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#UNC coach Hubert Davis at weekly ACC Zoom press conference
Mar 3, 2025
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game the other day when you said that
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it's always March for you uh I would
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like for you to expand on that and just
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kind of tell us when you're in October
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and you say it's March and you're in
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January and you say it's March and how
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you relate that to the
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kids
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um I relate that to the kids um I give
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them just personal stories um one of the
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stories that I give
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them is um
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my uh mother passing away at
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16 that uh she was my best friend and
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out of the blue she got diagnosed with
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cancer
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and eight months
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later um she was gone on August 31st
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1986
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and unfortunately that
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gave me as a 15 and 16 year old going
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through that 15 and 16 years old it gave
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me um a perspective of you know you
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think that you're going to have your mom
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and dad with you all of your life and
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the reality is my mom
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missed I I thought I missed her when um
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when she passed away but I miss her more
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now than I did when she died and because
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she missed
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me coming to Carolina me playing in the
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NBA me getting married her hanging out
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with my kids and my
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wife um me everything and um things
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aren't guaranteed you think you get to
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hang out with your parents tomorrow you
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think you can play another day and I
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just have a different perspective on
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being thankful for where you're at and
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understanding that uh take advantage of
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every moment that you have and I to the
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team when you share these personal
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stories with the kids how much do you
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think it connects and resonates with
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them and do you think that there's like
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an underline there where it kind of
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helps you in the coaching aspect of of
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of them with them as well since they
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know some personal stuff about you well
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they know a lot of personal stuff about
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me I I you know
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I that goes to the piece Andrew
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about you know how much time I spend
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with him and like I I think I said um on
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Saturday like I can't coach them unless
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I know them and they can't play for me
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unless I know them like to know each
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other you have to know personal
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things and and does it resonate with
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them I don't know but my job is to give
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them
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those personal experiences that I've had
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in my life
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and whether they listen to it or not I'm
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going to give it to him because I think
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it's important for me to communicate
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those things to him right thank you I go
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next to Jeremiah
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holway hey Huber good morning hey
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Jeremiah yeah I just wanted to ask about
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obviously you guys have you know just
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these you know two more games regular
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season and then the conference
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tournament starts up the week after that
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obviously you guys have you know been
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surging recently do you feel that at
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this point of the year you know guys are
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maybe settling into their roles a little
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bit better you know it kind of seems
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obviously you know you've seen what Vin
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has been able to do of late you've seen
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what Jay Whit has been able to do of
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late do you feel guys are getting I
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guess a better grasp of you know what
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they're asked to do and just you know
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the expectations you know kind of called
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upon them at this point I do I think I
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think um we have a number of guys um
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that are settled whether it's settled in
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their role settled with their game and
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we just have a number of people that are
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in that place at the same time and so
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you know you mentioned you know Jay Wht
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and Vin but you know
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also you know RJ Elliott Drake Seth you
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know Ian Cade you know we just down the
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line J wash I think we have a number of
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people for the first time all year where
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we have a number of people settled
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whether it's in their role or settled in
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terms of their own personal game and
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what they can bring consistently out
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there on the floor if I could follow up
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real quick what do you think has like
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allowed that settling to happen like
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what's what changed to where they could
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you know kind of you know get
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comfortable in that way I don't know I
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mean
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it's probably it's time I I
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think everybody
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has like everybody
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wants to H you know like it it just
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takes time you know I I everybody
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individually has a different timetable
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like not everybody can be settled at
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this time at the same way I you know I
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just think over
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time this team has grown together and
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we're at a point now
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that I think we're playing well and I
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think we're playing consistently well
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that that's allowing us to be
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successful go next to Adam
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Smith Hubert good morning good morning
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good morning Adam I guess sort of uh
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piggybacking uh on that a little bit
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just wanted to ask you about your
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messaging to your team here as you
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you're going into the final week of the
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regular season two games left like what
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given that you guys do seem to be
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playing some of your best basketball
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lately what do you want them what do you
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want them hearing from you uh as you go
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into these final two games they've been
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hearing from me consistently that you
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know the times that you like I I've
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said you know um I I I even referenced
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uh I said you know when we were in New
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York City I said you know
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like for a building the higher the
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building goes up the deeper the
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foundation that the building has to have
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if if it's for it you know New York with
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all the skyscrapers as big as those
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buildings are the the foundation has to
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go deeper and so for us for us to
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continue to have success what actually
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has to require is we have to go deeper
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we've got to go deeper into those little
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things we've got to be better boxing out
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we've got to be better taking care of
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the basketball we've got to be better um
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at uh shot selection we've got to be
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better in talking in transition and so
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I've actually communicated with them
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that this is a time to dive even deeper
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into those little fundamental discipline
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things um to continue to try to
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improve is that another aspect of the
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way that you've been playing that is
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pleased you is that that what you have
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been asking them to do you have seen the
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Improvement like it's been pretty
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tangible I feel like yeah it has I mean
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it's it's great to see um um I mean
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that's what you want as a coach you want
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you know you want your players
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individually to get better and to
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improve and you want your team to
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improve and I feel like we're headed in
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that direction and you know but there's
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a long way to go this is a huge week for
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us and Virginia Tech is a really good
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basketball team and it's very difficult
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to play them anywhere especially um on
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their home
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floor thank you Michael
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Co hey there Hebert good morning um you
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you alluded to this but you know in
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recent years blackburg has been a
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difficult road trip for for you guys um
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so tomorrow night what is there like
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what is there to look out for especially
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with with Virginia Tech well I mean
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one you know just you know from an
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offensive standpoint they're just very
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efficient and methodical in their
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approach offensively um just a ton of
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action to free up their Shooters but you
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know
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you know they've got guys that can um
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you know they have the ability to score
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from three and also throw the ball into
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the paint so you know
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from an offensive standpoint that's
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pretty good to have and um you know
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defensively they're athletic uh they can
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pressure um they can create Steals
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and
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um you know they're really good on both
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ends of the floor and so for us to be
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successful on the road we're going to
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have to play extremely well and uh we've
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got to take care of the basketball we've
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got to get good shots we've got to
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rebound which we've been
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doing um we've got to get out in
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transition in order to do that we've got
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to get
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stops please one last Quick one in from
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myON
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meta hey Hubert how you doing good good
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how are you I'm doing well uh obviously
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not your first game but your next game
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youve played against a lot of great
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players what makes Cooper flag such an
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impactful player on both of the
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floor well I mean what makes him
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impactful is that he does make plays
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consistently on both ends of the floor I
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mean that's that that that's what makes
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them impactful I mean he's you know he
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can he can guard anybody out there on
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the floor because of his length and his
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athleticism uh offensively he's a
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three-level scorer that can also get
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fouled and get to the free throw line
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knock down free throws and get to the
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offensive glass he can get the rebound
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and bring the ball up himself in
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transition
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and probably the thing that uh he does
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best and and to say that because he's
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does a lot of things really well is he
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plays hard like he's he's a tough kid
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and he's always playing at Max Pace on
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both ends of the floor and that is a
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talent to be able to play that hard all
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the time and that's something that uh
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coopa flag does thanks a lot yep thank
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you appreciate the time okay guys see
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you guys later see you
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