Our normal offense had 38 points with 5 minutes to go. We don't need more practice scoring 60 points a game, we need a WIN, we need momentum.
Give me an offense that the 222nd best offense could have run with our set of players that would have yielded a considerable amount of points against the 10th best defense in the country? It doesn't exist. We can't get out in transition because we don't know how to run the most basic fastbreaks. Tony keeps the ball on 9 of 10 two on one breakaways. Also how are we supposed to get out in transition? We don't force turnovers, we get outrebounded, and we're not very good on defense. To get out in transition you have to get fast outlet passes, force TO's, or at least get stops.
WGAF what Kenpom said, he wasn't on the court. You play to win the game, not to cover the spread. Fuck your moral victory.
I think it was a pretty good indicator of how the typical Wake-UNC game would play out and it was pretty accurate beyond both teams shooting 30%
Then stop patting Bzz on the back for a gameplan that got us blown out at home. No one gives a shit that Carolina only scored 68.
There are plenty of things to bitch at Bzz about but I don't know how only losing by 15 at home to a team who is better at every single position on the court than we are and is top 10 in the nation is one of them
They got down the lane when we turned it over, like assholes. Had nothing to do with us trapping.
We tried to press and trap from the 1-2-2 full court zone like three times and each time Barnes or Marshall dribbled straight through it to get an easy bucket, or an easy dish to Henson or Zeller. I think one time it happened Zeller missed a layup. Tell me how we could be expected to successfully trap UNC.
None of our players fouled out, not even Nikita. We had plenty of fouls to give. You seemed really impressed with our defense, now we don't have any good defenders?
Nikita had 3 fouls in like 10 minutes in the first half and Carson was in foul trouble the whole game. We run an 8 man rotation with four inside (with Green averaging like 7 minutes a game as one of the bigs) and two of our bigs had five fouls in the first half. How does this not constitute foul trouble? Also I didn't say I was impressed with our defense, I said I thought that we did a good job of mitigating the talent gap which was aided by them missing a ton of open shots.
Its hard to get transition buckets when the other team doesn't turn the ball over and you can't force turnovers. And we tried to get down the lane with TC and CJ and they couldn't get past the length and athleticism of UNC
Where was our press when Stillman White was in, when did we trap McAdoo or Bullock or Henson? Good point about TC and CJ.
White played three minutes total, 2 and a half minutes of which were in the final 2 and a half minutes of the game. The other was for one possession where we forced a quick missed shot. And like I said we trapped a handful of times and it was broken everytime, that's why at no point did we really attempt to trap anymore.
We weren't in the game down 20. This moral victory you are so excited about doesn't exist.
We entered the game with an 11-10 record against a team that was 18-3 entering the night as well as 5-1 in the conference with every win coming by double digits. With about 13 minutes to go in the game we were down 40-34 and had a chance to make it a one possession game, how is this not "in the game" and evidence that slowing the game down was probably the right call. We all acknowledge that UNC missed a ton of shots and giving them the chance to shoot more shots (which they probably would have increased their shooting percentage on) while also forcing us to make more shots to keep up (something we can't do since we can't get even simple baskets) was probably part of the reason we were only down 40-34 at that point.
Stop encouraging our coach and team to give up.
We didn't give up, we did the same thing we had done all game.