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Kon Knueppel talks road win vs. UNC
Duke sweeps UNC, winning 82-69 at the Smith Center
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Duke sweeps UNC, winning 82-69 at the Smith Center
Um, first half you guys, um, kind of, they started coming back and then of course second half it was a crazy flurry. What did you guys talk about in the in the huddle in the second half and also halftime to come back and take the lead and just kind of control the game. Yeah, I mean we just wanted to stay the course. Um, our defense wasn't good enough in the first half. Uh, part of that is Cooper's not out there, um, so we just wanted to weather the storm, um, and in the second half, they punched us in the mouth a little bit right away, but, uh, we just, we just kept fighting and, uh, carried us way home. takes from playing in this type of environment obviously crowd rocking and and you guys able to withstand. Yeah, I mean, it's awesome. Uh, it's where you wanna play. It's where you wanna be, um, an environment like that, and it's good for us, super good for us. And then to win the ACC regular season, what does that mean to you guys? I'm assuming you guys got that trophy in lock yeah, special, uh, great to not share with anybody either, and, uh, we would want two more, so we'll stay home on the keyboard. Coacher said in his pregame press conference. that you guys need randomness at times to make this offense run. Do you feel like you had that tonight? I mean you talked about Cooper being on the bench that can kind of be random. You talk about some of the possession. Yeah, I thought I thought it was good. It wasn't as sharp as we wanted to be, but I thought it was good to be in a situation like that close game got execute. I thought we did a good job down the stretch. What does it say about you guys as a team that you're able to withstand UNC's best punch on the road and still win. I mean, yeah, it's, it's good, speaks to our competitiveness and our effort, um, and that's the team we want to be. We want a team that's fighting for 40 minutes.