(12-01-2017 11:18 AM)Seahawk Nation 08 Wrote:  

(12-01-2017 10:17 AM)bricksnivy Wrote:  The Roy Williams that I see in CB is with his bench. Roy notoriously plays a deep bench, especially early in the season and he gets it from Coach Smith. There are benefits to doing this and it takes a while to get used to. There are those moments when you’re wondering why in the hell he’s playing a certain rotation and losing a lead or a deficit is increasing. Hopefully, we enter late February and early March with battle-tested guys that we can count on. Even with a tightened rotation, foul trouble and injuries happen. I’m less concerned with the rotations than I am the defense. If we can’t keep guards from penetrating, we’re going to continue to struggle. ECU was certainly playing inspired after Lebo resigned, but there’s really no excuse for allowing a bad team to be that efficient offensively. That has to be corrected.

It would be tough to accept that our team would stubbornly stick to a style that hasn't proven to work great at this level. We have to "think differently" with both style and recruitment philosophy.

Agree with you 100%. It's easy to get away with not having a great focus on D at the level of a UNC because they have the horses that are athletic enough to offset any lack of effort on D. At this level, it needs to be a focus. Generally speaking, at this level we don't have players you can just roll the ball out, let play and expect good results. He needs to adapt, and quick!