Killer Instinct

Killer instinct- a quality that great teams possess which allows them to put lesser teams away in the second half, thus ensuring victory.

I’ve said several times this year, some of them before and during the Tournament, that Carolina didn’t really possess that killer instinct or ability to really put other teams away when they needed to. That Carolina was the only team that could beat Carolina (except in overtime when everyone can beat them).

And despite that, I still picked them to win the National Title because I felt that Roy Williams (along with seniors Reyshawn Terry and Wes Miller) would be able to get his young Heels to focus down the stretch and put the last nail in their opponents’ coffins. That’s what I thought anyways, I mean he did it with the 2005 team that was mostly underclassmen.

But scoring only 1 basket in the last 8 minutes of the 2nd half and almost being blanked for all of overtime, showed that the Tar Heels still have a long way to go, and will need to look even deeper within themselves to find that killer instinct if they wish to play longer into March next year.

Well, I guess that goes for whoever decides to stay another year and not jump to the NBA. And if that happens, ol’ Roy will probably be starting all over again with another young team that may not have the experience to know when to put their opponents away.

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