Assuming you can stop eating Christmas cookies long enough to watch the Heels eat theirs. This game is the first in a long line of snacks for the Heels as they get tuned up for ACC play. Having seen a few ACC games already it stands to be a wild season. Getting as many kinks out as possible now lays a nice foundation for the future. Also, it is nice to have that brutal stretch over with it so maybe now the Heels can get a handle on some vital areas. Or wail on a team because they can. Either one works for me.
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MU could make this a game. Hope so. Roy could us a bit o’ whittlin’ wake up.
This bunch cannot reasonably be expected to get their collective ****** in gear if they don’t know which gear they’re supposed to get it into – or if that gear don’t make the grade. It is not simply and only the players’ poor performances that have yielded the losses that could have been wins (UK, UT).
Unique collection for Carolina. Creativity required.
Has Roy figured that out yet?
We’ll soon find out.
Zoomba, Heels!
Well, interesting starting lineup…
http://www.scacchoops.com/ViewHDGame.asp?hSchedule=3716
david wear, ginyard, drew, thompson, davis
Anyone have a link for the game?
the race for a link begins!!
Good call, scacchoops. I’m very intrigued by twin D starting.
http://p2ptvsports.freehostia.com/justin03.html
Pass: stoogetvcom
w00t !!!
thank you, thank you, thank you C Michael!!
sigh.
is that how they practice fastbreak passes? underhand scoops 2 ft off the floor?
Muchos gracias, CM.
In regard to turnovers, if nothing else we’re consistent.
Hustle, good. Execution, not so much.
Way to look at the cup half full Marcus!
My two favorite colors on the court. Awesome. Blue’s the best though.
Marcus got lucky. And Ed, not everyone is as tall as you are.
they DID run some passing drills the last couple days, didnt they?
lazy passing is making even more of my hairs fall out.
so is missing free throws like you don’t even care.
More of that please Zeller.
Big Z blocked a shot? Wow.
I know interior passing skills are good, but sometimes I think our guys pass too MUCH down low.
seven minutes in, and both teams have laid enough bricks to build another NC State.
Graves fouled that guy because he tried to take his Cool Ranch Doritos.
Wow, Dex gives me flashes of Dumb Danny, Smart Danny. Except it’s Smart Dex, Dumb Dex. Good play one end, bad play on the other end.
Two good plays by Deon.
And we should own the backboards, all the big guys we have…
can you be over the back if the guy in front isnt trying? apparently.
I would really like our bigs to try to tear the rim down around the basket. try to dunk the ball if you are close. It’s okay if you dunk on someone.
Heels up by 7 at the second media TO. Should be 17. This year’s team can’t do anything easily.
Marshall came into this game averaging almost 90 ppg. UNC’s defensive intensity has been good.
Marcus, i have been saying that for almost 30 years.
Yeah, we like posters. Danny made an awesome one. Eventually, that’s going on my Carolina board (aka, my closet doors)
I can’t tell if that was good on our part or horrible defense on theirs.
Drew is not throwing good entry passes so far tonight.
Hold the ball tightly until you are ready to release for the shot.
I’m going to have turn this off to prevent throwing something at the TV.
wow, nice panic layup attempt by Drew.
Thank you for that. Now play BASKETBALL.
utter slop from our guys. like they don’t give 2 damns.
Q: are the Heels underclassmen overrated or just THAT lazy?
probably a combo of both, but that, combined with our bigs’ collective and utter lack of fire and toughness is why we’re getting run by Marshall. and why we’ll go 9-7 in the acc. weak.
JBB,
This team, playing this way, will be fortunate to go 9-7 in the ACC.
No effort tonight; this team UNC team has to realize that other teams don’t get intimidated anymore just by setting foot in the Smith Center.
There’s a difference in losing to teams like UK and Texas fighting hard, and then there’s this. I don’t want to hear about how good Marshall supposedly is; this is a team UNC should be digging their shoes into.
Sorry, had to eat. But, WHAT THE HEEL IS GOING ON? This is disgusting.
Well Travis just did his Will Graves impression.
Ya know. I’m beginning to get flashes of what Dex could be like in the next few years…I think he chose a good number for point guards.
LOL Marcus!
I think they need to keep pressing.
Stupid call, ref!
I hope the crowd is booing the sloppy, careless passing and not the lack of a foul call.
Were I there, that’s what I’d do.
Keep pushing the ball up the floor. Other than that charge, it’s working for us.
Drew just not getting the ball where the guys are best suited to accept it.
Their minds are already on break. This won’t be a great holiday if they lose this one.
This is awful! I’m sick to my stomach.
Texas being tested by Mich St.
10 turnovers. Ugh.
Where is the defense?!
“Their minds are already on break.”
Yup. Game against a mid-major + day before a break + 2 days after a T10-matchup = CLASSIC TRAP.
HTTE, Go Spartans!
Woody talking about how it would be nice to see Tyler bust one out down the floor on a break.
i remember him doing that.
and being fouled from behind and lost for most of the year.
i’ll pass on that, Woodrow.
in the “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” category:
the heels are shooting 83% on FT thus far!
whoo!!!
now, back to reality.
“The Hog Blog”?? really, Mike?
Who is this bizarro Graves, making good plays, crashing the boards, and hitting free throws?
And 1!
I was just wondering that about Will myself, Marcus.
its nothing new, and i’ve seen it a thousand times, but as the camera pans the seats behind the goal, i see UNC fans sitting there with all the enthusiasm of people waiting for the opera’s intermission to end.
Tyler does a TYLER. Nice.
HTTE: But that was against one of the most classless, dirty, shady teams in the country. Against a team like Marshall, we can take that chance. I would prefer not to, but we could.
P.S. Could you refer to him as something other than Tyler? It confuses and depresses me.
Drew again passes to someone not remotely open.
Who are you and what have you done with Will “Squishy” Graves?
Way to respond, Mr. Graves. Way to respond!
classic sequence to end the half:
Unforced turnover by LD2…fast break by Marshall…missed shot by Marshall…nobody blocks out Marshall…Marshall gets an uncontested putback for a 4 point swing.
ack.
Wow, maybe Will needs to keep coming off the bench.
So Claire, how’s it feel to have one semester of college out of the way?
Does Will Graves have a twin who chloroformed him and stole his jersey? That’s the only explanation I can think of. Good to see him play a good half.
Wow…..Will Graves hit a shot when it mattered? Crashing the boards? Making FT’s? Hustling on D? What happened?
Maybe Graves is more comfortable as a 6th man?
Alex, it feels pretty awesome! The exams nearly killed me, but I’m having a really good time. I actually can’t wait to get back!
I missed the beginning part of the game; who started in Graves’ place?
looking at boxscore on espn…
turnovers are 12-10…shot attempts are 39-38. Heels have 15 FT attempts to zero. winning the rebound battle, too.
shooting 39% tho. ick.
C.Michael,
Hope he’s able to handle it better than McCants did. =)
Andy: Thing 1. (David Wear)
CM,
sometimes you just have to challenge them. like Butch did when he had the backup PK in there midseason. Barth’s next KO went through the endzone.
i say keep him hungry. just not for food.
Cool, glad you’re enjoying college. Now if UNC would open a vet school…
Speaking of the Wear twins Claire, I agree with you on them being cute. I loved that huge HD 60 yard long video board at Cowboys Stadium. Close up shots!
HTTE,
I agree, and it says a lot about Will that he responded so well and so quickly to being removed from the starting lineup. A 6th man who can shoot is a very important thing for a team to have. Hopefully will can be that player.
Alex, close ups? Yum…
UNCGirl,
So when did we resort to calling the Wears Thing 1 and Thing 2? That’s actually kind of cool!
Andy, it’s certainly better than william’s underwear and outerwear.
Claire, I may have pictures…I’m not sure. Hopefully facebook will stop being an arse and let me upload them.
Wow….I’ve never seen Graves jump that high…..
Typical 2nd half lapses….
Hopefully not the return of bad Will.
Andy, since the beginning. Well since Late Night at least.
http://tarheelblue.cstv.com/inside/roywilliams/
Go to Special Features and click on Telling the Wear Twins Apart.
*shakes head vigorously*
sorry, i was momentarily hypnotized by Carrie Underwood, on Fox, wearing tight tight black pants and thigh high boots.
now, where were we?
Alex, thanks. I know a guy that looks exactly like them. It’s scary. Scary good, not scary bad.
Blech, reffing is awful.
Graves shouldn’t be running the ball up the court…..
I think we are finally making this OUR game, keep it up boys!
Beautiful move by Zeller!
Finally! Up 17 points. This is more like it.
very nice reverse spin for the hook from Z.
here i thought Woody was having a moment…and its FSS with the totally wrong score.
That’s cool. The only good close up’s I got of the Wear twins was their backs : ( .
Alex, well if their backs look like Taylor Lautner’s, I’m okay with that.
UNCGirl, I don’t have the link anymore, but a good friend of mine e-mailed me an article about Tyler Hansbrough and his short time with the Pacers, and basically about how other players are getting frustrated by his hustle. Mike Dunleavwas also quoted as saying he doesn’t get hazed as a rookie because he doesn’t take crap from anyone.
I haven’t seen New Moon yet…but I’ve heard Taylor’s shirtless a whole lot of the movie.
I love those Marcus Ginyard threes!
Ginyard’s proving to be a pretty reliable shooter from the three-point line.
That link is in a thread here from a couple days ago.
D is looking better.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/mark_montieth/12/18/hansbrough.ap/index.html
Claire, the link Andy’s talking about is on the UNC bball twitter page. I read it yesterday. The whiny NBA players need to grow a pair.
Alex, he was shirtless SEVEN TIMES in that movie. Yes, I counted.
Andy, that sounds like him.
I’m liking the defense so far in the second half.
Thanks Alex. Twitter here I come!
Good ball movement by everyone on the floor. This is much more like it!
We seem to be running more than we have been lately.
Someone find out what Roy said at half, get it on tape.
Marshall still with 4 pts in the half.
That’s what I like to see!!