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Off the cuff: Let's start with the bad against Pitt. Carolina was just seven of 14 from the foul line. The Heels are just 15 of 31 from the charity stripe in the last two games - two games that otherwise have probably been their best efforts of the season. Coach Williams rightly said that the guys who are shooting the best should be getting the shots. Right now, and maybe most years, it's the big guys inside. But in today's game, you've got to have some shooters, particularly from beyond the arc. The Heels managed only four made threes in this one but the Panthers managed only two more so it wasn't a huge deal. But Carolina will need to win more threes in the coming weeks. I'm not going to dwell on it but TV commentator Cory Alexander has to be the worst on the ACC Network. When he gets around to talking about the actual game action, he talks too long - another basket is often scored before he finishes his point. And his points aren't on point. For instance, he was asked whether Champagnie flopped or not and he went all into whether there should be such a thing as a flop. On a play where Caleb Love turned quickly and was surprised to see a defender there and he ran into him for a foul. Alexander wanted the officials to look at whether it was a flagrant foul - in other words, intentional. Everyone saw that the defender's presence surprised Love so how could it possibly have been on purpose. The game quickly continued but viewers were left with a worthless discussion. One particular official had a bad game - at least in regard to giving the ball to the wrong team on out-of-bound plays. Of course you have to DVR the game to see the replays because the ACC Network often fails to show replays, even on potentially controversial calls.
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