Who knows what effect 30 inches of snow will have on the Terps or the Tar Heels? I am approaching this with the Forrest Gump philosophy and we’ll deal with whatever we get on the floor today. Maybe the out-of-sync nature of the snow will benefit the team who is already out-of-sync and hurt the one playing well. Who knows?
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@boulderHeel…850’s hurricane comment was nothing but accurate. You either deal with reality or you don’t.
I think 850 is on the money with this team. Telling it like it is.
Marcus had some D time on Vasquez.
I really might not watch on Wednesday. I’m a newly wed, my wife doesn’t need to see me get that angry.
^thats good strategy, unc33. and congrats.
I’ve seen fewer open three’s in the pickup games I’m in three nights a week. Just unacceptable.
The scary thing is that I think we’ve gotten to the point where teams are not only confident when they play us, but where teams don’t respect us. When teams don’t respect you, then they KNOW they can beat you. We’ve gotten well past the point of teams being confident they can beat us; they know that if they just keep taking hits at us that we’ll just lay down eventually. And that’s a disgrace to this program.
Only the players can right the ship, and right now, I just think some of them are just looking forward to the end of the season.
^ i think thats absolutely established right now. when you dont stop anyone on D, the other team just needs to double the bigs on our end, and wait for the open shot on their end.
this is not a team that will stand up to being punched in the mouth.
for a split second, i thought maybe the Maryland fans chanting NIT would provide motivation, but if the embarrassment of the previous 9 games doesnt motivate you, and the desperation of the post-season situation the last 3 games doesnt motivate you, a chant isnt going to change anything.
“850’s hurricane comment was nothing but accurate. You either deal with reality or you don’t.”
There are a lot of accurate statements that can be said of each player on this team. But some people are searching for scapegoats and I think that it is getting too personal.
Vasquez performance today was good but it did not match his performance last year. You did not hear these comments then; but of course, Drew was not guarding him then so it did not fit the agendas.
I’m not happy; no one is happy. But I think that some should step away from the ledge.
Step away from the ledge? LD2 does not have the talent to help right this ship. It ain’t gonna get any better with him playing point. I know there are other problems. But ineffective or downright bad PG play creates a lot of other problems. And we have that in spades. I’m actually edging closer to that ledge.
Ok – I’m back. I’m not searching for scapegoats. I’m searching for somebody who has the competance to be a starting point guard for this team. And Larry Drew aint it. Scapegoats… Geez. You have got to be kidding me. 13-10 and you think these guys are above criticism? Unbelievable.
i think william said it. if you cant beat either virginia team, maybe you dont belong in the field. i think we all thought we had a pretty decent chance, after the State game, of going 2-1 in these 3 games.
Criticism? no. Some of the stretches of the imagination being thrown around here, yes. Its like I’m reading a State board.
Its like I’m watching a State basketball team. That might have something to do with it.
er ur team bad
– Wolfpack fan
There’s a difference between criticism and internet bashing and I think we all want to be respectful of OUR players as students that represent UNC. That’s the guiding sentiment, it’s clear that we had big, huge, tremendous problems today and we will see them again since we have seen them before. There’s just no reason to be ugly about it. If that was your kid playing point guard today how would you handle it?
“Its like I’m watching a State basketball team”
ok – i apologize. but man, it sure would be nice if he’d start playing smarter.
I think Drew is the least of our issues right now; it’s pretty easy to pack the lane on him and double down on the bigs because there’s no pure scoring threat from the outside.
But, it’s hard for me to talk X’s and O’s when you can see there’s no more fight in some of these guys.
Seriously, this team may be uncoachable. May be a tough nut to crack for Roy. Youth and inexperience and a failure of upperclassman toughness and leadership as well as lapses in intelligent play may make it nigh impossible for Roy to get consistent improvement from them. I am afraid that the best we can hope for after having watched 23 games is that they intermittently come together and play well and possibly for a long enough stretch to beat someone.
I’m just going to spend the rest of the season looking for some sign that the underclassmen are really better then they’ve looked so far. Some sign that we’ve got a foundation we can build upon next year… because I won’t be able to take two years in a row of this.
It would be nice if they all would play smarter or better. I agree that LDII had a really bad game and a really bad 1-2 minute stretch in the second half after coming back from being yanked (that’s all a player gets under Roy) but its not accurate to say that he is a DivII player. There’s no reality in a statement like that to deal with. Tar Heel troubles go beyond a single player…even the QB. Strictland has had a horrible stretch of games and in his first 30 seconds today, he missed a 1 on 4 jumpshot and had a turnover. Yet, he is above criticism.
I love seeing Strictland slash, but I cringe when he brings the ball up the court. That’s why I was so happy when the line-up was LDII, Henson, Strictland, Davis, and Thompson….for all of thirty seconds. Bring your smart but 1-step slow veteran and your I.O. off the bench.
“because I won’t be able to take two years in a row of this.”
Nope, and that’s the great thing about being a Tar Heel; we usually have to ask someone from Raleigh what that is like.
UNC33: “I really might not watch on Wednesday. I’m a newly wed, my wife doesn’t need to see me get that angry. ”
THF: “• This team swings to polar opposites in five min stretches.”
The first comment above just cracked me up. You will mellow over time, I have. And THF, I couldn’t agree more. I see flashes of brilliance and think they are getting it together, then they pretend they have never played.
I actually changed the channel twice on this one, I NEVER do that. Embarrassed to have done so though. I did think Marcus had a good game overall. Still can’t believe they hit that many threes, but the Heels left them open, wide open. Wanda could have made one.
Maybe we here at THF blog can expect a loss Wednesday and perhaps be given a surprise. Remember it is DUKE…anything can happen in that one.
First off, I am becoming more excited about our upcoming season next year. Henson played a good game, and while it was in the last 30 seconds, had that Durant pull-up jumper that we all thought we’d be seeing. He will become more confident in attempting those as the season goes on. This Duke game will be one that we will have to have quality and quantity minutes from Strickland. If Duke comes out of the gate missing those 3 pointers, it will be imperative that Strick can run back quick on offense for easy buckets. If you recall last year, Duke (while being a good defensive team)(also, while getting by not drawing fouls on contact) had weaknesses. One of those weaknesses was transition defense. Lawson torched them! We need that Strickland that steals the ball, gets the rebounds, and moves up the court in a hurry. If we do that, Duke is beatable.
Ginyard looked terrible on defense. He was clearly out of position on several plays they ended up showing replays of. I don’t know who his main task on defense was but we got torched by both of their guards so it doesn’t really matter.
But no, this loss isn’t on him. This team is not any good. There are only two guys on this entire team that look like they have game, Henson and Zeller and neither of them get to play. I will include Ed Davis of last year as a guy that has game.
I am sorry, but no, Dexter Strickland is not good, not as a point guard anyway. He has had maybe two decent outings the whole year. McDonald is not impressive. The Wears are not impressive. I don’t know who was responsible for talent evaluation with respect to these guys, but somebody please tell me that we don’t have another 5 McDonald’s All Americans like these guys the next couple of years.
These guys can’t run, jump, dripple, catch or shoot. It is kind of cool having twins on our team and guys with cool nicknames like L-mac and Strick on our team, though….
boulderheel: you are spot on buddy!
fwiw: the day isn’t a total loss–”The Who” come on in about 7 minutes.
I would have thought that John Wall, trashing his coach then apologizing by saying, he’s developing me for the nba. Wall doesn’t care for 2 seconds about KY. That’s not what we want. We will have Barnes and Bullock next year and most everyone else. We knew this year would be rough and it is. KY will be on probabtion soon enough, it’s their reality. You just wonder what happened to the team we saw against Ohio State and MSU.
@boulderheel….when an intelligent fan base (and that’s what I consider the majority of posters on this blog to be) is exposed to the horrendous play that we have seen since mid-December, those fans have every right to step to the edge of the ledge in their criticism. Your comments lead me to believe that you may be softer than our post players, and that’s ok. You have every right to express your side. I would, however, caution you on directing some of the tougher fans, myself included, to back off. There hasn’t been a single post tonight that even remotely comes close to crossing the line.
pastormcn
February 7th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
The worst thing about this season is that Carolina is no longer the top program in college basketball.
Get a grip on reality. That is the LAST thing on the “worst” list for this team.
“Your comments lead me to believe that you may be softer than our post players…”
I was built for comfort, not for speed.
Whew this team is rough folks. Very rough. I was so tempted to turn it off after Deon was unable to get a rebound on a missed free throw. Pure laziness. He is doing a good job of pulling attention away from Ginyard, who finally played well and they STILL got blown out. So many open looks for Maryland. This team should be downright embarrassed with their play. They have shown zero heart this year. ZERO. I absolutely fear Wed. night. I am going in with no expectations but they are going to get shredded.