Yeah - not so much.
Brice's fouls per 40 - 5.9, 5.7, 4.8, 3.8 Improvement each year with big jumps over the last two.
Hicks fouls per 40 - 5.6, 6.7, 6.7 - Ugh.
I don't know how much you can reasonably expect from a non top-10 Fr. big. If we get 6/6 from Tony we should be happy.
Meeks has been Meeks for 3 straight years. You expect something different?
Should be #1 on this list as this team will need everyone.
No way. If JJ leaves the team loses an important piece. BRob+Theo <<<<<<< JJ+Theo
No Berry == NIT or worse.
As you can probably tell I'm not feeling it. I think if things go well this team can be a 5 or 6 seed and maybe makes it to the second weekend. If things don't go well then this team may be close to the bubble next March.
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Brice's fouls per 40 - 5.9, 5.7, 4.8, 3.8 Improvement each year with big jumps over the last two.
Hicks fouls per 40 - 5.6, 6.7, 6.7 - Ugh."
YEah but here is the thing, Brice started as a Jr, Hicks did not and a starter vs a reserve guy come in with 2 VERY different mindsets. The starter knows he has to limit his fouls else he is going to lose a lot of PT and maybe even lose his spot. The guy off the bench on the other hand comes in and wants to do something now, wants to make something happen now and often that egarness to effect the game results in silly fouls, kinda like the kid that makes a bad play and trying to make up quick for it is bound to pick up a quick foul.
"I don't know how much you can reasonably expect from a non top-10 Fr. big. If we get 6/6 from Tony we should be happy."
What would make me and all of us very happy is if Tony could come in and be a guy that could hit his free throws and be a guy that can step in to the middle of a zone and hit those 10-12ft jumpers that Brice feasted on this season. Tony does have really good length, longer than Brice I believe and comes to us with a much better rep as a shooter than Brice came to us with. When you have a 6'10" center that places 3rd in the Micky D 3pt shooting contest it should give you reason to expect maybe he can hot free throws and mid range jumpers?
"Meeks has been Meeks for 3 straight years. You expect something different?"
Actually, meeks IMO has had 3 very different seasons for us, in some ways his freshman season when he was way over weight may have been his best over the course of an entire season. But Meeks has shown us flashes of brilliant play but it has been inter mixed with long strtetches of mystery. Some sickness seems to really cut short his soph season and last year lingering injury seemed again an issue. But the mystrey of meeks next season is not going to be any worse IMO that it was this season and the expectation has to be that in his last season his play will be much iimproved.
I think many forget the way brice was seen heading in to his jr season and then heading in to his Sr season, we know what we just saw but not nearly as much was expected out of Brice as what he produced as a senior.
"No way. If JJ leaves the team loses an important piece. BRob+Theo <<<<<<< JJ+Theo"
I think if you ask foilks and they were being truthful, going in to this past season if we would have been a stronger team with JP or without him MOST would have said we would be better with him, I did not think that way but many and maybe most did AT THAT TIME. Now I think nearly everyone would agree, we were better without JP because it allowed Berry to start at the point, it allowed Theo MUCH needed PT and Jackso to continue to start and develop even early season when he was slumping. The present has a funny way of changing the past mindset in folks.
I would prefer Jackson to come back, let me not confuse onthat point, I did NOT prefer Jp to come back. BUT if Jackson leaves I can see a huge upside in Theo starting and working this whole off season with the mindset I will be a starter next season so I have to get a solid jump shot dropping. And I can also see HUGE value in BRob, who I think many Tar Heel fans are under estimating, in getting solid PT to get his game cranked up. I think his PT takes a hard hot if Justin comes back. Po8int being don't want Justin to leave but if he does I amnot in panic mode because IMO we do have 2 very talented guys to step in to that void.
"No Berry == NIT or worse."
Ok so m,aybe no better than NIT may be a little to much but yeah, Joel berry IMO is the most important player we will have next season and I would suggest Hicks & Tony as 2nd & 3rd. We can not afford to lose any of those 3 for and extended amount of games. I think Nate, 7th, and Stillman would be able to patch us together enought to keep us better than NIT but we would be very lucky to get to the sweet 16 with out Joel berry. But know what, that may have been just as true for this past season...
