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Postgame Thoughts... UNC

dasher said:
so you think the first charge call on Mintz was a good call? Everything that happened after that call changed the game.
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If I’m trying to objective, I think the first one was also a charge but it could’ve gone either way. Or no call. Point being that it wasn’t an obvious screw job. I think as fans we get caught up in the moment sometimes.

Just like the Tennessee pass interference. It really was pass interference. But emotionally we convince ourselves it isn’t.
 
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HOFCeluck said:
Say it wasn’t (and I’m not convinced of this)

The appropriate response for a grown man making millions of dollars to coach a basketball team to a long shot NIT berth is to storm out like a diaper baby?
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the answer is pretty obvious, youth. But you don’t ask that question to get an answer
 
Scooch said:
I’m sure if one of our players stomped off and refused to answer a question no one would rip them for being part of a babied, entitled generation right?
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If it was that question? Wouldn’t say a thing
 
HOFCeluck said:
Our senior guard who many think is HC material someplace has been complicit in some of those meltdowns though.
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outside of the out of bounds play I can’t think of another situation where he has actively made mistakes at the end of games
 
OrangeDW said:
Up 2 with the ball with under a minute left.

Get a rebound on a FT and we probably win.

What happened from there and the rest of the way was just nuts. Couldn’t draw that up in a nightmare.
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Yeah, to me it wasn’t “nuts” at all. It’s who we are. We have one consistent rebounder. He was out because he can’t avoid foul trouble. We have a bunch of players who aren’t particularly savvy. We have a PG who is Uber talented but plays out of control far too often.

I was kind of expecting us to lose because we’re just not wired to win. It wasnt fluky in my opinion, it was the culmination of all our deficiencies. And it’s happened a bunch of times this season.
 
Cuse181 said:
outside of the out of bounds play I can’t think of another situation where he has actively made mistakes at the end of games
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He did something similar at the end of the UM game I think.
 
As I look at the post-game box score, I see Joe with 6 turnovers. That's a lot. That's more than I expected.

Jesse also with 4 turnovers. He was trying too hard in the low post against Bacot. He made a few baskets, and was decent on the boards (8 & 7). Five blocks was excellent. Many revved up the crowd and the team. But he lost this battle, with some help from the refs.

So, after Jesse misses maybe 8 minutes (between the 2 in the first half, and however long he sat with 4 fouls in the 2nd half), we have to look at Hima, Brown and Benny as our remaining bigs. Maliq had some good boards, but he was big boy'ed. Hima was over his head. He looked a bit shell shocked, big stage, bright lights. Benny had a poor game.

Nance, their PF, went for 21 and 10 against our other bigs. We only put up 8 points and 11 rebounds in response from our 3 guys matched against Nance, all by himself.

We lost this game in several ways, so you can't say "we should have won" for any single reason.

The refs hurt us a few times more than should have been called against us.

Joe, Jesse and Judah (only THREE TO's ???) still had 13 between them, and UNC didn't even pressure us, really.

They got a lot of foul calls in the 2nd half, and we were not treated to the same treatment under the rim. FT discrepancy in the 2nd half was also a reason we lost the game.

Plus, poor late game execution - again, and not just one guy.

Forwards who mostly didn't show, and after playing even with Carolina for the first 30 minutes on the glass, they crushed us inside later in the game.

Our shooting cooled off in the 2nd half.

The Dome air conditioning is too cold.
 
Scooch said:
Yeah, to me it wasn’t “nuts” at all. It’s who we are. We have one consistent rebounder. He was out because he can’t avoid foul trouble. We have a bunch of players who aren’t particularly savvy. We have a PG who is Uber talented but plays out of control far too often.

I was kind of expecting us to lose because we’re just not wired to win. It wasnt fluky in my opinion, it was the culmination of all our deficiencies. And it’s happened a bunch of times this season.
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Yes. This depresses me.
 
FrancoPizza said:
If I’m trying to objective, I think the first one was also a charge but it could’ve gone either way. Or no call. Point being that it wasn’t an obvious screw job. I think as fans we get caught up in the moment sometimes.
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You can definitely argue the first one was a bad call. But it was bang bang. I thought they were trying to get those “jump in front of a guy and touch your 2 feet down to draw the charge” call out of the game, but I’ll admit to not knowing how that’s supposed to be called in 2023.
 
oTTo113445 said:
Theres no question were a tournament caliber team. 7-10 seeds have gone to the final four. Wish the refs would put in a good word for another 32 teams in the tournament. That would be the best call they could make.

It's tough having 5-7 of these tournament game losses in jan-march. Then thinking is this our last chance to make the tournament after each one. Meanwhile, you got midmajors with 6 5th year players. Sucks like a mesquito.
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We have 0 quad 1 wins and 1 quad 2 wins and bad losses, how is this a tournament caliber team?
 
sugrad68 said:
Before we heap too much praise on Bell, Edwards fouled out because Bell's man ran right past him to the basket and Bacot passed him the ball and Edwards had to foul him. Terrible defense.
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They ran that play all game.

Some questionable calls for sure, but we had plenty of chances and blew it every damn time. Hima successfully anchors the press then can’t hold onto the ball after a UNC miss. Maliq throws a fastball directly at Hima’s face. Benny unaware there’s only 3 seconds on the shot clock coming out of a timeout. Joe w a few questionable shots and bad TOs. Judah… Jesse has Leaky Black pinned down low and can’t finish. Just brutal.
 
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