It's bizarre, tbh. Admittedly, I haven't watched them much this year, but I don't understand why their defense is so good and why their offense isn't better.
They don’t. Ingram and Ryan are too inconsistent as shooters. They aren’t bad shooters IMO but just way too streaky. Ryan, Cadeau, Ingram went 7-26. Pretty brutal
Their 98th in 3pt percentage at 35.4%. That might be good enough if they weren't also mediocre from 2pt range (174th). And they're not getting enough offensive rebounds or drawing enough fouls to offset all that. They're just kind of average to slightly above average at everything offensively.
My take has been that for most of the year UNC has done a pretty good job of running guys off the three point line, and forcing them into mid range 2s. Most games it’s worked. Sometimes it doesn’t when teams like Cuse, State are consistently hitting them. They’ve contained dribble penetration much better than previous years. Bacot has actually been really good switching on perimeter. Guys like Ryan, Ingram are very physical. They’ve been fortunate refs for the most part have ignored bumps, holds. Even a guy like Cadeau who is way undersized is just scrappy as hell. The 3 point defense is definitely some variance
