UNC ONLY BASKETBALL 2024-25 SEASON

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circlesky88 said:
You would trust that HD could build a roster to maximize Cadeau's talents? UNC is going to need more than a single big man out of the portal. UNC is going to need just about a whole new team. That prospect is scary with HD in charge which I think he will be. I think he gets another year unfortunately.
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There are few coaches I would trust to build a roster mostly from scratch

They need size at every position, an off ball guard/secondary player maker that can shoot, bigs that are threats to score
 
Enigma94 said:
If you agreed not to shoot it might be better lol. What a miss he has been. Hard to imagine how he shot 47% or whatever it was even at a lower level.
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I think it's like a golfer getting the yips putting. It's in his head and not a physical thing.

His performance is pretty much the defining aspect of this season. It's not just as an individual but the pressure it would take off the rest of the team, especially RJ.
 
It seems people are tiptoeing around the fact that RJ is having an awful season. His usage rate isn’t that of your second shooter and his efficiency is miserable. His mind isn’t right.
 
Geisterfahrer said:
It seems people are tiptoeing around the fact that RJ is having an awful season. His usage rate isn’t that of your second shooter and his efficiency is miserable. His mind isn’t right.
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More that I've said that over and over and he is improving from the first of the season.
 
Enigma94 said:
If you agreed not to shoot it might be better lol. What a miss he has been. Hard to imagine how he shot 47% or whatever it was even at a lower level.
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You saw what he was used to playing against when he went off for 23 against LaSalle and shot 5-10 from three. I jokingly said at the time he may not score 23 points the rest of the season. Since that game he has scored a total of 11 points and didn't even play in a few games.
 
My husband and teen are bummed that we won't make the tournament. I'd like it if we did, but I expect we would flame out after one game. Unlike 2022, we don't have all the pieces at all five positions. The only consistent shooter we have is Ian. How can that be? He can't even have an off game now (see Stanford).

We remind me so much of my son's current JV team. They're trying but they are awful (won 2 games). No real strong size down low, only one reliable shooter and a coach who is nice but doesn't seem to know what he's doing. The parallels are crazy.
 
finesse said:
And that makes him miss wide open shots?
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Not sure how many are wide open shots. But he could also try to drive, but Hubert seems content with them shooting 3s, even after Cadeau driving to the basket is what got them the lead in the first half. Then they went away from it.
 
If Hubert Davis were to be let go, he would be the first UNC coach to lose his job based solely on on-court performance since Tom Scott, who was replaced by Frank McGuire.

While on-court performance was certainly one factor in the decision to force Doherty out, I am confident he would have been given at least one more year of the players really liked him or if Roy weren’t waiting in the wings. But because many of the players (and their parents) really didn’t like him and because the school knew Roy would take the job that time around— on top of the fact that the team didn’t have much success under him (including having the worst season in UNC basketball history)— he was shown the door after just three years.
 
The worst part to me about Carolina basketball now is that I'm simply apathetic. If I happen to watch the game, fine. If I don't watch the game, fine. If we win, nice. If we lose, oh well. I miss the days of being much more emotionally invested. Apathy sucks, but so does the current landscape of college sport as a whole. I'd much rather be in the days where a loss like the ones to Stanford or Wake Forest would have royally pissed me off instead of meriting a half-shrug.
 
Turd Ferguson said:
Not sure how many are wide open shots. But he could also try to drive, but Hubert seems content with them shooting 3s, even after Cadeau driving to the basket is what got them the lead in the first half. Then they went away from it.
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Teams adjust defensively...

Wake was pressuring Cadeau early in the game for some reason and went away from it

UNC missed a ton of highly contested 2s (only shots they were getting 2H besides 3PAs)

There aren't many driving lanes when almost every defender is sagging comfortably off their man. Story of the season
 
circlesky88 said:
You would trust that HD could build a roster to maximize Cadeau's talents? UNC is going to need more than a single big man out of the portal. UNC is going to need just about a whole new team. That prospect is scary with HD in charge which I think he will be. I think he gets another year unfortunately.
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Doesn't Kentucky have 9 players who are new to the team?

It can be done, we all know the follow up question.
 
CFordUNC said:
The worst part to me about Carolina basketball now is that I'm simply apathetic. If I happen to watch the game, fine. If I don't watch the game, fine. If we win, nice. If we lose, oh well. I miss the days of being much more emotionally invested. Apathy sucks, but so does the current landscape of college sport as a whole. I'd much rather be in the days where a loss like the ones to Stanford or Wake Forest would have royally pissed me off instead of meriting a half-shrug.
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The state of the game contributes to that but it probably has more to do with 12-8.
 
Charlotte1204 said:
And Louisville has an entirely new team that's now ranked and beat the brakes off of SMU last night. Think about where that program has been the last two years.
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Yeah, crazy how Louisville can turn the program around like that in just 2 years and Carolina is struggling now.
 
CFordUNC said:
The worst part to me about Carolina basketball now is that I'm simply apathetic. If I happen to watch the game, fine. If I don't watch the game, fine. If we win, nice. If we lose, oh well. I miss the days of being much more emotionally invested. Apathy sucks, but so does the current landscape of college sport as a whole. I'd much rather be in the days where a loss like the ones to Stanford or Wake Forest would have royally pissed me off instead of meriting a half-shrug.
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I went to bed at halftime last night
Blaphesmy for me
 
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