and an RJ starting at the 2, and EC starting at 1, and so on and so on. Why point out that Withers was starting? 4 others were also starting!
too much $$ invested in RJ. I know EC is no Dudley Bradley, but I see RJ's defense as a much bigger problem than EC. Well, I should say, if RJ actually played any defense. I'm in the group that thinks we'd have been better off w/o RJ coming back this year, but that's just my opinion.
Cadeau tends to pick up his fouls in bunches rather than space them out. He should have the mindset to treat picking up his 2nd first half foul as if he already had 2 and could pick up #3 before the break. I would pull Cadeau after his second foul in a first half to because it is more likely that he will pick up #3 before the half. But there is as well the other problem of Cadeau "defending" not wanting to pick up that 3rd foul. He is not a great defender any way but him backing off even more gives wide open driving lanes to the ball handler, you really don't want to see that happening.
I don't know if it's still true, but I always think of FSU as a tough road foe. So I'm nervous.
I felt all season that the money we spent on RJ and Tyson would have been better spent bringing in a wide shoulders physical big man and a back up real PG for Cadeau. With who we already had, replacing RJ was rather easy, start either Seth or Jack and in a pinch Drake could have played some 2. Game 1 this season I would have started Cadeau at the point, Jack at the 2, Drake at the 3, JWit at the 4, and JWash at the 5.
I agree about his defense but I know this sounds far fetched but I think some of it is the fact that he knows he can’t get into foul trouble. I can’t imagine both he and EC having to sit. Shew.
And rather easy? I’d bet a dollar to donuts there’s games we don’t win without RJ. Even if it’s closing out games with fts. Y’all forget waaay too easy. And dang it man look at the first half when your easy replacement of RJ of a team was out there lol. They was zero defense played. Maybe around the 11:00 to 7min mark. Ugly
You have no way of knowing that. Had RJ not come back, and Ian gotten all of the reps with the starters in preseason practices, Ian may have scored 30 against Elon. RJ bailed us out that game, no doubt, but who knows what the situation would have been had he not returned?
Because you do not agree does not make my opinion BS, it is just as easy for me to call your opinion is BS when you suggest RJ is a PG. You are better than that bama, I know you are, have exchanged to much with you to not realize that you can express yourself without being crude.
And yet we will never know will we, so doesn't a bet of dollars to donuts on something that now can not happen strike you as lacking merit? I can't know how the line up I suggested would have played out any more than you or anyone else can. But I can point to the last couple games where we have FINALLY started trying to match up size wise and the success that has brought.
It is a classic straw man argument, speculate what may have happened and then trying to hold it up as proof. You are exactly right, who knows how this would have played out had RJ not returned, we very well may have had much larger margins in some of those close wins and maybe some of those close losses could have gone our way had we matched up size better. I do have 1 game I can easy point to where RJ was not available and Seth went off, that actually happened, was not speculation. I as well have a string of games where Seth was either out or not 100% from that concussion where we struggled against teams we should not have struggled with. And of course there is as well the fact that opposing guards have abused our tiny back court all season, that is not speculation either.
I agree, except that we could have kept RJ, gotten Cade, AND had a top big man. I see no good reason to believe that we had to lose either of those players to get the rest of what we needed.
Not merely "not a compliment" but a lazy attack. We're not talking about RJ as a frosh or soph. He'll never be an elite defender like Seth can be, but he's OK.
My thoughts too. I do think he could be a little more physical sometimes for sure. On the other hand he knows someone has to be on the court without foul trouble lol. I think that’s part of it too.
GREAT question about the GM!
It isn't a lazy attack after watching it for over 4 seasons now. RJ gives way more consistent work on the offensive end. He does at times put in good effort on the defensive end but he is going to drop under screens rather than fight over them far to often. Opposing guards have torched him all season, not just him but including him. Makes it even more glaring for me to see him playing the 2 in contrast to Seth at the 2, it is night and day to me.
He’s a grown man getting big money to play at UNC. If he can’t take criticism, he should just hang up his UNC jersey and go play in a rec league. If he’s honest, I’d bet even RJ would say that the main reason he’s at UNC now is for the doh-ray-me. Now that they are professionals, I view them in a different light. I still want them to succeed because that means UNC succeeds. But I have very little emotional investment in college athletics these days.
I honestly believe that RJ did not have better options, the NBA just isn't thrilled about a 5'11" volume shooting 2 guard that isn't shooting a monster % from trey. And frankly, doubt there were many NCAA teams willing to spend on RJ what we were willing to.
True and Ian may have just started the season like he did and tanked. I honestly think we would be ok without RJ because of reps for others to get better. But we know what he’s capable of and he’s done it. The others were question marks.
Maybe not but to my understanding rjs money didn’t come from unc. The first year or nil was done right and “earned” from said player. I used the term earned loosely of course. Get A big wasn’t impacted by RJ or bacot or any returning player the last two years from what I gather.
