You talking about this?
Here’s the quote I was talking about:
UNC senior Joel Berry stirred things up Tuesday by saying he didn’t consider N.C. State to be a rival for UNC. He heard plenty of boos from the irked crowd, but finished with 16 points.
”I ain’t got nothing to say,” Berry said. ”My play spoke tonight, and that’s all I’ve got to say.”
With Pinson cackling from the next locker, Berry shrugged off a follow-up question, too.
”If y’all have got any more questions about it, put that statement on your article,” he said. ”But that’s all I’m saying.”
They doth protest too much. At the same time, it doesn’t make me dislike them any less.
Our half court defense has been mixed all year. The effort is good, but the rotations are not. Our best defense is out of the full court press. Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I do believe we have improved more on offense this year than defense and the stats support it. Of course that could also be a result of the personnel. I don’t think Keatts is ever going to be a coach whose team finishes in the top 25 in overall defense or point for possession defense, but I do think we can be a winning team.
I knew we were in for a tough week with VT and UNC. At this time of the year it is more about who is playing for anything, and VT and UNC both were. Syracuse is as well and that one is on the road. Wake is probably playing to make sure they aren’t in 4th of the ACC teams in NC. They’d pushed back to even with us in Gott’s last two years. So expect two tough games. The team had better be ready.
