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4 full games. Not half games. Not exhibition games. 4 full games guys.

I don't know how Self will recover from this one. I'm sure he greatly regrets paying Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid over $100,000 each to come to Kansas if he knew he was going to miss games against ND State and Southern Utah.

Kudos to Kansas for self-policing and this will no doubt set an example for other coaches that if you cheat you're going to pay, big time.

Offense with our now banged up, short-handed D, we'd be in major trouble. The most pass yards ever against UNC was by Brennan Armstrong last year.

With 3 former DL starters out for the year, we really need some guys from deep in the depth chart to step up big. If Armstrong gets all, day, he might torch us again.

ESPN has an article on this nationally. I don't pay for their content so I don't know who's on their list, but I bet Nance is pretty high up.

In addition to Nance, I expect Trimble to have solid impact for us. Washington is obviously a question mark until we see him play at full speed, which might not be any time soon. Meanwhile, T-Nick has been a very pleasant surprise in scrimmage videos, but how will he do against serious competition?

Who do you think will be our biggest impact newcomers? Any surprises?

Could be a good thing....

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I know Ron Cherry wasn't well liked by Heels fans, but it was 15 years ago since the infamous "Giving him the business" penalty call. I still remember hearing that and thinking WTH did he just say?


Anyway, the story behind it is pretty good... https://www.espn.com/college-footba.../fifteen-years-later-giving-business-lives-on


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UNC legend Natrone Means was announced Wednesday as a member of the 2022 ACC Football Honors Class. Means currently serves as an Offensive Analyst for the Tar Heels but is best known as a bruising running back that starred in Chapel Hill in the early 1990s and later became the youngest player in NFL history to score a TD in the Super Bowl. (GoHeels.com)

Who are your starters next season if you had to make a projection before the season starts next week.

I'm going with the following:

Trimble
Wilcher
Puff
Washington
Portal Big

Who you got?



13 Ships (2022)

PG - Point Guard
CG - Combo Guard
W - Wing
HF - Hybrid Forward
P - Post

Sorry if this is out of bounds and/or clutter, but the premium board is far more trafficked, and trustworthy.

If anyone has two tickets and/or parking for Charleston they're looking to unload, feel free to PM me. Tickets look pretty cheap on the secondary, as does parking. Wife and middle son, who's never been to the Smith Center, are heading to Raleigh for a soccer tournament and entertaining heading over Friday night.

Some writer is already a bit early with this thinking but he feels the Heels could be found in the Orange Bowl...guess we better keep playing football. Lots of season left, especially after three tough injuries to key players.

...and this will be brief, as ya don't learn much playing such a physically overmatched opponent.

Honestly, team-wise I was watching for three things going in:
1. Would we indeed reinvigorate the Caroilina transition game?
2. Would we be able to morph from that into half-court offense without scheming space?
3. Would we see any defensive diversity?
Welp, lessee...
1. Happily, YES. Refreshingly, we committed to our core transition concepts early on --- outlet passes, pitching ahead and getting in lanes, and often the results were satisfying, including ball-reversals. Bad news was we got slack in the second half --- less passing ahead, Bigs bringing the ball up, Guards forcing drives, and other such nonsense. Ammunition for a film-room session for sure.
2. The answer was once again YES, but with the caveat that JCS played 90+% Zone, so the swing passes dove-tailed nicely into the space endemically created by Dean's venerable Zone Continuity, which continues to get us open look after open look, Thus the real answer here will hafta wait til we play a Man team to see if we can change over as smoothly.
3. I suspected we might hafta wait for this answer as well, dang it.

Other random observations:
- Speaking of our Zone-O, I really liked the renewed emphasis on utilizing the "short-corner" entry option, one of the most difficult things for Zones to defend. That said, I wanna see more Hi-Lo action. I mean, hell, we're starting a front line of 6'11, 6'10, 6'8. The few times we did it, it was unstoppable.
- I was disappointed with our mid-range efficiency. Those shots are there for the taking --- too many clankers.
- Dunn continues to look like he belongs (despite one really bad transition force in the second half), and should be a staple of the rotation. And speaking of rotation, our guy Nickel looks like he's carved his way into it in at least some capacity, even when everyone is healthy.
- Fans should understand that Nance ain't Brady Manek --- he's an actual Big who yes, can knock down the occasional "pop" or "trail" 3 (better than he did tonight), but the more time he spends in the paint the better, as far as I'm concerned.
- Love did a nice job of keeping the ball moving, and allegedly RJ is cleared to play the opener, which is relieving to hear, because right now they are our PG options. Dunn is best off the ball, and while Trimble is an exciting athlete (especially in transition) and finisher, well... a PG he ain't --- not at this stage anyway.

Finally, man, I'm really hoping Puff's "soreness" doesn't get to be chronic, and I'm hoping to see some multiplicity on defense moving forward, and mostly I'm SURE AS HELL GLAD IT'S BASKETBALL SEASON AGAIN!