I watched my last half of Carolina basketball for the year yesterday. It was all I needed to confirm that this team doesn't care enough to do the things IT CAN CONTROL to put a competitive team on the floor.
This version of Carolina basketball cannot control that the university and coaching staff failed to secure a Carolina level big man or two. It cannot control that our guards are tiny, our portal win doesn't shoot three's as advertised or that our head coach has neither the knowledge or experience to run a program of (what once was) this stature.
What the DO have control over is effort, fight, and pride. REBOUNDING and defense are 90% effort. It appears to me as many on this team have already quit. Of course I prefer to win, but if we are outclassed (like we were at dook), I at least want the other team to know they were in a fight. What I saw last night looked like we had given up before we started. What I saw last night was not a Carolina basketball team, it was not even a team. It was a bunch of individuals trying to get theirs and audition for whatever they think their next step is.
It has been said a hundred times on these boards. Hubert is a fantastic guy by all accounts, but he is not the person for this job. It seems clear that, you will not get different results by running the same sets and defenses that you have all year. You can only go to your post game presser and throw your players under the bus so many times before the onus is on you to change and put your players in positions to do things they do well.
I am way past disappointed, flew by angry, spent some time on sad, and now I am no better than many of the players on the team appear to be. If they don't care, why should I.
UNC basketball has brought me enjoyment, pride, anticipation and enthusiasm for over 45 years. Right now it does none of that.
This version of Carolina basketball cannot control that the university and coaching staff failed to secure a Carolina level big man or two. It cannot control that our guards are tiny, our portal win doesn't shoot three's as advertised or that our head coach has neither the knowledge or experience to run a program of (what once was) this stature.
What the DO have control over is effort, fight, and pride. REBOUNDING and defense are 90% effort. It appears to me as many on this team have already quit. Of course I prefer to win, but if we are outclassed (like we were at dook), I at least want the other team to know they were in a fight. What I saw last night looked like we had given up before we started. What I saw last night was not a Carolina basketball team, it was not even a team. It was a bunch of individuals trying to get theirs and audition for whatever they think their next step is.
It has been said a hundred times on these boards. Hubert is a fantastic guy by all accounts, but he is not the person for this job. It seems clear that, you will not get different results by running the same sets and defenses that you have all year. You can only go to your post game presser and throw your players under the bus so many times before the onus is on you to change and put your players in positions to do things they do well.
I am way past disappointed, flew by angry, spent some time on sad, and now I am no better than many of the players on the team appear to be. If they don't care, why should I.
UNC basketball has brought me enjoyment, pride, anticipation and enthusiasm for over 45 years. Right now it does none of that.
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