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Adam Gold & Luke DeCock analyze Caleb Love's move to Michigan
Caleb Love leaves Chapel Hill after three seasons with a 36% field goal percentage.
Then if you want to play the breaking news, I saw it on Twitter actually did. I saw it on Twitter and told me that I saw it on Twitter and then I retweeted it, Caleb Love to Michigan. So your thoughts on Caleb Love, Mr De Cock? No, it's good. I mean, he's, you know, originally from the Midwest gets him back, you know, in the big 10 country. Obviously, you know, Juwan Howard has had some success. There has had three big transfers, needs to replace some people. I think that makes a lot of sense. I think that will be good for Kaleb Love and that I think that's a pretty good landing spot for him. I agree. It is a good landing spot for him. What do you think was the issue for him this year? Because look of all the other players, Caleb Love. I, I still believe that Caleb Love was the best pro prospect that they had on that roster last year. He's 64. He's got a big frame if he just developed some consistency in his offense. Caleb Love might be headed to the NBA draft this year. What do you think it might have been after last season. I mean, it wouldn't have been out of the, no one would have been shocked if he declared for the draft last year. Look, Kaleb Love is obviously going to have a very mixed legacy at North Carolina because he was part of one of the greatest moments in school history. What might have gone down is the greatest shot in school history if they had gone on to beat Kansas. But by the same time, you know, was heavily criticized by the fan base, especially this year, but also his first two years. Let's not, let's go back to after Roy's last year and everyone talking about how RJ and Caleb and, you know, he couldn't reach them and Walker Kessler transfers and those were, that was a group that was perceived to be to whatever degree was right or wrong sort of problem Children. And then the start of last year, everybody was all over Caleb love and then this year, so, you know, I think the problem with Caleb love is one, he's a high volume shooter. Some of his shots were not good, but other times the other players on the team, the other players on the court would look to him laid in the shot clock and say, well, Caleb will bail us out and it probably was asked to do too much of that. The problem for me with UNC for the exception of March April 2022 was that you had three guys, one forward and two guards who all needed the ball in their hands a lot. And it just, other than that, that magical month where they figured it out and shared the ball and he had 1/4 guy and Brady Manick who needed it too. It was just too many ball dominant players without a distributing point guard to make a ball mix. And that, just to me it was, it was, you know, people talk about chemistry and all that stuff. To me, the chemistry was on the court. It was just square pegs in round holes. A lot of the time. I think if Caleb Love goes to Michigan is in a different group, has a point guard isn't asked to bail his teammates out because they've run terrible off For 34 seconds. I think he could have a really good year and really rebuild his pro prospects. Look, I also think that uh no scar tissue there probably will have a uh a benefit for Caleb love as well. A lot of roster turnover, obviously, I don't know how many of the departures are really significant. I think the one that I think should really jump out. I mean, other than the guys that Hubert recruited, right? Um The Puff Johnson one uh is a, is a little bit of a problem for me only because we saw at the end of last year that Puff could have been a major player this year, but whatever, for whatever reason it didn't work out this year. What do you make of the roster turnover? You know, honestly, if I were on that bench and I never played all year, even when the team was struggling, if I'm a doctor of styles, I'd be transferring too. I don't, I don't blame that kid at all and I hope he lands somewhere, you know, it would be awesome. I think if he landed at state, which recruited him very heavily out of Kinston. So, you know, there's a lot going on there. I don't have a problem with Puff Johnson because he did show signs and then he really never played this year. There were spurts, but, you know, if you're not going to play your bench and Hubert Davis has made it clear, he's going to make k look like he goes deep on the bench. He's going to play six or seven guys and play the other guys 32 35 minutes, whatever the numbers are, you know, clearly going to rely heavily on a small group of players. You're going to lose guys in the portal. And that's one of the things we've been talking about with the portal is, oh, it's unfair to coaches because players don't want to stick around and they're not committed to the team anymore. I've never understood that argument if you're a coach who recruits players and you tell them, they're going to play and then you don't play them, that's not their fault. If they want to go somewhere else, that's your fault. You have to adjust times have changed. And, you know, Hubert being a new head coach and a younger guy and of this generation I wouldn't think, would have issues with that. But obviously he's made his choices. He had certain guys he liked to play and certain guys he didn't. And for a guy who said that the Margo Dunn and dare styles were going to have their names in the rafters before it was all over. He never showed a lot of confidence in them when it came to, when push came to show.