We have been fortunate toe win, although we had chances to win this game, you know?

You know, kids were prepared.

Um, they played hard.

They played winning basketball in No, in a.

I feel so bad for Joey because he has worked so hard and you're down by one.

And he he's got the shot that he's dreamed of and worked hard for and things in and out.

And I feel bad for man again.

Mhm the basketball gods.

If they're good to him, then we would have benefited.

But he, uh Then we missed too wide open shots again.

Good shots to tie the game.

Yeah.

Uh huh.

It's just a one possession game, really the most the whole game.

So you can take a play here or play there.

We turned it over to much to start the game.

And, um, so anyway, I'm disappointed for these kids because they Yeah, they're good group.

It's been a really tough year for a whole bunch of reasons, and their attitudes air so good and they work so hard in preparation.

And during the game, you'd like to see him get rewarded and but we lost.

So a good team, a kid that in Jones that can really control a game, especially at the end of the game.

And just tough loss for us.

Any questions?

A question for coach.

Please use a hand raise feature and we'll get to you are with speed wise and Steve.

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Coach, You mentioned the early turnovers.

Obviously, Jalen had five of those early, and he played so well the other night and just really seemed not really being the flow of the game tonight.

Any explanation that what we tell him going forward about this experience?

No, I you know, he obviously played great in a loss, and then he didn't play well tonight.

I mean, no one's Look, I'm not blaming the game on one.

Hey, just it you know, he didn't play well tonight and could never get out of it.

Could just never get out of it.

And we got to figure that out because look, human beings.

So you're not gonna play well all the time, But if you can correct, if you're not whatever you're doing, not as well while the game is going on, that's a key thing, and we were not able able to do that.

And and we need them.

I mean, way.

Need him burning marks.

You're up next.

Hey, Coach.

When Matthew found out there with just under two minutes left in the game, what was sort of the message at that point to the guys?

And what was the philosophy of?

Of what you were hoping to accomplish?

Going forward.

Obviously you mentioned you guys were able to get a couple of clean open looks there That just didn't go down?

No, we had a chance, Toe.

I mean, come on.

We had a chance to win.

You have a wide open three down by one.

You know, we just said, keep playing hard run motion.

It gets somewhere on your penetration where you get help off of another defend from another defender.

When I called the time out with just under three, we had a couple of possessions where we were, you know, moving the ball.

But we weren't going anywhere.

And we're staying all outside the three point line.

And this team you have toe penetrate a little, you're not gonna penetrate far against them, but a little bit.

And get some type of help.

And when you can't, you might you have on opening you might have an opening.

And I thought we got that.

Even after Matt, you know, math filed out and we do not.

Not not the shots down.

Thank you.

Mhm.

JPs with chronicle.

Go ahead.

I could I'm just curious as to what the next step forward here is for the team.

As you guys move into another week of basketball, why don't we just evaluate this game?

I'm not into what our next step forward is right now.

We just finished the hard fought game.

I don't know if, like when What?

What What's your major?

What's your major at Duke?

What's your hardest class?

Okay, so say you just had the toughest e con test in the world.

And when you walked out, somebody asked you What's your next step?

You said, I mean, is that you have some empathy and yeah, yeah, just give us time to evaluate this game, and then we'll figure out just like we always try to dio What?

What the next step will be.

The next step, obviously, is to prepare for Georgia Tech how we prepare for him that's we're gonna have to figure out Steve Wise would go ahead.

You came out in the zone again.

You place a man to man in the second half.

What do you see him from?

The team defensively Are seeing some Some good play there that you want.

You can kind of build on yet, or Yeah, I think overall, the defense, the fact that we've done the zone at least we have it, you know, with something that we you would have wanted to do in November.

You know, in a lot of non conference games or exhibitions and have, ah, you know, have, ah, a couple of different things, A few different things you would do defensively.

So, you know, we're trying to get that done in January 23rd.

Yeah, right.

Right now, um, the way have toe not follow us much in the last four games.

It's kind of crazy.

You know?

Our opponents have shot about 100 free throws and we've shot 50 you know?

And so are we using our hands too much?

Are we?

You know, we have to evaluate that.

Are we putting our opponents in a position where they can follow us, but that's an extraordinary differential.

And I've never had that with our program.

In fact, most of the time you know we have we shoot more free throws.

I mean, never that much more.

I mean, that's an incredible amount.

That's an incredible amount.

So on.

Look, I'm not saying we're getting messed over anything.

There's gotta be some reason for them.

Uh huh.

It's too.

Yeah, it's too big, too big of a difference.

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