ACCBoards

Before this season with our front line I thought that would be the least of our problems but we seem to be constantly getting dominated on the boards. Tonight there were plenty of times where we were all around the ball on a missed shot but somehow could not get the rebound.

Because our post players don't play defense with their feet. They try to block everything, which not only leads to offensive rebounds, but also to easy dishes for layups and dunks when our post players leave their man to try to block shots, instead of moving their feet, making them shoot over a hand and making sure they only get one shot, all of which the guy who's jersey went into the rafters tonight did consistently during his career, and got a ton of rebounds and drew a boatload of charges because of his excellent fundamentals, great footwork and plain old effort and determination.

the post players are light. look at the top 25. virtually all of the best teams have much stronger if not both taller and stronger players.

but a bigger factor is the inability of this team to apply pressure on the perimeter and create turnovers. obviously Hansbrough was a lot stronger than Davis but on many possessions rebounding was never even an issue because Carolina took the ball away on the perimeter and scored a layup. it was a trademark of the team and a huge difference that covered up what was probably still a rebounding deficiency

this year the opposition goes where it wants to, passes how it wants to, get the shots it wants and then is able to hit the offensive boards on top of that. you can't just look at rebounding in a vacuum. for some teams maybe but Carolina has always relied on pressure and it ain't there this year. 8 Duke TO's and 9-18 3's says something. of course so does 19 OR's allowed

He knows.