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19 Miami Hurricanes
20-5, 11-4 CONF

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2/13
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North Carolina Tar Heels​

16-9, 8-6 CONF



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At halftime of Super Bowl 57, WRAL News unveiled a commercial featuring a few surprise local characters who are deeply passionate about North Carolina and its people. It included legendary UNC men's basketball coach Roy Williams. In the commercial, Williams donned the headgear of Rameses, the ram mascot of the North Carolina Tar Heels. (WRAL.com)

"Most of what you've heard is either incorrect or very, very old news."

...and that's a little more like it.

- OK, sure -- making shots cures a lot, especially 15 3s (!!!) But... the real tangible improvement was in SHOT-SELECTION. That's particularly encouraging, since much of it came in half-court offense that was not set plays. If this team is to make a move in the right direction, that is a good place to start.

- Subtly, our base 20 defense was very solid today for the most part. Leaky and others were expecially effective on their scoring leader.

- Going back to a previous observsation, we are better with Puff at the 4. I did like the early use of the bench (although I expected to see Nickel before garbage time). Dunn played very well with 3 dimes and 0 TOs, and hopefully knocking down some shots restored his confidence.

- In general, we shared (and took care of) the ball better --- 17 Assists / 7 TOs --- but there are still places in which we are missing obvious passes. RJ demurred on two EASY passes and instead forced shots, but generally the pass looks were being taken advantage of.

- we didn't get as many transition ops as I would like, but when we did we generally executed nicely.

- we used some interesting big lineups effectively, especially with Bacot and Washington together.

Finally, one last thing about shot-selection --- Not all quick-trigger 3s are bad shots --- it comes down to time and situation. In other words, basketabll. IQ, which hasn't exactly been this team's strength. We looked a bit smarter today. Caleb's decisions in particular were much better than usual.

Oh... couple more things:
1. Credit where it's due --- TV Teddy and company called a very solid game (very much unlike what we've seen in the previous two), and anyone who doesn't get how much difference that makes?, Welp... you go with that...

and...

2. Hopefully this post will go up without someone pulling another douche-move. All I can say about that is, get your own thread title.

Anyway, it's good to see order restored when Clemmy comes to Chapel Hill. Hopefully the positives I saw wll carry over as we move forward in a critical month...

We are 50 days from the start of the CFB season, so I'll start the Coaching Carousel thread!

In 2020, the first coach fired himself after week 1 (Jay Hopson, So Miss), and in 2021, the first firing was week 1 (but really the 2nd week of play, as there was a "week 0") when UConn finally fired Randy Edsall.

There were lots of changes last year, but it became the "Year of Promoting Assistants." 29 changes last cycle, with many of the big schools, like ND, promoting assistants, which kept the carousel from coming off of its axel!

A recap of the last few years:

22 (2008)
23 (2009)
24 (2010)
28 (2011)
31 (2012) *highest number of changes
20 (2013)
15 (2014) **lowest number of changes
29 (2015)
21 (2016)
21 (2017)
28 (2018)
24 (2019) 12 in P5
17 (2020) 8 in P5
29 (2021) 13 in P5

The Scoop began tracking these in 2008, and the 2021 cycle raised the average slightly, to 23.7; the average for the 10 years rose slightly to 23.5. The 10 year average is likely to drop after the upcoming cycle, because the highest year will drop off, and, except for 2011 to 2012, anytime there has been a high year, the next year is lower.

Conference number changes from last year, as a reminder:

P5
PAC12 4 (of 12)
ACC 4 (of 14)
Big12 3 (of 10)
SEC 2 (of 14)
Big 10 - none

G5
MWC 4 (of 12)
SBC 3 (of 10)
MAC 2 (of 12)
CUSA 2 (of 14)
AAC 1 (of 11)

Among the independents, 4 of 7 changed coaches (ND, New Mexico St, UConn, and UMass)

Every game from now on is like the season saving game at Duke last year where the Tar Heels were on the bubble and needed a victory in Durham in front of a ton of Alumni and other Cameron crazies to get into the dance.

No holding back it is put up or shut up time for the home team and right now this is this most IMPORTANT game of the year.

Clemson which has been on top of the ACC most of the season is not a automatic win at home like it use to be as they bring in a veteran time of three seniors , a junior and a sophomore and all of the upperclassmen are averaging scoring in double digits with forward Hunter Tyson leading the way at 16.1 and center PJ Hall close behind at 14.3. Chase Hunter helps with 14.1 average and Brevin Galloway at guard rounds out the double digit scorers at 10.

The Tigers front line goes 6’10 by Hall, Tyson at 6’8, at sophomore Ian Schieffelin at 6’7 which might make Carolina go small more than we are use to seeing with Puff and Nickel playing extended minutes instead of Nance.

Assuming Black is going to get the assignment of holding Tyson I would expect Nance to open up on Hall. I would rather Nance be on him than Bacot because unlike last game Carolina cannot afford to have Mando get into serious foul trouble.

On offense Black and Nance must try and score meaning to drive some instead of settling only for corner threes. Love and Davis must also go the basket hard either scoring or getting fouled.

Defense is the key to this contest and hopefully Carolina will use the full court press to rattle the Tigers which also hopefully will lead to a basket 🧺 full of turnovers and easy scores.

There is NO tomorrow, today MUST be the day that the team takes no prisoners and puts everybody else in the ACC on notice that the team is not dead yet…

Leaky Black, take a bow.

Jacob, Brandon and I are on press row, Kevin is on the baseline shooting.

Obviously this is a hige game. It won't reveal if this team has turned the corner, but a bad performance and loss will reveal whatever ills this team is likely to stay.

...stomping the fighting Pitinos.
Breaks my heart...

We need a change I’d go
Davis,nickel,puff,Washington,Bacot.