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UNC Basketball: Random Observations Wake Forest Loss

By Aaron Conrad

Feb 7, 2023; Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Hubert Davis watches his players against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons during the first half at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Mandatory Credit: William Howard-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 7, 2023; Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Hubert Davis watches his players against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons during the first half at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Mandatory Credit: William Howard-USA TODAY Sports /
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UNC Basketball lost at Wake Forest on Tuesday night 92-85. It is the Tar Heels’ third straight loss. These are my random observations. 

It is officially time to panic.

This UNC basketball team passed the exits of concern and frustration several miles back. The season is very much on the brink.

The good news is that the bench got a relatively quick look in the first half. The bad news is the combinations made little to no sense. At one point the five on the floor were RJ Davis, Seth Trimble, Leaky Black, Puff Johnson, and Jalen Washington. I am wondering who thought this would be a strong offensive lineup.

They promptly replaced Davis with Caleb Love. I’m not sure that was the move that would help.

Wake went on a 21-4 run at one point and much of that came against this lineup.

I am curious who on that bench among the coaches is monitoring things like this?

Having your bench players with limited experience start to get on-the-job experience in the middle of the season, in a road game, needing a win is less than ideal.

Which is why many of us have been saying it all season. The bench needed experience. Now it’s desperation. It is unfair to those players to expect much. Not at this point in the season.

Has anyone seen Tyler Nickel?

It’s easy to be an armchair quarterback coach watching these games but it really seems like these are things that many of us that have watched college basketball for many years understand and see.

Remember when UNC used to push the pace? Remember the secondary break?

The fact that the final 10 minutes wasn’t Washington, Styles, Nickel, Dunn, and Trimble is a question that needs to be asked.

With Bacot in foul trouble the entire second half, Washington got zero minutes. Not one.

The comeback was more about Wake going to a stall offense with 6 minutes left than some kind of run by UNC.

We’ll always have the pre-season number-one ranking I guess.

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