Two day turnaround, injured Diakite and Jerome, surging Tar Heels team, road shooting struggles for our guys, my dog puked everywhere this morning. Nothing is going our way right now.
i just don't want to end a season the way we did when we lost Anderson, Perantes' ribs, or last year with Hunter. i'd prefer we temper my expectations and then have a nice surprise.
He has a back strain and it's mostly just sore. It's not serious but back injuries are tricky and hard to get rid of completely without full rest. It's clearly been affecting him and hard to believe it would go away on a short turnaround. Diakite traveled with the team and is apparently "acting normal" but no idea whether he's cleared to play or not. But you already knew all this, superfan that you are.
If he played, it's not serious IMO. Our staff are wimps when it comes to letting guys play through injuries (probably rightfully so, but I'm still salty about Hunter last year). I'm worried about it and think it will linger all season, but I don't think they'd let him in if there were danger of aggravating or reinjuring.
That shit pisses me off so much but he gets a pass this game. Like bro how can you not see that’s gotta get swatted to Raleigh.
the not being ready for the halfcourt trap out of a timeout aka a staple of every unc team since dean smith started coaching was bizarre you have to know that’s coming
UNC is doing exactly what every team to beat us in the past 2 years has done: Pressure the ball on the perimeter. When we can’t run sides we fall back on hero ball and we are not good at that. The way to beat this is a guard who can take his man one on one and we don’t have that guy on this team. Smart teams will keep doing this until we have an answer.
Whew. Doesn’t feel like as big of a win without Little and Johnson for much of the game but we needed that. Punched in the mouth on the road and responded.
lots of positive and negative take aways from this one haha huge shots by Kyle late though is really awesome to see
in case anyone needs a good laugh: https://www.greensboro.com/sports/a..._b2712d66-2e70-11e9-afb0-3f51d1917d68.html#36