In Reply to: Weekend hoops preview: The inside scoop on UCLA-UNC, Kentucky-Ohi posted by mh on December 20, 2024 at 11:42:50
I get the comments but they read like someone who hasn't seen much of us yet, perhaps operating off a name familiarity bias.
Their backcourt could definitely gouge us - the core of our defensive stats were compiled against teams that lacked the talent to actively compete with us and neither Oregon nor (especially) Arizona has even grown into a real, actual team yet. (And it helped us a lot that the guy who may be their best post threat had to sit the game out in his walking boot.)
That said, his whole discussion of the post play seems based off the team stats and box scores of previous games. It seems - and it really is to be hoped - that the discussion of UCLA's threat in the paint does not begin and then immediately stop with Bilodeau. Aday Mara also has to be considered now. I hope he'll get an actual run tomorrow, at least a chance - in each half - to show what he can do. And to force Nort Carolina to have to show what they can do against him,
Changes the balance of the teams' prospects in this game.
If we play with full energy and focus in this one