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Woods flew down the lane and threw down this spectacular dunk.
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Lucas: Come Fly With Seventh
August 17, 2018 | Men's Basketball, Featured Writers, Adam Lucas
Seventh Woods unleashed one of the filthiest dunks of the Roy Williams era on Friday.
By Adam Lucas
NASSAU—You are trying to keep track of Carolina's Bahamas trips.
2006: that was the year the other team showed up in the pickup truck.
2010: the debut of Harrison Barnes and Kendall Marshall, and also the year virtually every player on the team bought some sort of Bahamian flute at the local Straw Market, meaning the team bus was filled with the sounds of 12 non-flute players trying to play the flute.
2014: that was the year the other team had the future NBA number-one pick on the team.
And 2018? No matter what happens in the second game of Carolina's Nassau jaunt on Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m., 2018 will be the year Seventh Woods threw down one of the filthiest dunks of the Roy Williams era.
By now, you have seen it, even though those of us who were there still aren't sure that we saw it. Time was running out. Carolina was going to win easily. For just a moment, it looked like Woods was going to dribble out the clock.
Give Andrew Platek the assist. The Tar Heel sophomore urged Woods to bring the ball frontcourt. That's what Woods did, and after he brought the ball frontcourt, he took it to Mars, and then brought it down, one-handed, on the head of unfortunate defender Shaquelle Evans.
For three years, Roy Williams has been telling everyone that they haven't seen the same Woods he saw when he was recruiting the South Carolina native. Now we have.
"That last play, that was him," Williams said. "He's pretty explosive. That was impressive."
The dunk had everything. It had height. It had power through contact. It had an element of danger, with a rough landing. Look, we all know Carolina Basketball is about diving on the floor and pointing to the passer and making the heady assists. But it's August. Did you see that dunk?
It was fortunate that the startling play happened as time expired in the 112-91 victory. There was the dunk, and then there was the brief moment when Woods came down hard on his back on the Sir Kendal Isaacs Gym floor and we were worried he'd hurt himself on re-entry, and then the buzzer went off, and then all that was left was to mill around and ask everyone else if they'd seen that, too. That wasn't just a hallucination brought on by too much cracked conch, was it? It wasn't just a case of sun poisoning?
Nope. It happened.
"Have you seen Sev's hoops mixtape from when he was 14?" said Garrison Brooks, who tied for the team lead with 18 points but will forever be a footnote. "That's all I could see right there. Seeing that in person kind of shocked me."
Until that moment, the most impressive aerial display of the evening had been Nassir Little during halftime layup lines, when he casually unleashed a 360-degree jam. The most notable feature of the dunk was the fact that he spun the opposite way from a normal 360, going from right to left rather than left to right.
It brought to mind one of the greatest Bill Guthridge quotes of all time, when he was asked about a similar Vince Carter dunk against Georgia Tech in 1998, when Carter had spun the opposite way.
"When I used to do 360s," Guthridge said, completely deadpan, "we did them the right way."
There will be plenty more opportunities to see Little's dunks, no matter which way he spins. And he won't often be a side note, but he was on Friday.
Over the last couple of days, the Tar Heels have gone down water slides, they've played football in the ocean (although Brooks reports one of the Tar Heels is not good at football, "And I don't want to throw my teammates under the bus," he said, "but he's from Ohio," pointing the finger at Sterling Manley) and they've played a less than artful exhibition game after practicing together four times as a team.
But there's no question what they'll remember the most so far from this trip.
"Seeing that in person," Brooks said of Woods' dunk, "kind of shocked me."
NASSAU—You are trying to keep track of Carolina's Bahamas trips.
2006: that was the year the other team showed up in the pickup truck.
2010: the debut of Harrison Barnes and Kendall Marshall, and also the year virtually every player on the team bought some sort of Bahamian flute at the local Straw Market, meaning the team bus was filled with the sounds of 12 non-flute players trying to play the flute.
2014: that was the year the other team had the future NBA number-one pick on the team.
And 2018? No matter what happens in the second game of Carolina's Nassau jaunt on Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m., 2018 will be the year Seventh Woods threw down one of the filthiest dunks of the Roy Williams era.
By now, you have seen it, even though those of us who were there still aren't sure that we saw it. Time was running out. Carolina was going to win easily. For just a moment, it looked like Woods was going to dribble out the clock.
Give Andrew Platek the assist. The Tar Heel sophomore urged Woods to bring the ball frontcourt. That's what Woods did, and after he brought the ball frontcourt, he took it to Mars, and then brought it down, one-handed, on the head of unfortunate defender Shaquelle Evans.
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— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) August 18, 2018
For three years, Roy Williams has been telling everyone that they haven't seen the same Woods he saw when he was recruiting the South Carolina native. Now we have.
"That last play, that was him," Williams said. "He's pretty explosive. That was impressive."
The dunk had everything. It had height. It had power through contact. It had an element of danger, with a rough landing. Look, we all know Carolina Basketball is about diving on the floor and pointing to the passer and making the heady assists. But it's August. Did you see that dunk?
It was fortunate that the startling play happened as time expired in the 112-91 victory. There was the dunk, and then there was the brief moment when Woods came down hard on his back on the Sir Kendal Isaacs Gym floor and we were worried he'd hurt himself on re-entry, and then the buzzer went off, and then all that was left was to mill around and ask everyone else if they'd seen that, too. That wasn't just a hallucination brought on by too much cracked conch, was it? It wasn't just a case of sun poisoning?
Nope. It happened.
"Have you seen Sev's hoops mixtape from when he was 14?" said Garrison Brooks, who tied for the team lead with 18 points but will forever be a footnote. "That's all I could see right there. Seeing that in person kind of shocked me."
Until that moment, the most impressive aerial display of the evening had been Nassir Little during halftime layup lines, when he casually unleashed a 360-degree jam. The most notable feature of the dunk was the fact that he spun the opposite way from a normal 360, going from right to left rather than left to right.
It brought to mind one of the greatest Bill Guthridge quotes of all time, when he was asked about a similar Vince Carter dunk against Georgia Tech in 1998, when Carter had spun the opposite way.
"When I used to do 360s," Guthridge said, completely deadpan, "we did them the right way."
There will be plenty more opportunities to see Little's dunks, no matter which way he spins. And he won't often be a side note, but he was on Friday.
Over the last couple of days, the Tar Heels have gone down water slides, they've played football in the ocean (although Brooks reports one of the Tar Heels is not good at football, "And I don't want to throw my teammates under the bus," he said, "but he's from Ohio," pointing the finger at Sterling Manley) and they've played a less than artful exhibition game after practicing together four times as a team.
But there's no question what they'll remember the most so far from this trip.
"Seeing that in person," Brooks said of Woods' dunk, "kind of shocked me."
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