Leonard Hamilton calls the Achilles heel in the state of Florida in North Carolina

North Carolina I received an urgently needed victory against Florida State on Monday and stayed alive in her race for the NCAA tournament. Not the best performance from the seminols, even though he shot the ball well. For Leonard HamiltonA look at the stat leaf makes it clear why his team lost the game.

“It is obvious what our Achilles healing was tonight,” said Hamilton during his press conference after the game. “Our inability to keep them away. In all of our research and preparation for the game, Carolina had not been the better rebound teams in the league this year.

“But our inability to use this was obvious because we were not doing well. 24 points for points of the second chance, a lot of it because they had 13 offensive rebounds. “

Hamilton is right with the fact that UNC is not a great rebound team in the ACC. While they are in the top half, the Tar Heels are an average of 36.7 boards per game – good enough for No. 7 compared to conference. They rank even lower if you look at offensive rebound and take up 10 place at 10 a night.

North Carolina was below her average from the perspective of the overall back, but three on the offensive glass. As Hamilton mentioned, the 13 rebounds were a large part of 24 points of the second chance. Ven-All Lubin Had three offensive rebounds, all of whom were inferior to two of the 11 players in Florida State Players.

Not too many games are won with such numbers.

“If you look at the statistics, you are satisfied with 54% Field Goal percentage, 50% of three,” said Hamilton. “75% from the free -wire line that they would feel that they had a pretty good game. But defensive, that's a different story. If you lead to giving shots, you need to have your adequate share of the offensive rebounds you get to be successful. Tonight it was the biggest challenge we had. We didn't get away with the offensive rebounds. “

Hamilton has to spend the rest of this week to challenge his team to improve their relaxation. Next is the schedule dukeRanking No. 2 in a rebound, but No. 1 in the rebound edge. Simply put, you are probably the best recording team in the ACC.

If there is a chance that the State Florida will break a surprise on Saturday, it will be a must to be better on the glass than against North Carolina.