{"id":1941864,"date":"2026-11-03T16:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T21:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1941864"},"modified":"2026-11-03T16:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T21:42:52","slug":"two-steps-forward-three-steps-back-malone-wants-to-sustain-best-stretches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1941864","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Two steps forward, three steps back\u2019: Malone wants to sustain best stretches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 A lot went wrong for Carolina in its opening-game victory over Western Carolina, and it led to the Tar Heels&#8217; inability to put away a mid-major team until late in the game. After the 80\u201372 win in his UNC debut, Coach Michael Malone said his team got off to an outstanding start, then watched the Catamounts work their way back into the game before UNC \u00a0pulled away late by getting to the free-throw line, handling pressure and making timely baskets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/11\/03\/two-steps-forward-three-steps-back-malone-wants-to-sustain-best-stretches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 A lot went wrong for Carolina in its opening-game victory over Western Carolina, and it led to the Tar Heels&#8217; inability to put&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1941865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tarheeltribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-e1793413851457-1024x223.png?resize=1024%2C223&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1941864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941866,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941864\/revisions\/1941866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1941864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1941864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1941864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}