UNC Basketball History

donbosco said:
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Thanks!

I can watch that steal and dunk a thousand times!

You know you’re effed when Derrick Phelps is on your ballhandlers like a ravenous honey badger and your guys have lost track of where George Lynch is.

My UNC Dream Team is atypical:
  • Derrick Phelps (PG)
  • Michael Jordan (SG)
  • Dudley Bradley (SF)
  • Bobby Jones (PF)
  • Sam Perkins (C)
Bench: Steve Hale (PG, SG, SF), Walter Davis (SG, SF), George Lynch (PF, SF)

Not UNC’s greatest offensive players ever although MJ, Perkins, and Sweet D.

Good luck scoring on my boys or keeping them off the boards - offensive and defensive.
 


Take an Hour Tar Heel Nation

@10:10 Gerald Tuttle's 'sitting score'
@16:30 79-64 win over SCAR '71
@20:21 17 Seconds v dook
@25:00 Beating DT '75 (76-74)
@34:00 dook, Ford's Sr. Game (See the great tap-out at 35:50)

1982 and the film quality improves drastically

@43:00 Braddock trey, MJ blocks CDriesel, 72-71 v MD & Lefty
@44:47 Jordan steal v uva -- and dunk
@48:00 MJ's last game in Carmichael, Doherty heroics v dook
@50:00 Popson hits with .05 for win, 75-74
@51:00 The Thermostat press conference
@52:10 Last game v clemson

Bobby Lewis scored the first basket in Carmichael
Buzz Peterson scored the last.
 
Coach Smith once said of athletics and the university that they served as the Front Porch in getting folks to gather to come inside. I owe a great deal to my twice-over Alma Mater UNC — The education, my livelihood, friends, experiences. The institution has its faults, as well as some powerful enemies, and as an alum I plan on continuing to demand that it rise rather than sink, progress rather than lurch backward. Carolina has indeed had moments when it has done the right - the ethical - thing, but like so many public entities in a Constitutional Democratic Republic it takes a gathering of wills to push it forward. Strong forces constantly conspire to pull it to the negative.

From 1961 to 1997 Coach Smith gathered a lot of us on the Front Porch to meet and greet. I’m thankful for the way I’ve been exposed to a bigger picture through that original invite to come and sit down.

I remember this day 28 years ago very well. I don’t mind saying that I wept to hear Coach’s good-bye. He had been a constant source of inspiration and guidance in my life for over 30 years. He continues to be by way of memories and his writings (here I have to recommend, ‘A Coach’s Life: My 40 Years in College Basketball’ in which a lot of Dean Smith’s worldview is explained: https://www.amazon.com/Coachs-Life-Years.../dp/0375758801).

On October 9, 1997 Coach Dean Smith unexpectedly retired as Head Coach of Men’s Basketball at the University of North Carolina. He coached 879 wins to 254 losses with 2 National, 13 ACC Tournament, & 17 regular season ACC Championships. He also coached the USA to an Olympic Gold Medal. Over 96% of his players graduated.
 
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