Welcome to another podcast by Inside Carolina.com, the independent voice of UNC Sports,

your home for Tar Heel football, basketball, and recruiting.

I'm your host, Tommy Ashley, joined by Greg Barnes, Ross Martin, our weekly Tuesday podcast, guys, hope you had a good new year.

Hope our listeners had a good new year. Hard to believe it's 2018, but let's get it started.

And Ross, I'll begin with you. Last week, we really hit on the next five games for North Carolina

and how it would define the season sort of of or at least play a big role in how

Carolina finishes up after the Wake Forest game where Carolina came up big at the end and

made plays to win that game did that outcome and the way that game played out change your

ideas over these next four that Carolina goes into starting Wednesday night

with Florida State. Yeah, I think everyone thought that Wake Forest would be one of the easier

games out of that five game stretch or so. In fact, it was at home and just seeing what Wake

has done so far as season, how they're a year or so away from being, you know, a good

ACC. But the fact that they came back on UNC, because it just felt like UNC was in full

control of that game. And then next thing you know, Wake hits three-threes, I think, on three or four

possessions, and they're up or they're tied or even up against UNC. And that was

surprising that UNC would allow them to come back like that. And that just shows the value of

three-point shooting in this day and age. But that is concerning how weight came back and kind

of the defensive effort by UNC. I thought there was a lot of just maybe miscommunications

or just lack of effort in terms of Wake having a lot of opportunities

to drive the lane and to have open uncontested threes

that a team with shooters like Wake, for example,

and other teams they're going to face knocked down.

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