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Best of luck, Mr Barber. And thank you!
Everybody move along, no surprise here. This was the right decision for him. His draft stock will not get higher unless he can impress in camp.Agree he’ll probably struggle to make an NBA team, but he’ll get a nice check for a while. I would think he could make a nice career on the world tour. He and TL would make a great guard combo in Italy, see the sites, eat some pasta. It’s looks like a good life.
Agree with many of you. I too have complained about PNC. But I kind of had second thoughts this year when Carolina came to town.
I was trying to listen to the radio on earphones to hear the pregame. But the crowd was so loud, I couldn’t hear it. And this was sitting up on the third level with the poor folk’s season ticket holders. With the radio turned way up.
Now I have done that many times at many games, but the crowd was so amped for that game, that I gave up.And this was for a game we had very little chance of winning, 28 games into a season we all knew was going nowhere. It was GREAT. My buddy and I couldn’t stop laughing at the sheer volume, not to mention every time the band played ‘The Red and White …’ and a certain sentence was screamed. At floor level it must have been overwhelming.
Of course, eventually reality set in and the noise level came down. But for a while, early in the game, it had the intensity of the old Reynolds days. PNC was absolutely rocking.
So, I’ve come around a little, PNC is fine. As several of you noted, it should have been built on campus so that the student seats are jam packed every night. I think, the more students you put in there, the better. That’s really my only complaint. (okay, two other complaints. I don’t like the food, and what is the deal with that HS booster club wearing Carolina Blue to every game? I get it is their colors – but take a hint, change your color scheme and sell more sodas you knuckleheads!)
I guess this is the pinnacle of a career that many of us (me included) thought was going to be quite a bit different when we recruited the big guy.
Before his freshman year, I thought we’d finally found an anchor for the team. A guy that would be around a while, and be reliable for points and rebounds.
Then he showed up and was just sad looking, especially his freshman year. Stretching that jersey to it’s limits, walking up and down the court, little stamina, really disappointing. Then the sophomore year was a little better. The staff sort of put up with it because of the blocked shots. Without that, he wouldn’t have gotten off the bench much. And then he hit the winning shot in the LSU game, followed by the much ballyhooed off season weight loss, all the ‘skinny’ pix released, and many of us thought (I did) this year would be different. It didn’t happen. By comparison, Nard (bad leg and no practice last summer) is averaging 5.4 to BeeJay’s 5.3 rebounds. But, you have to give him credit for the blocked shots. He’s really good at it. But setting the record only puts him at #15 all time in the ACC, and even with another season like this one, he MAY get to the top 5. But the number one guy has 425 blocks.
The big guy was quoted last summer as telling the coaches, “I don’t think I’m going to need my senior year.”
I hope he’s a good student, right now I don’t see him making much money playing basketball. I can see him getting hired someplace for a season, but without being surrounded by nutritionists and S&C guys to keep him in line, I think he’ll struggle.
Another “what if” story.Yuck! That was a stinker.
The season will end 15-17, and hopefully we’ll then pack up the jerseys and call it a season. No one wants to prolong this.
Congrats to Mav on the academic excellence!
Crap
The thing that irritates me is every game we lose, there’s some noisy dudes wearing the other team’s colors sitting right behind me.
Not today – all red.Any other school would have been given the death penalty by now. Brace yourselves for a wrist slap.
My many years of hate are totally justified.We don’t want to hear it Gott. Blaming the refs? Really? Maybe you are thinking that with 2-3 more fouls Cat could have made the difference.
The problem is much, much deeper than that. What about the poor decision making and shot selection in the first half? Freeman and Anya not even getting 10 boards between them? Mav Rowan apparently stayed in Raleigh – his body was there, but not much else.That was the point at which you could definitely have gotten a win, bolstered the team confidence, gotten the fans fired up – but opportunity lost.
Credit to Cat and the staff for working together to help him get to where he is today. He didn’t walk in the door this good. And I actually think he has improved during this season, starting to do better at balancing when he needs to take over and when he needs to get the rest of the team involved.
“Maybe he should just call everybody “Calvin”.”
That made me laugh out loud! Great way to start a day!
Canes game was a great report card for both staff and players. Staff got the player’s attention, players responded and played up to their potential against a very good, well coached team. In the post game Larranaga said that the Pack beat them in ‘every phase of the game.’
I am encouraged, but want to see how the week plays out before I start thinking positive thoughts. There’s only 9 regular season games left, barring a miracle, too late.
It appeared we were improving – the optimist in me was thinking perhaps we’d have a couple of wins to be proud of in the second half of the season – but I think we have been exposed. GT played physical and we folded.
There were two remaining games that we should have expected to win, and we lost this one badly. It really was much worse than the final 7 points indicated.Gott, put this season on cruise control and go recruit like your job depends on it.
Agree w 13OT.
Playing the game in a near empty building will deprive the Pack of the home court advantage that I think has helped push them over the top in the last two Duke games at PNC.Exciting to see this sophomore grow into the player we have been hoping he would become. But i think he’s still got a lot more to show. I look forward to seeing what he and the twins look like next year.
travelwolf – Very good point, and I think that is especially evident with the bigs. But generally, not having competitive practices has got to put us at a disadvantage.
Look at UNC, they have an ACC caliber team on the bench. Wait and see, I think this is one of their better teams and will go far in the NCAAT. Strong inside game and one of the best guards in the country, who also happens to be a senior.We’re over our heads in this one.
Interesting to see so few comments. I almost didn’t post either.
I think most of us have realized this season isn’t likely to turn out well and have just decided to focus elsewhere to preserve our sanity. This is rough.Will be interesting to see how he does. Was he a star we just didn’t recognize or properly utilize, or was DD/Canada right and he didn’t deserve the ball more.
Time will tell.Go be a star!!!!
