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Mac & Bone - Jarin Stevenson Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: He is Jaron Stevenson, who joins us over there a
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  Speaker 1: couple miles away at ACC Tip-Off.
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  Speaker 2: Jaron, welcome to the show. How you doing, man?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing good. So how does it feel, man?
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  Speaker 1: You're one of the guys that gets the assignment to
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  Speaker 1: represent the school. You are clearly, you're in your fourth year.
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  Speaker 1: You're a holdover from last year's team. Has coach talked
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  Speaker 1: to you about being a leader? Because it feels like
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  Speaker 1: that's got to be a part of your role this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that's a huge part of my role. I'm More
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  Speaker 3: of a reserved, laid-back guy, so learning how to push
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  Speaker 3: myself to different spots, whether it's not always talking but
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  Speaker 3: showcasing different things to the younger guys or just the
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  Speaker 3: Carolina way, being tough and, yeah, again, just teaching the
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  Speaker 3: younger guys how the Carolina way is.
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  Speaker 4: Jared, with leadership comes a day like today as a
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  Speaker 4: Chapel Hill guy to be at ACC Media Days representing
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  Speaker 4: the Tar Heels. What does that mean to you to
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  Speaker 4: have the honor of doing something like that? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: To be honest, this is huge for me, being able
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  Speaker 3: to represent Carolina. Again, I grew up watching Carolina and
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  Speaker 3: being around them, so I know how historic this place
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  Speaker 3: is and the great guys that have come from this
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  Speaker 3: college and this university. They've been back, too, so just
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  Speaker 3: being able to meet them and I know this is huge,
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  Speaker 3: so just being out here representing Carolina is huge.
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  Speaker 1: So, Jaren, I hate that you stand out in this
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  Speaker 1: day and age of college athletics when you stay at
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  Speaker 1: a school.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? With so many people leaving. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what's wrong with you, Jaren?
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  Speaker 1: But that's the way this question is going to kind
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  Speaker 1: of be framed.
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  Speaker 2: You are in your hometown. It sounds like that means
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  Speaker 2: a lot to you.
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  Speaker 1: But the coach you went to play with in Hubert Davis,
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  Speaker 1: a guy that I know you guys in that locker
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  Speaker 1: room had a personal bond with, Coach Malone comes in.
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  Speaker 1: What was that decision like and you deciding to stay?
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  Speaker 1: Why was it important to stay there?
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  Speaker 3: I knew Coach Malone would do a good job. Also,
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  Speaker 3: a huge thing with me is the Carolina family and
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  Speaker 3: my family. I have a great support system here in
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  Speaker 3: North Carolina. Going back to Coach Malone, his NBA experience
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  Speaker 3: and different things like that, I feel like he can
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  Speaker 3: help me a lot, improve my game and help me
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  Speaker 3: get to where I want to, which is the NBA.
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  Speaker 4: Jaron, obviously all your goals for the team, they take
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  Speaker 4: place in the winter and then hopefully for you guys,
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  Speaker 4: in your sake, early spring. But how important in this
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  Speaker 4: day and age of college basketball is the summer months,
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  Speaker 4: the early fall, to get that chemistry right when there's
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  Speaker 4: so much new that goes into these programs?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, summer is huge. That's where you get better. You
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  Speaker 3: have extra time to really perfect your craft. And then, again,
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  Speaker 3: we have a lot of new guys, so helping build
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  Speaker 3: chemistry there, hang out with them, learn each other's play
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  Speaker 3: styles and different things like that. The summer is a
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  Speaker 3: huge month to get better.
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  Speaker 1: What's Coach Malone like? What is his approach to coaching?
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  Speaker 1: Because I know it's a change for him. He's used
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  Speaker 1: to dealing with the grown men. Some of them make
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  Speaker 1: more money than he does. And now he's got young guys.
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  Speaker 2: What's he been like as a coach so far?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been intense. But, yeah, I feel like he
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  Speaker 3: has held it down for the younger guys. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's done a great job, and I feel like he
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  Speaker 3: has NBA-style practices where we're getting up and down the court,
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  Speaker 3: pushing ourselves and getting different type of shots up, and
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  Speaker 3: I think he's done a great job.
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  Speaker 4: Uh jaron as the uh don't hold this against me
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  Speaker 4: here we're friends now as a uh as a duke
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  Speaker 4: fan of the show i need to ask.
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  Speaker 5: Oh man oh no i didn't even i didn't even
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  Speaker 5: ask a question jaron i can't believe what's going on
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  Speaker 5: here man i.
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  Speaker 4: Was just i can't even ask a question he didn't
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  Speaker 4: know i was gonna say you grew up in chapel
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  Speaker 4: hill but so i mean did you i'm guessing you
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  Speaker 4: grew up with some uh A little bit of Duke
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  Speaker 4: hate in your heart, probably? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I've been a Carolina fan for a little bit. Again,
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  Speaker 3: my mom went to Carolina, so I always had a
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  Speaker 3: soft place in my heart for Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Dates are not laughing at me there, Jared.
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  Speaker 2: I know we've got to let you go. That was
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  Speaker 2: a great reaction, Jared. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, last question I want to ask you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of curious. I think a lot of people on
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  Speaker 1: the outside wonder, like, How does the NIO work in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room? Like do dudes know what each other got?
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  Speaker 1: Do y'all share that information? Is there ever jealousy that
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  Speaker 1: creeps in? Do y'all joke with each other about like how,
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  Speaker 1: what's that dynamic like?
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  Speaker 2: Cause it's a different world for y'all.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: NIO is a lot different, but yeah, we don't know
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  Speaker 3: what each other make. I think that's a good thing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So we could just focus on basketball, focus on winning
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  Speaker 3: games and yeah. Keep, The outside stuff outside.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Jared, you got to run the ice cream shop
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  Speaker 2: that Trimble left behind.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. It's a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a leader, you can take care of that
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  Speaker 2: place for him, man.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Jared, we appreciate you. We both enjoyed talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: Even the Duke fan, I think, enjoyed talking to you.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Hey, brother, best of luck, man. Appreciate you.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate that.