NC State
DJ Burns talks his 29 point game to lift NC State past Duke to the Final Four
NC State eliminates Duke from the NCAA Tournament 76-64 and advances to the Final Four.
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NC State eliminates Duke from the NCAA Tournament 76-64 and advances to the Final Four.
Four sides, you know, going into the second half. Um That's when I realized I, they're probably not going to double team. Now. It's my time to just take advantage. Uh As much as I hate to say this, it goes two ways for me because I know my guys are gonna have any business, but at the same time, you want to be out there, especially when I, you know, kind of got going a little bit there early. I definitely, you know, wanted to be there with my team, but like I said, I knew they would handle business. So I, at the same time, you know, it is what it is when you got that late bucket and then you were able to, you know, like you're on the ground for the next few seconds, you just like stick in your mind, got it secured. Now, what was in your mind? He said I got you a second or two on the ground. I'm gonna be honest, I wasn't even thinking about that. Yeah, I didn't really think about that until they started to foul. So, um I'll be honest, we have so many good moments. I don't even really remember what I was thinking in that moment, to be honest, screamed the heat while he was cutting the neck, giving him some respect, give my man some respect. I'm tired of the disrespect, you know, I'm just tired of him being disrespected. You know, that man, they treat him terribly, you know, or they did at least, you know, now it's flipped a little bit, but we needed to continue to flip because that man deserves all the love and respect that he should get, take what they give me. Um, I don't know, that's not what I'm looking to do. I'm looking to do something. That's where they're not, that's why I'm trying to, were you, were they, were they getting physical enough on you that you could feel them like? Yeah. Oh yeah, that's, that's one of those things I say like it's been kind of the thing for my season. I can either get my feeling about f or just go ahead and win the game so that I'm saying they would get so close to you the feeling like, oh, yeah, yeah, we're not gonna speak on that. We're not gonna be. And now, how long do you get to enjoy this one before you actually start focusing ahead and what's ahead of you at the bottom before? What time is it, what time is it? Uh, so about 12 to 14 hours and I wake up and we'll be in the gym in the morning. I won't speak on that too much. Both in terms of the fact that you're sending NCC to the final four. No, I usually take like a day honestly with all this stuff, you know, even if the AC C thing, you know, it just takes a second, it'll be there soon. You draw from that. Yeah, for sure. Um, you know, we, he dunks a lot more than me but I feel like, you know, he also shoots threes way better than me. So, um, I feel like as far as, you know, posts and everything we haven't seen in a game since I wouldn't say all of our game. But I say specifically as far from the post that but DJ MO D to make it cut it to a four point deficit in the second half. Is that the, the lightning rod for you guys? Because it seemed like everybody's body language changed after that flight. You honestly, I had to re watch it to tell you what, when to turn. Um, I don't think that there was a second where we thought we were gonna lose the game. It was the, you know, even the energy that coach came in with a half time, you know, it was completely different from what we expected. Um, after he came in like that, there was no way we were about to lose. What was that? What did he say? He just, he was just happy it was, we were losing the game and we didn't get yelled at it. It was kind of cool. Uh He was, I play some good defense. He was like, y'all playing good defense. I'll go out there and repeat that again. We're gonna win this game. You shot 73% in the second half. I have no idea how this right here, describe this journey, what it's been like, you know, to just, uh, be not the best, uh, best of finishes in the regular season. And now you're one of the last four teams in the country again. Like my coach said, um, in March, you have a clean slate and we just, we've been taking advantage of every single moment. Do you feel like this team has the attitude and you just can't lose? I mean, other teams, you're not playing other teams, they're playing you. It feels like that at this point, we would say, um, still humble about it, but you're starting to feel that way for sure.