Truth is I didn't think we would win this one, not on the road at what may be the second best team in the ACC that is so darn long it is scary. I mean our starting center was out for this game, our 2 best big men have a habit of picking up foul trouble, Jackson has not been shooting like we know he is capable of? The stage was set for us to get hammered and truth is in terms of raw talent FSU may have more than we do. That is one immensely talented long team but they lacked the experience we have and they don't do a great job of developing their talent. There is a certain big man that is looking at both UNC and FSU as his potential schools and last night is an object lesson in why there should be no hard decision involved. There is as well a certain big man that is from the 2017 class looking at both UNC and duke, may want to turn his head toward us a little stronger as well!
Someone on a thread said yesterday that we don't start playing real games until feb, I took exception to that, stated flat that we had a big game last night. We did and it was a game for the ages in my book. Brice may not have had the best game ever by a Tar Heel but he had the best game this Tar Heel has ever seen from a guy in our uniform! While I for sure loved the 39pts, it was the rebounding that just blew me away! This was a VERY physical game, intensity level was thru the roof, those FSU fans were ready for another blow out of our Heels and our fellas were just not gonna have it happen like that. It was electric, we take an early lead, they march back, we step back up, back & forth.
To win that game, under those circumstances and not just win it but win it by 16, to hang 106 on that team in their own house was what this sport is all about IMO. What other team could go to that place, have FSU players play like they did and come out with the win, by a single point much less 16 and do that with their starting center out for the game, maybe Kansas but that is a big MAYBE! But the odds drop when you consider your starting PG and your far and away best big man off the bench struggle all game with foul trouble, nah, kansas does not survive that.
2 take aways, first, teams, ya better think twice if you think you can play our preferred fast pace game with us, you will score but you will not stop us. 2, that certain big man that is looking at both UNC and FSU, you had to see the raw talent FSU has in that front court and you had to see how that UNC front court plays against that raw talent. Team beat talent last night, a team of very developed experienced guys beat a team that just is not known for developing the talent it gets, Leonard Hamilton is not Roy Williams. Last night you got to see what happens when players are developed, are taught how to use that talent they have and you got to see what happens when they have not been taught well. If Brice played for Hamilton, he may not have got off the bench last night at very least would not be anything near the player we enjoyed go off last night. Food for thought!
Man, what a freakin game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
