NC State guard Zam Jones met with InsidePackSports after the Wolfpack's 68-59 win over Davidson.
NC State missed 10 three-pointers in a row. You made the one that killed the game off, doubled the lead. Speak to the confidence in taking that shot and how big that shot was.
I think my coaches and my teammates, they never got down on me and told me to stop shooting. So, no, she was going to shoot regardless. I missed, what, two threes before that? I just keep shooting.
They were running. It was in the interior. In the interior, Pierre was kind of having her way. So, in the buildup there, when you're doing down three, they seem to kind of want to make an emphasis to stop that. So, does this team – you're not a one-trick pony. This team have multiple weapons.
They're not. For sure. I said that last interview. We got multiple scores. You stopped Khamil, you got me. You stopped me, you got Zoe. You stopped me, you got Tilda. You stopped me, we got Q.
Anybody on the court can score. So, it's not like you stopped one person, you stopped the whole team. It's not like that.
You're finding your way with this new team. This is a new team. You're finding your mix. The easy comparison is look back to November, USC, there was slippage at the back end. Today there was no slippage. You guys closed it out. Where has the growth been from then to now?
I feel like there's confidence in sticking together, not flipping on each other or going against each other in no moments. Just sticking together, we all going mentally. So, I feel like we just stick together as a team and grind it out.
When you take a big shot and it goes down, just describe that vibe, that feeling, that adrenaline.
I'm happy. I made the shot, the crowd going crazy, I’m just feeling it. This was an away game, I was just feeling like I was in the sky.
So, I've been – I've had the great privilege of covering a lot of the road games this year, and you guys seem to get a kick out of fans talking to y'all. Is that the – am I getting the right vibe of this group?
Oh, yeah, you're getting the right vibe. Somebody in the corner kept yelling my name, telling me to look at them. So, I made them free throws and had to give them a little piece of all that talking on, like all that talking on.
Okay, you guys are 9-4, which is – but, it's been a weird path to get where you're at, but you're also 2-0 in the ACC. Now, you get this break, and you get to run it in this league from now on. And so, I guess it's all there for y'all in the ACC. Just speak to that, how you got to this point, how important this break is, and how big this next few months will be.
You know the break, get time to recover. When we come back, we are full on. We back practicing full time. We back with the energy. We got to come from the break the exact same time, how we just ended this right here. No drop-off or nothing. Come out gunning.
Where's the growth potential between now and March?
Oh, we're going to grow for sure. We're going to grow. Bigger than what we've really grown from November to December.
