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Pastimes : Duke Basketball
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To: tarheel4life who wrote (26)1/25/2000 5:19:00 PM
From: Puck  Read Replies (1) of 79
 
I agree with you on all points. However, I just remember a Duke-UNC game I watched where Donald Williams made five or six straight baskets. He wanted to shoot, had the hot hand as they say in the pros, and Dean let him shoot. There was no team system about it but this anomaly is the only glaring instance I have thought of where one individual on a UNC team was allowed to be the offense for a short time.

I do think that Coach K's system provides for more individual play when it is useful than the Carolina style. I certainly remember many clear outs for Grant Hill and I think they tried to isolate Elton Brand last season on occasion.

I just thought of another exception to team play in Carolina's history. The four corners with Phil Ford at the point was as individualistic as one can get I guess, not having ever seen any UNC games from that era. One lifelong UNC fan, as yourself, once told me when asked that he believed Ford, not Jordan, was the greatest UNC player of all time. Would you agree?
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