-- Tyler Hansbrough, working tenaciously.
Insatiable desire! Unstoppable will! Indefatigable spirit! You can't spell Tyler Hansbrough without H-E-A-R-T. Also: gush, blather, bluster.
-- JJ Hickson:
That'd be nice, yes.
NC State Basketball 2008: The Other Three People Are Just Out There, It Seems Like.
-- Carolina's scouting report is here; my preview of the first game is here.
-- The Tar Heels are the least-frequent three-point shooting in the ACC--by a wide margin. That's not too surprising considering that only a few regulars--Lawson, Green, Ellington--take threes with any sort of regularity, and they've had just two of those options available over the last couple of weeks.
-- Danny Green has struggled in conference play: 45.5 2FG%, 28.2 3FG%, 23.4 TO%.
-- In ACC games only:
-- Pomeroy's predictor likes UNC by 11. Rebound competitively, keep the pace down (75 possessions in the first game; that's too fast), and maybe we can make this interesting.
Hansbrough, in his insatiable desire to be the best player on the floor, is adding to the qualities that have made him an All-America.
Insatiable desire! Unstoppable will! Indefatigable spirit! You can't spell Tyler Hansbrough without H-E-A-R-T. Also: gush, blather, bluster.
-- JJ Hickson:
"We keep saying the same stuff over and over. Now, we have to do instead of saying it."
That'd be nice, yes.
"That's been the story of this team all year -- either one person [is] going or two people [are] going," [Hickson] said. "We're never going as one. We're always one or two people going, and then the other three people are just out there, it seems like.
NC State Basketball 2008: The Other Three People Are Just Out There, It Seems Like.
-- Carolina's scouting report is here; my preview of the first game is here.
-- The Tar Heels are the least-frequent three-point shooting in the ACC--by a wide margin. That's not too surprising considering that only a few regulars--Lawson, Green, Ellington--take threes with any sort of regularity, and they've had just two of those options available over the last couple of weeks.
-- Danny Green has struggled in conference play: 45.5 2FG%, 28.2 3FG%, 23.4 TO%.
-- In ACC games only:
A:TO Ast% TO% Ast/40 TO/40
QT 1.9:1 26.8 35.8 7.6 4.0
Lawson 3.2:1 32.5 16.1 8.8 2.7
-- Pomeroy's predictor likes UNC by 11. Rebound competitively, keep the pace down (75 possessions in the first game; that's too fast), and maybe we can make this interesting.