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The Dailey Recap - UNC · Coaches Corner

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  Chris Daily here at top section fifteen for the daily recap. Nice to see
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  some help for Page in the second half. A lot of people stepped up
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  in a good one against North Carolina today. You know, when it's been
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  like this probably the whole year, when when we look good, we look
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  really good, and when we play together and we run our stuff, we
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  look really good. It's when we lose our heads a little bit that were
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  we look fragmented and looks like we've never run off and so for long stretches
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  and certainly the entire third quarter. I thought KK started it off with some
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  of the defensive plays she made, and then you know, Page was Paige
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  and actually made some great defensive plays like her blocks. And I'm glad she
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  can't hear this because I would never tell her to her face that she played
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  well and v But yeah, so it was good. I mean, we
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  got contributions from a lot of people. I mean, Ash made a big
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  three, Nika made some big threes. We were fumbling the ball, like
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  we had opportunities like layups that we should make and could have made, you
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  know, Aubrey and and alah. So that was a little frustrating, but
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  we stayed with it, which is good, and we were able to,
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  you know, beat a good team. A lot of it was self inflicted
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  today, Yeah, and honestly, that's probably been the case in a lot
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  of games. You know, some some of the you know, obviously you
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  say it was a good team. Texas a good team, but you know,
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  the turnovers are a lot of a lot of the turnovers are us not
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  taking care of the ball, and we just have to, you know,
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  continue to work on limiting those and getting people in the right position. I
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  mean, you can't get in a better position than layup, So I'm not
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  sure how we can do better with that, but we just have to make
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  them. You know, those are things. We're going to be small all
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  year, so we have to become better rebounding team. We can't be soft
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  in the lane, regardless of our size. So that's something that they're probably
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  going to get tired of hearing. But you know, we're not getting bigger,
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  so we better get more physical and we better become more aggressive and better
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  rebounders. Talk about the defensive end, I thought played really strong, especially
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  to open up where they were putting a lot of ball pressure on North Carolina.
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  It seemed to fluster them in the early going. Yeah, I thought
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  we had a pretty good sense of what they were trying to do and how
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  we wanted to defend it. I mean, Deja Kelly scores a lot of
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  points for them, and we did a terrific job. We held her under
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  her average, and I think that might be the first time this year that
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  we held the leading score of the other team under their average, and we
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  worked hard at that. I mean, whether it was Nico or KK and
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  I think other I think as Norsky had what two threes, Yes, she
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  had two threes. I mean that kid was six for eight from three in
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  their last game. So I think that, you know, we seemed to
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  lock in. I mean when we were locked in, we were really really
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  good, especially on the defensive end. So we want to build on that
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  as well. Nice to see Leah after she came out early third, she
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  went back in. She became a force on both ends. Yeah, I
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  mean it's not like I said, she's got to be able to bang inside
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  and become an even smarter defender. We're gonna have to be able to give
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  her some help when we can, but we're gonna have to to figure out
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  how to defend and be difficult as a defender, you know, not not
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  let them know where you are and and just try to keep moving and make
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  it. You know, we can't, like I said, we can't grow,
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  but we can certainly become a smarter defensive team. Morgan doesn't have any
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  eligibility left. No Morgan Morgan. It had used her her five fouls already,
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  So it was a physical game in there. It did seem to be.
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  I think I let it get out of hand a little bit in the
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  second half. There were a couple of things. They were trying to make
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  their run, and that's what you have to do. If you're gonna make
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  your run, you're gonna have to be physical. You're gonna try to steal
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  the ball. But you know, it's as I said, I've said before.
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  Whoever has said that basketball is and non contact sport never played. So
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  we handled it, got some you know, as I said, a tremendous
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  performance by Page, and I felt like for longer stretches we weren't watching page
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  play. We were playing with Page getting her shots and help her and her
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  getting us shots. We're at our worst when we stand around and we watch
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  page play, and that's just not. It's not fun for Page, it's
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  not fun for anybody. It's not fun to watch. So we need to
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  limit the amount of time that that we do that because if we can,
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  if we can cut that out, then we become a better team. And
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  generally when Page is productive offensively, she's awfully efficient the two games she's the
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  Maryland game. In this game, efficient is all hack eleven or fourteen today.
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  You'll take that all the time. And that's what you guys always preach,
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  the good players be efficient when you put a big numbers. I just
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  wish she'd stop falling down every time she and not every you know, not
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  every time you fall down. It's a foul. So you know, I
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  just I wish because actually Dja Kelly does the same thing, although she didn't
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  fall as many times today as Page, so maybe they were having a contest
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  and I was unaware of it. But really with it, you know,
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  she's got great body controls. She really you know, I think it would
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  saved you know, her body getting beat up if she's able to do a
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  little bit better with that. Now I get to the week for exams and
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  then back at it on Saturday, and how do you approach practice during with
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  a game on Saturday in the middle of exams. Yeah, it's hard.
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  You know, they had the study hall last night, they had a study
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  hall today, Exams start tomorrow. They've been preparing all last week, so
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  it's hard. You know. We try to make the practices short and sweet.
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  We you know, put it in during a time where they don't have
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  exams, and hopefully there's a buffer between when they finish and when they have
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  their next one. Some of them will be done, you know, sooner
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  than others, but it's just something that we have to deal with and hopefully,
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  you know, it's like anything, if there if they've waited to this
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  week to prepare, they're probably not going to do great. So hopefully they've
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  been preparing all semester and and they're ready for the final push and they'll do
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  well and we'll be able to when What we hope is that when we practice,
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  it's all about practice and they come with a clear head, and when
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  it's about jams and studying, it's all about exams and they don't think about
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  basketball, and that's hopefully the way we'll be able to approach it. Rock
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  in the Blue Suit today, I like it very nice. The Navy,
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  the Navy Blue, Navy Huskies. All right, Chris, thank you for
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  coming upstairs. Appreciate it. Thank you,