Unc Basketball thread

[Shocker]

On 4/12/2026 at 11:38 AM, carpanfan96 said:

There's a good chance that the roster building blocks look like this for next season. School is expected to be spending 16-20m on the roster. 

 

Mingo brothers 

Avadalas

Adams

Brown jr

Knox

Juke Harris

Mikka 

Veesar

Haralson 

Young

Damn…hope ur right.  Which Brown Jr?

[carpanfan96]

11 minutes ago, Shocker said:

Damn…hope ur right.  Which Brown Jr?

Terrence Brown Jr. Scored 19.9 and 3.8 apg for Utah. He had a visit today, Juke Harris had one yesterday. Word is Knox is following Martin to UNC. 

Avdalas committed today

Jarin committed to returning 

Young committed to returning 

Adams committed to enrolling 

Last I heard Mingo is still committed 

So right now the roster is as far as I know. 

Mingo, Adams, Avdalas, Young, Knox, Matlekovic, and Stevenson. 

 

Veesar and Juke both have significant offers from UNC. 

 

Edited yesterday at 08:19 PM by carpanfan96

[carpanfan96]

Avdalas is expected to play the point for Malone, so UNC has parted ways with Dylan Mingo and aren't persuing his brother. 

[uncfan888]

14 minutes ago, carpanfan96 said:

Avdalas is expected to play the point for Malone, so UNC has parted ways with Dylan Mingo and aren't persuing his brother. 

Don't agree with that. But Mingo probably would have pulled out anyways 

[LinvilleGorge]

I'm not crying over losing Mingo. After he committed I watched his highlights and just didn't get it. He looked like a top 50-75 type recruit to me, not a top 10 type guy. Yeah, he was making plays but HS defenders were still all over him right in his hip pocket. Usually top 10 recruits look like gods on a HS court. They look like a different species compared to everyone else. Mingo just looked like the best player on a HS court, nothing out of this world. It's the equivalent of watching a college WR and evaluating him as an NFL prospect. Like yeah, he's making plays, but he can't separate at the college level. Now project that to the NFL level where he's definitely not gonna be creating separation and is gonna have a bigger, stronger, smarter player draping him like a blanket. Is he still gonna be making plays then? TBD.

[Shocker]

6 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I'm not crying over losing Mingo. After he committed I watched his highlights and just didn't get it. He looked like a top 50-75 type recruit to me, not a top 10 type guy. Yeah, he was making plays but HS defenders were still all over him right in his hip pocket. Usually top 10 recruits look like gods on a HS court. They look like a different species compared to everyone else. Mingo just looked like the best player on a HS court, nothing out of this world. It's the equivalent of watching a college WR and evaluating him as an NFL prospect. Like yeah, he's making plays, but he can't separate at the college level. Now project that to the NFL level where he's definitely not gonna be creating separation and is gonna have a bigger, stronger, smarter player draping him like a blanket. Is he still gonna be making plays then? TBD.

He really lacks athleticism and is overrated big time.  Another Ian Jackson situation where the player doesn’t match the hype.  No big loss.

Edited 23 hours ago by Shocker

[LinvilleGorge]

7 minutes ago, Shocker said:

He really lacks athleticism and is overrated big time.  Another Ian Jackson situation where the player doesn’t match the hype.  No big loss.

Yeah, he looks to me like a guy who was able to excel in HS simply because he usually had 4-5" on the guy trying to guard him. Kinda like watching Adam Morrison at Gonzaga. Like yeah, dude is hooping, helluva college player. But he can simply shoot over top of these college guys trying to guard him who are still on him like white on rice. He wasn't shaking defenders he was simply playing over top of them with size. How is that gonna translate to the NBA when the guys guarding him will be his size and way better athletes? Well, we found out.

[uncfan888]

I'm just not sold on Avdalas at point but I hope I'm wrong 

[LinvilleGorge]

5 minutes ago, uncfan888 said:

I'm just not sold on Avdalas at point but I hope I'm wrong 

If you go back a decade, his 4.6apg this year would be 3rd amongst UNC players. Cadeau's sophomore season leads at 6.1, forward Theo Pinson is actually second at 5.1.

[carpanfan96]

34 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

If you go back a decade, his 4.6apg this year would be 3rd amongst UNC players. Cadeau's sophomore season leads at 6.1, forward Theo Pinson is actually second at 5.1.

His 4.6 was 8th this year in the ACC. He was 12th in T/A ratio. During conference play he was 7th in assists 

 

Also Isaiah Denis is back as well. 

Edited 22 hours ago by carpanfan96

[Shocker]

12 minutes ago, carpanfan96 said:

Also Isaiah Denis is back as well. 

I really hope they give Denis some run.  He could be a good role player if he can focus on defense.  Solid all around athlete.

[LinvilleGorge]

14 hours ago, Shocker said:

I really hope they give Denis some run.  He could be a good role player if he can focus on defense.  Solid all around athlete.

Glad he's coming back but honestly surprised. I guess the new staff convinced him there was going to be PT for him. It was baffling how Hubert never played him. Its not like we were a top 10 type team looking like a contender and had it all figured out. We should've been giving him opportunities. There was no reason not to. Utter lack of bench development and hard headedly running his starters into the ground because he was afraid to go to his bench was an knowing issue with Hubert that he just wasn't growing out of with more HC experience. If you don't play them how are they supposed to develop? And his starters could do no wrong. Didn't matter what they did, they wouldn't get yanked and their playing time wouldn't decrease. But if a bench guy came in and made one mistake he was probably getting buried for three or four games. That's a recipe for your starters playing sloppy and your bench playing tight and scared. Saw it year after year.