Repeated problems leave UNC powerless VS. Duke

Durham, North Carolina – North Carolina warmed up before the Saturday night match against # 2 Duke with merciless Cameron Madia chanted, who had fun in the potential destination after the team season.

“Nit! Nit! Nit!” The crowd shouted when Tar Heels received shots.

UNC (13-10, 6-5 ACC) did not make any services in the distraction of this idea on Saturday, as it seemed a few slots under the blue devils in its loss 87-70 at Cameron Stadium indoors. And even with a 17 -point defeat, the end result does not end the history of dismantling, which took place in Durham.

North Carolina gave up 32 points with nine minutes. The worst margin of program defeat in history was a loss of 35 points in 1964 in Wooln Gym, with Vic Bubas training the Duke and the head coach of the third year, Dean Smith, Leading the UNC. The ramp heels have never held a lead against their rival on Saturday.

“We are a better team than the presentation we gave, but they came out and I think they were just more prepared for us” Set trimble He said. “They hugged the moment more than us. They really fed their home crowd, and that showed it.”

To put it, Duke kept Tar Heels in their place on Saturday. The Blue Devils exploited every weakness that UNC had – reading security, poor shooting of three, lack of size inside, everything.

Duke flew to Tar Heels with 16-0 in the first half to come out 23-6, offering offensive pressure, which took a little less than three minutes. Grab and shoot with threes, transitional immersions, drives to the rim, it doesn’t matter – the blue devils did what they wanted. UNC found itself 40-13 at one point from halftime, and the 25 points that Tar Heels scored in the first half set a new season. The first half ended with 6 feet-9 Cooper flag, which rose and made a zumer, which beats an average jumper over the 6-foot RJ Davis.

It didn’t change much to start the second half. In the first possession of Duke from halftime, horse Knupel caught the ball in the corner, drove the baseline, and crashed from Ven-all lubinS It was the first of the six consecutive photos that the Blue Devils would take to open the second half.

“Obviously, in the first half, they fired 56 percent of the pitch,” Hubert Davis He said. “And gifted offensive players, this is a difficult match with Cooper, so we try to put two on the ball that puts us in rotations. He is such a gifted passerby and his ability to pass because of his length, our double teams come with, 6 -4 and 6-5 and his ability to see and find teammates for Open 3 who put us in close hosts.

“When you go against a team of such a long length, their ability to get points for a second chance and chance really hurt us offensive or defensive for us.”

North Carolina cleaned the score in the second half, but the damage had long been done. Davis and Trumbs, the longest UNC starters on Saturday, watched the sidelines with 4:47 that still remain in the game.

Just less than a year, Tar Heels entered the Cameron Stadium indoors, ready to claim the regular ACC season for itself, successfully doing it with 84-79. But this year’s North Carolina team faded quickly as she stood against a Duke talented squad in her hostile home environment.

“I think we just lost the focus with the crowd and the result,” Lyubin said. “I think we just lost focus and the boys have lost control of the game. We have to stick to what is happening in itself.”

North Carolina is struggling to meet the match against elite teams this season. Rally’s attempt against then no. 1 Kansas in the second match of the year offered a glimpse of hope, even with a loss, as the UNC canceled a deficit of 20 points and was able to win by 3:28 on the left.

But in the ensuing games against the already ranked opponents-Duke, Alabama, Florida, Michigan State and Louisvil-Tar Heels are 0-6. They ruled a neutral victory against then. 18 UCLA at Madison Square Garden, but in this game and other above games, UNC lags behind with double digit numbers in each one. North Carolina held leaders in some of these matches in the second half, but too often could not find the right separation to get away with victory.

UNC hit the 10-loss match in the season, earlier reached 10 losses after the 2019-20 season, when it hit this rating in 18 games. Now, with losses in four of its last five outputs and nine games in a regular season, North Carolina’s problems remained on the same cycle night after night.

The Young Blue Devils team seized the moment Saturday night, emptying the tank early to dominate Cameron indoors.

And the tar heels were helpless to stop it.