I Just got my Christmas 🎄 🎁 Thank you Guys for being on the Right side of this Comeback and Finishing the Game.

Washington got pushed around by midmajor bigs all night, struggled to get out on shooters, and didn't do anything on offense aside from finish a few point blank bunnies our guards gave him.

Tyson gave us nothing on either end of the floor. He looked slow and weak against a midmajor.

Withers had a tremendous first half, and then he turned back into old Withers in the 2nd half with the drives to nowhere and failing to get back on defense.

Lubin at least was consistently hustling and physical, but his height issue was obvious the whole game.

Our portal misses loom large as we look towards the real frontcourts we have on our schedule. These guys would all be backups on good Carolina teams. I think we need to really consider playing more small ball and going to a full court press.

We will post any news, tidbits, etc for the class of 2025 prospects that the Tar Heels will be recruiting here.

Here are some players that the Tar Heels have offered:

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Contest #5 Early Season Non-Conference Contest





10-1

UCLA Bruins​

10-1
CBS/Paramount+
12/21
3:00 PM

North Carolina Tar Heels​

6-5




NCAA College Basketball Odds, Betting Lines & Point Spreads




Contest Rules:

Contest #1: Total points for entire season
Contest #2: Reset: Total points after game #15
Contest #3: Final Four Pool Bracket (Top 64 players)
Contest #4 Grand Prize: Total points ACC and NCAA tournaments games through title game (contest continues even if UNC eliminated)
Contest #5 Early Season Non-Conference Contest


Bullet Points!
For the first 20 games, three (3) Bullet points will automatically be added for any player that forgets to post a prediction for a game. Thus, as long as a player posts a prediction for at least one game, he will receive 3 points for all games that he fails to make a prediction. This is applicable even if he does not make his first prediction until the 20th game of the season. In this case, he will still get 60 points for the first 20 games that he failed to make a prediction for. Bullet Points will be automatically added. You do not have to request them.


Points Awarded Per Game
36 pts--Max points, Quadruple points game
27 pts--Max points, Triple points game
18 pts--Double points game
12 pts--Partial points, Quadruple points game
9 pts--Partial points, Triple points game
6 pts--Partial points, Double points game
3 pts--automatic points for any game missed (you failed to make a prediction) in first 20 games


Contest #1 Prizes
1st Place - 1-Year Subscription to Premium, plus miscellaneous prize
2nd Place - 6-Month Subscription to Premium, plus miscellaneous prize
3rd Place - 3-Month Subscription to Premium
4th Place-- 3-Month Subscription to Premium

Contest #2 Prizes
1st Place - 1-Year Subscription to Premium, plus miscellaneous prize
2nd Place - 6-Month Subscription to Premium, plus miscellaneous prize
3rd Place - 3-Month Subscription to Premium
4th Place-- 3- month Subscription to Premium

Contest #3 Prize - 6-Month Subscription to Premium, plus miscellaneous prize

Grand Prize (Contest #4)
Post Season Contest
Top 15 players in Contest #1 and # 2
ACC and NCAA Tournaments games through title game (contest continues even if UNC eliminated)
Prizes: Large Flat Screen TV, Laptop or Tablet (winner option)

Contest #5 Early Season Non-Conference Contest

If anyone is interested, I'll throw up the comparison like I did for the last game. Obviously everybody can look up those data for themselves, but I sometimes like to see them gathered together.

Let me know. Feeling too lazy to get started at the moment.

RJ
Seth
Ian
Drake
Lubin

...and at some point, ya gotta make shots.

Before I go any further, let's start here: UF is big --- I mean, NBA big. I've watched them several times since Golden had been there, and they utilize that size and play bully-ball. That said, we are WAY quicker and more athletic. In other words, it's a matter of who uses their advantages. But again, you gotta make shots.

This is nuanced, so this will be randomly positive and negative:

- First: Do NOT say we didn't defend. We actually defended very well for the most part. Sure, they were unconcious early, but it wasn't the fault of our defense. With that said, we SHOULD have been more aggressive. we played one series of 43, and UF was disjointed. Sorry to be a broken record, but this team need to be multiple to be at its best. There's just no good reason not to scramble more.

- Speaking of D, our early 2nd half spurt was triggered by blitzing their half-court actions and exploiting of our quickness advantage.

- On the flip side, our lineups were vulnerable to their sheer size. Particularly, their PF wore us out on the offensive glass.

- Our Secondary continues to be tits-on-a-boar-hog. Beyond that, yes, I see a BIT of an effort of using the post, but the failure to be effective with that starts in transition

- A positive on the coaching front was IDing Ian having a mismatch with a bigger slower guy on switches and milking it during in a key stretch

- With that said, we just CANNOT have Cadeau off the floor for any long stretches. With all due respect, RJ running point for any length of time is not a formula for success. I dunno who was keeping stats, but suffice to say they were kind as to the TOs in tha scenario. And wtf was Hubert doing pulling JWash for being fouled without a call? There were times when having two Bigs would have been helpful.

- Don't wanna focus on this, but objectively this was a horrifically officiated game --- no surprise with Shows and Groover --- and I would hope nobody would have the poor judgment to even argue that fact. We got fouled without calls on AT LEAST 10 finish attempts --- and I'm talking OBVIOUS fouls. The very idea that UF would shoot more FTs than us is an utter absurdity. And when they finally called a couple of offensive push-offs, welp... they could've called double the amount.

- With that said, when we do get calls, we can't afford to be clunking FTs.

- Some spectacular defensive efforts by Seth at key times. And we saw our guys man-up in the 2nd half vs their size, but that needs to be a constant

- Finally, what it came down to was making shots. Other than the advantages garnered by their size, we straight-up outplayed these guys. We had better looks on offense and played better defense. But this version of UNC in particular MUST make a decent pct of shots --- 5/28 from 3, especially with the great looks we got, just ain't gonna hunt.

Anyway, here we are. Ridiculously tough schedule but it's also ridiculous that we're 6-5. Lotsa factors at work here, but please don;t give me this nonsense that we're not talented enough. That's HORSESHIT. At WORST we should be 8-3. OK, That is what it is. Will we start to play to our potential? I suppose we'll see Saturday...

watched this at certain points today...how about these uni's @TarHeelNation11

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