UNC 89, Wake Forest 92
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Recap0-2 in conference play. That's where we sit after another humbling loss. Wake Forest came in ranked #4 in the nation. They matched our aggressiveness and talent level. The big difference in the game was shooting. We shot a season low 35% from the field. We shot 33% in the first half and went 0-9 to start the second half. You aren't going to beat anyone playing like that.
No one on our side had a good game except Danny Green who has turned out to be one of our most consistent players. I'm not exactly sure why we kept trying to feed Wayne Ellington at the end of the game when he hadn't hit anything all night. Granted, Wayne knocked down two threes in the final couple of minutes so that helped, but it was too little too late. It is frustrating to see players like Jeff Teague from Wake or Tyrese Rice from BC be so prolific from outside. Wayne Ellington is supposed to be in that same class, but he's been ineffective from outside for much of the year. Wayne better be happy he didn't leave early for the NBA or he'd be sitting the sidelines at NBDL games. If the NBA Draft were today, there is no way he'd go in the first two rounds.
Ty Lawson had perhaps his worst game of the year. I know I was lobbying for him early on as the best point guard in the nation, but now that he's been outplayed by 2 ACC point guards, I can't exactly make that claim anymore. Very disappointing.
This gamed looked eerily similar to the BC game. You'd hardly think we were a run and gun kind of team. Things got so bad Roy made the team play zone defense toward the end of the game because we couldn't get stops (Roy much prefers to play man).
Our free throws hurt us again.
Shooting in general just sucked. How many McDonald's All-American's do we have and the best we can do is 35%?? We should do better than that if we did nothing but shoot three pointers all game. This is the exact same issue we had last year. Unless we are running and gunning, we aren't a very good offensive team. We just don't have the shooters.
I thought the officiating sucked too. Totally uneven from the first-half to second-half. I thought they called a lot of ticky-tack calls against us.
I'm in a bad mood now so I'm going to bed....
Ok, I'm back. I forgot to mention that we had to call 2 timeouts because we couldn't get the stinking ball inbounds! I don't think that's happened all year and it happened twice tonight. I don't know what is going on with the team...
