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Post-Blue-White interviews with Ian Jackson, Drake Powell, Elliot Cadeau and Cade Tyson #UNC
Oct 12, 2024
Post-Blue-White interviews with Ian Jackson, Drake Powell, Elliot Cadeau and Cade Tyson #UNC
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with your teammates and then what yall
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get uh for so long man just like another
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day practice you know uh we got that
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compete uh the crowd we block them out
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and just about to have
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fun I was going to ask you had a couple
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exuse me dazzling plays out there with
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it um what did you want to put on
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display for Carolina fans uh to who seen
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you for the first time I just want to go
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and play my game you know um go out
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there compete do what I do not trying to
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do too much but just trying to impact
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winning and do anything I do
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you and uh Drake of course new com to
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the team and High T the question what do
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you think you guys can
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do I think we help bring a lot of wins
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that's that's that's always the main
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goal for us you know we both L Flor high
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level we can score high level so just
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impact winning for both of us you know
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help us get a lot of
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win can you describe what you saw on S
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it was nothing
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crazy uh how do you gauge what you guys
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were able to do today what
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take away from that game for you um I
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feel like everything's coming together
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um we improved a lot from when we when
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when the group of guys came in first
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together we improved a lot and I see a
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lot of improvement so hopefully we can
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keep improving till the season starts
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who stood out to you today in the scrim
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definitely Seth I told Seth he's an MVP
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today and he just played great like very
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he played very good another just like
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practice going up against RJ how you
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think that went just like a practice
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going up and get to RJ how do you think
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that went um it's always like a blessing
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to be able to play against what I think
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is the best guard in the country it just
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makes me better every day so any chance
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I get to be able to guard him I I just
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think it pushes me and makes me better
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so I just try my hardest yeah you think
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think team learned from this you think
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the team yeah yeah for sure I feel like
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we learn every time we come together and
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practice or play we learn a lot um we
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going to do a lot of film on what we
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just did out there so we'll definitely
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learn from you talked about you know you
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being a different player what would you
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say was the biggest key to making a leap
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in the offseason whether it's mentally
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or physically um I've been I just think
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my maturity I feel like the game has
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slowed down a little bit um for me I
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feel like my pace is different and I
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just am a bigger I feel like I'm a more
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more of a leader this year and as a
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point guard you have to be very vocal I
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feel like I wasn't that vocal last year
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CU we had a lot of veterans on the team
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but this year I feel like I'm one of the
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veterans so and there appears to be some
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more conf um I jump I jump passing get
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steals but sometimes I miss so he's
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always telling me it's similar to um my
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high school coach he told me like if I
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gamble I better get it because you know
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that caused now we're at a disadvantage
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I'm out of the play and I'm hustling
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back but um he just says be smart with
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it and stay disciplined do you feel like
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you're starting to I would imagine the
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timing of it is a little bit quicker now
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than what it was in high school you feel
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like you're starting to get that little
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adjustments yes yes sir i' say
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so yeah yeah I'm sure you've already
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been asked this Drake but reaction to
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the the Seth dump there and back that
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was
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crazy cuz um i' seen it like cuz I was
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trailing behind a little bit that was I
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don't know I and I we were just talking
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about it like a 2K animation or
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something like that was crazy what about
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the uh the twoand stuff don't you have
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there on V all like you I've been I like
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to get a lot of those with the twoand
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blocks that's um something I I like
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about the game a lot you were matched up
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PA a good day held him you know in check
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for the most part I guess what are the
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the challenges of guarding such a good
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shooter like K obviously that's where
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kind of your
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defensive I think Kate is very talented
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very talented very good shooter like you
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said but um I think maybe what people
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miss about him is um that his uh ball
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handling skills are pretty good and he
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has great footwork great
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foot your what was the feeling being in
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front of a specific crowd for the first
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time it was great it was great I think I
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love playing in environments like that I
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played in a lot uh with the Showcase
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games but um I expect like the Smiths in
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energy to continue to grow did you learn
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anything today that maybe you didn't
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learn during the practic scrimmages um
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just no nothing really we just had our
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same emphasis just to run the floor uh
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play with pace and rebound the
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basketball a little panic when R went
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down what did you see there yeah a
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little bit a little bit I was a little
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nervous but um um I think RJ's tough so
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I think I think it'll be all right
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you've been in the uh the way room some
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a little bit a little bit I've been
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trying to stay in there what's it been
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like I guess you know being in a college
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program now since the summer I guess
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what adjustments that you had to made
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just in general I guess um I'd say like
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usually in high school I would uh wake
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up around 600 hit the gym and just uh
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shoot in the morning I get to the gym
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about like 700 and um and from there I
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just go to school but I can't do that a
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lot here cuz college classes they're no
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joke What's um he now like how how close
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do you feel like you are to being
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comfortable with yeah it was a little
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different with the uh with the bottom
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seats down the bottom level but I mean
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when you're in the game and you're
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playing you don't I don't really think
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about it um you know the biggest takeway
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I have from today is just that I have
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fun man playing with my my teammates and
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I feel like we really competed what did
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you see when RJ went get a little scared
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there for a sec I think the whole
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building got a little silent um but you
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know RJ's a tough kid I know he get back
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up um so I he he should be fine
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apprciate thank you what your overall
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experience today playing in front of the
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big crowd at the Smith City yeah it was
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awesome uh it was fun to be out there
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with my teammates feel like we really
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competed um it's a different type of
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energy with all the fans in there and
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you know I really love it so and you
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going up against Drake a lot matchups
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talk about that matchup I'm sure you do
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a lot in practice too yes sir um you
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know Drake's an incredible player he's
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real long great defender um he's he's
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good offensively too I feel like a lot
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of people Overlook that but I think we
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make each other better in practice and I
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think you can tell out there that we do
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as well do you learn anything from this
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scrimmage that maybe you didn't know
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before um not really cuz I mean we've
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been in the gym for a while now just
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together um but you know it puts a
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little bit of confidence in me for our
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team and you know the individuals we
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have on our team what did you like for
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your from your game yeah um I felt like
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you know I felt like I found other ways
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to score um I felt like my teammates set
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me up pretty well um but the biggest
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takeaway is just you know I got my first
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taste in the Smith Center um so that was
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awesome looking forward to the Memphis
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game to play somebody else yes sir for
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sure uh be able to beat up on somebody
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else a little bit other than each other
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and be you know not that we're not
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already a full team but you know we all
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get to be in unison against another team
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other than you know five on five or
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something like that do you have any
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notion as to what the starting lineup
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might be uh I have no idea I guess we'll
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see you when we go out you talked a
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little bit about Drake can you break
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down Ian's game a little bit more what
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makes him a special player yeah's he's
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so quick with the ball and he has he's
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from New York so he has that kind of
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game where you can't really predict
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where he's going um it's not necessarily
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fundamental but it works great for him
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just because of his athleticism um it's
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super fun game to watch so same kind of
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question with Elliot what are you
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learning about playing with that style
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point guard yeah he he finds people no
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matter what even you have to be shot
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ready um 100% of the time cuz even if
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you think he don't see you he does no
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matter what um and he's super quick down
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the floor so you got to run with them um
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which I think that makes everybody on
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our team better when we run with them
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another player who did well today was
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James Brown The Freshman Center what
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have you seen out of him in practice and
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how did he do today in the game yeah man
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always brings the energy always competes
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um you know you can't really tell you
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know he's by his mentality you can't
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really tell he's a freshman or a first
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year um he goes at the big guys every
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day and I think that's made him a lot
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better since the time he arrived here
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and uh I'm very proud of him and I think
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we all
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love um it was super fun I wouldn't say
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anything necessarily surprised me just
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because of all the stories I've heard um
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but the energy was definitely a little
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different um it was really fun uh just
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being out there with my teammates on the
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floor no matter if we're playing
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with can you
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just what did you
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see yeah I knew uh I knew Taj wouldn't
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like that one when he got back into the
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locker room but uh that was crazy dunk I
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know it says explosive I think we all do
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so you can tell when he's about to take
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off and you just kind of get ready for
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it so just talking fresh class drink on
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display today what did you see from
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them yeah I mean they're super talented
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I think we all knew that um I think we
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all knew they were athletic I think they
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just kind of reiterated what people talk
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people say about them you know um
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they're two great guys off Court as well
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so y you talked about stories that
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you've heard about playing who are some
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members of like the Carolina family that
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have really reached out to you so far
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and told you about what it's like to
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play for you yeah uh Luke may I think is
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who I talked to the most you know he we
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went to eat a couple times with him and
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his brothers and uh so I talked to him a
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little bit Deo penson's around sometimes
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um Danny Green was around this
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summer Kenny Williams so a couple guys
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just like that I'm sure I missed a
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couple but this guy like did you know
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Drake growing up I believe uh I did
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not you probably asked this but just um
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emotions to you know actually getting
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out there playing on the court here for
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the first time yeah it was super fun um
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I'm glad we got to go out there and
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compete against each other you know get
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a first taste of what it's like in Smith
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Center just with a couple fans in there
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and I say a couple that's probably not
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not accurate but uh the energy was
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definitely a little different um but I
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enjoyed it and I think I like how my
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teammates well
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