UNC Basketball

I’m continuing off my last blog post because, well, I love basketball plain and simple. If you are unfortunate enough to not know much about our UNC basketball team, then think of this as a quick guide that can make you sound somewhat informed if you want to impress your friends. Note: as stated in my previous post, I use the words ‘we’ and ‘our’ when referring to the UNC Men’s Basketball team simply because it is easier and requires less typing.

I’m going to start with our frontcourt (forwards and centers). Not only do we return seniors Marcus Ginyard and Deon Thompson and (English classmate) sophomore Ed Davis, but we’ve added: the skinny but dangerous John Henson, the can’t-really-tell-them-apart Wear twins David and Travis, and have 7-footer Tyler Zeller coming back from an injury last year. Now I might be biased, but I honestly believe we have the best frontcourt in the nation and I don’t think anyone can match up to us, not even Kansas.

In the backcourt (guards), we might have some struggles because of our youth. We have sophomore Larry Drew II returning to start at point, Will Graves return from a suspension last year to play the two, walk on Justin Watts who provides solid minutes off the bench when needed, and then we have brought in Dexter Strickland and Leslie McDonald, both of whom have loads of potential. Graves is the oldest guard being a redshirted junior so it will be interesting to see if our young guys can play ahead of their years.

So it is clear that we have a ton of depth, even if much of that is inexperienced talent. The biggest thing that I think will lead to us winning the national championship is our size. We have six guys who are 6’9” or taller. Some NBA teams don’t even have that so it is a huge advantage in college. If Coach Williams wanted to go with a big lineup, he has the option of putting 6’10” John Henson at the small forward position with 6’9” Thompson and 6’10” Davis in the low post. Henson, who just recently in high school sprouted 6 inches in 18 months, has guard-like skills in a big man’s body. Oh and his wingspan measures at 7’4”. This makes him a matchup problem for anyone, especially smaller forwards.

Trust me, Carolina basketball I going to be sick.