The day Hubert was announced as the coach he went on ESPN and basically said the same thing regarding kids wanting to face up to the basket now and stretch the floor.
It seems clear that Hubert is more interested in that approach than Roy was hence why Kessler would possibly come back.
If anyone really thinks Roy, who has coached for over 30 years, retired because one kid decided to transfer is out of their mind.
Yeah Travis, you pretty much nailed it!
I didn't like it when I saw kessler was entering the portal but considering how in his time with us he represented the program on and off the floor well, there was no reason to trash him. He said nothing at all negative toward Roy, any of Roy's staff, or the school in his announcement. There were 2 things while Roy was our coach that the huge majority of Tar Heel fans agreed on, one was that Roy was the only coach we wanted and should be our coach for as long as Roy wanted to be our coach. But ya know, the other thing is pretty much everyone here, I think same applies to most all UNC fans, that there were some things that Roy was heard headed to a fault about. Roy had his way of doing things, we accepted that even when we disagreed with parts of it.
Now one part of Roy's system that was controversial was his absolute sticking with the 2 post man scheme, some wanted that (count me as one of those) and some wanted us to go small ball or at least a 4 that stretches the floor out to the trey arch. Either side of that fence you may be on know, there is value and merit to either argument as well as limitations of each. Kessler wants to play in more of a stretch version offense and as you know Roy was not in to his 7ft guy being 30'+ from the basket. Yet the 2 bigs in the lane does clog that lane up, makes it hard for a big to get good operating room inside, makes the pass in to a big more difficult, and makes it extra hard for a guard to penetrate the lane with the dribble, clogs up outlet passing lanes when they do. It takes coordination between multiple players to have the 2 big game work smoothly and that exposes us when our experience level is low, as has been the case for the last 2 seasons. That is a lot of the reason we see our freshmen, especially our guards, struggle early on. They have to play thru those early struggles to really grasp what Roy wanted. Kessler just didn't see that as the type of offensive attack he believes he best fits, I may not have liked it but that was hard to argue against as well. Hubert has let it be known, he is not going to be as married to the twin tower look, not that he is going to a strick iso, 4 around a center look either but more that he is going to pull one of his bigs out of the paint much more often than Roy was willing so that defenders will follow out of the paint & open that painted area up.
I think Hubert will look to pull one of the bigs out of the paint and then have him crash in on the shot thru a lane to the rim or if it is a big that can stroke it give him the OK to take it if he is open, has to in order to pull a big defender out of the paint to defend. Keep in mind, my position has been all last season, our problem was not on the defensive end, thou we did need to play harder from the opening tip. The real problem was lack of scoring, many times our scoring came from a guard taking a bad shot and one of our bigs getting a rebound stick back. While when we were able to get out and run we clicked but the last 2-3yrs teams have really done everything they could to keep us in more of a half court game. Our half court attack was a problem, we tried to force things to often, probe around the horn looking for a pass in to a big man, couldn't find it, pump up a rushed trey with a second or so on the shot clock. Hard to blame Kessler for not considering that as the type of offensive attack he wanted to play in, but with what Hubert is looking to do, well now that becomes a very different thing, made even easier if we can get some consistent production from our wing (3) spot. I do expect with Hubert, Leaky's PT will take a hard hit because I do not expect to see Leaky all the sudden become a solid or willing jump shooter but more come off the bench as a situational defender.
If Kessler wants to come back, I for one am all for it 1000% for it in fact!
