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All right, let's give you some baseline thoughts for the final time for Carolina as they fall to Alabama 8987 in the sweet 16 here in Los Angeles. And that's March for you, right. Everyone's talking about Alabama's pace, their offense and their defense 100 and first in efficiency according to Ken Palm. And that is the difference in this one. Sure. They give up 87 points to the tar heels, but when it mattered the most, they were able to get stops. They were the ones that were able to get UN C off of their game. Four shots by people you don't want shooting threes from Carolina forcing Hubert Davis to go into his bench with Patsy Wojick out there with Seth Trimble and Elliot Cao just helpless on the bench because they don't shoot from the outside even if they did hit a few early in this game. And specifically, it wasn't just the defense, but it was the length of Alabama. Nate Oats has built a very specific program. It is tempo, it is pace, it is length. They look at defense from a totally different view and it certainly worked in this game, I think it's a number of things. Number one, we, we just missed shots. I thought we had good looks that not normally that we make that, that we can make and we just missed. I, I thought, secondly, their length and bothered us, um, you know, they have length and athleticism at every position. And so when they switching, you know, different types of actions, um, that made it difficult for us to score and, and, um, you know, we just, and, and, and for us, you know, not doing the job on the boards, didn't allow us to get out in transition. So we're always going up against a set defense. And so I thought that played a part into it as well. Um, and sometimes, you know, your shots just don't go in and just a really tough one for the tar heels to swallow because they were up at the half, they made run after run just when you thought Alabama would go away. They had one more in them and RJ Davis gets them the lead, you know, in a game when he struggled, he's double teamed. He's showing maybe why people don't think he can play in the NBA against Alabama's NBA like length in style, but there he is at the end gets Carolina, the lead in the final minutes gets to the free throw line. But there comes that defense again from Bama who forces a shot from Jalen Withers, which I think every Carolina fan out there was like, why Jalen, um, everybody, you, you've made some big plays off the bench in this tournament and everybody wants to be the guy that makes the big shot and, and you take a big one as an athlete. How do you kind of process when that moment doesn't go the way, you know, you, you envision it for yourself. Um, I think in a moment, I mean, it was a shot that I work on every day. But with the outcome of the shot, uh it was a lot of um just that it didn't go in and you know, the the time and score of the shot being taken here, an arm rest, maybe a better result out of the opportunity that I had. But at the same time, you're Jalen Withers, you've worked on that shot all year. Why shouldn't you take that shot? It's open. You need people to step up in this game. And that's why I thought the story was gonna be for Carolina in the first half. Cormac Ryan was psychotic just like he was against Duke Harrison Ingram stepping up. It was working, you know, Carolina all year had all the answers to the test. When you shut down RJ Davis. It could be an Armando Bay Cock game, it could be a Cormac Ryan game and that's the way this was playing out with their pace. Did you wanna play with that pace or did you guys want to slow it down? Can talk me through the game plan of how to go with their offense? A little bit of both. I mean, we have pace too, so we pushed the pace and I feel like it was a game of pace versus pace and at the end of the day, they made more shots than we did. Um, they executed well, they found the mismatches a lot, especially at the end with Grant Nelson, we kept running the same play, the little step up screen trying to get the switch on to the guard. And I, you know, they did a good job of running their plays. And at the end of the day, you know, we ran our pace, you know, we played the game and won the play and, you know, we just didn't make enough shots to win and they did a good job of giving them credit on the defensive end and they weren't the best defensive team. And today they showed up on the defensive end, but ultimately became a Grant Nelson game for Alabama who had a game high 24 points, including the ones to seal it in the final minute, talked all season about, you know, the, the little details that make big things happen, not just necessarily shots, uh rebounds, free throws, loose balls. Um, at the end of the day, they made down the stretch more plays than us and um unfortunately, we came out on the short end, but this game not just about the end of a season, but about the end of an era for Carolina as RJ Davis and Armando Bacot walk off the court together for the final time and this has really been about the culmination of yes, Baco's five years at UN C but really specifically the last three where RJ Caleb Love and Armando Bacot and that team and Hubert davis' first season go all the way to the national championship game, send coach K into retirement. Four of the starting five, come back for the next year preseason. Number one and heavy is the crown. They miss the tournament entirely. The story of that season was talking about the previous season and this year they made it a point for things to be in the present. They were a group that brought in some transfers that shared a collective goal of rewriting a legacy of guys like Urson Ingram who wanted to play in March coming from Stanford, a guy like Cormac Ryan who had already transferred from Stanford to be in a bigger basketball stage in Notre Dame. And in his final year of eligibility comes to Carolina for the biggest and brightest lights. And you know, in his short time here, he made himself somewhat of an iconic tower heel, especially for what he did in that final game at Duke. But Armando Bacot and RJ Davis, of course, are on another level. These guys are all time tar heels, Armando Bacot, the all time leading rebounder and really the face of this team for the last few years, obviously, then of an era with you here and playing with RJ. And I mean, I don't know if you've given a message to the team, but if so if we're not, what is it? I mean, I think this year for me was the funnest year of basketball. I've had in my life just even though we didn't win a national championship and that was a big goal for us and definitely we're good enough and talented enough, just the amount of fun we had this year and just um refreshment, I think for basketball, I mean, going to a school like this is tough, such a big brand and at times, you know, the things you hear or see and just the things you go through at a school like this, it can be tough at times. But I mean, just this year with this team and the amount of fun we had and how hard we played it. Really? Thank for all of us, made our love for having basketball and playing at a school like this. I mean, it was just the best experience and it's tough to go out like this because mm we had high aspirations for this year. But I mean, I wouldn't trade anything, you know, say what you want about Armando Bacot his off the court nil endeavors, uh his unique personality, his ability to be, uh funny, his ability to be endearing with the press, maybe say things that Hubert Davis probably didn't want him to say. But something he always says is that he loved playing for the school wearing this uniform more than pretty much anybody else and just how hard he was on himself than the game. Tough. I mean, it just all sick that we lost and all year we played hard and I mean, I thought today we played hard too, but today just thought for me personally, I didn't do good enough boxing out and you look at the stats, I have 12 rebounds, but I feel like I gave up a lot of long rebounds and things just down the stretch. I gotta be better. I missed a lot of the dunk. That was tough and huge momentum changer, I think for me personally. So, I mean, it just sucks, it all like that. It just sucks to see him like that after a game, you know, so hard on himself. He misses the dunk in the second half and, and I asked why, why, why did that hit you so hard? And he's like, well, look, we lost by two points that dunk could have been the difference. And, you know, at the end of the year, only one team gets to be happy and you got RJ Davis sitting in there heartbroken. Not knowing if this is his last game as a Tar Heel Bacot knows Davis doesn't. I asked him and he honestly said I've been living in the present so much. I don't know, I haven't even thought about it, but he did say that the relationships that this team had went bigger than basketball and that this group was special. This year has been probably the most fun I've had all year. Just some from all team perspective. I mean, this, this group is hard to get back just because of all the personalities you had on this team. The funny moments, the togetherness going out to eat stuff like that. I mean, this team chemistry was, was real. Um And you can see everyone's so emotional because everyone have full belief that we could go far and just because of how special this team was. So, I mean, that just shows how much of a team we really are and how much care and belief we have in one another and I agree with them. Sure. I think when you're a one seed and you're the regular season ac C champ, you have bigger aspirations than the sweet 16, especially at a school like Carolina. But I think you have to go back to the beginning of the year and what the expectations for this team even were. And I think they were bigger than the sum of their parts. This team wasn't the most talented team this team doesn't have a lottery pick on the roster. RJ Davis AC C player of the year. I mean, people didn't necessarily think that was going to happen entering this season. People still don't think he could play in the NBA, which is why he may very well come back for fifth year. But if he doesn't, his legacy absolutely cemented, cemented as one of the best tar heels to ever do it. I feel like me and ma have a lot of love for this place. We didn't want things to end how we did last year and wanted to kind of just come back and just restore success in this program. And it wasn't just me and him, it was a whole collective group thing. And, um, this sucks because, I mean, just of how much we believed in each other and felt like we could have really done a lot of great things with this team. But, um, ok, I mean, I just love playing in New Jersey, love playing for coach Davis and the rest of the coaching staff and playing for, you know, Carolina fans. So it's a sport where 68 teams enter the tournament, only one ends up getting to be happy. And if it didn't happen to Carolina in this game, because I certainly think if you play this 10 times, they could have beaten Alabama, but I do think somebody would have gotten them eventually. All you can ask is that your team rises to the level of their potential or even exceeds it. And I think Carolina did that this season. A lot of credit has to go to the players, a lot of credit has to go to Hubert Davis who people doubted in some ways. Rightfully. So after that team missed the tournament last year, but he pushed all the right buttons this season and whether a guy like RJ Davis comes back or not, there is plenty of reason to be excited about the future of Carolina Basketball.

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<p>To, to all of you and we bring you greetings. I would like to also extend gratitude to other elected officials who are joining us today. If you'll please stand. Thank you. I want to also start by expressing how thrilled we are to have you here today. We are proud of our city here in Greenville. And I think that pride is evident in this room today and why wouldn't we be proud? Greenville is a thriving hub of, of eastern North Carolina. We have a growing population, a diverse based manufacturing manufacturers, top notch educational institutions, state of the art, medical facilities and vibrant art and entertainment scenes. The people in Greenville are as friendly and as talented as they come. We all work well together and that is a tremendous, tremendous key to progress. There are so many reasons to be proud of Greenville and today I'm thrilled that our city is getting even better with all of that being said, I would like to introduce to you a Greenville native and Chief Deputy Secretary of Commerce Jordan Richard. Well, thank you so much. Uh Mayor Pro Daniels. Uh it is a beautiful day and uh uh especially great day to be back home in Greenville, North Carolina. Uh So, on behalf of uh our North Carolina Secretary of Commerce Michelle Baker Sanders, uh Good afternoon. Uh Today really is not only the celebration of an incredible partnership uh with the city of Greenville, Pitt County, uh the Greenville Eastern North Carolina Alliance, the Department of Commerce, our, our partners across the state. Uh But it's also calls to celebrate uh some really exciting news and the first uh such announcement this year in Pitt County across the state in North Carolina, we are uh already ahead of our pace from last year. Uh Having a wonderful year in terms of economic development. Today is a wonderful announcement of that. Since January across the state, we've announced uh 39 projects and this will be our 40th, more than 3600 jobs across North Carolina and over $2.5 billion in economic development investment statewide. And today's news uh is also great as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of Greenville, North Carolina. Over those 250 years, we've seen Greenville change and evolve and the evolution of Greenville as a community is parallel to what we've seen across the state from an economy once dependent on agriculture and tobacco. Pitt County and Greenville is transformed into an economy that's supported by medicine uh and advanced manufacturing and clean energy jobs like we're here to talk about today. Uh having grown up here and watch that evolution and watch Downtown and Dickinson Avenue evolve and having gone to school across the street at CMXS Middle School, it's especially gratifying to be back and to be working on wonderful announcements like this. Uh And today, it's also an incredible honor to introduce uh someone who I've had the great pleasure of working for in Raleigh for the past 7.5 years. Uh He's been working to build a stronger North Carolina uh where everyone has as an opportunity to live in safe communities, get a quality education, uh have good access to great jobs and great health care. Uh And where everybody has a chance to live lives of purpose and abundance. And today he'll share with the Greenville community some outstanding news. Uh that'll help get us closer to North Carolina, North Carolina. That's more diverse, more inclusive works uh even more for all the people of this great state. Uh So it's my honor now to introduce to you the 75th governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper. Thank you so much, Greenville, aren't you proud of Jordan Witcher? Let me just say, Chief Deputy Secretary of the Department of Commerce. And uh you might notice that I have a lot of people in my administration who are from Eastern North Carolina. It's because I grew up here and I know the kind of people that they are. So I am so happy to be here. With you today, seeing so many friends and familiar faces uh and to celebrate what's gonna happen today. Uh Thank you Marquita for being here, Representative reader. Thank you for, for, for being here. Thank you representative for you. Uh Thank you, appreciate all of you guys candy. Thank you for coming. Very grateful for you coming and being part of this. Um II, I wanna thank Mayor Pro TEM Daniels and say thank you very much for your hard work here. But it's great to join with you today with an outstanding announcement for the city of Greenville, Pitt County, eastern North Carolina and I am our entire state. I am so proud to announce that Bovi at Solar, an international renewable energy company has selected North Carolina for its first North American solar panel manufacturing facility that will create 900 jobs and invest $294 million right here in Greenville, North Carolina. Our economists predict that this project will lift North Carolina's economy by more than $2.9 billion over the next 12 years. This economic development. When shows us how teamwork, teamwork and that's a fitting word here in front of Dowdy Ficklin Stadium, teamwork and our amazing workforce. Keep bringing advanced manufacturing jobs to our state here in Pitt County. You have a great legacy of manufacturing, making everything from life saving pharmaceuticals to packaging personal care products and now comes important components for clean renewable energy. North Carolina is becoming an epicenter for clean energy that's putting money in the pockets of North Carolina families and small businesses. And as we've learned in North Carolina the last few years, a clean energy economy is a strong economy, providing American security. North Carolina is a leader in that 19 billion in capital investments and nearly 16,000 good paying manufacturing jobs created here since 2021 with the fourth largest producer of solar energy in the country. And with our bipartisan clean power plan that will get us producing zero emission clean energy by 2050. That means a lot more solar panels need to be made right here in North Carolina. This announcement means that they're going to be made right here. And North Carolina's emergence as a clean energy leader has fueled our growth and helped set us apart as the number one state to do business in the country for two years in a row, we all get to celebrate that recognition and much of the credit goes to our well trained, dedicated and diverse workforce, the people of North Carolina, they make up the best workforce in the country. And Bovi at solar is gonna find out about that. And our university Chancellor Rogers, thank you for hosting this today. Our university and community college systems including East Carolina Pitt community College and our research institutions and workforce partnerships help North Carolina stay first in talent coupled with our central east location, East coast location and includes easy access to transportation infrastructure by land, plain sea. And of course our excellent quality of life. North Carolina continues to be a top choice and we don't take opportunities and announcement like these for granted because we know that companies like Bovi at solar can choose to locate anywhere in the world, but they chose us. And that's why we must continue to increase our investments in education, workforce training in our public schools and in early childhood education, that is absolutely critical. This announcement is the result of strong collaboration by company executives, elected officials across both aisles and economic development professionals. In addition to Secretary Sanders and the Department of Commerce, I'd like to thank our Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina that works so well led by Chris Chung works so well with our Department of Commerce, our North Carolina General Assembly. Those members are here today, our Golden Leaf Foundation, our Greenville Eastern North Carolina Alliance, Pitt County Electric Cities, Greenville Utilities Commission and the city of Greenville. At this time, I would like to, to welcome to the podium, the CEO of Bovi at Solar, Jimmy Shea. And I'd like to present him with a gift on behalf of the people of North Carolina, Jimmy. If you could come forward, Jimmy, this is a piece of pottery made one of our, by one of our famous artists uh Ben Owen. And on it has the great seal of the state of North Carolina and it has a part of it. Our, our motto, Si Quam Beri, which means to be rather than to seem, we want you to know in North Carolina we are who we say we are. And we look forward to this partnership for years and decades to come. Congratulations. Thank you for being here. Uh This is uh cup of the Chinese tea. Oh, outstanding. Thank you very much. Well, on behalf of the people of North Carolina, we accept this gift and hopefully we can sit and drink some tea and talk about the great success of this company. Thank you, Jimmy very much. Thank you. Mm Let uh let me begin to say uh by saying, thank you to the press, our partners and everyone who took the time to join us at today's event. Uh We are around to be receiving this investment grade and uh we are excited uh for how it uh will enable us to get our first us solar panel manufacturer facility up to and running and uh created, created uh economic uh uh our opportunities for the pul air. Yeah, for those who uh who aren't familiar. Let me introduce the about the poet founded in 2013 poet, solar head office in Unite, unite us Germany and our group uh headquarters in Vietnam. We have a proven track record of successful working with many of the industrial leading players. And our PV module are known for their power performance. And quality. This is evident because Bo has uh maintained its uh pos uh position at a Bloomberg new energy financing T one solar module manufacturers. Since 2017, we have been written at the top performance on people's PV module reliability uh score card since 2019 BB. Successfully completed. And in the independent e estimate of bo uh uh water solar manufacturers facility in 2022 the US uh solar industrial had been in K for water solar since we first uh entered the uh in 20 17 as of 2020 f uh three world solar PV sales and the PV models manufacturing capacity is more than three gigawatts and it's a shar a total of more than 6.6 gigawatt since uh in fabric, manually operating in us. Marketing. We are dedicated uh to helping to build uh American solar manufacturers uh with our new facility and uh filing, you know, cutting power in uh petit county, North Carolina and the, the natural. Uh let me tell you more about our plan for the manufacture plant. First one of the project, we use the building to manufacture our solar modules per to will including contracting uh start uh start off the art 500,000 to 60 thou uh 100,000 square foot factory on 34 acres to manufacture of PV cells which are used to build the solar panels. The location is expected to output the two gigawatts of solar and the two gigawatt uh PV cells since the future, uh uh will help bring our top performance PV modules to our variable clients to foster stronger connections with the independent uh power products. EP CS product uh developers, solar in, in installs and the contractors. We will have product uh they need uh in increase the deve deployment of uh uh U utilities, commercial industrial and uh dangerous solar project. We will require a strong workforce to product pro produce these solar panels so we will hearing about uh 900 employees uh over the next five years, job are expect expected to increase engineers, product workers. And so on, on behalf of uh B solar, I would like to thank everyone in involved in making this uh weight of product uh possible. The first is the governor uh Rio Cooper and uh and the secu uh secondary security Sanders and the North Korea development of the commerce tr uh territory uh D feature and the e economy uh economic uh developer partners of the North Korea Carolina, North Carolina General and Een North Korea uh communi Community College System, Go Goen Le found uh Foundation, Yanda down uh and the team at the Greenville East, North Carolina Islands, Kelly Andrew and the Peter County developer office, as well as the Pitter county government, Kathy Howard and the leadership team at the Greenville Utilities Commission City of the Greenville Electricity of the North Carolina and our advances today, our dream are coming true. We are upon the to begin pro product in our pe models in the US, bring our manufacturers exciting excellence to our most important uh solar market, creating jobs and the ma uh making up in impact. Solar energy in the United States is a bombing driving by its many benefits. Solar is an economic engine, a source of clean cheap um produce energy set and make a electricity affordable for customers and improve the air quality for health uh communities. We are surrendered to help uh future wills rep reputation for the green. I I can economic and uh manufacturing. We look forward to working with all of our partners, our path towards a cleaning future in the United. Thank you. I wanted to make sure I recognized Senator Candy Smith and Representative Glory Steam Brown and Representative reader, the legislature helped us a lot with this too. So, thank you very much for. Ok. Mhm. Good afternoon. My name is Anne Lord Huggins and I serve on the Pitt County Board of Commissioners. In conclusion of this momentous announcement, we must emphasize how truly honored we are that Pitt County was chosen over the many communities that were under consideration for this project. We are not only announcing the selection of Pitt County for a new industry that will bring strong economic growth to our community, but we are celebrating the collaboration that have developed and will continue to develop among Pitt County. Our partners and this esteem company. This announcement is the culmination of shared vision. This company's vision for its first us manufacturing facility in a business friendly asset, rich and welcoming community and Pitt County's vision for growth through strong industry partners that create highly skilled high paying jobs for our citizens. This vision will come to life in the, in the gr in the green corporate park and we look forward to our continued partnership to make this project successful. Beyond expectation. On behalf of Pitt County and the Board of commissioners, we extend our appreciation to each and every individual who has contributed their time, expertise and passion to make today possible. Most importantly, we extend heartfelt thanks to Bovier Sola for choosing us to communicate, to commemorate. Excuse me, this day, we would like to present a sculpture crafted by local artist Jordan Pera titled Connecting the Links May this day be a continuation of connections that will ensure your continued success. We are honored to be your partners and your chosen community. Welcome to your new home, Pitt County. OK. And I accept this on behalf of pick him and now and welcome to the podium, Thomas Taft Junior Board of Directors of Greenville, NENC Alliance for a toast. That's good. Not a force of guys. II, I had a prepared speech, but I'm gonna take this in a slightly different direction because II I, everyone has, has talked so much about the relationships and everything else. That got us to this point. But all I can say on behalf of Pitt County and on behalf of the Greenville NC Alliance is we won. We have won, we have beat out other communities, phobia technologies to come here. It's everything that we've all been working for, for years and years and years. I look at so many of you out here that uh were participants in that. And again, all I want to say is we won. Pitt County won North Carolina won. Thank you, Governor Cooper. Cheers, everyone. Cheers. Thank you. I don't mind. That's fine. No, no, no, no. Well, I would just add that this is the single largest jobs announcement in Pitt County's history. Uh, I don't believe we've had a governor here in, uh, about 15 years to announce anything, uh, economic development, a new, a new, uh, I'm sorry. But, uh, but either way we're proud to have you here. We're proud to have you guys here. Cheers again to a victory for Pitt County here here. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ok. Thank you so much. I'm ready to provide. Yeah. Yeah. Ok. They see. All right. Right. Yes. That's first. He said going across the way, come back in time.</p>

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