If Duke had Mark Mitchell If Tennessee had Zakai Zeigler If UNC had Armando Bacot against Virginia Ifs are meaningless in sports.
@Andrew_Forrest1 Ok, but the UNC fanbase has been if-ing themselves the '12 national championship fot the past 10 years.
@bomberjacket5 And our “ifs” are meaningless, too. 🤷♂️
@Andrew_Forrest1 True, although I find it comical that fans are so mad that UNC changed their entire offense to play around Marshall and did very little to develop guys without him. Odd from RW whose strength was playing guys and developing teams for March. Maybe one of his worst coaching seasons
@bomberjacket5 @Andrew_Forrest1 To be fair, the backup PG that year - Dexter Strickland - tore his ACL in a game in Blacksburg earlier in the year. This is when Roy vowed to never have less than 3 PGs on a given roster.
@a_gilmore88 @Andrew_Forrest1 Yes, but they got away from his traditional offense and only Marshal was allowed to move the ball. He pstood at the 3pt line and passed the ball. If there wasn't a shot they threw it back to him. Bad basketball for a team that traditionally move the ball so well.
@a_gilmore88 @Andrew_Forrest1 Led to some success and some guady assist numbers but one of UNC strengths was how everyone on the court could run offense, create, and make a play. Don't know why UNC fans cling to that season as the one that got away.
@bomberjacket5 @a_gilmore88 @Andrew_Forrest1 You say this like Marshall was an anomaly type of player for the Heels. Yes, he was a fantastic pass-first point guard (duh). This is 1 of THE 2 most prioritized skills at that position in the game along w/ ball handling. Phil Ford and Ed Cota walked so Marshall could run.
@StanSteam88 @a_gilmore88 @Andrew_Forrest1 He was an anomaly. Other PGs moved within the offense. They cut off the ball, set screens, etc. No other UNC PG (to that time) stood around the perimeter and an orchestrated everything in that way. A normal UNC offense would have handled his absence better.