Interesting point from Roy’s radio program Monday night:
“I’ll give you an example. I’ve been a head coach for 21 years. For 21 years, our point guard has taken the ball out underneath the basket. And [Sunday] was the first time in 21 years as a head coach that we really had the problems that we had on Sunday. We used two timeouts. The one in the first half didn’t bother me because if you’re going to take one in the first half, if you don’t use it, you lose it. But I would have liked to have had a timeout at the end of the game.
“I used mine, but if we had one more timeout, wouldn’t it have been a lot of fun to have gotten that rebound with three seconds left to see if we could have come up with some magical thing that might have upset those people up there a little bit? And it’s just something little like that. And the timeout that was called was because a guy just went out and lined up in the wrong place. It’s something as simple as that.”
Wake Forest did a great job defending against UNC inbounding the ball on the end line so much so that Ty Lawson had to burn two timeouts to avoid a five second count. The first one was not an issue since you lose one timeout at halftime anyway. The second was more important since it would have been nice to be able to call a timeout when the Heels got the rebound off the Jeff Teague miss with three seconds left. Yes, it still would have been a long shot but at least they could have set up a better look and not a half court heave by Will Graves. This also assumes Roy does not burn said timeout at some other point in the game.
Also from the radio program. Roy was pissed all day Monday so it was good there was no practice and I am sure it took all the restraint he could muster not to lay into one of those 72 year old women who call talking about how nice the Heels are. The practice on Tuesday will involve a review of the whole game tape highlighting the various mistakes that were made.
That should be fun!
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I think we turned it over twice on UOB plays as well. Bet that doesn’t happen again this year.
Also, BC and Wake kept grabbing the ball after made baskets. Why didn’t UNC ask for an instruction from the referees so that BC and Wake would get a technical foul for continuing to do this. Instead, UNC just let them continue to slow us down by catching the ball and then passing it to a referee. It looks benign, but it isn’t.
Second, Roy says they are just kids so they have slumps, but then how do you explain the Boston Celtics starting out 26-3 or whatever and then losing five of eight? The Celtics are pretty long in the tooth….
It’s not because if Deon or Tyler grab the ball out of the basket and toss it 1/3 of the way up court to Lawson it sparks transition. That needs to be watched for in the future.
I thought I saw one of the Deacs on one play actually toss the ball up in the air after the made basket. Why is it on the UNC players to remind the referee of his friggin JOB? Like others have said, the silver lining (if there is one) is that as poorly as UNC played, it was still within reach. Roy might indeed get the ship righted, but he’s probably having about as much fun as Gary Williams is during this period. Pretty harsh assessment by Roy, but spot on–inexcusable for a Tarheel team.
True, but it takes one request from a canny player to the ref to take care of, which isn’t that hard in the grand scheme of things, or Roy could do it. It certainly seems worth the minimal effort, but maybe they think it is whining or something….
Well it certainly seems to work for certain shades of blue.
Did you notice Tyler speaking to the refs the other night (presumably about contact)? That’s the first time I’ve seen him “whine”. Personally I like the Steve Stipanovich (NCSU–early 60’s) method of getting a message to the ref when he’s being mugged. Seems Stip in a particularly nasty Clemson game employed his unique one-handed rebound technique, and with the off-elbow, applied it with vigor to the solar plexus of the Tiger who had been draped on his back all night. This story was related to me by one of his team-mates, who said Stip didn’t have any more “ref problems” that night.
He used to carry a revolver in his shorts….
lol, not a stretch for that time. my bad-it was George Stepanovich, not Steve, who later played for the Pacers.
Remember he shot himself by accident when he played for Missouri. Both Missouri and SMU, which had Jon Koncak were tough teams in the early 80’s.
I was looking on Wiki and saw that–apparently there was some talk of a suicide attempt. You’re right–that Mizzou team was tough–weren’t they coached by Norm Stewart?
Yeah. I think they beat us at least once and maybe twice back in the 80’s. It is strange to think of SMU, where Doherty now coaches as a major rival back then in basketball, but they were the major power in the SWC, along with Arkansas, back then in both football and basketball, but the probation they got killed both programs and was so severe that the NCAA doesn’t use such sanctions anymore.
I’m just reading this now, and honestly if Tuesdays practice was going to be about reviewing the whole game and highlighting the mistakes that were made, it’s possible they’re still in Tuesday practice.