Louisville G Tre White, F Kaleb Glenn Previews Florida State (2/2/24)
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00:00 >> All right, if everybody's ready, we'll go ahead and open up for
00:03 questions for Caleb and Trey.
00:05 Trey?
00:06 >> Trey, since you've been back after the injury, I guess when you were out,
00:12 did you get to watch and did that help you and kind of, you've taken a step,
00:17 it seems, forward as far as consistency in your game since you've been back and
00:21 playing better.
00:21 Did it help to watch for a couple games?
00:23 >> Yeah, definitely.
00:24 That was definitely a big part of it.
00:26 Just seeing, hearing the coaches on what they see and just looking at it from
00:30 a different point of view and just seeing where we're good at, attacking the pain.
00:34 And just trying to just keep it rolling, just learning things from the side,
00:37 definitely helped a lot though.
00:38 >> Trey, Kenny was talking in here earlier saying that it was big for
00:43 you to just focus on going up north and south rather than east and west.
00:47 Was that something that you noticed Tuesday night,
00:49 just as you're having that big game?
00:50 And then how do you plan to follow it up?
00:53 Kenny said that your biggest challenge is to now try to do that again
00:56 Saturday night.
00:57 >> Definitely, just knowing that I am a bigger guard, so
01:00 I can just bump guards and try to get downhill.
01:03 And I feel like that can start a chain reaction with our team.
01:05 We're great whenever we get into the paint, so even if it means me not scoring,
01:08 just starting that chain reaction, getting into the paint, kicking it,
01:11 I feel like that'll help our team a lot.
01:12 So carrying that forward is what I plan to do.
01:15 >> Caleb, you've seen your role increase recently,
01:18 including some time at the five.
01:19 How has this stretch helped you impact your game, helped you develop?
01:24 >> It's helped me adapt a lot to different things.
01:27 I've never played the five, so guarding people like Armando, Baykite,
01:31 PJ Hall, those bigger dudes has helped me a lot.
01:35 And it's made me tougher.
01:37 Gotta come in with a good mindset, cuz those guys have been in college for
01:42 four or five years, they're also good players, so it's helped me a lot.
01:46 >> Kind of piggybacking off of that, Caleb,
01:49 what is your approach when you know that you're gonna be undersized?
01:53 And Florida State is another team that has a lot of size and length.
01:56 How do you kind of maybe use angles or something else to your advantage,
02:01 knowing that you're going up against these bigger dudes?
02:05 >> For me, it's just more like bringing more energy and outworking them.
02:09 I mean, I got the strength advantage, but they're just taller.
02:12 I think the strength always overpowers being taller,
02:16 especially if they're not usually stronger, so I think that usually helps me a lot.
02:20 >> You guys are halfway through the ACC season now.
02:26 Do you sit and reassess your goals, reset them?
02:29 What's your, I guess, number one priority over the second half of the season?
02:33 >> I mean, I feel like our main thing is just getting better day by day, for real.
02:37 Just learning to get better, getting stronger together.
02:40 I feel like we haven't been doing that for real.
02:42 We just gotta just lock in on little things and keep it rolling.
02:46 But I feel like we have been better offensively and defensively.
02:49 We just gotta just do it for a whole 40 minutes, honestly, so just day by day.
02:52 >> Okay.
02:53 >> Picking off what Trey said, we just gotta play the whole 40 minutes.
03:00 We have stretches of the game where we look like we can beat anybody, but
03:03 there's also stretches where we don't look too good.
03:06 So I think it's just putting the whole 40 minutes together.
03:09 >> Anything else for these guys?
03:13 >> Sure.
03:13 >> Going back to Tuesday's game,
03:17 there were some stretches where after Sky went down, you guys were playing mostly
03:21 with no true point guard.
03:24 What was that experience like, getting Mike and Curtis at that time?
03:28 And how did you think the team operated during that situation?
03:32 >> I feel like the team, we rallied together really good.
03:35 We have practices, and he'll do, coach will do some lineups like that,
03:38 just to get certain players used to playing with each other.
03:41 So that definitely helped.
03:42 And kudos to Mike and
03:44 Kurt, they definitely helped us with the point guard role that game, for sure.
03:47 >> I asked Kenny this, did it help you at all that you had the ball in your hands
03:52 more in that game in terms of having the 29 point scoring game?
03:57 And secondly, how do you explain the 14 rebounds,
04:00 which people don't talk about quite as much?
04:02 >> Yeah, having the ball in my hands isn't really what I need for
04:05 my type of game.
04:06 I feel like I can try to get it done, but it definitely did help just having to be
04:10 more aggressive with a couple of our players out.
04:13 But for the rebound part of it, I feel like I've always been a good rebounding
04:17 guard, but Coach Kenny is always talking to me just about my mentality.
04:20 It's like you gotta want it, you know what I'm saying?
04:22 So before the game, he was talking to me about that.
04:24 And during the game, I wanted to win, so I just had to do whatever it was.
04:27 I feel like we did a pretty good job of that.
04:30 >> We asked Coach Payne, and I'll see your perspective.
04:34 You've had individuals have great games.
04:37 What is it gonna take to kind of get a collective of three or
04:41 four guys at the same time having that peak kind of game?
04:46 >> I think for us, it's just about doing it for the whole 40 minutes.
04:48 Like we said earlier, I feel like it's bits and
04:50 spurts in the games where certain players are having their moment.
04:54 Or as a team, we're having our moment, and then we'll just crumble for
04:56 a little bit.
04:57 And then we'll separate when things start to get bad.
05:00 But I feel like for us, we just do it for the whole 40 minutes.
05:02 We'll look like the team that we know we are.
05:06 >> Anything else?
05:07 All right, thank you.