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Mac & Bone Show - Jones Angell Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Heels fans, I know you've had a strut
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  Speaker 2: in your step this week after your boys go to
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  Speaker 2: Ireland and change the narrative by beating TCU. It has
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: been a weak bone where we've been playing clip after
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  Speaker 2: clip of media members giving Belichick credit. raving about the team.
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  Speaker 2: And I know we've been doing it all week as
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  Speaker 2: Long Boney. And maybe, just maybe, Bone, we were part
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  Speaker 2: of the media that was doubting Bill Belichick going into
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  Speaker 2: the season.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe?
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  Speaker 1: Possibly.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe a little bit. So he made us look wrong
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of others. And I'm excited to see
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  Speaker 2: where the season goes from here. We're also excited, Bone,
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  Speaker 2: to have the play-by-play voice of the Tar Heels with
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  Speaker 2: us from the Tar Heel Radio Network for another season
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  Speaker 2: on Thursdays talking football. He is Jones Angel, and he
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  Speaker 2: joins us fresh off an awesome call of the final
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  Speaker 2: minutes of that game. And Jones joins us here on
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  Speaker 2: the Mac and Bone Show. Jones, what's going on, man?
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  Speaker 2: How are you feeling this week?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man, great to be with you guys. Happy to
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  Speaker 1: be back this side of the Atlantic. It was a
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  Speaker 1: quick trip, but a successful trip for the Tar Heels
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  Speaker 1: and certainly one. Man, guys, it just felt like Carolina
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  Speaker 1: needed something good to happen, right? And so they went
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  Speaker 1: out there and made it happen. I thought, as we saw,
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  Speaker 1: the defense played really well. The offense did enough, and
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  Speaker 1: Carolina got the win. And now they're kind of in this.
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  Speaker 3: Weird spot where you– You wish they could.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of get back out there and keep going, but
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  Speaker 1: not playing this weekend as they get back adjusted to
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  Speaker 1: being this side of the Atlantic, and then they'll be
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  Speaker 1: ready to rock and roll next Saturday back in Kenan Stadium.
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  Speaker 4: The Ireland experience in general, what was it like? What
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  Speaker 4: was the reaction like from the people over there? Did
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  Speaker 4: they embrace the sport? What was the general vibe of
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  Speaker 4: college football in Ireland?
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  Speaker 1: It really was a fun experience. And I had never
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  Speaker 1: been to Dublin and to Ireland. And just wonderful people.
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  Speaker 1: Just very welcoming, very positive. They have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: fun over there, guys. I think that's fair to say.
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  Speaker 1: And they really did embrace the game.
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  Speaker 3: It was interesting.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't, you know, a lot of the Irish people
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  Speaker 1: who went to the game weren't necessarily Irish. wearing Tar
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  Speaker 1: Heel jerseys or TCU jerseys. You just saw people wearing
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  Speaker 1: anything they could get their hands on that was an
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  Speaker 1: American football jersey. So you saw all kinds of college jerseys,
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  Speaker 1: NFL jerseys, you know, whatever it might be. But they
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  Speaker 1: really embraced the game and really did a good job
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  Speaker 1: welcoming the two teams and making fans from both TCU
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  Speaker 1: and Carolina happy. uh feel welcome and enjoy the experience
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  Speaker 1: really a positive one now it's easy to say all
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  Speaker 1: this of course when you win the game because it
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  Speaker 1: makes you feel even better um but uh they really
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  Speaker 1: did a nice job and and really was.
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  Speaker 2: A fun event what impressed you the most jones about
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  Speaker 2: their their performance uh in the victory on saturday.
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  Speaker 1: You know guys and uh it's just how found the
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  Speaker 1: Carolina look, I think. And I think that was, that
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  Speaker 1: was job number one in this game. Obviously you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to win, but Carolina couldn't go out there and look
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  Speaker 1: like it didn't have its act together. Cause there were
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  Speaker 1: times last year, particularly early in the season where you
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  Speaker 1: felt like, man, it didn't look like Carolina had its act.
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  Speaker 3: Together very much. And so it just looked like a
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  Speaker 3: different football team and it just.
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  Speaker 1: Looked more It looked more put together. It looked the
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  Speaker 1: offense didn't put up huge numbers, but you could see
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  Speaker 1: what the plan was. And certainly they had some opportunities
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  Speaker 1: for big plays. Defense really stepped up time and time
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  Speaker 1: again in the big moments. And so I think that
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  Speaker 1: was it. It was just how much more fundamentally sound
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  Speaker 1: and strong, which let's be honest, I think that was
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  Speaker 1: something you absolutely expected. with Coach Belichick would be a
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  Speaker 1: team that would be fundamentally sound and wouldn't beat itself
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  Speaker 1: and wouldn't make silly mistakes. And there were times last
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  Speaker 1: year when that happened. And so I think you see
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  Speaker 1: this team and you go, yes, this is a Bill
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  Speaker 1: Belichick coach team. And so it's not a finished product,
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  Speaker 1: and Carolina's got a long way to go. But I
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  Speaker 1: think seeing that was a really big positive.
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  Speaker 4: Jones, you're around Belichick, obviously, more than we are. The
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  Speaker 4: radio show stuff, too. How much more Belichick-like does he
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  Speaker 4: seem this year? Comfort level, in control? How much more
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  Speaker 4: year two are you starting to see the guy that
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  Speaker 4: we thought was headed into Chapel Hill?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think what I would say is I
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  Speaker 1: think he just feels, and this is totally my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: this is not something he has told me. It seems
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  Speaker 1: to me that he just feels kind of more comfortable
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  Speaker 1: with the role and how that role fits in in
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  Speaker 1: a college athletic department and within a university compared to
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Where in the NFL, you are your own.
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  Speaker 3: Entity, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like that team is its own thing, and it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about anything else, and it's only that team,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got complete control over everything that's happening with
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  Speaker 1: that team. It's a little bit different in college where
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  Speaker 1: you are part of the greater university. You are part
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  Speaker 1: of the greater athletic department. Bill Belichick is one of
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  Speaker 1: the most forward-facing people at the University of North Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: if not the most forward-facing person. And so that's just
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a different role. You're still coaching
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  Speaker 1: the game. You're still trying to develop players. You're still
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  Speaker 1: trying to scheme things up. All those things are the same.
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  Speaker 1: But the role is a little bit different. And so
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  Speaker 1: this is, again, my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: It just seems like he.
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  Speaker 1: Has a better grasp and a better feel for what
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  Speaker 1: that role entails and is more comfortable in what he's
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  Speaker 1: being asked to do on top of, of course, also
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  Speaker 1: trying to be the best football coach that he can be.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking with Jones Angel, voice of the Heels. He
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  Speaker 2: is back from his trip to Ireland. Successful trip, to
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  Speaker 2: say the least, for the Heels beating TCU. They're off
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  Speaker 2: this week. They get East Tennessee State next week. Jones,
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about this offense. I really loved the Bobby
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  Speaker 2: Petrino hire when they made it, but I just kind
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  Speaker 2: of wondered, okay, what talent does he have to work
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  Speaker 2: with there? Man, I love the way Billy Edwards played.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't necessarily spectacular, but dang, like you use the
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  Speaker 2: word sound everywhere. It was sound. It was solid. What
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  Speaker 2: do you think about this offense? I know it was
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  Speaker 2: only 15 points, but I don't know. I feel very
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  Speaker 2: optimistic about what Petrino might be able to do with
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  Speaker 2: this unit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's kind of one of those things where it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I can't necessarily define it, but if
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  Speaker 1: I see it, I know it. It's one of those
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  Speaker 1: kinds of things. And it just looked like, it looked
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  Speaker 1: like better offense. You could just, I think anybody who
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  Speaker 1: watches football, watched them play and went, okay, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: a better offensive team than it was a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: And you're right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the stats aren't crazy. It was, I think
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  Speaker 1: 330 yards, somewhere in that range. And And the 15 points,
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  Speaker 1: I will say the conditions were challenging. And then you
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  Speaker 1: saw that for both teams, that it was wet and
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  Speaker 1: it was such an early game as far as in
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  Speaker 1: the season. So those kind of things, you anticipate some
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  Speaker 1: growth from that.
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  Speaker 3: But I just think in watching.
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  Speaker 1: Them play, you could tell that there was. a really
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  Speaker 1: well thought out plan. There were a lot of guys
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  Speaker 1: that were.
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  Speaker 3: Open, which was exciting to see.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought Billy Edwards did a really good job.
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  Speaker 3: There were probably two or three throws he'd like to
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  Speaker 3: have back.
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  Speaker 1: But the big thing with Billy Edwards was his experience.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that he had played in 30 college games,
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  Speaker 1: that he had taken more snaps than all the other
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks on Carolina's roster combined. Does Billy Edwards have the
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  Speaker 1: most high-end talent on Carolina's roster at that position?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: But what he does have is all that bank of experience.
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  Speaker 1: He is not going to get flustered. If he makes
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  Speaker 1: a bad throw, he's going to come back. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to get you in the right position. Kind of all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff that you expect from an older guy. And
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  Speaker 1: so for that to be on display in a game
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  Speaker 1: where you needed that kind of stuff, because Carolina does
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  Speaker 1: have young players and the Tar Heels do have some
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  Speaker 1: new pieces. And so to have kind of that calming
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  Speaker 1: veteran presence, I thought.
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  Speaker 3: Billy Edwards really did a good job with that.
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  Speaker 1: There was one Carolina got a really bad delay a
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  Speaker 1: game late in the game. That was the only time
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  Speaker 1: that I thought, man, that's not what you would expect
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  Speaker 1: from an older guy. But other than that, I thought
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  Speaker 1: he really played that role and did what he was
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  Speaker 1: asked to do at a really high level.
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  Speaker 4: Jones, good luck in basketball season coming up here soon,
• 8:53
  Speaker 4: trying to figure out who's on the other teams of
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  Speaker 4: the games you're calling. But we're here if you need us, though, man.
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  Speaker 4: We'll try to help you out if we can.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to figure out who's on the Tar Heel team.
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  Speaker 1: Carolina's got 11 new guys on the basketball side.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I will say this, guys.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, Coach Malone has a press conference later this
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  Speaker 1: morning that I'll be heading to. But, man, I've been
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  Speaker 1: super impressed with Michael Malone. And Carolina hadn't played a
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  Speaker 1: game yet, but he has just done– everything right, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's the staff that he's built, the roster that he
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  Speaker 1: put together, considering the fact that he was hired that
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  Speaker 1: day the portal opened and he had no experience in
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  Speaker 1: that world, the way that he's been able to manage
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  Speaker 1: kind of the Carolina family aspect of the Tar Heel
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  Speaker 1: basketball position. I've just been super impressed and really excited
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  Speaker 1: to see what his team has here coming soon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. You've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: to look forward to there, Jones. We appreciate you joining us, man.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you next week. We'll talk to you
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  Speaker 2: every Thursday during the season. Thanks for coming on.
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  Speaker 3: Looking forward to it, guys. Talk to you soon.