If Love comes back could he be like McCants was at the three.

[IDUNK4HEELS]

If Coach Davis wants to play small ball so that the team looks like Baylor with three shooters I feel playing Love at the three would be a tremendous idea.

For those who can remember McCants he was a nightmare when he played the three for Carolina. He use to post other forwards up as he was too quick for most of them to cover and he was deadly on corner jumpers.

Love is very quick and his baseline moves would mean easy baskets or free throws. Unlike Black and Nance Love is not scared to drive and he is someone defenders would have to respect from a wing position…Your take on this idea…

 

[DSouthr]

Man, such good discussion topics today and this one is top shelf as well!

Depending on who we get from the portal, I like the idea of going small with a guy like Caleb at the 3, Dunn could fit there as well, with Wilcher (backed up by Seth) running point and RJ at the 2. That way we have 3 scoring threats along with Bacot and who ever steps up in to the 4 spot. If that power forward is able to be a scoring threat to, we can win big time, we could actually be what we were rated as being this pre-season.

 

[alabamaheel]

If Coach Davis wants to play small ball so that the team looks like Baylor with three shooters I feel playing Love at the three would be a tremendous idea.

For those who can remember McCants he was a nightmare when he played the three for Carolina. He use to post other forwards up as he was too quick for most of them to cover and he was deadly on corner jumpers.

Love is very quick and his baseline moves would mean easy baskets or free throws. Unlike Black and Nance Love is not scared to drive and he is someone defenders would have to respect from a wing position…Your take on this idea…

If he comes back I’d definitely like to see it. Not a horrible idea. Maybe a little small in the defensive end but could be enough change on offense to warrant the move.

 

[FlaTarHeel]

I want him back period!
And you can take it to the bank that the rivals and haters are afraid of seeing him again in Carolina blue.

 

[Sportscribe]

As are most Carolina fans......

 

[gauchoheel]

Love isn't coming back, and if he does so it surely won't be as a 3 unless we want our defense to be horrible.

 

[DaveChapelle]

If Coach Davis wants to play small ball so that the team looks like Baylor with three shooters I feel playing Love at the three would be a tremendous idea.

For those who can remember McCants he was a nightmare when he played the three for Carolina. He use to post other forwards up as he was too quick for most of them to cover and he was deadly on corner jumpers.

Love is very quick and his baseline moves would mean easy baskets or free throws. Unlike Black and Nance Love is not scared to drive and he is someone defenders would have to respect from a wing position…Your take on this idea…

McCants posted players up using his massively strong upper body. Caleb Love has never posted anyone up. In fact Bill Self's halftime adjustment in the national championship game was to have his shooting guard post up Caleb Love, and that's how we lost our 15 point lead.

McCants all never shot under 40% from 3 in any season at UNC. Caleb Love has only had 1 season where he shot better than 30% from 3.

With all due respect, the two players have nothing in common and Caleb would likely be scored over at will by most taller Small Forwards.

 

[imajericho]

Love is posting no one up, but if you feel Love's defense was bad due to being slow, then the 3 position should possibly be a little easier to defend. Debatable. I think Loves game possibly opens up a lot if there is another shooter on the perimeter though so they can't sag into the lane. Allows him to drive more and opens up his 3 point shot on the perimeter. Leaky hurt the offense a lot.

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

The biggest advantage of Love playing at the three would be Carolina would actually have a wing player who could be depended on score freeing Bacot from being double teamed. Without a scoring wing last season it was like playing 5 against 3 forcing Love and Davis to take way TOO MANY LAST SECOND SHOTS…Everybody saw the problem last year and this idea could help to solve the lack for scorers from last year. Screw the defense the problem is not enough scorers not defenders…

 

[al would]

Man, such good discussion topics today and this one is top shelf as well!

You guys have lost fng touch with reality. Love shot 30% from 3 last season, a fng bball black hole and took the worst fng shots imaginable, plays D s well as my dead granny and you want him back playing small ball wing ??? GMAFB !!!!!!!

 

[pittsburghheel]

Rashad McCants is a top 5 all time offensive talent and volume scorer at UNC. I like Caleb…but he is not in that category.

 

[WoadBlue]

If Coach Davis wants to play small ball so that the team looks like Baylor with three shooters I feel playing Love at the three would be a tremendous idea.

For those who can remember McCants he was a nightmare when he played the three for Carolina. He use to post other forwards up as he was too quick for most of them to cover and he was deadly on corner jumpers.

Love is very quick and his baseline moves would mean easy baskets or free throws. Unlike Black and Nance Love is not scared to drive and he is someone defenders would have to respect from a wing position…Your take on this idea…

Saying McCants was a nightmare has 2 true and very different meanings.

 

[gunslingerdick]

Yeah, count me as another that doesn’t feel this thread, the comparison between Love and McCants or the idea of Love having to guard bigger guys.

 

[notashelbyfan]

McCants was an all-time great at Carolina love isn't even close.

 

[al would]

McCants was an all-time great at Carolina love isn't even close.

Actually a moronic insult even making the comparison but in the long run they may be mentioned in a conversation for "other reasons".

 

[ChiShankCity]

If Love is playing the 3, he isn't going to be playing it like McCants and our offense certainly isn't going to look like those offenses.

It will look more like Illinois' 2004-05 team except we don't have two first-round picks in our backcourt. But that type of offense has been pulled off before. I think Missouri the year they got upset by a 15 seed ran basically a 4-guard offense. The issue is I don't think Love is a shooter. He's a streaky shooter. That entire Missouri team (the guards) were better shooters than Love. And that Illinois team was much much much better shooters.

It's scary, but I think Caleb needs to be a lead guard. As of now, he's the only player who can create offense for himself and his teammates. Like it or not, he needs the ball in his hands to be effective. He doesn't know how to play without the ball. His perfect spot is probably an offensive-minded 6th man scorer. But I highly doubt Trimble or Dunn or a transfer will be starting over Caleb. But probably better to match him up against a second unit and be able to dominate the ball.

If we are going to play small, with Caleb... The other guard must be a good shooter. This whole thing of playing Caleb with at least 2 non-shooters will never work. I'm assuming Seth will never be a shooter. I don't think Dunn is a high-volume efficient shooter. I'm guessing Wilcher's one of those players who needs to develop his jumper because seemingly every incoming highly touted guard every year isn't a refined shooter from day one.

 

[ChiShankCity]

I want him back period!
And you can take it to the bank that the rivals and haters are afraid of seeing him again in Carolina blue.

I don't know about you, but nothing strikes more fear in me than a dude who played on an NIT team!

 

[heels05champs]

Actually a moronic insult even making the comparison but in the long run they may be mentioned in a conversation for "other reasons".

It’s actually one of the worst comparisons I have seen on this board. McCants was one of the best scorers in the Roy era and was extremely reliable as a producer on the court. Just another example of some of the unrealistic things people can talk themselves into believing.

 

[Geth]

I mean, he McCould, but I don't think he McWill but that's not saying he McCant.

 

[DSouthr]

The biggest advantage of Love playing at the three would be Carolina would actually have a wing player who could be depended on score freeing Bacot from being double teamed. Without a scoring wing last season it was like playing 5 against 3 forcing Love and Davis to take way TOO MANY LAST SECOND SHOTS…Everybody saw the problem last year and this idea could help to solve the lack for scorers from last year. Screw the defense the problem is not enough scorers not defenders…

ID, I agree because above all else, if Hubert is going to insist on staying in the spread UNC MUST have more shooters on the floor, I really don't know how anyone could argue against that? WE have already seen what happens when we get a couple of shooters around Caleb, we got to the national title game with that. We have already seen what happens when we don't wrap a couple deadly shooters around Caleb, this past season...

Love is not McCants, 2 very different types of players, don't look for Caleb to do much positing up, the point is to spread a defense rather than spread our offense while the defense does not have to spread to cover weak shooters. 3's that would defend Caleb should often give Caleb the quickness advantage and don't forget Caleb has extra reach for his height. I think for the most part had we been able to get Caleb isolated on a wing defender and that wing defender was not going to get any help, I think UNC fans would have loved that.

Many programs now days are going to a 2 guard at the 3 spot for those very reasons, to get more shooting on the floor, just as the 4 is now days getting smaller players the 3 is as well. For the players we have right now, could change with who we get in the portal, I think it is critical that we get a 4 that is a solid scorer, developed in Jalen or High or portaled in it is key for us if our offensive attack continues to be a spread offense.

For the record, I am not a fan of these 4 and 5 out offenses, I don't mind a 4 taking a couple treys, I don't even really mind if a center that can hit them takes a couple but I don't like it as a primary offensive look. I want us to go back to our running game and if the primary and secondary breaks are not there go directly in to motion offense.

 

[FlaTarHeel]

For the record, I am not a fan of these 4 and 5 out offenses, I don't mind a 4 taking a couple treys, I don't even really mind if a center that can hit them takes a couple but I don't like it as a primary offensive look. I want us to go back to our running game and if the primary and secondary breaks are not there go directly in to motion offense.

All it did was cut the nets down 5 times.
Hard to believe isn't it?

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

ID, I agree because above all else, if Hubert is going to insist on staying in the spread UNC MUST have more shooters on the floor, I really don't know how anyone could argue against that? WE have already seen what happens when we get a couple of shooters around Caleb, we got to the national title game with that. We have already seen what happens when we don't wrap a couple deadly shooters around Caleb, this past season...

Love is not McCants, 2 very different types of players, don't look for Caleb to do much positing up, the point is to spread a defense rather than spread our offense while the defense does not have to spread to cover weak shooters. 3's that would defend Caleb should often give Caleb the quickness advantage and don't forget Caleb has extra reach for his height. I think for the most part had we been able to get Caleb isolated on a wing defender and that wing defender was not going to get any help, I think UNC fans would have loved that.

Many programs now days are going to a 2 guard at the 3 spot for those very reasons, to get more shooting on the floor, just as the 4 is now days getting smaller players the 3 is as well. For the players we have right now, could change with who we get in the portal, I think it is critical that we get a 4 that is a solid scorer, developed in Jalen or High or portaled in it is key for us if our offensive attack continues to be a spread offense.

For the record, I am not a fan of these 4 and 5 out offenses, I don't mind a 4 taking a couple treys, I don't even really mind if a center that can hit them takes a couple but I don't like it as a primary offensive look. I want us to go back to our running game and if the primary and secondary breaks are not there go directly in to motion offense.

Someone actually understands what I am trying to say. Nobody ever said Love would be as good as McCants but he could provide BADLY NEEDED SHOOTING and speed from the wings which Carolina did not have last year. Just look at Miami this year and Baylor every year how SUCCESSFUL they are because they have so many shooters that can play different positions and still put the ball in the net. I do NOT EVER want to see a Carolina team have a offense where it is 3,against 5 again. Scoring was the biggest problem with the team last season and adding a additional proven scorer would help solve some of that problem…

 

[midline]

But can Love be trusted to play a specific role? In three years here, he has not. He is often fine, but then the need to audition for the NBA overwhelms him and results in a terrible shot, or a drive into the trees with nowhere to go.

 

[bleeduncblue]

he can shoot 70% from the floor but if he's a locker room cancer, i dont want him around.

 

[al would]

Like it or not, he needs the ball in his hands to be effective.

Yeah .. I saw how effective he was with the ball in his hands last season. I'll give him some serious props for his contribution last year putting the nails in vader's coffin, and it was EPIC .. but it was a flash in the pan and Manek being there was a HUGE reason for their success. And that childish crap about removing all the UNC stuff from his social media speaks volumes to his level of (im)maturity.

 

[alabamaheel]

I’ll root for him to do his best if he returns. What I don’t understand is the delay. Not a good look imo but I definitely don’t know all the details of his decision making going forward.