Basketball cometh.
This will be a box score only analysis which actually does not tell us much and even that is with a grain of salt since the Heels were playing a team that was going to be chopped liver no matter what. Anyway, here stood out to me in the stats:
- 22 turnovers? Really? Well, considering UNCP had 29 miscues I suppose 22 is not so bad. The trio of Lawson, Ellington and Frasor combined for nine of those turnovers and Deon Thompson had four. This is likely not an issue as the season gets rolling but rather can be chalked up first game jitters.
- Rebounds: UNC 44 UNCP 37. I am going to chalk that up to the loss of Hansbrough and Ginyard as well. Hansbrough, given the effort he exerts will be missed on the boards. Someone else needs to step up and Deon Thompson surely tried with 10 rebounds to go along with 14 points.
- UNC did shoots a healthy number of three pointers and hit almost half of them. UNC was 10-21 from behind the newly extended arc. Danny Green, Wayne Ellington and Bobby Frasor each hit threes. Like the rebounding issue, this probably results from missing Hansbrough which creates a more perimeter oriented offense.
- The freshmen performed well, especially Tyler Zeller and Ed Davis. Zeller, who started for Hansbrough, had 13 points and six rebounds. Davis was very productive off the bench with 12 points, six rebounds and three blocks. The latter stat is where I think Davis can make the biggest impact.
- Ellington and Green led the scoring with 16 points apiece. Green also had a blocked shot, two steals and had four assists continuing his jack of all trades type of play.
- Ty Lawson has 14 points, five assists and six steals. You have to hope that steals stat is a sign of things to come on defense for Lawson.
- The Heels ended up shooting 53% from the floor after a poor first half where they shot 42%. UNC was 47% from three point range for the game. UNCP shot poorly to go along with the 29 turnovers created by 17 Tar Heel steals.
That really about covers it. The offense is in flux a bit with Hansbrough sitting out and the same could be said of the defense with Ginyard out. It was good to see Frasor back and performing well not to mention the play of Davis and Zeller. Thompson appears to be making the effort to step in for Hansbrough which he did well enough. And since this was an exhibition, all of this can be take with cautious optimism that whatever went wrong can be fixed and the postives we saw can be built upon.
We will begin to get some answers for that next week versus Penn.
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Most of the steals came because we pressed which I guess we are working on for conference and tournament play?
Don’t remember fully, but I thought most of our turnovers came in the first half so it could have been opening game “jitters”. Maybe.
I noticed that the three point line didn’t affect Bobby’s, Wayne’s, or Danny’s shot which is great. Those three are our best shooters so if it hurt them, we would have been in trouble.
Did anyone know we played Vanderbilt last week?? If so does anyone have any inside word on how we did?
I knew we were playing Vandy in a scrimmage but it was closed doors. Sounds like a better deal than playing two games versus teams that people often mistake for girls schools.
THF, you never cease to make me laugh! Overall this was a mediocre game for us. The first half was completley dismal. But the second was pretty good. The freshmen looked great and I was impressed with our speed. We really need to work on turnovers and rebounding. Hopefully Tyler will be back before long so we have a more powerful inside presence and rebounder. Go Heels!
Still stoked over football.
THF, I thought most of the turnovers were errant passes, indicating that the team is a little out of synch with one another, especially the freshmen. It also could be the Hansbrough/Ginyard absence.
Zeller, who looked a lot like Hansbrough in appearance from my vantage point — about 20 rows up — needs work on defense and toughness, something I saw and heard from people around me. I’m sure that’ll come in time,especially practicing with Hansbrough every day.
Davis and Drew II were impressive in the way they didn’t seem in awe of playing in front of nearly 20,000 fans their first game in the Deandome. Both were basically in control.
Can’t wait for Hansbrough and Ginyard to be back.
One other thing: Coach K must really be envious after his rant last week about Cameron not being full for an exhibition game. I had to wait in line with thousands of Heel fans before the doors were opened at 4:30. Granted, many were there for the football game, but it was still impressive the amount of interest in the B’ball team. Many of the fans stayed around to support the walkons-plus-Davis. I really liked that.
I watched it on Tar Heel Blue and frankly it was hilarious. Woody wasn’t commentating so it was Adam Lucas, Eric Montross and Jones Angel. Towards the end they started to make jokes. Without Woody they went crazy. Anyway Drew had poor ball control. I think he was trying to be too much like Ty and attempted fast breaks. He had some pretty spectacular steals but lost some of them on the way. That is definitley something these freshman need to realize; they don’t need to be Tyler or Ty or Wayne. They just need to play.
Nice Analysis UNCGirl.
Thanks just something I noticed. Overall the team is really deep and talented we just need to work out the kinks. Boosting the freshmen’s confidence is a good thing and letting them know that they are valuable without being the superstars.
pretty sloppy play at times. Roy was probably pretty mad about that.