LinvilleGorge

People are ready to pencil Purdy in as the next Tom Brady but I think they're getting way ahead of themselves. He was in the ideal situation and a complete unknown to opposing defenses. Let's see what he does next year when the league has an entire off-season to study up on him. If we even get the chance. Trey Lance very well might win that job anyway.

Then what do you do next year? I think teams are going to be very aggressive this year because there's good QBs available and deals to potentially be made. I think they're all working under the assumption that Drake Maye and Caleb Williams are the top two picks next year and there's gonna be no trading for those picks.

It's just a massive risk. It's basically an all-in type of move. If you take the big swing and get a big hit you'll never regret it. But if you take the big swing and whiff hard it's gonna really hurt watching some other team make those high picks while you're still sitting there desperately wanting a QB. My body is ready though. We've seen where playing it safe has gotten us. Identify a guy. Take the swing. It's very rare to have a team sitting at #1 not desperately needing a QB.

Newspapers are a dead business and they've been in managed decline mode for my entire adult life. I had to unfollow my local small town newspaper on social media because it was just completely trash. Celebrity gossip, national level culture war BS, etc. Like you're a small town (sub-20k) western NC newspaper. I'm following you for local stories. When I couldn't even find the sports schedule for the local HS playoff games anywhere on their site I was like... oh just fug off and fold already. LOL!

He's a phenomenal shooter. Best ever. It feels like 20 years ago when Kevin Garnett burst on the scene and every young big man wanted to try to play on the perimeter. Like bro... you ain't KG. Get your ass down there in the paint.

He's operating like a guy who is a lock to go #1 overall. Hell, maybe he is. Who knows?

Yeah, if he was 6'3" 220 no one would be questioning him. But he's not. The guy looks like he's 175. I still have a hard time believing that 204 weigh in. He just doesn't look anywhere close to that. If I had him in for a pre-draft visit I'd have him stepping on a scale again. If he refused that would tell me all I need to know about that weigh in.

I'm gonna add that the modern basketball offense is bullshit. There is a lot of ugly basketball being played. Everyone is trying to copy Golden State but it doesn't work unless you have Steph Curry and Klay Thompson. When you have two of the greatest shooters ever you can build your entire offense around just trying to setup threes. But when you don't you just get ugly basketball. There's no movement. Just ball screens without even any pick and roll. Taking turns playing one on one isolation ball. And jacking up threes. That's everyone's offense. I bitch about Hubert and UNC but then I watch other top teams and it's the same bullshit.

The Niners allowed themselves to get so terribly fleeced trading up to #3 a couple of years ago that I'm not sure it'll be much cheaper to get to #3. You know the Cardinals will try to use that trade as the blueprint.

I honestly just want us to go one and done with the ACC tourney and get this season over with. Hubert isn't gonna get it figured out with this crew. Let's just let him get his guys in here and see what he can do with them. If it's the same story next year it's time to admit Hubert's Final Four run was a total fluke and move on. Final Four run included, Hubert will nearly match Doherty's loss total through two seasons.

Die a lot when you suck at shooting threes.

That's the story way too often. We go out with Caleb Love chucking. It's a recurring theme.

His incoming recruits are the only thing keeping him off the hot seat. If next year is the same story he won't survive it. If we hadn't had that miraculous tourney run last year he probably wouldn't see a third year.

Caleb Love is red hot or ice cold and he's ice cold way too often to rely on him. Hubert's unwavering belief in him costs us a lot of basketball games.

He's a Carolina legend for those late season heroics last year, but I'm ready for Caleb to head out. Oh look. There's Love bricking it again.

Just awful. We'll see what Hubert can do with his guys once they get on campus but I'm just not seeing it. We don't win many games where we don't shoot red hot.

He's been terrible tonight. We need to be playing a two man game with RJ and Bacot

Typical Caleb Love on the ball D. Matador style.

GODDAMN IT LEAKY

Bullshit. That was CLEAN.

Ref didn't have the balls to call the fifth on #1.

The rolls and bounces #30 gets... just LOL

Love has to be so difficult to coach. He is so great when he's good but he's either hot or cold. There is no warm Caleb Love. You don't want to reign him in because he can catch fire at any time but at the se time he's probably shot us out of more games than he's won for us shooting. His hot streak late last year was legendary but he just can't find a way to find any sort of consistency.

I'm okay with the fouls. Just call the obvious traveling. They've gotten away with probably 20.