Clemson, Wuffies, Pitt, Miami, and Wake ranked.

The Notre Dame 6’10 senior is so versatile can score both inside and outside and is a solid rebounder….We have all seen him light up Carolina over the years and having a big experienced player like Manek showed last year who can lead by example would and could be the last piece to the puzzle and especially now that Dawson Garcia has decided to go to another team closer to home.

Yes there will be tons and tons of players in the portal who offer a bunch of good things but to me this is a no brainer and a perfect fit to come in and contribute right away…

Hope Coach Davis and his staff see the same opportunity that I see to replace the one position that UNC needs to fill this year…

Love how the losers walked off with towels over their heads without shaking hands. Dook class personified. Pure failures all the way around, lol. They left ratface out there with only Moore behind him to face the team that crapped on his fairy tale. Perfect.

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Meant to start this thread over the weekend. I apologize if this has been discussed already, but what are y'all's thoughts on Nate Oats and how he's got that Alabama program humming this year?

I haven't watched a ton of ball this year but the times I have seen them, his team shoots really well. Plus, I love that he called Coach K to task earlier in the season.

Thoughts? Could he be a rising star? Wikipedia says he's only 46.

...and what if they made biscuits and no one was there to eat em? That might've been the only thing that kept us from scoring 100, but hey, why be wasteful?

Seriously though, I honestly felt bad for Mack, as his guys were obviously rusty from not having played, and it really showed in their lack of "shooting legs" as they were uncharacteristically brick-laying. That being said, that does nothing to take away from (easily) our best offensive execution in at least 2 years,

- It's always a good sign when I can tell what we've been working on in practice --- Big-to-Big action, baby!. Granted, it took a minute --- the first time Bacot got the ball on the block, he missed seeing a WIDE-open Brooks backside. Fortunately, we didn't miss many more of those. and y'see it's a team thing --- solid posting, sure cuts, decisive passes --- and buddy, that was some vintage Dean Smith Carolina T-Game basketball right there tonight! We hit the backside block-to-block passes, the Hi-Lo entries, give-and-goes, you name it. Hell, at one point I coulda swore I saw visions of Mitch Kupchak pointing to Bobby Jones for the Assist.

- Our perimeter guys were feeding properly as well. I can almost bet we worked on bounce-passes to Bigs. Y'see, those are fine but ya just can't throw a pass at the Big's ankles.,. the rule of thumb is the ball pass should BOUNCE up to knee height --- and it can be the difference between a basket and a TO. For those of you who notice such things, our guys were "sitting down" with the pass and the ball was coming up accordingly.

- speaking of Bigs, an underappreciated skill is cutting, and they did so tonight like they meant it. I can't remember how many times in practices I repeated the mantra "reward the big man!", meaning that if he works hard, get him the damned rock. Our bigguns worked there asses off tonight. That also includes running the floor, and they did that too. So yeah, we can still get better, but the passing, catching and finishing were all improved markedly.

- My friend @Tarheel75 and I have been harping all season about EFFORT and ENERGY, and for the first time in ages the first 5 came out like they meant it, instead of waiting for the bench to spark us, and the energy level was almost incessant throughout line changes. All game we were getting after loose balls, making the extra effort in defensive help, and getting tough rebounds. And if someone made a mistake?... they didn't sulk... and it felt like everyone had each others' backs. For example, when Caleb reverted to a first-day frosh and got his pocket picked consecutively, he bounced back and got right back into the flow.

- Speaking of all that --- and I'll readily apologize if it has sounded arrogant about it before--- but tonight illustrated what I've been preaching as to what this team potentially can be at its best --- an interchangeable 9-man rotation, that is quickly becoming 10 with big Kessler getting his legs under him. There is no one player who has to be on the floor for us to do what we do, and we have guys with complementary skills, strengths and experience levels. Literally everyone in that 10 contributed something valuable tonight in their own respective ways. Sharpe was in beast-mode and slowed things down for himself, but Mando and Garrison were solid as rocks, and Kessler more than made his presence felt. Caleb and RJ ran the show nicely. Leaky was quietly effective while Ant brought high energy, and Walton lit it up with 19 on 7/10 shooting while Plates put on as good a performance as you'll ever see for a guy who only took 1 shot, with 5 dimes, 3 boards, and yet another defensive clinic.

Bottom line guys? Yes they were rusty, but this is still a 20 point win even if they weren't.

Anyway, what's the mantra? PLAY HARD, PLAY SMART and PLAY TOGETHER. Check, check and check. Now... let's see if we can repeat that Weds when Wojo comes to town...

Always a thread on here about who may be Roy's successor when that time comes. Always a couple Stackhouse supporters that throw his name out. Well, I guess that candidacy has come to a screeching halt. Not turning around the Vandy program would eliminate him anyway, but his recent comments about his critics would now make him a PR nightmare.

Sooooo…. with sanity restored and proof positive that Roy can still recruit, maybe we can discuss the next cycle here.

Looking at the depth board, the upcoming season has 3 Scholly seniors (BRob, Rush and Woods). I think it's safe to pencil in Cole as OAD and Armando as likely OAD. Then, if Roy signs a Grad Transfer for next season, or gives the scholly to a walk-on, there's the chance for another spot.

All adds up to the potential for a 5-6 player recruiting class.

Sharpe is committed and Roy has offered:
Kessler, Brown, Todd, Roach, Williams and Springer

I'd guess PG is an immediate need, either as insurance for Francis, or a straight replacement for Cole. Or could a Junior Leaky be given the keys to the Ferrari?

SG/Wing is always a need, would this be where Williams and Springer come into play?

Besides Sharpe and then Snr Brooks, I wouldn't be relying on the front court hold-overs, so how important are Kessler, Brown and Todd?

Love to hear peoples opinions.

Some of these will presumably return, but here's the list I found on SI:

Cole Anthony, — North Carolina, 6-3, Freshman
Vernon Carey Jr. — Duke, 6-10, Freshman
DJ Funderburk — NC State, 6-10, Junior
Jay Huff — Virginia, 7-1, Junior
Elijah Hughes — Syracuse, 6-6, Junior
Tre Jones — Duke, 6-3, Sophomore
Jordan Nwora — Louisville, 6-7, Junior
Aamir Simms — Clemson, 6-9, Junior
Cassius Stanley — Duke, 6-6, Freshman
Devin Vassell — Florida State, 6-6, Sophomore
Patrick Williams — Florida State, 6-8, Freshman

https://www.si.com/nba/2020/04/29/full-list-nba-draft-early-entrants

The Coby White era has begun!
Game 1
17pts/7ast/3rbs in 27min
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Marvin Williams with 17pts also in only 17 min.

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Has any UNC team ever been swept by Dook and swept by a Dook alum coaching another team?

But, with the win over Oregon, Roy quietly tied the Baron, Adolph Rupp, for career wins. He's also only 3 behind the Dean. Roy will easily fall into the 4th spot all-time by the end of this season. Sadly, he probably won't catch Jimmy B or the Rat for his career, but that's quite a testament to Roy considering he got a late start in the game, had to deal with a Kansas program under sanction when he arrived, and transitioned to another school (aka Carolina Blue Heaven) halfway through his career.

All-Time Wins (Coach)
1. Mike Krzyzewski 1138
2. Jim Boeheim 1051
3. Bob Knight 899
4. Dean Smith 879
5. Jim Calhoun 877
Roy Williams 877
Adolf Rupp 876

Thought some may be interested in seeing a bracket for this year's tournament, one that is chock full of good teams. Here are the teams' current record and national ranking, if ranked.

UNC 4-0 5th
Gonzaga 5-0 8th
Oregon 4-0 11th
S. Hall 3-1 13th
Michigan 3-0
Iowa St. 3-1
Bama 2-2
S. Miss. 1-3

If we're able to beat Bama in our first game, we would face the winner of the Michigan/Iowa State game. This tournament is going to be a huge test for our injury depleted Heels.

The site below is my favorite for following NCAA basketball statistically. You can find any one of 350 teams' statistical rankings here. Here are a few pertinent ones from this year.

First, the bad:

A/TO ratio: T123rd at 1.12/1
FG%: 220th at 42.6%.......UK(176th) and dook(T135th) are also struggling to score, BTW
FT%: T293rd at 62.5%

Now the good:

FG%D: 32nd at 35.5%
OR/G: T37th at 14.0
DR/G: 5th at 35.7
TR/G: 3rd at 49.7
3FG%: T67th at 38.1%
3FG%D: 15th at 23.2%

So obviously, we need to start making more shots, from both the field and the FT line. The charity stripe in particular has not been very charitable to us so far. Plus, we're only averaging 24 FT's per game because we're still trying to implement our inside/outside game. In time, we will go to the FT line more often. We need to make a good percentage of them, especially this year when we're struggling to put points on the board.

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketball-men/d1/current/team/859

From Pomeroy. What do you think about his early choices?

1. Cole Anthony
2. Mamadi Diakite, UVa
3. Jordan Nwora, Louisville
4. Trent Forrest, FSU
5. Steven Enoch, Louisville

Hard to argue with Cole or Nwora, and the others are good players. But....

It's early in the season, so I'm guessing that part of Pomeroy's ratings come from last year or subjective measures. Not that these guys haven't played well, but there are a number of ACC players who should nudge some of these off the list based on stats so far.

Still, it's nice for now that one team is notably missing. I imagine that will change, though.

One of them needs to step up so that we have a backup at the 5 position.

Coby went absolutely scorch mode for the Bulls tonight, hitting 7 three pointers in the 4th quarter against the Knicks, with Roy and Eric Hoots in the stands watching. He actually outscored the Knick 23-17 in the 4th quarter in route to 27 total points. His effort also set an NBA rookie as the first rookie to knock down 7 three pointers in a game.

And the best part, as Adam Lucas tweeted, was how he talked about the Carolina Family being a REAL THING in the post game interview.

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Caleb:

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RJ:

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And add in Dayron… the first commit from the class:

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Creighton @ Michigan - 6:30 on FS1 with Michigan favored by 5.

Oregon @ Memphis - 9:00 on ESPN with Oregon favored by 4.

Anybody know if Wiseman will play?

Needless to say, I don't root for Creighton. I'm not a Howard fan, either. I should probably get over Creighton, since none of the criminal players are still there. But the coach is. So I guess I'll root for Michigan.

I'll probably root for Oregon in the other game. Just because I feel like Memphis/Penny are a bit shady. But I could be wrong.

...Chrissy Collins and Northwestern lose at home by 10 to.......
wait for it.....
Merrimack?

...and if you're forced to open the season with a damn conference game, well, ya might as well win it!

And that's the theme tonight --- acceleration. To be sure this accelerated ACC schedule --- especially starting off against a team with five returning starters, no less --- forced us to accelerate some learning curves. It wasn't always pretty, but it worked out pretty danged well.

Let's start with the bad side of that:
- Accelerated heart rates. There was definitely some opening-night adrenaline and wide eyes out there early that resulted in some ugly shot attempts, bad decisions and poor ball-security.

- Keeling in particular was less than judicious with the rock, picking up some bad TOs from taking the ball into no-man's land, as well as missing some defensive rotations. I'm sure Christian will be ok once he gets his feet wet at this level, and as soon as he figures out he can't get away with the same stuff here as in the Big South.

- Cole was also jacked up and it showed early with some forces and TOs.

- In the first half we were forcing drives instead of reversing the ball in transition. Missing those transition ops plays right into the hands of and experienced bunch like ND. We also weren't creating good entry angles.

But boy did that turn at halftime:
- Accelerated learning curve. Yeah, Cole took some lumps in the first half, but he flat dished out the lumps in the second! Once he hit a rhythm-3 off a catch, that lit the fuse --- and young fella lit up ND! Just as important, other than a freshman mistake in Press-O, Cole took better care of the rock and got us into tempo.

- Speaking of which, accelerated tempo. As I posted this week, this would be a game in which tempo was key. In the first half we allowed ND to dictate their tedioius, methodical tempo, But the second was a different story. Following what I'm sure was a "stern lecture" from Roy, the last 20 minutes looked like Carolina basketball. After trailing by a putrid scoire of 31-30, we reeled off 46 2nd-half points (and that's no small feat against a team that stubbornly keeps game in the 60s.

A few stats of note:
- The obvious good team number that jumps out is rebounding. 51-31 advantage for the good guys, and it finally fueled our transition game in the second half.

- The obvious bad one is TOs. 18 is not awful but most of those came in the first half. Cleaning that up was a big factor in our clenching run.

- And fo course Cole's opening night line (breaking McCants's frosh scoring number) is something special. and howz about a PG's first double-double including the Rebound number?

- Going back to the accelerated tempo, the second half shooting numbers reflected our moving the ball in more Carolina-like fashion, to the tune of improving from 31% to 64% FGs! We also kept ND out of their comfort zone, holding them to 35% for the game.

- One concern was 10/17 FT shooting. Fortunately ND uncharacteristically helped us out by laying a few bricks of their own. The good news was being 50% from 3 --- pretty impressive with BRob missing --- thanks largely to Cole and AP.

Random stuff:
- Pierce looked a bit more comfortable tonight than in the exhibition, mixed it up on the glass and gave us a solid 20 minutes.

- Leaky quietly did yeoman's work logging 32 minutes with a Theo-like stat line. With Brob out and Pierce playing a good bit of 4, Leaky spent almost all of his time at his natural 3 position where he does his best facilitating.

- My biggest concern was not getting the ball in the paint!...something I'm sure Roy will let the guys know about. Ultimately we can't rely on late-shot-clock heroics --- we need to play inside-out.

- Speaking of Bigs, Bacot showed some flashes tonight. As his post repertoire smoothes out he's gonna be a good one. Let's hope that leg tweak on the fall wasn't serious.

- With functionally a 7-man rotation there were some major minutes played by some guys (39 for Garrison!), and with relatively few whistles there wasn't much time to catch a breath. At one point late in the second half the whole team was flat-out gassed, to the point Roy actually called a Timeout ) after Andrew was too gassed to get to his spot on time and Cole was too gassed to make the pass.

- Speaking of these guys, with Cole as our new Floor General, Andrew was his veteran First Officer, directing traffic, calling plays, balancing the floor and generally wrangling the troops. Platek logged a career-high 25-1/2 minutes (and 24-1/2 of those were with Cole) and Roy even called a couple of Isos for him. BTW, this was easily our most productive backcourt, at a pace of better than 2 ppm, and a strong +/-.

- Finally, speaking of plays, although we were primarily freelance, Roy was very judicious with his set plays and our execution rate was impressive, especially on OB plays.

Well alrighty then --- cast right into the fire and we're 1-0 (1-0). I'll take it! Let's get BRob healthy and get right back at it...

Duke bet its hopes vs. UNC on a RB's jump pass and you'll never guess what happened next.

Chazz "Freakin" Surratt ............ The Heels finally win one of these!

Heels still in running for Coastal Division title.


https://www.yahoo.com/sports/duke-north-carolina-jump-pass-acc-coastal-235126550.html

Who do you think will we GET, regardless of who you want.

ASSUME WE HAVE 2 SCHOLARSHIPS TO GIVE

The poll lists the guys we still have offers to who haven't cut us (to my knowledge).

Listed in order of rank.

This weekend, I think.

I know some here think we don't need him, but I really hope he comes on board.

Sure, Caleb probably starts at PG next year, but RJ and maybe Jeremiah will push him. Then if Caleb is OAD, we'll be fine the following year and for several years with RJ (and Jeremiah).

We have enough scholarships for RJ and another wing, right? Doesn't depend on whether Mando is OAD, does it?