A lingering irritation for me, is the palming call on Lawson the other night. It was a horribly called game in many respects, but our play was the bigger factor in the outcome…however, that call on Lawson was disturbing on several levels. He had just made a great steal, and put a helluva move on their center and beat him to the basket. If you’re not going to call palming consistently, why the hell would you call it on such a marginal play? Any of us who have watched Ty know that is a signature move of his—the “one-handed cross-over dribble”, if you will. Given the “love of the ball” many other premier pg’s show when dribbling (and starting their drive), that was a phantom call for sure. I won’t even bring the NBA into this discussion. Watch Rice–he could be called on every play. I think that particular call was bad enough to merit a review of the officials–what say you? THF, I believe this merits discussion, as it would certainly be a handicap to Ty’s (and by extension UNC’s) game if this becomes a POE for the officials. I’d raise some hell on this one!

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if that call came about as a result of another coach raising the issue with the officials…just sayin.

All I am doing is trying to look at the statistics and find clues to indicate what made our team successful last year and this year. I look mostly at Pomeroy but there are other guys out there with interesting ideas worth a look at least.

http://home.roadrunner.com/~unc92sax/CurrentSeason.html

If I have an agenda, I don’t know what it is. I expect Drew to be our starting point guard next year and I certainly would like to see him be the next Kenny Smith, but will settle for the next Derrick Phelps or Ed Cota.

Dailydoc’s exact words probably state the situation perfectly:

“trading experienced backups in Thomas and Stepheson for freshmen Drew II and Davis is not necessarily an upgrade.”

Here is what I said:

“I took a glance at Q.T.’s stats from last year and I was surprised by how good they were. Assist to turnover ratio of 2, 78 percent from the line and he made some big plays for the Heels.”

No one thinks Quentin Thomas was a superstar. But without a significant upgrade over the guys we lost and without Marcus Ginyard, you are going to have to see a lot of improvement by all the other guys just to keep even with what was achieved last year.

How Dailydoc making that interesting and effective point was interpreted as “pimping QT” or my simply saying that QT’s stats last year were better than I remember, meant “QT was a superstar” is beyond me.