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heelmanwilm said:

I have no idea how a lot of this works out except for one thing. We are gonna have a good defense. And that excites me cause that’s what separates the good teams from the avg and bad. There is very little good defense in cfb and those who play it have success.

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now you're talking my language. Nothing like a good 'D' and over time we have had more of that than we have of 'O'. Glad for it.

What Would Jesus Do? said:

I really like Claude. The early knock against him was that he was too short and a foul magnet. But in his last games for us he's been quite good and not a foul magnet.

To my eye, he has one of the best motors on the team, and manages to be in good position a lot.

Can't do anything about his height, but he pushes people around pretty well for a smaller front line player.

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Ooops, that was a typo, Claude was 1-4 from the free throw line and the misses were butt ugly! I changed it but you knew he could not have gone 4-4 from the line and score only 3pts? LOL

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What Would Jesus Do? said:

He's just quietly competent.

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To me Lubin is Garrison Brooks, blue collar, works hard but limited.

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What Would Jesus Do? said:

I really like Claude. The early knock against him was that he was too short and a foul magnet. But in his last games for us he's been quite good and not a foul magnet.

To my eye, he has one of the best motors on the team, and manages to be in good position a lot.

Can't do anything about his height, but he pushes people around pretty well for a smaller front line player.

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I like Claude, he gives you what he has to give but he looks like Shaq at the free throw line and basically his range on his shot is measured in inches rather than feet. He is a under sized guy on a very small team. I just prefer that UNC has a match up advantage physically at at least 1 position on the court rather than a already small team playing even smaller. Tiny back court meets tiny front court and big things are expected? LOL

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What Would Jesus Do? said:

Excellent point.

Wonderful to see Cade break out. Fingers crossed that it continues against better teams and against man-to-man. This team desperately needs another outside threat that opposing teams have to respect.

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This Cade Tyson question, I am as well very glad the kid had a really good game yesterday, there are teams he will match up well against but others I don't think he will. Agree or not up to you but I see him maybe more as jump shooting wing that is out of position as a 4, he is playing exclusively as a 4? Well, if he is in fact a wing we have Drake, Seth, and Jack that can all play well at the 3, is it vital that Tyson as a 3 is as critical to our play? OK, so you feel he is a 4 and not a 3, we have JWit, we have IMO Jalen (that IMO may fit the 4 in Hubert's preferred style of play ( I have always felt Jalen was a stretch 4 much more than a 5) and I feel Lubin is more a 4 than a 5. Point being we have much better fits at the 4 than I see Tyson as.

I think it fare more important for this team to get Jalen's game cranked up, to iron out Cadeau's shooting issues, to get RJ back to confident jump shooting, to have JWit making hard cuts thru the lane and looking for hi to finish strong, for Lubin to show off more of that mid range game, AL far more important in my view than Tyson and I do not mean that to offend any one, just sharing my view point.

So yesterday, in a game we had well in hand I would have had much more a focus to get Jalen hitting some shots and getting confident, his offense seems to dictate his over all play. I am pissed that didn't happen, this game was tailor made for that to happen and it didn't, he got 4 minutes of real game time action? He is taken out right after he took a hard pass and finished and got the and 1 and gets back in during mop up?

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DSouthr said:

6) Lubin 10pts, did not miss a shot from the field, 5 boards in his 20mins

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He's just quietly competent.

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sctarheel30 said:

When will the ncaa implement a salary cap like every other level of sports? Has to be done tbh.

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Wouldn’t a salary cap only limit what the school could pay the player? The NCAA cannot limit NIL and what boosters are willing to pay a recruit for doing a single car dealership advertisement.

DSouthr said:

9) Claude, 5 boards, 3pts, 4-4 from free throw line in his 7mins

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I really like Claude. The early knock against him was that he was too short and a foul magnet. But in his last games for us he's been quite good and not a foul magnet.

To my eye, he has one of the best motors on the team, and manages to be in good position a lot.

Can't do anything about his height, but he pushes people around pretty well for a smaller front line player.

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JovialMuse said:

Maybe you're right, but there are a lot of teams out there with fewer 4- and 5-star guys and/or less heralded players that manage to play more cohesively and with better results. Some of that I'm sure is player fit and evaluation and want-to/desire from the players, but to my admittedly non-coach eyes it appears to be either the wrong scheme for the players on the roster or that the players aren't executing the schemes correctly. Smaller or similarly-sized teams with less raw talent have managed to have great success in recent seasons.

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To re-enforce your point, Cadeau simply is NOT a jump shooter from trey, his game is built on forcing the defense to react to his drives and finding a open team mate for a clean look. RJ, big time shooter in a slump but at the end of the day he is a 5'11" 2 guard, very tiny by even a college standard now days and he is not the quickest 5'11"guy around. Jalen is a very good mid range jump shooter that can extend out to trey at times, he is being used asd a back to the basket guy that sets a lot of screens? Seth is so far our clear MVP but her is a big time driver that finishes athletically but is a hesitant jump shooter. JWit is a big time finisher at the rim, very athletic but a weak jump shooter, taking to many jumpers from deep corner? Tyson, was supposed to be that long wing that was a great shooter, has he played anything but the 4 this season? Drake and Jack are both big time drive to the rim guys that wil in time be consistent jump shooters but they are not there yet? We are playing guys to their weakness rather than to their strengths and I expect better from a UNC coaching staff than that.

I think a coach at ANY level, be it middle school girls, college men, or NBA that your best chance at winning is to play a style that features the strengths of the players you NOW HAVE and not force guys to play to the weakest part of their game just because you demand a certain style be played, stop forcing square pegs in to round holes, it just messes up the pegs and doesn't help the holes either.

gary-7 said:

Shout-out to James Brown, who refreshingly acted like a damn BIG, getting to the blocks, posting and asking for the ball.

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That was fun. And frankly, if he can do that from time to time, he makes himself useful - and might even have couple of upperclassmen looking over their shoulders when it comes to PT.

I'm not expecting him to become a starter any time soon, but he ain't chopped liver.