{"id":6576,"date":"2014-01-27T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6576"},"modified":"2014-01-27T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T14:52:09","slug":"analysis-shows-unc-having-trouble-adjusting-to-new-hand-check-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6576","title":{"rendered":"Analysis shows UNC having trouble adjusting to new hand-check rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/realgm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/realgm.jpg\" alt=\"realgm\" width=\"141\" height=\"148\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6577\" \/><\/a>New defensive hand-check rules have resulted in a small increase in fouls this season in college basketball but UNC has been affected disproportionately, a new analysis by RealGM.com finds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some coaches that rarely foul, like Roy Williams have seen their team struggle to adapt to the new rules,&#8221; writes Dan Hanner of RealGM.com.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last five years, Williams&#8217; teams have averaged allowing 25 free throws per game. This year the number is up to 42.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis says that Williams, and others including Bill Self and John Thompson Jr., have struggled to teach their teams how to play defense with the new rules and that a substantial uptick in fouls committed can be a major hindrance to winning.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full report, <a href=\"http:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/news\/blogs\/author\/133\/Dan-Hanner\" target=\"_blank\">please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New defensive hand-check rules have resulted in a small increase in fouls this season in college basketball but UNC has been affected disproportionately, a new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6578,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576\/revisions\/6578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}