Yeah, time for McKneeley to step up and be the guy. We kind of changed portal strategy after limited success the last couple of years. Got away from productive low major guys like Rhode & Minor who ended up not really being ACC caliber, and focused on highly recruited younger guys who just didn’t play a ton at their first stop, like Power & Ames.
I'm pretty sure UVA fans liked it in 2019
Even then it was still painful to watch.
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I’ll believe Tony Bennett is changing his offensive strategy (slow as hell) and defensive game plan (foul early, foul often, foul again) when I see the changes.
My proudest (okay maybe that is an exaggeration) moment as the dad of a kid soccer player came last weekend during a game where the ref had been making some pretty bad calls. They called a pretty egregiously bad foul on my son (center back) in the box and when the keeper stopped the penalty kick, I bellowed out my best Sheed "Ball don't lie" shout. It felt really good (although I am sure everyone looked at me like I was a nutjob).
Underrated?? Antawn is my favorite Tar Heel player ever. If I was picking an all time UNC team, he'd be my first pick. Granted, there are at least a dozen first picks on such a team that you couldn't go wrong with, but Twan would be mine...
I think the CBB world (outside of UNC fans) would look at Hansbrough, Jordan and maybe Ford as the top tier. There’s just so many to pick from it’s hard to start naming names. As I recall (maybe I’m a year off) I don’t believe Jamison was even the top recruit in his class…wasn’t that Carter? Either way, a legend…UVa was pretty bad in that era, so I actually enjoyed watching him play, even though we’re programmed not to.
He had the quickest put back on offensive rebounds that I have ever seen.Top 25 of the Last 25: #6- Antawn Jamison Crushes Duke in ‘98
The 1998 National Player of the Year punished the Blue Devils in a matchup of #1 vs. #2
Jamison scored 35 points against Duke and only had the ball in his hands for a total of 53 seconds of game time.
If there were to be a Mt. Rushmore of UNC basketball players, while I don’t think Jamison would end up being one of the faces carved into the mountain, I do think he would make the final 8 considered along with Lennie Rosenbluth, Larry Miller, Charlie Scott, Phil Ford, James Worthy, Michael Jordan, and Tyler Hansbrough.
So, I agree that winning trumps style in the short term, but in the long run you need style to keep it interesting or people start to lose interest and move to other options.
If you can win-win. Bennets Daddy "invented " this style while coaching at UW-Green Bay, So its what Bennet grew up on
