Why did they stop going to Brice in the 2nd half
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They didn't want Plumlee to foul out so they stopped feeding Brice and driving the basketball.
A real coach would have called a TO and righted the ship. Unfortunately, we have a coach who believes he'll somehow be rewarded in the afterlife for all of the timeouts he never used.
I'm sick of watching this guy do less with more.
I'm sick of watching this guy do less with more.
BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A COACH SMART ENOUGH TO KEEP GOING TO HIM!
ROY IS TERRIBLE! BEEN SAYING IT THE LAST 3-4 YEARS!!
OUR KIDS DESERVE TO BE LEAD BY A BETTER LEADER!!! PERIOD!
Appeared that Roy wanted for Marcus to continue the search for his shot, and to let Berry jack something up late in the shot clock. They didn't even try to go inside the last twelve minutes of the game.
Our guards would not dish it to him anymore. They decided to practice pretending we were a good 3 point shooting team. I thought berry was an elite point guard like felton and Lawson. His shots were not close to the rim. Paige is a shell of what he use to be. And Meeks is so good he is already cashing those lotto pick checks he is getting. Pinson is a dribble into traffic machine. Brice is theost consistent player we have. Jackson seemed to support well enough tonight. They will need massive turn around for me to believe in them again
Yeah, it was ugly. Our guards were awful shooting but I can live with that. Sometimes you miss. Not getting the ball inside is not excusable. Find a way. Game is over if we do that.
Said it last year and this year...moving Paige to sg was a dumb move. Worth a try but he's a mediocre sg. It's mental. He can't seem to adjust.
We took a consensus pre-season AA pg that led the team, showed great leadership and made him a mediocre sg. May be too late but put Paige back at starting pg and hope he comes back to his old self.
Paige and Brice are the guys that can consistently take over games and rise to the occasion. But Paige just can't do it for some reason at sg.
We took a consensus pre-season AA pg that led the team, showed great leadership and made him a mediocre sg. May be too late but put Paige back at starting pg and hope he comes back to his old self.
Paige and Brice are the guys that can consistently take over games and rise to the occasion. But Paige just can't do it for some reason at sg.
"It isn't the Carolina Way to allow a player to score 30 points for us." - Roy Williams.
I'm kidding!!!
My guess is our players got scared and resorted to panic/hero ball. No one took charge. No player, no coach.
I'm kidding!!!
My guess is our players got scared and resorted to panic/hero ball. No one took charge. No player, no coach.
Glad you said it last year when Paige was the PG and still regressing even then.
Your comments don't fit the narrative.
Roy was already moving him to sg and playing him at sg a lot, in case you didn't notice.
Plus, he was injured. But if you watched the games, you would have noticed Paige played sg quite a bit and regressed the more he played sg and that trend continued. He's not the same player unless in command of the offense at point guard.
Did you watch last season? Paige was not playing pg the whole time. And of course, he was injured.
Dookies started gearing their entire game plan to take him away the last 8-10 minutes. He was the only thing that was working. Perimeter players along with Brice have to do what it takes to get him the ball.
Paige had his best season his sophomore year when he played both positions, which is half the reason he is on the NBA radar even if he is too short to play SG in the NBA. I might buy the argument that Paige needs to play at least 15 minutes a game at PG in order to be effective but he proved that he can play SG his soph year.
Wait a minute, what game were y'all watching? We were NEVER feeding Brice in that game. His domination and first half points were coming primarily from offensive rebounds and his hustle.
We didn't take nearly as many shots in the 2nd half and dook focused on keeping him away from the rim, so therefore his production dropped. Simple as that.
We didn't take nearly as many shots in the 2nd half and dook focused on keeping him away from the rim, so therefore his production dropped. Simple as that.
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True and False. Most of Brice's touches did come from his own hustle on the boards, but yes there were passes also thrown to him down low in the first half.
Back to the original question. Why did we stop going to Brice? Selfish play, bad coaching, and they did start doubling Brice off the ball. Maybe Brice got tired and did not have as much hustle also. GAME OVER LET'S GO BEAT THE CANES!!!
This.
Rewatch the game.... It hurts, but you see a lot more on a second viewing.
From 12:30 to about 6:30 left in the game Brice spent some time on the bench but he also spent a lot of time drifting out around the 3 pt line. He'd set one or two screens but then drift away from the play.
I think it was a combo of his fatigue and plays not being called for him.
Duke made adjustments seeing as how he was the only one hurting them. See when a guy is killing you, usually you start to find him to put a body on him during rebound opportunities, you deny entry to him if possible, you start talking "where is Brice get on him he's killing us." Sometimes a coach may either employ a box and one or something similar. Let's make somebody else beat us. I think what I wrote is more likely a factor as opposed to guys on UNC simply deciding "forget Brice I'm going to win us this game." JMHO
i think you have that backwards...if a pg averaged 6 assists in 14 minutes he'd have 10+apg.
we needed more from berry and paige.
