The Rap On Roy
There’s an old story about Roy Williams from a coaches’ clinic just after he returned to UNC. Williams was speaking to a couple of hundred of his peers, and the subject was the Carolina fast break. “Our break is pretty...
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Just A Little Bit of History Repeating
College basketball, perhaps more than any other sport, lends itself to the drawing of parallels. Whether it be in the comparison of players, coaches, or teams, fans are always looking to weigh the present against the past. This...
Read MoreTar Heels Finally Showing Some Fight
Posted by Staff | Jan 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Roy Williams has received plenty of different criticisms for his coaching this season, but limiting PJ Hairston’s playing time may not be one of them much longer. Whether by design or because Hairston was on fire, the...
Read MoreArt's Angle: A So-So Season Going Nowhere
Posted by Staff | Jan 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Looks like it’s another Year of Living Dangerously. In other words, expending our energy rooting against Duke. We’ve had these seasons before (i.e., 2010), although rarely. When our own basketball team is so young...
Read MoreHeels Lose ACC Opener
Posted by Staff | Jan 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
This one stuck to the script. Virginia’s slow pace and physicality on defense gave UNC’s young players the trouble most analysts predicted as UNC tallied their lowest total of the season, attempted only 50 field goals (20 less...
Read MoreThe Skinny Boys
Posted by Art Chansky | Dec 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
During the most critical stretch of UNC’s alphabet soup win over UNLV Saturday, the Tar Heels denied the Running Rebels three chances to take back the lead they had held only once briefly earlier in the second half. Thrice the...
Read MoreThe Martin Report
Posted by Art Chansky | Dec 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Former Governor Martin’s report on his independent investigation into academic fraud at UNC is due Thursday, and my educated guess is that it will confirm what we already know and reveal little that we don’t. That’s the outcome...
Read MoreJeff Lebo Then And Now
Posted by Art Chansky | Dec 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
If the UNC administration had been smarter during the sorry summer of 2000, Jeff Lebo very well could have been sitting on the Carolina bench Saturday instead of coaching East Carolina. Of course, it eventually turned out fine...
Read MoreAbuzz About Basketball?
Posted by Art Chansky | Nov 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’s not unusual for Chapel Hill to be abuzz this time of year over several local sports teams. It is, however, weird that Carolina Basketball is not one of them. UNC field hockey played for yet another national championship two...
Read MoreSmoldering Ruins III
Posted by Art Chansky | Nov 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
Let’s compare the Carolina basketball team that opens the season tonight to the last two that followed mass NBA exoduses. Are the 2012-13 Tar Heels younger and/or weaker than the 2006 and 2010 teams? The 2006 team that lost...
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