Speechless, Part II

Another phenomenal game by Harrison Barnes today at the ACC tournament.  Unguardable gets thrown around a lot, in fact today by Clemson coach Brownell, but Barnes WAS truly unguardable on his way to 40 points in a tough win over the Tigers.  I was shocked to see he missed 5 shots all day.  To state H-Barn is playing with confidence would be an understatement.  

Barnes kept Carolina a float in the first half was Marshall and Henson had underwhelming first halfs, and Tyler Zeller barely made an impact.  

Ditto the second half as Barnes was incredibly efficient on offense.   Actually the entire team stepped it up; Henson was all over the place on D and on the boards and started to score in the second half, and Marshall shook off his funk, too.  Finally, down the stretch in regulation and in overtime Barnes and Zeller hit clutch basket after clutch basket.

It took an entire team effort to win this game.  Clemson played some very tough basketball today against the Heels.  They were very active defensively, and offensively Clemson has some scorers.  Their recent history has been as a defensive team, grinding out games.  But with Stitt, Tanner Smith, and Jennings the Tigers have some fire power, too.   They are a tough team and were a tough out today that required Carolina's A+ game.

Man, did they hire the right coach, too; I would not be surprised to see Brownell lead a less-obnoxious Rick Barnes-like renaissance in Clemson.

So now, the game of games this season: Carolina versus Duke for the ACC tournament championship and perhaps a number one seed.  I love our chances, as we have handled Duke both times we've played them this year.

But mainly it's about Harrison Barnes.  This guy could be getting Carmelo Anthony-hot at the right time.  Last week in Chapel Hill against the Devils he was unstoppable, which was just a prelude to today's version of unstoppable.   Of course, in addition to Barnes I think Zeller, Henson and Knox are too much for Duke inside, too.

GO HEELS!
Of course, if I was literally speechless this would not be much of a blog post.