I don't understand the comment. What is "recruiting suicide" about getting good players from the portal? That's definitely what we're going to try to do; I think it's a pretty obvious strategy at this point. We don't have very many guys on the team that can play.
Can't count on Love to be the PG. Too many silly and unforced turnovers, plus his decision making isn't good.
Don't be obtuse man. Yeah let's just make the program about the portal and bring in 3 or 4 grads or portal players every year and expect 5* freshman recruits to compete with them for PT. One of the biggest complaints I've had both this year and last was lack of bench use. I tell ya what. Let's just stop recruiting all together and make UNC a "portal" destination. Turn UNC in to G league lite with better NIL than the G league pays .. f tradition .. just win baby !! And 5 portal players won't win either .. look at dook, KY and a handful of other schools that do the OAD crap every year. GMAFB !!
Well, I don't agree with you. You think landing Manek hurt recruiting? Winning and fame usually helps.
Agreed Leaky got a little better this year, but that was in his 5th season and teams still gave him wide open looks. If Hubert want's to run his offense, we have to have quality shooters from the 1-4 and at least a 5 that can hit a 12 to 15 footer consistently. We need a big influx of shooters right now!
I agree that we need a great staff and I think we do have some good ones already. The problem is that Hubert has to listen to them and ask for their help. I've asked the question many times and never gotten an answer, but how much does Hubert actually do that? If he's not doing that, then it doesn't matter who the assistants are.
Say what? That it doesn't matter how good assistants are if you don't listen to them? That seems pretty obvious. My question is, does Hubert do that? We have several people here who claim to know what's going on inside the program, but shockingly don't know if Hubert takes the assistant's advice.
One of the things with Hubert that I simply do not understand is he went out of his way to insure that his entire staff would be former UNC players and not only do I like that I think it is really cool. So do recruits because they all talk about how much UNC is a family and they point to the entire staff being former UNC players as what they see that reflects that.
I disagree respectively but what's the alternative in regards to this roster? forget about who starts and doesn't. what's the alternative?
I saw an article yesterday saying that Tom Izzo chose not to participate in the portal and dislikes what NIL and the portal have done to the game. Some expect him to retire after this season for those reasons.
I know it sounds weird, but I'm excited to see some new blood. The losing will quickly get old and I'll probably be saying something different in January. But I'm personally excited for change as of right now.
I think that's a .500 team or better - depending on how many creampuffs we schedule, and how much worse the ACC gets. But I don't expect some of those guys to still be here.
I've just heard people say that May is doing a good job and it's just my assumption that Lebo has some good knowledge based on his background. That wasn't really my main point though. My point was that it doesn't matter if Hubert is ignoring them. I've yet to see anyone say if Hubert is using the assistants.
If May is the main guy for recruiting then I'd say he's definitely doing a good job. Recruiting is important enough that I'd be fine with an assistant who can do nothing else but keep delivering top 10 recruits like we've landed. May also coaches the bigs I think; not sure the results are so promising there in terms of technical improvements made.
Well, that means either he's not listening to them or the assistants are pretty bad at their job. Although, I guess it's possible their coaching style is based on what Hubert has asked them to do.
I think if you bring in 3-4 portal guys every year you will start missing out on the the top 25-75 HS players that will stay around four years to develop as a team and you basically turn your school in to a one and done portal destination where upperclassmen come in for the NIL with no respect for the tradition of the program, and you turn your program in to a glorified higher exposure G league team which never has the chance to build anything resembling team chemistry because e1 is trying to showcase themselves, which we painfully endured this past season. I think the NIL money is a great thing but it should shared amongst all the team players in some fashion. If UNC turns into a portal whore then to me it's no longer UNC bball and I turn it off just like I did football, racing, baseball and all the other woke new age garbage. And if that's what you prefer then it does not make you obtuse, just you have a different perspective which I can respect.I hope we bring in at least 3-4 guys from the portal, as I think we have very few players currently that can win ACC games. I guess that makes me obtuse.
I'm fine with it, and I think having some portal players makes for a better team. It's just not easy to be competitive every year when you have to add guys out of HS projecting them 4-5 years down the line. You end up with rosters like this year where there are no shooters because your shooting prospects didn't develop, no guards like 2019-2020 because Coby left early, or no bigs like 2017-2018 because Tony Bradley left early.
I get it GSD but the thing of it is once you start down that road where's the u turn where you go back to what you were supposed to carry forward? I'll just smoke this one cig, just try this one line .. maybe a bad example but you see where I'm going. Once you get known for doing something these (marginal) kids coming out of HS only have a couple years to enjoy and showcase their skills and if they don't think they can get their time in the sun because they will always be recruited over then the UNC sky blue starts looking like the darker shade across the road. jmo
Monday will be MANIC!!!!
I think we add 3-4 players depending on whom else may leave. 5 is unrealistic because incoming players will expect to play big min.
I think we need a pure pg to push R.J. to shooting guard. My hope is that Wilcher can at least become a lead guard like Coby White was and that will allow R.J to do what he does best, SCORE!.
That's very similar to my thinking.
