Would we have any Idea how good McCauley and Costner are?

They would still be backups at this point, and McCauley might still be getting the garbage time minutes. Then after this year when Brack got drafted for baseball and Ced left for the NBA, we would be feeling unsure and wary about next season, instead of feeling like we will have a great core of young players returning.

In fact we may have missed seeing McCauley start at all in favor of having Hickson start as a freshman next year.

3/20/2007 12:09:11 AM

thats a good problem to have though. forget about brackman, mccauley would have earned his PT over him, but simmons would have been a beast.


btw, 1:45 mark:
http://tinyurl.com/yry5xm

3/20/2007 12:13:31 AM

of course. i dont know why people think htis kind of thing happens. coaches know thier players. its called practice

3/20/2007 12:24:48 AM

5) Simmons
4) McCauley/Brack
3) Costner
2) Fells/Grant
1) Engin

Then D-Horn and Nieman off the bench with whichever one of them doesn't start from above.

Wow. What could have been.

[Edited on March 20, 2007 at 12:27 AM. Reason : Brack could have been a better option at point when Engin was hurt than anything we had ]

3/20/2007 12:26:34 AM

Well, for one thing practice and games are very different.

Darko Milicic supposedly dominates in practice.

For another thing, I didn't say "Would Lowe and the rest of the coaching staff have any Idea how good McCauley and Costner are?" I said WE, as in the fans.

3/20/2007 12:26:52 AM

Quote :

"Would we have any Idea how good McCauley and Costner are?"

I think that coach lowe would have taken time to check out his McDonald's all american enough to determine how well he would do in games. Really really REALLY doubt costner would have been still a backup at this point in the season. I am glad you are not our coach

3/20/2007 3:38:57 AM

^^ uh, well Darko is actually putting up some good numbers now that he's not with the Pistons

3/20/2007 5:08:21 AM

Yeah, because depth couldnt have been a good thing, Im sure that wasnt one of our problems this season...

3/20/2007 8:21:42 AM

We still wouldn't of had a PG when Engin went down.

3/20/2007 8:26:29 AM

I dunno either way, but did anyone see little head ced's time in the game last night? It was pretty sick.

3/20/2007 8:33:44 AM

I support this thread. Ferguson is awesome in practice as well. Practice and playing time are two different things. Ben McCauley, more than Costner, would have gotten screwed because we'd be trying to hard to play Brackman, who has none of the post moves that McCauley possesses.

3/20/2007 8:49:21 AM

Look I'm not saying we wouldn't have been better THIS SEASON if they had stayed, because we certainly would have.

I'm just trying to take what everyone sees as a negative and put a positive light on it, instead of a huge question mark up front we have a solid and reliable center and a probable pre-season all ACC power forward.

3/20/2007 9:11:01 AM

Good thing none of UNC or Duke's recruits left early or went straight to the league...

3/20/2007 9:11:05 AM

anyone see Simmons' dunk on sportscenter last night?

^x4 yea, I saw that

[Edited on March 20, 2007 at 9:39 AM. Reason : .]

3/20/2007 9:37:07 AM

i wish brackman would suit up just for inbounds plays

3/20/2007 12:04:43 PM

ced's dunk is in the link i posted above

3/20/2007 1:59:54 PM

unc-ch fans laugh at our threads like this. They get to play this game just about every year.

3/20/2007 2:12:15 PM

Why would they laugh at threads like this?

I see at least 2 on IC every time I go there.

That would be hypocritical of them.

Oh wait... We're talking about UNC fans.

3/20/2007 2:22:02 PM

ced's dunk was dunk of the night...click here to watch it without having to forward through the entire highlight video

12 sec clip - http://tinyurl.com/yry5xm

3/20/2007 2:26:21 PM

^^ heh, I think he's refering to them laughing at us because we only get to post a thread like this once every 5 years (we get worse recruits) while carolina gets NBA talent who leave early just about every year and can have this conversation all the time.

3/20/2007 3:34:46 PM

TWO HANDS, CED

3/20/2007 3:53:23 PM

does he have hair now?

3/20/2007 5:02:35 PM

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"If Simmons and Brackman had stayed..."

We would have won the ACC tournament

3/21/2007 8:23:31 AM

...but we wouldn't have had to

3/21/2007 10:19:11 AM

good thing Carolina doesnt have JR Smith and Marvin Williams still...good thing Duke didnt get Shaun Livingston since he would have balled all over us...hey Chris Paul would still be at Wake if he hadn't left...we wouldn't have swept Wake...hell I think Bosh might've been at G Tech so theres another loss...course UNC would've lost the game earlier in the year to Ohio State since they would've had Lebron

3/21/2007 10:28:12 AM

bosh would have been a senior last year

and

Quote :

"good thing Duke didnt get Shaun Livingston since he would have balled all over us shattered his knee all over our court"

3/21/2007 10:31:04 AM

yeah i was thinking about that play as i made the post

still i think he might be just slightly better than paulus

3/21/2007 10:31:43 AM

even playing in a wheelchair he'd be better than paulus

3/21/2007 10:33:31 AM

but he wouldnt have the intangibles or be the cerebral player that paulus is

3/21/2007 10:34:12 AM

he is cerebral

i seen him walking around the other day with this on his shirt

3/21/2007 10:39:02 AM

Quote :

"good thing Carolina doesnt have JR Smith and Marvin Williams still"

true, but then guys like brandan wright, deon thompson, etc. wouldn't have been able to go there, for a lack of scholarships. Basically whatever they lose, they will get right back.

3/21/2007 6:34:59 PM