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Message: [QUOTE="CuseTroop, post: 228993, member: 47"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]DG- How immediately do you think Fab being out effects your team?[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]JB- Well, obviously you lose a shot blocker and a presence in the middle like that its gonna hurt your team, but we’re fortunate that we have two guys who have played a lot at that position and they also played the 3 games that he was out. We had a few wins at that time so they have a positive feeling about what they can do and I think the rest of the team has a positive feeling. On the offensive end it doesn’t hurt us that much, on the defensive end it hurts us a little bit. Everyones gonna have to work a little bit harder. Things happen in life, things don’t always go the way you would like them to go. You only have two choices, lets go out and do this, or lets give up. We’re not going to give up. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]DG- There have been several moments this year of adversity obviously. Is this a galvanizing moment? Im wondering what the players emotions are as they’ve gone through practices and as they get ready for the game. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]JB- well they have had two good practices since this came out. Everyone is good to go. They realize that this is a one and done tournament. They need to be ready to play. We thing UNCA is a good team, they played well all year long. They have good veterans, good guards, guys that can shoot the ball and handle the ball. So our players know, we have to pick it up. They know they are fully capable of doing it. All year long we have had adversity, and we have come to play. Nobody likes adversity, nobody likes going through it, but it happens to everyone at some point in their life. As coaches we are constantly talking to our players about something that happens in their lives, and this year we have prolly had more than our share of things that we have had to overcome. The important thing for players is to concentrate on what their doing, academically, and in life, and college, and what their doing on the basketball court. I think our team is focused, and they will come to play, and they will play well. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]DG- People wanna point out that you haven’t been past the sweet 16 since 03, but they forget that 2 years ago, you’re the number 1 etam in the country, AO hurts his knee in the BET, never plays for you during the NCAA tournament, and you lose in the sweet 16 to butler. What can you take from that experience and use for this team. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]JB- Well, the big difference is our back up center was our starting forward, so we had to move our forward into the center spot, we didn’t have another guy. This year we have two guys who play that spot, so it’s a little better. You never wanna lose a guy like fab, and as far as winning games in the tourney, there are teams that haven’t won 5 games since 2003 in the NCAA tournament, its not that easy to do. Its not that easy to get past the sweet 16, and we have to do the best that we can. Some years maybe your not quite good enough to go further. This years team is a good team, we think we can go far, we think we can beat anybody. We obviously would like to have our center, we just don’t have him. Were gonna go forward just like he got hurt, or got into foul trouble, and go on with out him. And you know this year we have the depth, we are putting people into games that have played, so that’s helpful. [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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