UNC ONLY BASKETBALL 2024-25 SEASON

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NOVAHEEL13 said:
Oh for fucks sake. None of us give a single fuck about what IC says about the game or Coach Davis. Their shitty game analysis was likely from some LLM chatbot that churned out the heaping pile of rhino shit you thought was relevant but isn't. Moreover, their "opinion" of the coaching isn't worth a damn either because, well, and this is well known, they didn't like Coach Davis from the beginning so...fuck them and their shitty reactionist thoughts because they have zero clue what the fuck they're talking about in this area. None of us do...

There's a reason why we're here and NOT there anymore so stop bringing their shit here! That goes for this and your 37 aliases.
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Guess you don't care why they have struggled all season getting behind so much to good teams and why they have struggled for 2 and 3/4 seasons.
 
Carolina Fever said:
Guess you don't care why they have struggled all season getting behind so much to good teams and why they have struggled for 2 and 3/4 seasons.
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I'll bet you'd complain if they hanged you with new rope. Sometimes I'd like to verify that.

You've been making the same tired complaints for four years. Nobody cares what you think and nobody respects your recreational basketball knowledge of the game. I'll stipulate that you feel aggrieved and abused because UNC basketball is not good enough for you anymore if you'll stfu.
 
finesse said:
I'll bet you'd complain if they hanged you with new rope. Sometimes I'd like to verify that.

You've been making the same tired complaints for four years. Nobody cares what you think and nobody respects your recreational basketball knowledge of the game. I'll stipulate that you feel aggrieved and abused because UNC basketball is not good enough for you anymore if you'll stfu.
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You seem to have anger issues. It's not that serious. No need to get personal and crazy when just talking about basketball. The whole point of this forum is to discuss topics and give opinions, and this thread is for people to discuss Carolina basketball, which I and others are doing. Are you actually going to discuss it or just attack others? And my knowledge is more than just recreational.
 
I have annoyance issues since you're such a Johnny One Note. Why don't you address the fact that we made 14 of 27 layups and dunks or how at the end of the game the offense got Powell that wide open three that he missed? Oh, you can 't pin that on the coaching, although I'm sure you'll try.

Yes, everybody admits that we screwed up in the portal. Everybody admits that we need to recruit for leadership as well. We established that 25 games ago. You still bring it up every game like that could be changed at this point. No, it wasn't a vintage year because of it. Otoh, the team didn't give up and they kept improving. More to the point, I'm still a fan of the program and you're a fan of Carolina's success so you can bask in reflected glory.
 
finesse said:
I have annoyance issues since you're such a Johnny One Note. Why don't you address the fact that we made 14 of 27 layups and dunks or how at the end of the game the offense got Powell that wide open three that he missed? Oh, you can 't pin that on the coaching, although I'm sure you'll try.

Yes, everybody admits that we screwed up in the portal. Everybody admits that we need to recruit for leadership as well. We established that 25 games ago. You still bring it up every game like that could be changed at this point. No, it wasn't a vintage year because of it. Otoh, the team didn't give up and they kept improving. More to the point, I'm still a fan of the program and you're a fan of Carolina's success so you can bask in reflected glory.
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They had a pattern all season getting down big early to good teams. That points to being unprepared and that's on coaching. The offense that doesn't fit the team and players he has to maximize their chance at winning is coaching. If you can't see that coaching is an issue then you really don't know much about basketball.

And the comment about just being a fan of their success is bull. You have no idea what kind of fan I am. I have been a fan since I can remember at 4 years old. Yes, I am used to seeing the program win and do well. A fan can cheer for the team and also be critical of how things are going with the program. Right now I think it's going in the wrong direction and has been mediocre to bad more often than not the past 4 years. Also, I'm not the only one here that has been saying the same thing.
 
Carolina Fever said:
They had a pattern all season getting down big early to good teams. That points to being unprepared and that's on coaching.
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I really don't get this line of thinking. It reminds me of football commentators who say that false start penalties are 100% on the coaches. I mean, really? The coaches aren't teaching guys not to false start? Schemes are on the coaches. You could maybe say certain techniques are on the coaches (e.g. are we teaching DBs not to look for the ball). But false start penalties? Those are on the players.

Similarly, do you think Hubert is telling the guys, "don't worry about preparing for the game. Just show up, we'll roll the ball out, and get going"? I don't have any insight as to what coaches do or don't do in pregame, but I have a strong intuition that Hubert is doing just fine. At some point, the players have to be able to bring the intensity. At some point, it's on the players to play with purpose, effort and a clear head from tipoff, not just in the second half.

If you want to criticize the offensive scheme, that's clearly a choice by the coaches. But the team not being ready to go at tipoff, repeatedly, seems more like a player problem than a coach problem. And maybe this is what people mean when they say there's a leadership deficit on the team.
 
superrific said:
I really don't get this line of thinking. It reminds me of football commentators who say that false start penalties are 100% on the coaches. I mean, really? The coaches aren't teaching guys not to false start? Schemes are on the coaches. You could maybe say certain techniques are on the coaches (e.g. are we teaching DBs not to look for the ball). But false start penalties? Those are on the players.

Similarly, do you think Hubert is telling the guys, "don't worry about preparing for the game. Just show up, we'll roll the ball out, and get going"? I don't have any insight as to what coaches do or don't do in pregame, but I have a strong intuition that Hubert is doing just fine. At some point, the players have to be able to bring the intensity. At some point, it's on the players to play with purpose, effort and a clear head from tipoff, not just in the second half.

If you want to criticize the offensive scheme, that's clearly a choice by the coaches. But the team not being ready to go at tipoff, repeatedly, seems more like a player problem than a coach problem. And maybe this is what people mean when they say there's a leadership deficit on the team.
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The coaches are 100% responsible for false starts. There is a reason why certain coaches have far fewer false start penalties than other coaches.
 
superrific said:
I really don't get this line of thinking. It reminds me of football commentators who say that false start penalties are 100% on the coaches. I mean, really? The coaches aren't teaching guys not to false start? Schemes are on the coaches. You could maybe say certain techniques are on the coaches (e.g. are we teaching DBs not to look for the ball). But false start penalties? Those are on the players.

Similarly, do you think Hubert is telling the guys, "don't worry about preparing for the game. Just show up, we'll roll the ball out, and get going"? I don't have any insight as to what coaches do or don't do in pregame, but I have a strong intuition that Hubert is doing just fine. At some point, the players have to be able to bring the intensity. At some point, it's on the players to play with purpose, effort and a clear head from tipoff, not just in the second half.

If you want to criticize the offensive scheme, that's clearly a choice by the coaches. But the team not being ready to go at tipoff, repeatedly, seems more like a player problem than a coach problem. And maybe this is what people mean when they say there's a leadership deficit on the team.
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Folks don't say that when there's one or two false starts, penalties, etc. They say that when there are several such penalties - and that is because coaches definitely do practice fundamentals like that, constantly, from Pop Warner up to the NFL. Going back to UNC, if the sluggish, unmotivated, unprepared, starts where infrequent then you wouldn't see people calling out HD/staff for that - just like no one called out Roy/staff's coaching for the way they came out against KU in 08. It's the repeated slow starts against decent (or better) teams, over years of HD/staff tenure, that points to their inability to get their teams ready to play.
 
stankeylegjones said:
Folks don't say that when there's one or two false starts, penalties, etc. They say that when there are several such penalties - and that is because coaches definitely do practice fundamentals like that, constantly, from Pop Warner up to the NFL. Going back to UNC, if the sluggish, unmotivated, unprepared, starts where infrequent then you wouldn't see people calling out HD/staff for that - just like no one called out Roy/staff's coaching for the way they came out against KU in 08. It's the repeated slow starts against decent (or better) teams, over years of HD/staff tenure, that points to their inability to get their teams ready to play.
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They practice not false-starting at the college level? Or some coaches, at least? Do you know that for sure? I know nothing about college football practice, so I'm not going to do a zen and start talking out of my ass. I'm just wondering if you're saying that with 100% confidence, 90%, etc.

I wouldn't think that would be a good use of practice time. In related news, I have won precisely 0 games as a football coach. On the other hand, I have also lost precisely 0 games, so my winning percentage would be decent for a UNC head coach (incoming!).

Anyway, let's go through some hypothetical scenarios as to how HD might be contributing to the bad start problem. None of them have to be accurate; I'm just wondering what people have in mind here. Is it the "locker room motivational speech?" Does that really have an impact? That much of an impact? HD can't give one, having heard them his whole life? Is it a game plan? That would seem to be an all-game long problem, not an opening minutes problem. What is it that HD might or might not be doing?
 
superrific said:
They practice not false-starting at the college level? Or some coaches, at least? Do you know that for sure? I know nothing about college football practice, so I'm not going to do a zen and start talking out of my ass. I'm just wondering if you're saying that with 100% confidence, 90%, etc.

I wouldn't think that would be a good use of practice time. In related news, I have won precisely 0 games as a football coach. On the other hand, I have also lost precisely 0 games, so my winning percentage would be decent for a UNC head coach (incoming!).

Anyway, let's go through some hypothetical scenarios as to how HD might be contributing to the bad start problem. None of them have to be accurate; I'm just wondering what people have in mind here. Is it the "locker room motivational speech?" Does that really have an impact? That much of an impact? HD can't give one, having heard them his whole life? Is it a game plan? That would seem to be an all-game long problem, not an opening minutes problem. What is it that HD might or might not be doing?
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Yes, they do practice it at all levels - some coaches emphasize it more than others, and some will put more emphasis (spend more periods in practice) on it leading into games against teams/QBs that are better at working hard-counts than others, along with highlighting it in film debriefs and next game film sessions. It doesn't really take away from time during a period to include it as part of the focus. For example, you are taught at a very young age to go off of the ball, not sound, on both sides, so reminding players of this during a positional-drill period, throughout the period, won't take away time - it's not like you sit everyone down and give them a passionate speech about it. When you bring everyone together for a controlled-scrimmage period, you'll have the scout team use hard counts, motion (body and limbs), and so on, to keep players continuing to move on the ball. The intention is to make it become "muscle memory" so that it doesn't take up any/much mental memory, allowing for players to focus on their assignments. If you're interested, you can watch tons of practice videos on youtube to see how it's done in practice - at all levels.

Everything is done off of the ball. From starts for positional drills, scrimmage plays, to sprints, to rope pulls, to other s&c work. Everything starts on the ball, both in-season and off-season.

Regarding HD/staff, I'm willing to bet it's a lot of those things, plus more, that contribute to it. The problem is that either they don't believe it's on them, or they don't know how to identity the issue(s) and correct them. (In general, this seems to be a universal issue with this staff - if/when they do finally figure it out, it's usually later than it should take a coach at an elite program to do.)
 
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stankeylegjones said:
This team, as constructed, should have been in the top 25 throughout the year.
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No. Not without an established big and also without a team leader. Missed Bacot & Ingram. Failed to replace those all important spots. That was the deathknell for this season, and it happened 2 months before the first practice.
 
stankeylegjones said:
This is shocking: In 10 games against top-25 opponents, UNC led for 29:06 out of 405 minutes. That’s seven percent of game time.
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We couldn't play with the big boys all year. That stat proves it, but we all new that all along. I certainly wasn't shocked by that stat. I would have guessed more like 5%. I watched the games...
 
Centerpiece said:
No. Not without an established big and also without a team leader. Missed Bacot & Ingram. Failed to replace those all important spots. That was the deathknell for this season, and it happened 2 months before the first practice.
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Yes. With good coaching, this is a top 25 squad. Over the last month of the season, we were ~15th in efficiency metrics, there’s no reason to say that we couldn’t have done it for the majority of the year.

We weren’t going to be real NC contenders, but we certainly could have been within the top 25 for the year (especially after starting just inside the top 10).
 
Centerpiece said:
No. Not without an established big and also without a team leader. Missed Bacot & Ingram. Failed to replace those all important spots. That was the deathknell for this season, and it happened 2 months before the first practice.
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You've seen that this team can play with others in the top 25. You've seen that this team has talent. There is no reason why they weren't top 25 all year long. Not having a high-level big should've been the difference between a legit contender and a sweet 16 contender. Yet, here we are.
 
stankeylegjones said:
You've seen that this team can play with others in the top 25. You've seen that this team has talent. There is no reason why they weren't top 25 all year long. Not having a high-level big should've been the difference between a legit contender and a sweet 16 contender. Yet, here we are.
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I agree to disagree. We were missing a floor leader, a leader who started. And we were missing a legit big. Had to have them both to be top 25 ALL year long. Also Elliott's TO/A ratio wasn't where it needs to be for top 25 - all year long.

Of course we had talent. We had talent good enough to be in the top 36. But we were missing some huge pieces. We couldn't get past d00k, Louisville and Clemson in our own league.

Could we have been top 30 in the NET? Yes, with wins against Stanford, Wake and Pitt and being on the right side of just one of those Q1 games (the d00k, Fla or M.St game). But we didn't. And it wasn't just poor coaching. It was because we were missing two big pieces.
 
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