
{"id":24584,"date":"2012-03-22T10:17:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=24584"},"modified":"2012-03-21T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T20:34:42","slug":"heels-bear-more-adversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/03\/22\/heels-bear-more-adversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Heels bear more adversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Eddy Landreth<br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20318\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/08\/18\/support-the-players-by-filling-kenan-stadium\/landreth-mug-30\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20318\"><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\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddy Landreth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>North Carolina is headed back to St. Louis, site of the Tar Heels\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 2005 national championship.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probable that Carolina will be without the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top point guard, Kendall Marshall. Marshall broke a bone in his right hand when he hit the floor hard in the Tar Heels\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 87-73 victory against Creighton in the round of 32 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall underwent surgery on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The injury deflated the excitement from the team after it had earned another trip to the round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When you go to the Sweet 16,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d coach Roy Williams said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s supposed to be a lot more fun than this.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Marshall played the last 10 minutes of the second half with the broken bone. His teammates did not realize the degree to which he was injured until Williams closed the door in the locker room and broke the bad news.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was a little bit shocked, a little blindsided,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said freshman point guard Stilman White, who will be one of the players trying to replace Marshall. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kendall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our captain. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our floor leader. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all just a little bit down about it, but hopefully he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good to go next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Coach just told us he has a fracture in his wrist and people have played with this injury, but right now that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all we know, so we have a whole week to prepare for whatever.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will continue for the Tar Heels so long as they win. No more. No less.<\/p>\n<p>Top-seeded UNC (31-5) will meet 13th-seeded Ohio on Friday at approximately 7:47 p.m. at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis. The winner of that game will advance to Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s round of eight, with a trip to the Final Four in New Orleans on the line.<\/p>\n<p>With a week to prepare, and four probable future National Basketball Association players on the floor, the Tar Heels should be able to defeat the Bobcats. UNC has a decided size advantage at all positions.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, UNC should win this one with rebounding and defense. A committee of wing players should be able to advance the ball. In times of stress, Carolina could even throw over the top of Ohio to John Henson and Tyler Zeller.<\/p>\n<p>White, Justin Watts, Reggie Bullock, P.J. Hairston and Harrison Barnes could all help in bringing the ball up court.<\/p>\n<p>The games that come after Friday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s against Ohio are the most tenuous. The Tar Heels are not doomed, but their chances at winning the national championship took an even greater hit than Marshall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wrist.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall has developed into a total player offensively. He led the team in scoring against Creighton with 18 points. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been making that more and more of a habit.<br \/>\nHe leads the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.48, which is the second best in ACC history. He is second only to Scott Machado of Iona (9.9) in assists per game, with 9.8.<\/p>\n<p>Before the injury, Williams recently said that if Marshall continues to develop his scoring and strengthen and sculpt his body he would become an amazing force.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d almost be illegal,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>All of that could still happen in the future, but for now the question is whether Carolina will find a way to win without Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>Zeller, the ACC player of the year, said that in the last several years UNC has been conditioned to push ahead. Life after the national championship season of 2009 has not been an easy ride.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been through a lot with the Wear twins, Larry [Drew], Will [Graves],\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Zeller said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had three or four injuries this year. We all know that no matter what, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to play on Friday \u00e2\u20ac\u201c whether Kendall plays or not. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to regroup, and somebody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got to step up at that point guard position if he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see what we can do.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina is headed back to St. Louis, site of the Tar Heels\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 2005 national championship.<\/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-24584","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\/24584","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=24584"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24590,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24584\/revisions\/24590"}],"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=24584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}