Do the Heels have a fatal flaw?

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DeCourcy said that injuries could end up hurting the Tar Heels. Some of their workmanlike guys are gone, and now everyone needs the ball. Tyler Hansbrough is getting less looks than last year.


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/danpatrick/blog/51302/index.html?eref=fromSI

I think this guy is right on the money. We'll never win a championship with a team that can score from every position and has multiple threats and attacks.
(I'm being sarcastic.)

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I keep seeing sports writers and bloggers saying that Tyler is worse then last year. Maybe its also that refs are treating him differently.

"I have had conversations this year with the supervisor of officials," UNC head coach Roy Williams said during his weekly radio show on Monday night. "It is a hard game to referee, there's no question about it, but I'm really just getting so discouraged because I think Tyler Hansbrough gets beat up more than anybody I've ever seen in college basketball."


http://northcarolina.scout.com/2/840308.html

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And how about this:


It isn’t as if Zeller is going to ride in on some shiny white horse and steal Hansbrough’s minutes and lead the Heels to a national championship. And it’s not like Hansbrough has become a dud overnight. He still leads the ACC in scoring at 21.1 points and is averaging nearly eight rebounds per contest.

But Hansbrough just isn’t the same player he was a year ago. He is not a worse player like some idiots in this profession have said and written. He is just not as affective. And the reason: Shin splints.

The very injury that caused the reigning national player of the year to miss four of UNC’s first seven games has flared up again in recent weeks, and it has reduced Hansbrough’s overall effectiveness to “around 80 percent,” a source close to the UNC program said.


I think this guy is full of crap and an idiot.

http://bustersports.com/accposts.aspx?id=2700&blogid=77