball being the
13:58
way it is. We have to ask this building
14:00
up but have you thought about what's
14:01
next as far as future plans for you? Um,
14:04
I haven't really been focused on that.
14:06
Um, yeah, I'm focused on the game and
14:09
how just kind of like let it slip away
14:11
and I'm like just um it just sucks.
14:15
>> You you talked about u yesterday about
14:17
how you have to be more physical and it
14:19
seems like for the first better part of
14:21
the game you were, but that kind of
14:24
changed in the last few minutes. Is that
14:26
what you saw?
14:28
It seemed like you were more physical
14:30
than they were for the first part of the
14:32
game and then it kind of changed off at
14:34
the end.
14:34
>> Yeah.
14:35
>> Is that what you saw?
14:36
>> Yeah. Yeah. I feel like
14:38
>> Yeah, we were more physical in the
14:40
beginning part of the game then again u
14:43
mindset just let it slip away. Um played
14:47
with a lot more energy I feel like too
14:49
in the first half and then um then they
14:51
got on their run. They were playing with
14:53
more energy. they're being more physical
14:54
and um yeah, they did a good job.
14:57
>> Thanks.
15:01
>> He makes a lot of the time. Uh Henry had
15:03
the little floater touch shot, went in
15:04
and out. Um just sometimes shots don't
15:06
fall.
15:07
>> It was hard late in the second half. You
15:10
feel like maybe you guys got a little
15:11
tired and that's
15:12
>> uh No, I mean I can't speak for anybody
15:14
else, but I felt good.
15:18
>> What was the biggest determining factor
15:19
in giving up the big lead? What what do
15:22
you think shifted the game?
15:23
>> Uh I think just we weren't able to get
15:24
stops. Uh in the first half we were able
15:26
to get stops, get out in transition.
15:27
Seth had some big dunks. Um able to just
15:30
force force some turnovers and the
15:31
second half we weren't able to do that.
15:33
>> Did the mindset change once you got the
15:36
big lead?
15:37
>> No. Um definitely not. I think they just
15:40
they started making some shots that they
15:41
weren't making before. Uh Jookovic hit
15:43
two threes. Um uh I mean Terrence Hill
15:47
was making some tough shots, you know,
15:48
just kind of happens. Did you feel like
15:50
they were taking advantage of switches a
15:51
lot there when they came back?
15:53
>> Uh, I mean,
15:55
>> I guess I don't know. Um, just Hill was
15:58
making some tough shots and got to tip
16:00
your cap.
16:01
>> At the beginning of the game, what was
16:02
what was going well for you guys to
16:04
build that 19-point lead?
16:06
>> I think just like I said, getting stops,
16:07
getting out in transition. Uh, Seth had
16:09
some big dunks. I had some threes in
16:11
transition. We were getting easy looks
16:12
and then second half uh couldn't get the
16:14
stops.
16:16
to
16:19
>> what extent do you feel like you guys
16:20
did that?
16:22
>> Uh I I don't know, man. I can't I can't
16:25
really comment on that. Uh I mean, I
16:27
just tried my best, you know. I tried my
16:29
best to do things that were going to
16:30
impact us winning and kind of put us on
16:32
the map. And uh I couldn't do everything
16:34
cuz I wasn't able to play all the time.
16:36
All I can say.
16:37
>> Caleb, do you allow yourself to go to
16:39
the the what if scenarios or you just
16:41
try to think about moving forward?
16:44
>> I don't think there's no such thing as
16:45
what if, man. what happened honestly uh
16:48
it's just how my life is and it's how
16:50
everybody life is you know it's a
16:52
million possibilities for stuff to
16:54
happen uh of course I would want to be
16:56
out there playing I feel like the
16:57
outcome would be different if I played
16:58
but shoot that's what my life is just
17:01
got to deal with it
17:02
>> what's your relationship been like with
17:04
coach Davis especially in the last
17:06
couple of weeks since the injury how has
17:07
he sort of helped you navigate some of
17:09
those feelings
17:10
>> he's just talked to me and let me know
17:11
that you know there's brighter things
17:13
ahead for me and just try to keep me in
17:15
a good meal space, which is really all
17:16
you can do in a moment like this. You
17:17
know, I continue to work out and been
17:20
running and conditioning to make sure my
17:21
body stays intact, but um it's just
17:23
tough not playing basketball, but we
17:25
always figure it out.
17:26
>> I saw and I was able to hear just a part
17:28
of it, but kind of Seth's message to the
17:30
team before the game, but like you know,
17:32
the brand and doing this for the brand
17:35
UNCC. Um if you could kind of explain
17:37
just what was his pregame message today.
17:40
>> Just I mean just to represent our school
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and our community well. That's really
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kind of why we do it. Uh just to kind of
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make Chapel Hill proud and that's really
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all I can say about that.
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>> Thank you. Thanks, K. Appreciate it.
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>> I guess just
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um just kind of describe the mood like
18:01
immediately after the locker room and
18:03
just what that was.
18:04
>> I just say just quiet honestly. You
18:06
know, it's kind of a surreal feeling,
18:08
but um like I said, I'm kind of already
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do with my season being over with. So,
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it's not my feeling probably wasn't the
18:15
same as everyone else's, but I just kind
18:17
of felt like
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>> it's kind of crazy that it's no more
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practice and stuff like that, but I've
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already known I'm not going to play
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anymore this year, so
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it was just quiet.
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>> I guess if you could describe the season
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for you in one word, what would it be in
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>> season for me? one word.
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Uh
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>> I don't know.
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>> I can describe like how I feel. I can
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say I'll say I'm really grateful for
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everything I've kind of gotten and had
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to go through cuz I feel like it's all
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going to make me better. The ups and the
18:54
downs, you know? Although I wasn't able
18:57
to play towards the end of the year, I
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still got to be all American and playing
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big games and uh kind of show people who
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I am. and I'll just continue doing that
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as I go on.
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>> I appreciate it. Thanks for all your
19:07
time this season.
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>> Sorry to be mask. Obviously a big
19:09
decision for you coming up and I know
19:11
that you haven't made any sort of
19:12
decision, but what is the next part in
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your basketball journey in terms of that
19:15
decision-m process? What's the next step
19:17
for you?
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>> Uh just write down a pros and cons list.
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That's all I'm going to do.
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>> And how how quickly do you think I mean
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how quickly does that come?
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>> I'm not sure honestly. You know, I kind
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of have to get over the motions of my
19:27
season.
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I guess from your perspective, I know
19:32
it's tough for you to be on the side and
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not being able to be out there, but what
19:35
do you feel like was the biggest
19:36
difference from the first majority of
19:38
that game to really the final 20
19:40
minutes, including overtime?
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>> I feel like they just hit some big shots
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down the stretch and um
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>> it was just hard to respond for us.
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The kids.
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