Whew...what a night!! I don't know that I've ever been in a more electric atmosphere as I experienced in the Dean Dome last night. Yes, they were upper level corner seats. But I would have settled for the last row touchdown seats for last night's game. Unfortunately the last three games I've seen in person at the DD, our Heels have come away with losses. And to make matters even worse, all three losses were to the two teams I hate the worst...dook and UK. So as you can see, I don't get the opportunity to see my Heels in person very often, but when I do, I seem to bring some tough luck with me. So I apologize to all of my Heels fans out there. As much as I hate to say this, I think I'll stay away from the DD in these big games.

Now, on to the topic at hand. I was a bit perplexed at last night's effort from the Heels. Duke took 29 three pointers in that game. And I don't remember a single one of those three's NOT being wide open. I know this has been an ongoing debacle of sorts now for several years in Chapel Hill...."how to do a better job of guarding against the three's?" And much to my discernment, things appear to have slid even further into the abyss. We can blame the players for not getting around the screens. Heck, we can even blame the players for setting themselves up for the screens if that be the case. But I have been giving this a lot of thought. And I think I've come up with an analysis of this situation that most, if not all, UNC fans are not going to like.

I saw in the post game quotes from Roy where he was calling out Wayne for not hitting shots in game time situations. He said something along the lines of, "we have to be able to hit our shots during the game, not just in practice. If we can't do that, maybe we're not as gooda shooters as we thought we were." I'll have a link posted for his actual quote later. But I'm thinking that Roy just may need to heed his own advice. If he thinks his players are not quite as good as they think they are, and if he thinks that the effort just isn't there at times, then maybe, just maybe he needs to take a long hard look in the mirror.

We were beaten by a team that made some nifty "game time" adjustments. Roy is NOT a coach who seems to be able to make these "game time" adjustments. What we do hear from him is that he doesn't like the zone defense. But it's not just that he doesn't like it, he says he's not good at teaching it. What? Did I just read that correctly? So because you don't like the zone, and you don't like teaching the zone, you're just not going to teach it? Now, I may not be a smart man. But to me, that sounds like a lack of effort. It sounds like stubborness. And it sounds unfair to his players. Now, I'm not saying that a zone defense would have won the game for us last night. And they might still have had 29 open looks at three's. However, aside from a few half court traps last night, and a little full court pressure when the game was on the line, Roy made NO adjustments in that game. He didn't give his team a chance. And why?...because he doesn't want to put forth the effort to teach a defense that, not only would give our players a chance to breath a little, but would also throw a #### wrench in the game plan of the opposing team.