A Clear and shocking news: three North Carolina Tar Heels key players just announced their retirement

A Clear and shocking news: three North Carolina Tar Heels key players just announced their retirement

UNC Players Explain How Georgia Tech Loss Prepares Them for Duke, Address No-Call at End of Game

‘We’re going into [Duke] with as much energy as we’ve had.’ — Harrison Ingram

North Carolina had its 10-game win streak snapped at Georgia Tech, 74-73, on Tuesday as RJ Davis’ go-ahead field goal attempt at the end of regulation fell short after absorbing contact from Yellow Jackets forward Ebenezer Dowuona. Davis and teammates Armando Bacot and Harrison Ingram addressed how the loss will affect the team’s mentality as UNC prepares for Saturday’s marquee home matchup against rival Duke.

“We’ve got to soak this one in,” Bacot said after the game. “We’ve got to really feel this one and move on at practice tomorrow. We have a big game coming up on Saturday. We have to be ready for that.”

The Tar Heels’ trio went in-depth on what went wrong in Atlanta and how they can right the ship before Saturday’s game. They also revealed their thoughts on the controversial no-call on Davis’ final shot, among other things. Here’s what Bacot, Davis and Ingram had to say after the Georgia Tech loss:

UNC Players Explain How Georgia Tech Loss Prepares Them for Duke, Address No -Call at End of Game

INITIAL THOUGHTS ON THE LOSS TO GEORGIA TECH

Bacot: “It was tough. I definitely didn’t want to come in and lose. We just have to learn from it and grow. In games like this, we’ve gIngram: “We came out flat. I came out flat. I was 3-of-14 from the field; it was just a bad game altogether. They wanted it more than us. They came out harder. They finished harder. They were playing harder. Every loose ball was theirs. Rebounds and everything, they were just playing harder than us. The first thing we really talked about (when preparing for Georgia Tech) was their pick and roll. They ran it the whole game, and we really couldn’t stop it. I wasn’t really playing my best game. I didn’t bring energy for the team. I didn’t come out strong and ended up losing for it.”ot to come in with a killer mentality, and we’ve got to put them away. First half, we went up 11. That’s when we’ve got to show our killer instinct. We let them stick around and hit tough shots. I got switched onto the guard at the end, and he made a tough, left-hand floater.”

Davis: “It was definitely a rough one. It is not the type of game that you would want to lose. Credit to Georgia Tech; they outplayed us. I don’t think our defensive rotations were there. We weren’t really getting to the ball. That is my fault. That allowed them to get easy layups or dump it down low to the big. We had a lot of silly turnovers in the first half and bad shots.”

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