I have been saying that since he was hired. He is not going anywhere for a few years. A coach that can't coach.
Yeah we need some major help with shooting, bc you can't expect any of the freshman to be consistent shooters.
It depends on who they bring back. I'm one who doesn't think anyone is so indispensable that UNC absolutely needs them next season. Sure Cadeau/Wilson would be nice. But if they found more of a scoring and bigger PG that can shoot, along with an upgraded 5, that gives them flexibility at other positions.
That'd be ideal, though I imagine that's unrealistic for the caliber of center we want to add. A guy with plus size, athleticism, and shooting as a big is likely an NBA player. Even given our roster, I'd sacrifice shooting over those other two qualities.
McCants has a year of eligibility left, right?
I'm not so sure about that. His numbers ended at 20 points per 40 minutes, over 50% from two, and 40% from three. Given his plus size and athleticism, there's surely a spot for him on an NBA roster if he wants it. He didn't do a lot beyond offense, and I'm not very rosy on his prospects, but I think he has enough upside to make a roster.
Has Hubert shown the ability to coach anything else?
Oh, I still expect him to be drafted. But the end of this season it almost looked like Hubert was trying to lower Ian's draft value. And might have succeeded.
You shouldn’t have to coach effort & I believe HD said he was having to do that and wasn’t use to it. Effort is up the players and having played a couple years of Juco no one will convince me otherwise.. This team desperately lacked leadership & toughness .. they needed someone like a Harrison Ingram or Cormac Ryan to lead by example
True! And answer me this - is this what we are paying many $mil per year at one of top coach jobs in country? Not to coach X’s and O’s, not to develop individual players? Or develop the team to be greater than sum of parts?
Do you ever wonder where guys like that are now? Talk about waste of talent and potential !
Carolina deserves a better coach but apparently Hubert is coming back. How could he have played his formative years under Dean and organize his team with such limited tools available? How can this product be so simple and easily defended? It is a failed coaching performance, it is what it is, there are no changes coming. Only the names of the players will change.
He does a podcast with Arenas and basically called Roy a racist on one episode
I think Hubert had to play more iso ball offense this season. This team didn't have enough skill up front to do the things UNC teams traditionally. Look at when Withers really shined this season. He was mainly parked in the corner offensively. Anything else he tried to do was really inconsistent. He tried an iso post up over a guard today and you could see a charge coming from a mile away.
I will always love Rashad McCants. One of my favorite players ever in my lifetime.
His teams have been bad to start the season 3 of 4 years as well, even last year was wobbly early. I’m not sure how the roster can be the biggest problem and still be able to come back from 20 pt first half deficits against quality teams so many times.
Hubert put this limited roster together - it didn’t just happen to him.
If the "throw money at the problem" solution gives Hubert more Brady Maneks and Harrison Ingrams and Armando Bacots then he's shown he can do well with teams like that.
Wherever Cadeau ends up he needs to emotionally mature. He could be really good but he needs to grow.
We ended the season with the team reasonably well-configured and playing pretty well. Some mythical better coach would have gotten us to this point a month or 2 earlier - and then that better-configured team could have developed together by playing together to improve further. But is that true or just wishful thinking?
He's gotten a lot better. I assume that growth will continue.
They played 7 absolutely abysmal teams. They played a good Duke team without the best player in the country. And Wake was a 1 possession game at the 4 minute mark in the second half.
We've seen players get better while playing for Hubert, but it's not clear to me that they got better because of Hubert.
And yet . . . that 2nd half comeback almost succeeded. To me that suggests the components are good, but the coaching is suspect.
He did put it together but who expected RJ to not have a season similar to last year when he usually couldn't miss, especially in the clutch? And, who knew that Cade Tyson would be a bust--he was rated in the top 5 portal transfers by many.
