If you watch Premier League soccer, you’ll notice that the English broadcasters will often lament that matches stuck in a standstill require a player who will, “Grab the game by the scruff of the neck.”
With Carolina basketball, we’ve grown accustomed to an aesthetically pleasing brand of offensive basketball, usually with heady point guard play and bigs who work in concert to dominate the boards and free throw attempts. That’s down to Roy’s system and philosophy.
A perfect storm of calamities prevented this UNC squad from reaching the dizzying heights of past teams. Fretting over what could have been with a normal offseason, or not having cancelled games riddled throughout the schedule is a futile exercise.