Lucas: Defensive Denials

Posted Nov 19, 2008
For the first 8:30 of Tuesday's game, it was Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington who completely controlled the game with defensive pressure. With Williams signaling a variety of trapping, ball-hawking defenses--first it was a halfcourt trap, then a three-quarters trap, and finally just plain old vanilla halfcourt harassment--Carolina raced to a 13-2 advantage in the first five minutes and 25-6 by the time Lawson found Ellington with a sky-scraping alley-oop. (Tar Heel Blue)

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