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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 4541746, member: 405"]
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.
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