Jay Bilas

you feel kind of awkward saying, well, this team has the advantage.

They may have the advantage in a certain area, but this team's going to win.

I never feel comfortable with that in this game.

Yeah.

I mean, it's funny, Jason, when you say, you know, when, when we use the word effort, it makes it sound like they're not trying.

And I don't, I don't believe that.

So that's not the, maybe that's the wrong word for me to use, but it's such a, it's such a buzzword in the game, but yeah,

You guys know how it is.

In any defensive possession, you can have four guys that are burning it and doing everything right, and one guy makes a mistake.

You still give up the same amount of points, whether you're 80% or 20%.

of guys on the same page.

But, you know, the, and I think over the years, there have been certain North Carolina teams and go, I mentioned 09, go back to that team.

I mean, you know, I remember Roy Williams not being happy with the way they defended and, and, but he would, but he would say, you know, how, how, how much should I yell at,

when they know they're going to score a hundred points, fall out of bed.

And, you know, sometimes I think that, that I felt at least, and I'm not with them in practice every day, but I felt at least, you know, there are times when offensively they're significantly better than who they're playing and,

And that kind of bleeds into their defense a little bit.

But when in the games, in certain games where they've been really focused defensively, I think it certainly helps their offense that way.

But you're kind of going, man, they're really good.

And I think they're top 10 good.

This is not like last year where four teams, Duke included, was, I don't want to say head and shoulders better, but you're like, these are the best teams.