
{"id":22541,"date":"2011-12-22T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=22541"},"modified":"2011-12-22T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:44:11","slug":"capel-returns-successfully-despite-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/12\/22\/capel-returns-successfully-despite-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Capel returns successfully, despite loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_20318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20318\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/landreth-mug1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"landreth-mug\" width=\"100\" height=\"134\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/landreth-mug1.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/landreth-mug1-84x113.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/landreth-mug1-74x100.jpg 74w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddy Landreth<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>By Eddy Landreth<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><br \/>\nThe upperclassmen players\u00c2\u00a0in 1957 and 2005 are probably the only Carolina basketball players, other than those who played from 1998-2002, who can full understand the extreme swings actually possible\u00c2\u00a0for UNC basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Capel is one of those. He played on a Final Four team in 2000 and a team ranked No. 1 in the country for a decent run in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Then the bottom fell out as it never has at UNC. Second-year coach Matt Doherty and the Tar Heels melted into an 8-20 morass. The team underwent a near-revolt after the season, and the seniors left and have rarely returned.<\/p>\n<p>Capel made it back last Saturday and brought along his Appalachian State team. Following in the footsteps of his father and brother, Capel has become a collegiate head coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been back here a lot,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Capel said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I came in \u00e2\u20ac\u212205. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I came for the 100-year deal; I came to my wife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s graduation. It was good to come back. It was good to see a lot of faces I know, familiar faces, people who meant a lot to me. It was good to be home.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The crowd showed its approval and gave him a nice ovation.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels won 97-82, as expected, but Capel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mountaineers handled themselves well. Carolina would race to a big lead, only to have ASU fight back \u00e2\u20ac\u201c all night. The Mountaineers actually outscored the Tar Heels in the second half, 50-49.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You have to congratulate Jason and his club for continuing to play and doing a nice job defensively and making some shots,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d UNC coach Roy Williams said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153At times I thought we did a nice job defensively, but then in that stretch in the second half \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 we had our biggest lead at 29, all of a sudden it was 15 or something like that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Capel has had to rebuild this team from last season. He has six new players, and Appalachian State has gotten off to a rough start at 4-6.<\/p>\n<p>But if the team responds to Capel and the challenge as it did on Saturday, the Mountaineers should be able to compete in the Southern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels provided the best collection of talent ASU will see this season, so the Mountaineers should now know they can compete if they listen to their coach and play hard for 40 minutes, just as they did against UNC.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nothing can prepare you for what you were going to see out there, but we tried to simulate as much as possible,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Capel said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re proud that we competed. We didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just play hard. We competed. We didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take a step back when they punched us in the mouth.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We kept coming forward. We got down 29 and we stayed together. That is part of the process [of building]. We fought them tooth and nail and gave it our best shot. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something we can build upon and carry over to our next game.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everything they ran, I knew it was coming,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Capel said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We tried to simulate all week how fast the break was going to be, Tyler Zeller. But nothing can prepare you for a 7-footer running that fast. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just impossible to do.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Just as Saturday should have prepared his team, Capel said his career at UNC readied him for what life eventually throws at all of us.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It prepared me for everything, not just in my profession but life,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Capel said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You work hard in life because you want to achieve great things. At the same time, things can go south on you.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What are you going to do? How are you going to respond? It was a dream of mine to come here. Some great people recruited me here. People treated me pretty well. Those are people I will love forever.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upperclassmen players\u00c2\u00a0in 1957 and 2005 are probably the only Carolina basketball players, other than those who played from 1998-2002, who can full understand the extreme swings actually possible\u00c2\u00a0for UNC basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-22541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22542,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22541\/revisions\/22542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}