The last three weeks have been like a roller coaster ride at the beach. Some wonderful highs as well as some Terrible Tuesday lows. Today is a new opportunity to start a new winning streak against a 11th place team in the conference who comes in with a 14-10 and needs a signature win to have any chance of dancing in March.
Sean Pedulla and Hunter Cattoor are still around and both can fill up the basket. Carolina transfer and the all time Virginia high school scorer Tyler Nickel never given a real chance to show his ability at the Dean Dome is having a decent season for the Hokies as well as we all know he has had this game circled for a long time.
Carolina’s starting guards can not allowed Va Tech’s starting guards to toast them to the tune of 48 points like the Cuses guards did earlier in the week or this might be another embarrassing loss at home.
The Tar Heels need to use their front court to control this game and even if Bacot might be nursing an injury he an Ingram must get some EASY baskets. Ingram for some reason has been settling for a bunch of threes instead of using his bulk to post up in the paint more often. Many people wanted to blame Ryan as the single reason the team fell at Syracuse but that is dam wrong. He had some tough turnovers late but he was the second leading scorer which included 4 three pointers which kept Carolina in the game. Also and probably the most important stat was he on defense was not part of the starting guards that got burnt for 48 points.
The team shot 15 less free throws more than the Tar Heels
did which pretty much tells you Carolina relied on the jump shots way too much. On the other hand Cuse starting guard Mintz should have paid rent for the time he spent at the charity stripe after zooming by the weak Carolina guard defense and getting fouled by the last line of defense.
Finally Trimble, Withers, High, Washington and Wojcik need to help the teams efforts and will to win by contributing some offensively and defensively..
Davis and Cadeau cannot wait to the second half to decide to contribute offensively.
With Duke, Virginia and Miami close behind in the standings it is show up or shut up time…
Sean Pedulla and Hunter Cattoor are still around and both can fill up the basket. Carolina transfer and the all time Virginia high school scorer Tyler Nickel never given a real chance to show his ability at the Dean Dome is having a decent season for the Hokies as well as we all know he has had this game circled for a long time.
Carolina’s starting guards can not allowed Va Tech’s starting guards to toast them to the tune of 48 points like the Cuses guards did earlier in the week or this might be another embarrassing loss at home.
The Tar Heels need to use their front court to control this game and even if Bacot might be nursing an injury he an Ingram must get some EASY baskets. Ingram for some reason has been settling for a bunch of threes instead of using his bulk to post up in the paint more often. Many people wanted to blame Ryan as the single reason the team fell at Syracuse but that is dam wrong. He had some tough turnovers late but he was the second leading scorer which included 4 three pointers which kept Carolina in the game. Also and probably the most important stat was he on defense was not part of the starting guards that got burnt for 48 points.
The team shot 15 less free throws more than the Tar Heels
did which pretty much tells you Carolina relied on the jump shots way too much. On the other hand Cuse starting guard Mintz should have paid rent for the time he spent at the charity stripe after zooming by the weak Carolina guard defense and getting fouled by the last line of defense.
Finally Trimble, Withers, High, Washington and Wojcik need to help the teams efforts and will to win by contributing some offensively and defensively..
Davis and Cadeau cannot wait to the second half to decide to contribute offensively.
With Duke, Virginia and Miami close behind in the standings it is show up or shut up time…
