Grover, I have been pretty quiet about your bromance with Caleb, at times I wonder if maybe you are very young because at times it seems maybe you are not yet in high school, just finding UNC as your team and have bonded with Caleb as your guy. Most of us here are adults although at times we don't act like it, LOL. I consider Caleb based on how he played the last game, not how or what he did last season. In fact, how Caleb plays is drastically different within the same game, last night we saw bad Caleb and then we saw great Caleb and then it was back to bad Caleb? That is just what happened, not what I wanted to see and not what I didn't want to see, nothing more than what I saw.
Example, Caleb standing just our side of mid court, ball in his hands, no defender within 10", he dribbles it off his foot? How often do you see that from a guard in college basketball, not often at all, that is being extremely careless, something you can expect from a freshman but not a jr that has started for the last 2 seasons and started in the Natty game last season.
What I am saying is call the balls and strikes are they are rather than how you want them to be. No player is playing at the level that is above critique that points out real short comings, most will not over look the not great play from their preferred players and focus in only what they do well. So you set yourself up for issues when you spin Caleb in to the perfect player. The spotlight is always on Caleb so his mistakes are harder to miss than many others. Caleb made 7 of 17 shots last night, 5 or 6 of those came in that first 8-10mins of the second half, what about the other 30 mins or so, what about that whole first half?
As a team we took 60shots last night, between Caleb and RJ they took 30 shots, half of our shots from those 2. They shot a combined 11 for 30, that is less than 30%, as a whole the team shot 38%? We ALL know or should know that BOTH Caleb and RJ are VERY good OPEN shot makers but are far to often bad shot takers (Caleb when he is hot is a fantastic bad shot maker). We have a shot selection problem, we have had a shot selection problem since our starting back court has been at UNC. When your 2 guards are shooting less than 30% from the floor and knowing that many of our guards shots are long treys, we shot 25 treys last night and made 8. That means we had 17 missed treys that are usually LONG rebounds rather than the close at the rim rebounds that give guys Bacot easy tip ins or put backs and we ask why our rebounding numbers look off, why we don't get the offensive rebounds we are used to? LOL Those long rebounds tend to be snagged by the quicker to the spot guys and guys showing the motor to go get it. When a guy like Nance is being guarded by a guy 6'6" Nance is usually not going to be the guy quicker to the ball. When a long trey is missed, know who has the advantage to get the rebound, it is usually the shooter because he knows the angle of the miss and usually follows his shot miss, RJ does that a good bit, Caleb should do that more.
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