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Michael O'Connell: My leg just buckled
Michael O'Connell talks to WRAL News about his injury after the Wolfpack's loss to Purdue.
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Michael O'Connell talks to WRAL News about his injury after the Wolfpack's loss to Purdue.
Well, you're just gonna take us through what happened there in the first half, deserve the injury, a yacht. I don't really know. I was just, I would ever on a fast break and I went to step and my leg just kinda buckled underneath me and I just went down and that, that's kinda what I really remember from it. Yeah, just with the motions right now. I just obviously just given the, the height of this roller coaster here and putting out. Yeah, I mean, obviously it's tough, you know, we're all, uh, we're all competitors. So obviously we wanna win, we wanna win it all. But, um, we also don't wanna look past everything we've done, you know, it's, it's been an unbelievable ride and unbelievable journey and we've accomplished a lot, you know, we've grown together, we've done a lot of things together. Um, so, uh, right now in the moment, it's definitely tough to, you know, really grasp that and understand because we wanted to win, you know, we wanted to win it all. But, um, so it's tough in the locker room. Obviously, everyone's down, but at the same time too, we also just got to be grateful for where we're at and what we've accomplished when you, when you came out of the game, you went down the steps, kind of hobbled a little bit. Did you think you'd be able to make it back into the game with your hamstring or? Did you just were sure. Uh, no, for sure. In my mind, I was coming back. Um, there was no chance I wasn't even gonna try to step back on the floor and if it's a final four game, I'm gonna do everything, I can be back on unless I can't walk, you know, and, um, whatever the decision was to put me back in or not. Uh, but yeah, for sure in my mind, I was coming back and when you played this 3.5, 2nd, 2nd half minutes, how did you feel? I mean, it was hurting but, you know, that's just, that's a part of it, you know, you gotta fight through some, some injuries or pain sometimes, but it is what it is, was it kind of a pick your poison? Uh, Ed? I mean, you guys told him just 20. Um, but then there was the 10 threes, like what was kind of the, the, the game plan on that? Yeah, I mean, you can't really let them, let them get going from all facets from obviously inside and shooting threes. Um, definitely wanted to limit one of them and I think we know sometimes like he kind of talks about, we gave up a lot of threes which kind of helped a little too much off of what we shouldn't have and, uh, just little, you know, mental errors and mental mistakes kind of gave great players good looks. Obviously, it's a little tough to look back now already. But what was the, what was the feeling like in this locker room afterwards? And you know, how happy are you guys with the run that you've been able to make to this point? Yeah, like I was just saying before, it's definitely tough, you know, we're all competitors so we don't wanna lose, you know, we, in our minds, we were gonna go win it all. We want to win it all. Um, but, uh, but at the same time, like coach talked about, you know, it's, we've accomplished a lot and we can't just look past that. And, um, you know, it's, it's a part of the journey too, you know, it's just, uh, we've done a lot of good things and we also got to embrace that, but at the end of the day we wanted to win.