The Tar Heels are in trouble

The UNC Tar Heels men’s basketball team came into this season with some high expectations. Following their most recent loss to unranked Michigan State last week, those expectations feel a bit overhyped unless some changes are made in a hurry. In years past, the Maui Invitational has been a great early season tournament for North Carolina. In fact, UNC has won the Maui Invitational the last three times they have won the national championship. This season was different.  After winning their first game against Dayton, the Tar Heels have dropped two games in a row to fall to 4-3 overall. The biggest issues I have noticed from the first seven games of the season are that the Heels are seriously undermanned defensively in the post, and they are having trouble rebounding the ball leading to too many second chance opportunities for their opponents. We all knew this would be a different team than we have seen in many years for Carolina. Armando Bacot was a dominating presence in the post for five years and he was just the most recent of big men. Tar Heel fans are used to names like Tyler Hansborough, Kennedy Meeks, Sean May, Tyler Zeller, John...