...and at some point, ya gotta make shots.
Before I go any further, let's start here: UF is big --- I mean, NBA big. I've watched them several times since Golden had been there, and they utilize that size and play bully-ball. That said, we are WAY quicker and more athletic. In other words, it's a matter of who uses their advantages. But again, you gotta make shots.
This is nuanced, so this will be randomly positive and negative:
- First: Do NOT say we didn't defend. We actually defended very well for the most part. Sure, they were unconcious early, but it wasn't the fault of our defense. With that said, we SHOULD have been more aggressive. we played one series of 43, and UF was disjointed. Sorry to be a broken record, but this team need to be multiple to be at its best. There's just no good reason not to scramble more.
- Speaking of D, our early 2nd half spurt was triggered by blitzing their half-court actions and exploiting of our quickness advantage.
- On the flip side, our lineups were vulnerable to their sheer size. Particularly, their PF wore us out on the offensive glass.
- Our Secondary continues to be tits-on-a-boar-hog. Beyond that, yes, I see a BIT of an effort of using the post, but the failure to be effective with that starts in transition
- A positive on the coaching front was IDing Ian having a mismatch with a bigger slower guy on switches and milking it during in a key stretch
- With that said, we just CANNOT have Cadeau off the floor for any long stretches. With all due respect, RJ running point for any length of time is not a formula for success. I dunno who was keeping stats, but suffice to say they were kind as to the TOs in tha scenario. And wtf was Hubert doing pulling JWash for being fouled without a call? There were times when having two Bigs would have been helpful.
- Don't wanna focus on this, but objectively this was a horrifically officiated game --- no surprise with Shows and Groover --- and I would hope nobody would have the poor judgment to even argue that fact. We got fouled without calls on AT LEAST 10 finish attempts --- and I'm talking OBVIOUS fouls. The very idea that UF would shoot more FTs than us is an utter absurdity. And when they finally called a couple of offensive push-offs, welp... they could've called double the amount.
- With that said, when we do get calls, we can't afford to be clunking FTs.
- Some spectacular defensive efforts by Seth at key times. And we saw our guys man-up in the 2nd half vs their size, but that needs to be a constant
- Finally, what it came down to was making shots. Other than the advantages garnered by their size, we straight-up outplayed these guys. We had better looks on offense and played better defense. But this version of UNC in particular MUST make a decent pct of shots --- 5/28 from 3, especially with the great looks we got, just ain't gonna hunt.
Anyway, here we are. Ridiculously tough schedule but it's also ridiculous that we're 6-5. Lotsa factors at work here, but please don;t give me this nonsense that we're not talented enough. That's HORSESHIT. At WORST we should be 8-3. OK, That is what it is. Will we start to play to our potential? I suppose we'll see Saturday...
Before I go any further, let's start here: UF is big --- I mean, NBA big. I've watched them several times since Golden had been there, and they utilize that size and play bully-ball. That said, we are WAY quicker and more athletic. In other words, it's a matter of who uses their advantages. But again, you gotta make shots.
This is nuanced, so this will be randomly positive and negative:
- First: Do NOT say we didn't defend. We actually defended very well for the most part. Sure, they were unconcious early, but it wasn't the fault of our defense. With that said, we SHOULD have been more aggressive. we played one series of 43, and UF was disjointed. Sorry to be a broken record, but this team need to be multiple to be at its best. There's just no good reason not to scramble more.
- Speaking of D, our early 2nd half spurt was triggered by blitzing their half-court actions and exploiting of our quickness advantage.
- On the flip side, our lineups were vulnerable to their sheer size. Particularly, their PF wore us out on the offensive glass.
- Our Secondary continues to be tits-on-a-boar-hog. Beyond that, yes, I see a BIT of an effort of using the post, but the failure to be effective with that starts in transition
- A positive on the coaching front was IDing Ian having a mismatch with a bigger slower guy on switches and milking it during in a key stretch
- With that said, we just CANNOT have Cadeau off the floor for any long stretches. With all due respect, RJ running point for any length of time is not a formula for success. I dunno who was keeping stats, but suffice to say they were kind as to the TOs in tha scenario. And wtf was Hubert doing pulling JWash for being fouled without a call? There were times when having two Bigs would have been helpful.
- Don't wanna focus on this, but objectively this was a horrifically officiated game --- no surprise with Shows and Groover --- and I would hope nobody would have the poor judgment to even argue that fact. We got fouled without calls on AT LEAST 10 finish attempts --- and I'm talking OBVIOUS fouls. The very idea that UF would shoot more FTs than us is an utter absurdity. And when they finally called a couple of offensive push-offs, welp... they could've called double the amount.
- With that said, when we do get calls, we can't afford to be clunking FTs.
- Some spectacular defensive efforts by Seth at key times. And we saw our guys man-up in the 2nd half vs their size, but that needs to be a constant
- Finally, what it came down to was making shots. Other than the advantages garnered by their size, we straight-up outplayed these guys. We had better looks on offense and played better defense. But this version of UNC in particular MUST make a decent pct of shots --- 5/28 from 3, especially with the great looks we got, just ain't gonna hunt.
Anyway, here we are. Ridiculously tough schedule but it's also ridiculous that we're 6-5. Lotsa factors at work here, but please don;t give me this nonsense that we're not talented enough. That's HORSESHIT. At WORST we should be 8-3. OK, That is what it is. Will we start to play to our potential? I suppose we'll see Saturday...
