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UNC-Wake Forest Postgame Quotes
January 21, 2021 | Men's Basketball
UNC vs Wake Forest Post-Game Press Conference 1/20/21
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Q:Â Do you feel like you can see Caleb [Love] kind of has the light-switch going on for him in terms of offensively how he's performing and has that carried over in turn to defense? He had a couple of blocks and a steal in that first half.
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Roy Williams:Â Defensively, I think he could be one of the best defensive guards I've ever coached. Playing his position, he has strength, he has speed, he has jumping ability, he has great feet. Most of the time when you get a freshman that doesn't mean that much to him but it's meaning more and more to Caleb [Love] all the time. You look and you say three assists and three turnovers, you want it to be better than that but two of those as I said came really early. But I like the fact that he took some jump shots with confidence. (He was) 7 for 12 (FG) tonight, that's by far I think the best game he's had from the floor. I do think he's getting better, I told you yesterday or the day before, we had a little meeting and I told him that I think he's getting better a little bit each and every day and we just got to keep getting him some opportunities. RJ [Davis] struggled for a while but RJ [Davis] came in and did some good things. So you had both freshmen guards doing something. Kerwin [Walton] missed more shots today than he's missed all season. I thought we would have an advantage inside but our guys struggled inside, except for Armando [Bacot]. Armando [Bacot] early in the second half was most of our offense at that time.
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Q:Â Usually we see in the COVID protocol coaches just wave at each other and it's all said and done. You went up to Coach Forbes and applauded the way that his team fought. Why was it so important for you to communicate that to him?
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RW:Â Think about it guys, he's in six straight games in the league in the second half and a lot of those games he had a lead. They had the lead on us starting the second half and still had it a couple minutes in. I just think he's doing a really good job in a very difficult situation.
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Q:Â Just to go back to Caleb [Love], you've mentioned how at points in this season, he's been so concerned with his shot going in that some of his other parts of his game suffer or struggle. Have you noticed that he's getting away from that mindset a little bit as he does pickup on some of these defensive teachings and improves on that end of the floor?
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RW: You know guys, he's a freshman. Who knows what freshmen are thinking all the time? But I know that he's coming to practice every day and he's trying hard. He's getting a lot of shots up. When we do the shooting drills, Kerwin usually beats him and the second guy on our team is either Andrew [Platek] or Caleb. So he's been shooting it well in practice. He's been really working at it, I mean you saw after one of our games, he was still here at midnight working on his shot. He's working at it and just a tremendous young man…I hope he feels good about the way he played.
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Q:Â You mentioned [Armando] Bacot, 18 points, 14 in the second half. What did you like from what he did and do you think you're getting your post guys enough touches or are you guys getting enough touches you'd like down below?
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RW:Â No, I'd like them to get the ball every single time, cause then they're going to get fouls and at the end of the game. I mean guys think about this, at half, the Wake Forest post players had zero fouls. That's not good for us. At the end of the game, 33 got his fourth foul and we've won a lot of big games, national championship-type games, with the other team's players in foul trouble. If you throw it into the post guy every time and they throw it back out, those shots are usually more open but you have a better chance to get fouled if you play at the end of the game with the other team's best players. You can go back to even Stanford. Their leading scorer stayed on their bench most of the game. And so that's a part of our philosophy and I don't think our post guys posted up strong enough or low enough. We've got to get Armando [Bacot] to quit grabbing and pushing because he had two turnovers just pushing somebody and you can't do those kind of things, just play basketball.
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Q:Â The team didn't come out of the tunnel until about 50 seconds or so left on the clock at halftime. Did you like the energy early in the second half? Was it a start difference from the first half? And what part of their game was a lot better as a result of whatever it was you told them at halftime?
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RW:Â Well what we did is we got together in a circle and held hands and sang Kumbaya. That's what we did at halftime. You know, the biggest thing is you shoot 55% in the second half because you get better shots. Caleb [Love] took one running one hander, leg up, looked like an old man shooting the ball on the left side, and one other bad one. But other than that, most of our shots were very good shots in the second half. We had a lot of things to talk about at halftime. I think the second half warmup is the most overrated thing in college basketball, except for timeouts, of course. We talked about the mistakes that we had made, we talked about challenging our big guys to get posted up lower, to be more effective, be stronger. Armando [Bacot] was 8 for 10, he missed one shot both halves, so in the second half he was 6 for 7. That is one of the things that we talked about, our big guys being strong going to the basket with the ball, because they had zero fouls. And we talked about the turnovers, so I think the biggest thing in the second half was our lack of turnovers.
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Q:Â I know [Isaiah] Mucius and [Daivien] Williamson had huge nights offensively for them. Did you like your defensive energy in the second half? It seemed like it was kind of picked up a little bit with your trapping and some of your pressing, creating steals and things like that. It seemed like that was one of the keys to the second half, the defense.
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RW: Yeah, I think so. You look down at points off turnovers, we had 24 and they had 15. So that was beneficial for us. [Daivien] Williamson is hard to handle, so in the second half we tried to double him a couple of possessions early, then we tried to switch. We have some guys that can get down and slide their feet, even our big guys. I felt like that he was really, really good. Again, the guy that really killed us was Isaiah [Mucius]. During warmups, the ball bounced over to me and I gave it to him, and that was the first assist of the night because he made the shot after I gave it to him as well. He just killed us, I mean 7 for 12 after going 4 for 24 (prior to tonight). My thing is if a guy makes one you say okay but if he makes a second one, you got to get way out there and guard him. Other than their second chance points, I thought our defense was better by far in the second half, other than their second chance points.
Players Interviewed: Armando Bacot, Caleb Love, Leaky Black
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Armando Bacot
Q:Â I was wondering if you could just tell us what Roy said during halftime and what you guys changed coming into the second half?
Bacot:Â He was just frustrated with the way we came out; we didn't come out with any effort. He gave us a speech at halftime telling us they shouldn't have to come in after every first half asking us why we aren't playing with effort. G (Garrison Brooks) brought us in at the end of halftime in the tunnel telling us that we need to go out there and just fight and play hard.
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Q: When Caleb (Love) is able to shoot the way he did tonight and be that efficient, how does that change things for you guys offensively? How much better does that make you guys?
Bacot: I mean, it changes everything for us. This is how he was at the beginning of the year. Obviously, he went through a little slump, but I feel like he's out of that now and ready to go. He's just more in his head. I kind of had a talk with him too. My freshman year there were times I'd be in a slump, but I told him just be him. He really is a special player and I really do believe that he'll be one of the best guards in the country if he plays like this all the time.Â
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Q: What do you think needs to happen for you guys to get more touches down below? Is it from the guards giving it to you or do y'all need to post up better? What's kind of the issue and what do you need to do better there?
Bacot:Â It's a mix honestly. The bigs, we need to do a better job of getting into position. Obviously teams that kind of funnel us high and have somebody on the backside so kind of a lot of those touches are difficult because we get shaded both ways. I mean there's different ways we can manipulate that and just to get the ball better. It's obviously a mixture and how teams are playing us too.Â
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Q: How have you seen this team gel as a team, as a program, as the season goes on. Especially with these freshmen getting more and more confidence.Â
Bacot: Definitely, the freshmen are getting more and more confident but I still feel like we got to put together a complete game. We haven't been anywhere, not even 20% as good as I think we can be. I feel like there's a lot more strides we can go. Nobody, well us as a team haven't put together a game where everybody has played great. It's always somebody is in foul trouble, somebody is not playing good. I feel like once we can get it to where everybody is playing good we can be a really good team.Â
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Caleb Love
Q: After the Syracuse game we saw a video of you actually taking shots after the game to sort of work on the muscle memory it looked like of your jumper. What are some mental adjustments you've made in the last couple of games to sort of take you over the top?
Love: It's just all about confidence. Obviously, I was in that slump most of the season, and just seeing the ball go through the hoop, just muscle memory, just staying in the gym. I'm always in the gym, I'm always working on my shot. I think it was just more mental with me, more than just ability, because I know I can shoot, my teammates know I can shoot, my coaches know I can shoot. It was just all mental and getting out of that slump.Â
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Q:Â I just wanted to follow up on what you were saying there about it being more of a mental struggle for you than a physical one. Can you just go a little bit deeper into that? I guess how were you able to pull yourself out of that? When you get to the point when you realize that you are slumping, what does it take to build yourself back up, to rebuild your confidence like you have?Â
Love: Just staying true to my work. I mean I was always in the gym. Just staying true to my work. Just because of my shot not falling doesn't mean I stop working. Keep working. I started meditating a few weeks ago, that's helping me. Talking to my mom and dad, my coaches, having meetings with them telling them to keep their confidence in me. My teammates just building me up. I had a lot of people staying in my head telling me to keep going. So that's what I'm doing.Â
 Q: If I could quickly follow up, you said you started meditating. How did you sort of find that as something that was helpful for you?Â
Love: My mom mentioned it to me. I got this Calm app, so I just meditate every morning and night. That just keeps me sane, keeps my head on straight. Just being in that slump builds a lot of stress, so just calming my mind and doing that helps me a lot.Â
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Q:Â Roy was telling us when you were in the depths of your shooting slump that as soon as you start hitting shots the other parts of your game would kind of come to. If you go back to Georgia Tech, you've been shooting better from three since then. Was there a point between then and before tonight when you felt like some of the other parts of your game were starting to come around?
Love: Coach Williams is always staying on me about that it's not just about shooting. I could be one of the best defenders in the country if I put my mind to it and do all of that. So, it's not just about scoring, the game is not all about scoring. You got defense, you got making teammates better, because I'm a point guard you got to lead. Just staying true to my whole game, not just scoring. But, once the scoring was there then my whole game would show. Â
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Leaky Black
Q: With a team that relies on so many young guys, what do you do or what do you say in the locker room at halftime when you come out lacking energy and really start to play better in the second half?
Black: Like you said, there's a bunch of young guys. Every time they make a mistake they are all up in their head and that kind of thing. I'll tell them, Joel Berry has done it, we've all made mistakes. Even the best point guards that play here we all make mistakes. Just next play, you got to keep playing. Nobody's going to just give you whatever you want just because you got North Carolina on your chest. They're trying to take whatever you want, so you just got to keep that dog mentality and you'll be fine.Â
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Q:Â What is the key to feeding the post from your perspective?
Black:Â A key factor is movement from the guards honestly, because everyone knows we don't have the best shooting percentage so obviously they are going to double down and try to front those guys and sag off of us. But if we keep movement and get those guys to rotate and get out of position it makes getting them the ball a lot easier.Â
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Q: You guys had a lot more energy in the second half. Coach said you guys weren't singing kumbaya in the locker room. What was the thing that you think was improved the most that you guys did better in the second half as a result of that extra energy?Â
Black: I feel like we just played harder, that's pretty much it. The talent is there, everything's there, we have all the horses, that kind of thing. But it doesn't mean anything if we're not playing hard and playing with our motives. So that's just, what we were all trying to feed everyone is look, as soon as y'all want to wake up and play the game will be ours. If you keep messing around, obviously these guys are going to hang around and be another game like last year or whatever. So, I think the energy changed a lot.Â
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Q: Did the scouting report for (Isaiah) Mucius say much about his three-point shot? What can you say about both Mucius and (Daivien) Williamson as defensive assignments?
Black: You have to throw the scouting report away. After you see a guy like that make two, I think they said he made like four for the season or something like that, he came out and made seven tonight. You can throw the whole scouting report away after he made that second three like that. We got to do a better job of just knowing who we are guarding, the personnel, like in the moment kind of thing. You guard a guy who made two threes back to back obviously you are going to want to deny him so he doesn't get another good look. I don't know, he shot the mess out of the ball tonight.Â
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Q: In what ways do you feel like you guys have made the biggest improvement, the areas where you feel like you guys have made the biggest improvement since the beginning of the year.Â
Black: I feel like we're playing together. We're not breaking plays off, trying to make one on one moves and the stupid turnovers. Those plays are still there but I don't think like there are as many as there were at the beginning of the season. I feel like we are starting to play more together and buying in on the defensive end, I feel like that's been changing a lot. So as soon as we get our offense going, these games won't be so close.Â
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Q:Â I'm curious, what do you think is your role on this team on the offensive end. You have 16 versus Miami, shut out against Florida State, tonight an 8/6/8 balanced scoring line. How do you see yourself fitting in on the offensive side of the ball?Â
Black: Honestly when I'm out there it depends on who I am out on the court with. If I'm on the court with Kerwin (Walton), I'm looking to screen his guy every single time. I know my personnel, I'm looking to screen his guy every single time. Hopefully both the guy defending me and his guy will react to him, I can slip and get an easy layup and that kind of thing. Really, I just, I don't know. I try to stay aggressive when I get it, make the easy play, keep the ball movement. I told the big guys tonight every time I got it I was going to pass it to them, and that's what I did. No matter how you miss five or six in a row I don't care, I'm still going to give it to you, that's where we had the advantage. I feel like my job was pretty simple.
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Q:Â Do you feel like you can see Caleb [Love] kind of has the light-switch going on for him in terms of offensively how he's performing and has that carried over in turn to defense? He had a couple of blocks and a steal in that first half.
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Roy Williams:Â Defensively, I think he could be one of the best defensive guards I've ever coached. Playing his position, he has strength, he has speed, he has jumping ability, he has great feet. Most of the time when you get a freshman that doesn't mean that much to him but it's meaning more and more to Caleb [Love] all the time. You look and you say three assists and three turnovers, you want it to be better than that but two of those as I said came really early. But I like the fact that he took some jump shots with confidence. (He was) 7 for 12 (FG) tonight, that's by far I think the best game he's had from the floor. I do think he's getting better, I told you yesterday or the day before, we had a little meeting and I told him that I think he's getting better a little bit each and every day and we just got to keep getting him some opportunities. RJ [Davis] struggled for a while but RJ [Davis] came in and did some good things. So you had both freshmen guards doing something. Kerwin [Walton] missed more shots today than he's missed all season. I thought we would have an advantage inside but our guys struggled inside, except for Armando [Bacot]. Armando [Bacot] early in the second half was most of our offense at that time.
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Q:Â Usually we see in the COVID protocol coaches just wave at each other and it's all said and done. You went up to Coach Forbes and applauded the way that his team fought. Why was it so important for you to communicate that to him?
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RW:Â Think about it guys, he's in six straight games in the league in the second half and a lot of those games he had a lead. They had the lead on us starting the second half and still had it a couple minutes in. I just think he's doing a really good job in a very difficult situation.
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Q:Â Just to go back to Caleb [Love], you've mentioned how at points in this season, he's been so concerned with his shot going in that some of his other parts of his game suffer or struggle. Have you noticed that he's getting away from that mindset a little bit as he does pickup on some of these defensive teachings and improves on that end of the floor?
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RW: You know guys, he's a freshman. Who knows what freshmen are thinking all the time? But I know that he's coming to practice every day and he's trying hard. He's getting a lot of shots up. When we do the shooting drills, Kerwin usually beats him and the second guy on our team is either Andrew [Platek] or Caleb. So he's been shooting it well in practice. He's been really working at it, I mean you saw after one of our games, he was still here at midnight working on his shot. He's working at it and just a tremendous young man…I hope he feels good about the way he played.
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Q:Â You mentioned [Armando] Bacot, 18 points, 14 in the second half. What did you like from what he did and do you think you're getting your post guys enough touches or are you guys getting enough touches you'd like down below?
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RW:Â No, I'd like them to get the ball every single time, cause then they're going to get fouls and at the end of the game. I mean guys think about this, at half, the Wake Forest post players had zero fouls. That's not good for us. At the end of the game, 33 got his fourth foul and we've won a lot of big games, national championship-type games, with the other team's players in foul trouble. If you throw it into the post guy every time and they throw it back out, those shots are usually more open but you have a better chance to get fouled if you play at the end of the game with the other team's best players. You can go back to even Stanford. Their leading scorer stayed on their bench most of the game. And so that's a part of our philosophy and I don't think our post guys posted up strong enough or low enough. We've got to get Armando [Bacot] to quit grabbing and pushing because he had two turnovers just pushing somebody and you can't do those kind of things, just play basketball.
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Q:Â The team didn't come out of the tunnel until about 50 seconds or so left on the clock at halftime. Did you like the energy early in the second half? Was it a start difference from the first half? And what part of their game was a lot better as a result of whatever it was you told them at halftime?
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RW:Â Well what we did is we got together in a circle and held hands and sang Kumbaya. That's what we did at halftime. You know, the biggest thing is you shoot 55% in the second half because you get better shots. Caleb [Love] took one running one hander, leg up, looked like an old man shooting the ball on the left side, and one other bad one. But other than that, most of our shots were very good shots in the second half. We had a lot of things to talk about at halftime. I think the second half warmup is the most overrated thing in college basketball, except for timeouts, of course. We talked about the mistakes that we had made, we talked about challenging our big guys to get posted up lower, to be more effective, be stronger. Armando [Bacot] was 8 for 10, he missed one shot both halves, so in the second half he was 6 for 7. That is one of the things that we talked about, our big guys being strong going to the basket with the ball, because they had zero fouls. And we talked about the turnovers, so I think the biggest thing in the second half was our lack of turnovers.
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Q:Â I know [Isaiah] Mucius and [Daivien] Williamson had huge nights offensively for them. Did you like your defensive energy in the second half? It seemed like it was kind of picked up a little bit with your trapping and some of your pressing, creating steals and things like that. It seemed like that was one of the keys to the second half, the defense.
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RW: Yeah, I think so. You look down at points off turnovers, we had 24 and they had 15. So that was beneficial for us. [Daivien] Williamson is hard to handle, so in the second half we tried to double him a couple of possessions early, then we tried to switch. We have some guys that can get down and slide their feet, even our big guys. I felt like that he was really, really good. Again, the guy that really killed us was Isaiah [Mucius]. During warmups, the ball bounced over to me and I gave it to him, and that was the first assist of the night because he made the shot after I gave it to him as well. He just killed us, I mean 7 for 12 after going 4 for 24 (prior to tonight). My thing is if a guy makes one you say okay but if he makes a second one, you got to get way out there and guard him. Other than their second chance points, I thought our defense was better by far in the second half, other than their second chance points.
Players Interviewed: Armando Bacot, Caleb Love, Leaky Black
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Armando Bacot
Q:Â I was wondering if you could just tell us what Roy said during halftime and what you guys changed coming into the second half?
Bacot:Â He was just frustrated with the way we came out; we didn't come out with any effort. He gave us a speech at halftime telling us they shouldn't have to come in after every first half asking us why we aren't playing with effort. G (Garrison Brooks) brought us in at the end of halftime in the tunnel telling us that we need to go out there and just fight and play hard.
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Q: When Caleb (Love) is able to shoot the way he did tonight and be that efficient, how does that change things for you guys offensively? How much better does that make you guys?
Bacot: I mean, it changes everything for us. This is how he was at the beginning of the year. Obviously, he went through a little slump, but I feel like he's out of that now and ready to go. He's just more in his head. I kind of had a talk with him too. My freshman year there were times I'd be in a slump, but I told him just be him. He really is a special player and I really do believe that he'll be one of the best guards in the country if he plays like this all the time.Â
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Q: What do you think needs to happen for you guys to get more touches down below? Is it from the guards giving it to you or do y'all need to post up better? What's kind of the issue and what do you need to do better there?
Bacot:Â It's a mix honestly. The bigs, we need to do a better job of getting into position. Obviously teams that kind of funnel us high and have somebody on the backside so kind of a lot of those touches are difficult because we get shaded both ways. I mean there's different ways we can manipulate that and just to get the ball better. It's obviously a mixture and how teams are playing us too.Â
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Q: How have you seen this team gel as a team, as a program, as the season goes on. Especially with these freshmen getting more and more confidence.Â
Bacot: Definitely, the freshmen are getting more and more confident but I still feel like we got to put together a complete game. We haven't been anywhere, not even 20% as good as I think we can be. I feel like there's a lot more strides we can go. Nobody, well us as a team haven't put together a game where everybody has played great. It's always somebody is in foul trouble, somebody is not playing good. I feel like once we can get it to where everybody is playing good we can be a really good team.Â
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Caleb Love
Q: After the Syracuse game we saw a video of you actually taking shots after the game to sort of work on the muscle memory it looked like of your jumper. What are some mental adjustments you've made in the last couple of games to sort of take you over the top?
Love: It's just all about confidence. Obviously, I was in that slump most of the season, and just seeing the ball go through the hoop, just muscle memory, just staying in the gym. I'm always in the gym, I'm always working on my shot. I think it was just more mental with me, more than just ability, because I know I can shoot, my teammates know I can shoot, my coaches know I can shoot. It was just all mental and getting out of that slump.Â
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Q:Â I just wanted to follow up on what you were saying there about it being more of a mental struggle for you than a physical one. Can you just go a little bit deeper into that? I guess how were you able to pull yourself out of that? When you get to the point when you realize that you are slumping, what does it take to build yourself back up, to rebuild your confidence like you have?Â
Love: Just staying true to my work. I mean I was always in the gym. Just staying true to my work. Just because of my shot not falling doesn't mean I stop working. Keep working. I started meditating a few weeks ago, that's helping me. Talking to my mom and dad, my coaches, having meetings with them telling them to keep their confidence in me. My teammates just building me up. I had a lot of people staying in my head telling me to keep going. So that's what I'm doing.Â
 Q: If I could quickly follow up, you said you started meditating. How did you sort of find that as something that was helpful for you?Â
Love: My mom mentioned it to me. I got this Calm app, so I just meditate every morning and night. That just keeps me sane, keeps my head on straight. Just being in that slump builds a lot of stress, so just calming my mind and doing that helps me a lot.Â
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Q:Â Roy was telling us when you were in the depths of your shooting slump that as soon as you start hitting shots the other parts of your game would kind of come to. If you go back to Georgia Tech, you've been shooting better from three since then. Was there a point between then and before tonight when you felt like some of the other parts of your game were starting to come around?
Love: Coach Williams is always staying on me about that it's not just about shooting. I could be one of the best defenders in the country if I put my mind to it and do all of that. So, it's not just about scoring, the game is not all about scoring. You got defense, you got making teammates better, because I'm a point guard you got to lead. Just staying true to my whole game, not just scoring. But, once the scoring was there then my whole game would show. Â
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Leaky Black
Q: With a team that relies on so many young guys, what do you do or what do you say in the locker room at halftime when you come out lacking energy and really start to play better in the second half?
Black: Like you said, there's a bunch of young guys. Every time they make a mistake they are all up in their head and that kind of thing. I'll tell them, Joel Berry has done it, we've all made mistakes. Even the best point guards that play here we all make mistakes. Just next play, you got to keep playing. Nobody's going to just give you whatever you want just because you got North Carolina on your chest. They're trying to take whatever you want, so you just got to keep that dog mentality and you'll be fine.Â
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Q:Â What is the key to feeding the post from your perspective?
Black:Â A key factor is movement from the guards honestly, because everyone knows we don't have the best shooting percentage so obviously they are going to double down and try to front those guys and sag off of us. But if we keep movement and get those guys to rotate and get out of position it makes getting them the ball a lot easier.Â
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Q: You guys had a lot more energy in the second half. Coach said you guys weren't singing kumbaya in the locker room. What was the thing that you think was improved the most that you guys did better in the second half as a result of that extra energy?Â
Black: I feel like we just played harder, that's pretty much it. The talent is there, everything's there, we have all the horses, that kind of thing. But it doesn't mean anything if we're not playing hard and playing with our motives. So that's just, what we were all trying to feed everyone is look, as soon as y'all want to wake up and play the game will be ours. If you keep messing around, obviously these guys are going to hang around and be another game like last year or whatever. So, I think the energy changed a lot.Â
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Q: Did the scouting report for (Isaiah) Mucius say much about his three-point shot? What can you say about both Mucius and (Daivien) Williamson as defensive assignments?
Black: You have to throw the scouting report away. After you see a guy like that make two, I think they said he made like four for the season or something like that, he came out and made seven tonight. You can throw the whole scouting report away after he made that second three like that. We got to do a better job of just knowing who we are guarding, the personnel, like in the moment kind of thing. You guard a guy who made two threes back to back obviously you are going to want to deny him so he doesn't get another good look. I don't know, he shot the mess out of the ball tonight.Â
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Q: In what ways do you feel like you guys have made the biggest improvement, the areas where you feel like you guys have made the biggest improvement since the beginning of the year.Â
Black: I feel like we're playing together. We're not breaking plays off, trying to make one on one moves and the stupid turnovers. Those plays are still there but I don't think like there are as many as there were at the beginning of the season. I feel like we are starting to play more together and buying in on the defensive end, I feel like that's been changing a lot. So as soon as we get our offense going, these games won't be so close.Â
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Q:Â I'm curious, what do you think is your role on this team on the offensive end. You have 16 versus Miami, shut out against Florida State, tonight an 8/6/8 balanced scoring line. How do you see yourself fitting in on the offensive side of the ball?Â
Black: Honestly when I'm out there it depends on who I am out on the court with. If I'm on the court with Kerwin (Walton), I'm looking to screen his guy every single time. I know my personnel, I'm looking to screen his guy every single time. Hopefully both the guy defending me and his guy will react to him, I can slip and get an easy layup and that kind of thing. Really, I just, I don't know. I try to stay aggressive when I get it, make the easy play, keep the ball movement. I told the big guys tonight every time I got it I was going to pass it to them, and that's what I did. No matter how you miss five or six in a row I don't care, I'm still going to give it to you, that's where we had the advantage. I feel like my job was pretty simple.
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