UNC Basketball 2021-2022

[childress22]

We had a 6'9" guy who shot 44% from 3 on 5+ attempts last year, but we still kinda sucked.

 

[TS9]

We weren’t coached by Hubert Davis.

 

[rome8180]

Also worth noting that Manek is up to almost nine attempts a game in the tournament. That difference is significant. I doubt there are more than a few dozen players in all of CBB taking that many three-point attempts, and maybe under 10 at his position. They probably all play for mid-majors besides him.

The fact that he's shooting 44.4% on those 8.5 attempts is ludicrous.

 

[TS9]

I don’t know much, but I do know that Brady Fucking Manek is not some sort of Pistol Pete-class offensive problem that cannot be solved. There’s an answer out there somewhere. The only question is whether someone finds it in time.

 

[rome8180]

I wish we could clone Dell. I don't think he's a perfect defender by any means. But I think he's the player we have who's most capable of just face-hugging Manek for an entire game. Unfortunately, we need him on one of UNC's guards.

 

[TS9]

I mean, if it comes to it, play 5-on-4 on everyone else and put UNC’s fate entirely on Manek’s shoulders.

 

[physicsfactor]

It’s not like Manek moves that well off the ball. He makes a bunch of basic catch-and-shoot 3s. AJ can guard Manek just fine. Your coaching has to make it crystal clear that he is an absolute NO HELP player. You help off Leaky. You keep Love and Davis in front of you and deal with stepback 3s going in.

 

[dukeboy911]

I’d assume Manek is the priority to stop over Bacot and Love right? Curious what we think Ks gameplan will be.

 

[rome8180]

I would focus on Manek and Davis. IMO, Manek is the one that makes the whole thing work. He creates the space for their guards and makes their pick-and-roll difficult to contain. You saw what happened following his ejection in the Baylor game.

 

[dukeboy911]

I guess you have to like the odds of letting Love play hero ball. I don’t know how we contain Bacot on the offensive boards.

 

[dukebluedevils05]

We have to master our ball screen coverage in practice this week. There can’t be any hesitation or confusion about responsibilities come Saturday night like we had some of those possessions against Michigan State.

Like pf was saying, I think the move is to put a shorter, more agile wing on Manek (like AJ, as he said) in a no help situation, try to hide Banchero on Leaky and tell him that he needs to help tag Bacot on the dive while also knowing that he can close out short on Leaky (don’t close out so hard you give an easy waltz to the rim), guards go over top of the screen with Mark having high, active hands until the guards recover and he can get back to Bacot. We live from there. Everyone(!!!) has to be ready to defend simultaneous ball screen action. If they don’t get what they want from their first screen, I would expect them to turn around and re-screen, so we can’t let our guard down once we defend one and think the job is done.

I’m just thinking aloud here. I think the important part is to emphasize that Leaky’s defender can roam some. Force Leaky to be a decision maker which I don’t think he’s comfortable with. He doesn’t seem the type to get the ball and make an assertive, immediate decision, rather he gets it and takes a minute to do something, which would allow us to get reset on defense. My only problem here is I don’t like giving Paolo the freedom to make the decision on when and how much to help away from Leaky.

 

[childress22]

It’s not like Manek moves that well off the ball. He makes a bunch of basic catch-and-shoot 3s. AJ can guard Manek just fine. Your coaching has to make it crystal clear that he is an absolute NO HELP player. You help off Leaky. You keep Love and Davis in front of you and deal with stepback 3s going in.

I think Manek is a good-enough cutter along the baseline even if he's not that quick. He gets layups and dunks cutting in from the corners. IMO, whoever is guarding him should guard to force him away from the baseline and into the middle area.

 

[Slap the Floor]

Idk if Hubert Davis is a coaching savant or if he's gotten Kevin Ollie lucky this season. Caleb Love and RJ Davis have been unfucking real in the NCAA Tournament. I mean, this is the stuff of legends- Davis 30 against Baylor. Love 30 against UCLA including 25 in the second half. Love 28 versus Duke. Davis and Love wouldn't be doing this under Roy, that's for certain. Davis has modernized their offense and given those two guards the freedom, but this run of these 2 guys is ridiculous.

 

[bdotling]

Remember when it looked like all these guys were going to leave the program?

 

[Devilsforlife]

UNC’s success over the last 7 years, making it to Monday night 3 goddamn times, has made them feel so much worse than they would have otherwise. Hopefully they’ve used up every last drop of good luck for a decade plus after this run, and have fully cancelled out the bad luck from the Dean/Gut eras, where they only won 2 titles in 13 FF appearances.

 

[LastHearth]

It's not that different from UConn's run of 3 titles in 10 years, including the last one by a first year coach. (Assuming they win it all on Monday).

 

[Devilsforlife]

Would be 4 titles between 2005-2022. UConn also won 4 between 1999-2014. Very similar, indeed.

 

[Slap the Floor]

Just dropping by so everyone can give this a fat HubieWut like button.

 

[DurhamSon]

Is it crazy I still think they’re more like a 3 or 4 seed? They were never going to hold teams to 26% from three on high volume forever. There’s probably 5 to 10 college teams a year who would win a championship doing that, and 30 NBA teams, and if it were the result of an actual actionable strategy would have made Hubert the most valuable coach on Earth in any sport at any level

 

[uncy12]

We had end of game coin flip luck in close games against Baylor, Duke and UCLA. You’re bound to lose one of the four unless you are 2019 UVA