UNC ONLY BASKETBALL 2024-25 SEASON

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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
 
Turd Ferguson said:
Yeah, crazy how Louisville can turn the program around like that in just 2 years and Carolina is struggling now.
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Right? Two years ago they were dead in the water. They won maybe two or three games? Last year was a little bit better. But Pat Kelsey has come in and turned that program in months. His kids seems to be buying in. I thought they might hit a setback when they lost the big kid with the ACL back near the beginning of the season, but they regrouped and seem to be rolling along. From an outsider's point of view, it just seems like good energy.
 
Bigs23 said:
The state of the game contributes to that but it probably has more to do with 12-8.
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It's possible that it has to do with 12-8 but I don't think so, at least not for me personally. I've followed a whole lot of pedestrian, painfully mediocre UNC sports seasons (well, mainly football but men's basketball has certainly had its share over the last 8 years) with a lot more energy, passion, and enthusiasm (and thus, disappointment and frustration when we lose) than I am these days.
 
CFordUNC said:
It's possible that it has to do with 12-8 but I don't think so, at least not for me personally. I've followed a whole lot of pedestrian, painfully mediocre UNC sports seasons (well, mainly football but men's basketball has certainly had its share over the last 8 years) with a lot more energy, passion, and enthusiasm (and thus, disappointment and frustration when we lose) than I am these days.
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Maybe it’s just where you are in life.
 
Bigs23 said:
Maybe it’s just where you are in life.
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Entirely possible but I still don't think that's *quite* all it is. I'd think that I would still feel....something... besides rampant apathy. My wife and kid (soon to be plural) and my career are way more important to me than college sports outcomes, of course, but they don't preclude me from being able to feel a (healthy) amount of frustration or disappointment when my favorite team loses. And I don't even muster that anymore. I really think it is primarily that college sports have evolved into a guardrails-less Wild West so quickly that makes it unenjoyable for me.
 
CFordUNC said:
Entirely possible but I still don't think that's *quite* all it is. I'd think that I would still feel....something... besides rampant apathy. My wife and kid (soon to be plural) and my career are way more important to me than college sports outcomes, of course, but they don't preclude me from being able to feel a (healthy) amount of frustration or disappointment when my favorite team loses. And I don't even muster that anymore. I really think it is primarily that college sports have evolved into a guardrails-less Wild West so quickly that makes it unenjoyable for me.
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Yeah, this new world order is going to lose some folks.

The fans of the teams benefiting the most are going to love it.
 
CFordUNC said:
Entirely possible but I still don't think that's *quite* all it is. I'd think that I would still feel....something... besides rampant apathy. My wife and kid (soon to be plural) and my career are way more important to me than college sports outcomes, of course, but they don't preclude me from being able to feel a (healthy) amount of frustration or disappointment when my favorite team loses. And I don't even muster that anymore. I really think it is primarily that college sports have evolved into a guardrails-less Wild West so quickly that makes it unenjoyable for me.
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That's a lot of it for me. I don't like the way sports and entertainment seem to be combining. I also have no idea how the game of basketball is called anymore. Until 5-10 years, I about halfway understood the changes they made and the why. Now, I have no idea how or why things are called like they are. I can't believe the amount of contact on every play or how notional it seems how and which way it gets called.
 
TarSpiel said:
Makes me respect the state fans even more, who show up game in, game out, year after year, to cheer for mediocrity.
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Kinda.

I lose a good bit of the respect I'd otherwise have when you realize how angry and demented it makes them.
 
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