Game Thread: UNC at Syracuse

[bobby121567]

I don't know..... didn't you think the second half showed that we have the intelligence and the GREAT (not good) interior passers to disect a zone? Most basketball experts say fewer people play zone because talented passing teams can take it apart more easily, like we did tonight. Our interior passing in this game (especially Brice and Justin) was just superb. If teams go zone on us, no way in hell do we say, "OK, we'll just have to try to win with getting hot from outside. Brice, Hicks, Meeks are WAY too good for us to resort to that.

That's why I said with better talent than Cuse. If Cuse had a bigger back line it would have made the big to big passes a lot harder. Or you can just try what N Iowa and Texas did. Shoot lights out from 3. I just believe your best chance to beat us is to keep us under 80. It seems to be our magic number. I feel better when we hit 80

 

[wilsinnc]

1st time roy has started 4 and 0 in acc play

 

[yrusonvus]

I don't know..... didn't you think the second half showed that we have the intelligence and the GREAT (not good) interior passers to disect a zone? Most basketball experts say fewer people play zone because talented passing teams can take it apart more easily, like we did tonight. Our interior passing in this game (especially Brice and Justin) was just superb. If teams go zone on us, no way in hell do we say, "OK, we'll just have to try to win with getting hot from outside. Brice, Hicks, Meeks are WAY too good for us to resort to that.

B-I-N-G-O

 

[Baby Debo]

Hicks is a badass

So many on the board wrote him off as a bust. He's found his niche in the game, he's only going to grow from here.

 

[2DDIMOND]

Its also the 4th straight game we have won. Who GAS where their points come from if we have more of them on the scoreboard at the end of the game.

AMEN

 

[Archer2]

I don't know..... didn't you think the second half showed that we have the intelligence and the GREAT (not good) interior passers to disect a zone? Most basketball experts say fewer people play zone because talented passing teams can take it apart more easily, like we did tonight. Our interior passing in this game (especially Brice and Justin) was just superb. If teams go zone on us, no way in hell do we say, "OK, we'll just have to try to win with getting hot from outside. Brice, Hicks, Meeks are WAY too good for us to resort to that.

Spot on IMO. This is the best passing team I can remember in years. It's what makes us so efficient offensively. Our team chemistry is deluxe. Brice is playing out of his mind!!!!!

 

[RoseHeel]

Its also the 4th straight game we have won. Who GAS where their points come from if we have more of them on the scoreboard at the end of the game.

Im sure Hindsight is beautiful compared to being 1 point down with under 6 to play...

 

[TarHeelMark]

Did you expect us to walk into a dome full of over 25,000, with their coach returning to the bench and walk all over them?
I was impressed with our toughness down the stretch, as we put the hammer down in the last 5 minutes.

 

[mikeirbyusa]

Im sure Hindsight is beautiful compared to being 1 point down with under 6 to play...

One thing I learned from Dean, it's a 40 minute game, have your team in position to win and play hard and smart.

 

[soap - new and improved]

Im sure Hindsight is beautiful compared to being 1 point down with under 6 to play...

Here is your post I quoted.......

"The point was that this is the 4th game straight a player had a Season high against us."

You were going back THREE Games and complaining an opponent "had a season high" against us. Talk about hindsight. I am hoping you knew we WON those games.

And for me it holds true, I do not care who scores what for our opponents so long as we win the game.

 

[Archer2]

Exactly Soap. I don't care if they have a player with a career night every single game as long as we win. And it's no coincidence that we're pulling away at the end of games. We're executing and wearing teams down with our depth. Syracuse only played 6 guys double digit minutes. That tells at the end of games.

 

[RoseHeel]

Here is your post I quoted.......

"The point was that this is the 4th game straight a player had a Season high against us."

You were going back THREE Games and complaining an opponent "had a season high" against us. Talk about hindsight. I am hoping you knew we WON those games.

And for me it holds true, I do not care who scores what for our opponents so long as we win the game.

I'm just saying I posted it when we were down a point and proceeded to give Syracuse a 6 point lead. Had we been up 6 and proceeded to win anyway, then it really wouldn't have mattered. While you're right the points one player scores doesn't matter so long as we win, it's still concerning to see guys almost double their season average against us each game. Not really an issue yet, but just not a stat I like to see.

 

[soap - new and improved]

I'm just saying I posted it when we were down a point and proceeded to give Syracuse a 6 point lead. Had we been up 6 and proceeded to win anyway, then it really wouldn't have mattered. While you're right the points one player scores doesn't matter so long as we win, it's still concerning to see guys almost double their season average against us each game. Not really an issue yet, but just not a stat I like to see.

It is more of a big picture deal for me. We held their number one guy to 10 points on 3-13 (0-6 three pointer) shooting. And we won.

Cooney was, as we used to say, "unconscious" in that game. Many of his shots were well contested but he banged (and banked) them in anyway. When a guy hits 28 footers with a hand in his face all you can do is say "Well done", and play on.

I truly don't care who scores for us, or who scores for our opponents as long as we end the game with more points on the board.

 

[Archer2]

Not to belabor the obvious, but it's total points that matter. So what if a guy scores 35 of his team's 70 points and we score 85? I couldn't care less. Give me a team that has 5 guy averaging double figures any day. One guy going off will not generally beat you.

 

[Heelicious]

Not to belabor the obvious, but it's total points that matter. So what if a guy scores 35 of his team's 70 points and we score 85? I couldn't care less. Give me a team that has 5 guy averaging double figures any day. One guy going off will not generally beat you.

Exactly. Even if a guy gets 30, which we'd all like to avoid.... what is worse is when you have everyone involved in the game, all getting / staying warm or hot, and having trouble shutting all those guys down simultaneously. Kinda like the problem we pose to other teams trying to stop us. When only Marcus could score for us, it was pretty easy to defend in second halves.... double team Marcus and make someone else beat you. Usually the other guys couldn't.

I thought Cooney looked super-tired the last 5 minutes. We were running/chasing him ragged in the last half of the second half, and I think he just ran out of gas. He played 39 minutes.... the guys guarding him averaged 30 minutes or less.