What a pleasant and relaxing win for the Heels today versus Clemson. After about a month - starting with the loss to Texas - of games that led Carolina fans to mutter into their tweets and scratch their heads the Heels played a pretty complete game and coasted to an easy win.
Yes, an easy win. It was as if the ghosts of Kendall Marshall or Tyler Hansbrough reappeared. Or maybe it's just the ghosts of Clemson. In what has got to be one of the weirdest stats in all of sport the Tigers are 0-57 all time in Chapel Hill.
That track record could have made a win against Clemson a self-fulfilling prophesy but with this year's team you never know.
This game was a reminder of how great we feel when the Heels win games comfortably, or win a big a game versus say Michigan State, Louisville or Kentucky. But more importantly, this game provided a head-slapping case of "Now I remember - James Michael McAdoo is our best player!'
In November, it was McAdoo on the cover of Sports Illustrated with Jabari Parker. He came out of the gate red hot to open the season but has been inconsistent ever since. The only complete game he has played since November was the win over the Wildcats, where JMM was the best player on the floor.
We saw that player again tonight; it was the complete, first-round pick, diving-on-the-floor, swooping-to-the-hoop McAdoo.
There has been plenty of analysis of what has been wrong with this team, but bottom line if this team is going to win 9 or 10 games in the ACC, or go deep in the ACC and NCAA tournaments, it can not be Marcus Paige's or Kennedy Meek's team.
It has to be James Michael McAdoo's team. He is that talented, and when we see it for 30 minutes a game as we have against Kentucky and tonight (as opposed to about 10 minutes to start the Syracuse or Virginia games) the Heels can play some great Carolina basketball.
And Heels fans can have a pleasant, relaxing night.
GO HEELS!
Yes, an easy win. It was as if the ghosts of Kendall Marshall or Tyler Hansbrough reappeared. Or maybe it's just the ghosts of Clemson. In what has got to be one of the weirdest stats in all of sport the Tigers are 0-57 all time in Chapel Hill.
That track record could have made a win against Clemson a self-fulfilling prophesy but with this year's team you never know.
This game was a reminder of how great we feel when the Heels win games comfortably, or win a big a game versus say Michigan State, Louisville or Kentucky. But more importantly, this game provided a head-slapping case of "Now I remember - James Michael McAdoo is our best player!'
In November, it was McAdoo on the cover of Sports Illustrated with Jabari Parker. He came out of the gate red hot to open the season but has been inconsistent ever since. The only complete game he has played since November was the win over the Wildcats, where JMM was the best player on the floor.
We saw that player again tonight; it was the complete, first-round pick, diving-on-the-floor, swooping-to-the-hoop McAdoo.
There has been plenty of analysis of what has been wrong with this team, but bottom line if this team is going to win 9 or 10 games in the ACC, or go deep in the ACC and NCAA tournaments, it can not be Marcus Paige's or Kennedy Meek's team.
It has to be James Michael McAdoo's team. He is that talented, and when we see it for 30 minutes a game as we have against Kentucky and tonight (as opposed to about 10 minutes to start the Syracuse or Virginia games) the Heels can play some great Carolina basketball.
And Heels fans can have a pleasant, relaxing night.
GO HEELS!
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