Tonight, a nation points and laughs...

[RuffRuff]

UNC will make a run in the tourney - count on it. They have the best front court in recent memory and saying Barnes is overrated - I mean, the guy was pegged by everyone as player of the year, so he had no direction to go but down.

I throw that Duke game out the window - Duke lived on three's - we all know how inconsistent that is and to me, that's a bit of an artificial win. UNC physically dominated them in stretches. Sure, they got sloppy at points and the defense was lax, but I expect that to be tightened up. Once tourney arrives, the refereeing in the tourney is very condusive to the ACC/UNC style and rotations are shortened.

 

[Prezidint]

What the last play showed is that NC's coaching is terrible. They should have been all about - "take away the 3." Zeller himself should have known better than to be guarding against the blow-by, particularly, and I mean PARTICULARLY, when the game clock got under about 5 seconds, when it becomes very difficult to drive and come up with a high percentage shot when you're starting from 5 feet behind the 3 line. Gotta have the defensive awareness to move toward the guy with the ball as time runs out.

 

[caw]

UNC will make a run in the tourney - count on it. They have the best front court in recent memory and saying Barnes is overrated - I mean, the guy was pegged by everyone as player of the year, so he had no direction to go but down.

I throw that Duke game out the window - Duke lived on three's - we all know how inconsistent that is and to me, that's a bit of an artificial win. UNC physically dominated them in stretches. Sure, they got sloppy at points and the defense was lax, but I expect that to be tightened up. Once tourney arrives, the refereeing in the tourney is very condusive to the ACC/UNC style and rotations are shortened.

How about that FSU game, also out the window?

I'm not sure what you mean by recent memory? The Gators had a better frontcourt 06-07, UConn (03-07) before that did as well. I'm not sure I wouldn't put UK or KU 09-10 teams above them also. They may have the best frontcourt since then though, but that's only 1 year.