Friday, January 14, 2011

Thanks, Chokies

This article warmed my heart. Kendall earned a starting position last night. Hopefully Roy will make that happen for him.
What you might notice here was that Marshall was actually on the floor for crunch time for one of the first times in his Carolina career. He had to be. He had nine assists and zero turnovers--zero turnovers in a game when the ball seemed greased with WD-40--in his second conference game.
ZERO turnovers?!?! That's very un-Tar Heel like.
Also, about that "pass":

Roy Williams doesn't teach what happened next. No one could. It doesn't even make sense that it happens, because you can run the tape back as many times as you want, and there's no way Marshall ever even looks at John Henson. But as the pass from Barnes is in the air, Marshall goes to meet it. Two Hokies converge on him when he leaps in the air to receive the pass.

Here's the thing: he never catches it. Not in the true sense of the word. He just redirects it, off his fingertips, to a wide-open Henson on the baseline.
It was a very beautiful thing. If only I could find a video!