Hot Stove: UNC Basketball

[Rock]

Fooking Louisville and their bags of money.

 

[superrific]

Fooking Louisville and their bags of money.

??

 

[donbosco]

McKneeley to U of L.

 

[superrific]

McKneeley to U of L.

I prefer 'Ville. I've found the U part to be somewhat of a questionable characterization.

 

[circlesky88]

Fooking Louisville and their bags of money.

Maybe we should follow their lead because our approach seems to suck ass lately.

 

[Bigs23]

McKneeley to U of L.

Apparently this has been a done deal for awhile now.

 

[wmheel1287]

So, have we gotten any better at this portal thing? I'm asking honestly because I don't follow the minute by minute.

 

[UNCatTech]

I might pay the dollar for a month of IC as they are hinting at big update regarding Henri Veesaar.

 

[Rock]

So, have we gotten any better at this portal thing? I'm asking honestly because I don't follow the minute by minute.

Ehhh.. not really. We'll hopefully grab Veesaar today which will help having an actual tall person on our roster. Really need some other pieces though...

 

[mpaer]

Ehhh.. not really. We'll hopefully grab Veesaar today which will help having an actual tall person on our roster. Really need some other pieces though...

Tall people are realy good in Basketball

 

[Rock]

Tall people are realy good in Basketball

...sometimes. I don't know who the UNC players are of past as well as you guys but boy, Kansas has had some tall players that were huge busts.

 

[Calheel]

So, have we gotten any better at this portal thing? I'm asking honestly because I don't follow the minute by minute.

I'll let you know in three months. Early returns are mixed at best.

 

[SnoopRob]

I'll let you know in three months. Early returns are mixed at best.

3 months? Won’t we really know in a month or so, at worst?

 

[superrific]

...sometimes. I don't know who the UNC players are of past as well as you guys but boy, Kansas has had some tall players that were huge busts.

Not to go on a tangent, but you'd expect tall players to be busts more frequently. For a few reasons: first, they play against smaller opponents in high school and they then struggle against better competition; second, there are many fewer of them, so there aren't many to go around who are, say, 75th percentile in skill and athleticism (compared to all HS players). So most teams end up with guys who they think *might* get to that skill and athleticism, and the majority do not. Third, big men get hurt more often.

 

[GoHeelsweeeehoooo]

I was starting to feel better but I'm getting a bad feeling again

 

[4thgenheel]

I might pay the dollar for a month of IC as they are hinting at big update regarding Henri Veesaar.

if its not a commitment i don't want the update, lol.

 

[PTOHeel]

3 months? Won’t we really know in a month or so, at worst?

I think within a couple of weeks we'll have a pretty good sense of whether portal results have improved or not.

 

[Icky Mettle]

...sometimes. I don't know who the UNC players are of past as well as you guys but boy, Kansas has had some tall players that were huge busts.

I think Wilt Chamberlain deserves more credit than you’re giving him.

 

[donbosco]

Tall players are both getting taller and better IMO.

 

[Icky Mettle]

...sometimes. I don't know who the UNC players are of past as well as you guys but boy, Kansas has had some tall players that were huge busts.

We UNC fans had the fortune of having Bill Guthridge on the staff for years and years. He was a fantastic big man coach who got most of the bigs he coached to maximize their talents. There were a few here and there who didn’t fully pan out as hoped, but most of the time he turned unheralded/raw bigs into solid contributors and heralded bigs into All-Americans.