UNC players embrace small ball experiment
Posted Dec 19, 2012
Imagine athletic, long-armed wings ranging from 6-5 to 6-7 scrambling and trapping and then churning their wheels up court after forcing a turnover. Few teams can employ such a look with the degree of talent UNC will use, and is a unique change for a program known for running everything through the post for the last half-century. And, it should work. “I think it can,” Dexter Strickland said.
(Fox Sports Carolinas)
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