The Ultimate TEAM - 2009 Tar Heel Basketball
Many will focus on the 2009 Heels and say their roster had the best players and that's why they won the National Championship.
I think that view is missing the biggest factor in their successful season. TEAM, TEAM, TEAM!
The impressive thing to me about this team is how they took great individual talents, blended them, and totally focused on winning games. Credit goes to the young men on the team and to Coach Roy and his staff.
They didn't win the championship because of Tyler Hansbrough. They didn't win it because of Ty Lawson. They won because no one put themselves ahead of the TEAM.
In the last 2 games have you ever seen Carolina defense like that? It was super. Did you ever think that Dean Thompson would play so well early in the championship game and really get the rally going? How about Bobby Frasor jumping in there and grabbing that rebound when the Spartans were trying to make a run? How about the most prolific player in UNC history ( Psycho T ) getting so excited when he passed the ball to Deon and he made a shot and went to the line. It was all about the TEAM winning.
COMMON PURPOSE.
DETERMINATION.
SACRIFICE.
HARD WORK.
That's why they won. And why the 2009 team will go down as one of my favorites.
MrTarHeel
