You know what? This counts as head coaching experience! Definitely qualified to be UNC's head coach! I'm kidding...
Rest of this is unrelated to that video.
I think I chose to wait until the regular season to make any guesses on what this team would be so that's probably why I'm a little more even keel than everyone else. In the preseason, there were people here saying this team was 11 (count em 11!) deep. The only player I had pretty high expectations for was Cade Tyson because I thought if he could really shoot the ball here, it would really help us. And boy have I been wrong about that, lol. And to his credit, Seth has been terrific and I didn't really buy his preseason hype.
The harsh reality of this team right now is they're 5 deep (Cadeau, RJ, Seth, Jackson, and Powell). I'll go 6 to be nice because Withers does show the capability to play well at times. But realistically Powell and Withers are pretty similar right now for different reasons. You don't know what Powell is going to do every game because he's a freshmen and Withers, you have no clue because you haven't had a clue on what he'll do for 5 years now. So this is a 6 deep team right now that has to glue together their 4-5 rotation.
It's a mess right now. I'm one to blame the players first. Unless there's evidence on film that there is absolutely 0 open shots for them, then they have some blame in this too. Make your open layups (Cadeau and RJ) and make your open 3s (literally everyone on the roster). Do the easy things well and the harder things will get easier.
But obviously Hubert deserves a lot of blame and criticism too. Antiquated and outdated offense. And defense? Well, when has UNC really had a defense-first minded culture or mindset? This is a pretty basketball program. Hard to get that culture reversed into a tough, grind it out, 40 minutes of intensity basketball. But... at least he's a UNC guy right?
