Mental Toughness

[montana_heel]

I really believe this team was around a top 15 team maybe even a touch higher except in for mental toughness.

They accepted being punched in the mouth to start games instead of doing the punching.

I am not made this way so I don't understand this mentality. If I can take away your will in a game, I will and not feel bad about it at all

Tell me one game, other than San Diego State, where we played a quality team and just jumped all over them. Yet we could be down big against very good teams and outplay them in the second half a good 10 to 20 points.

I don't understand it or know if it is a mindset that the coaching staff needs to put in place or if it is the players. I do know that this will be the norm until we get it solved.

I can take losing but the 1st half effort we witnessed this year has made me less of a fan. I am 57 and never thought I would be apathetic about watching Tar Heel basketball. Give me all out effort for forty minutes and I'm all in but what we have been watching is not even close to what made a guy from Montana a die hard Heel fan.

Here's to hoping we can get back to having a team that will be able to compete for the whole game. If not, I'm afraid UNC will find that more fans will be like I have been this year.

 

[superstar57]

HD took some licks from fans, but apart of our mental toughness was about HD making adjustments to each team because our lack of size. I am taking it we are considering saying "Mentally tough " because of the way we always mounted big come backs against Duke and Ole Miss. I give credit to HD for putting his team in positions to mount these comebacks.

I would call this team resilient more then Mentally tough. I liked cheering for this team, but I did criticize our mental errors throughout the season.