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Sophomore guard Joseph Forte (left) shoots a jumper over N.C. State's
Damon Thornton. Forte scored 21 points in Sunday's game.
Old-Fashioned UNC Hopes to Beat Duke Down Low
Stanford and Illinois, teams
with similar frontlines to the
Tar Heels', gave Duke its
most difficult games to date.
Bv Bret Strelow
Senior Writer
Kris Lang would go out to the hoop
at his Gastonia home as a youngster and
pretend that he was Christian Laettner.
Laettner, a standout at power forward
for Duke from 1988-91, excelled thanks
to a free-wheeling offense that allowed
players to break down defenders with
one-on-one moves.
North Carolina played a different style
during Lang’s youth. The Tar Heels ran
set offenses and did most of their damage
in the halfcourt. Not much fun to emu
late. And difficult to accomplish unless
nine of your closest friends are nearby.
Somewhere, in some backyard of a
home in the Tar Heel state, some kid is
probably imitating current Duke power
forward Shane Battier. Lang has become
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an ACC star of his own at UNC, but little
has changed in ffie way the two Tobacco
Road rivals go about their business.
“We’re a htde throwback,” Lang said.
“I believe it’s more old-fashioned. It’s
something that has worked.”
The Tar Heels and Blue Devils meet
Thursday with first place in the ACC on
the line. Considering UNC’s 17-2 over
all record and 7-0 mark in league play,
an old-fashioned style has worked for
the Tar Heels.
It also has worked against Duke.
UNC forward Jason Capel said he
could think of only two teams in the
country that start a conventional power
forward like Lang, who is 6-foot-11, and
a center like 7-footer Brendan Haywood.
Those two particular teams - Stanford
and Illinois - gave Duke fits this season.
Illinois lost 78-77 to the Blue Devils on
Jan. 28, and Stanford handed Duke its
only defeat with an 84-83 win on Dec. 21.
Stanford’s duo of Jarron and Jason
Collins, who are 6-11 and 7-0, respec
tively, combined for 24 points and 21
rebounds against the Blue Devils.
Illinois center Marcus Griffin scored
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Relaxed Forte Glides to Success
UNC coach Matt Doherty
said sophomore guard
Joseph Forte seems most
at ease during 'crunch time.'
By T. Nolan Hayes
Senior Writer
Joseph Forte is racing toward star
dom.
Only, he’s in no hurry to get there.
That much has become apparent to fol
lowers of North Carolina the past two
seasons, and it will be evident when the
Tar Heels play Duke on Thursday at
9 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Nine of the 10 players on the floor
will compete at regular speed, moving
around the court with frantic intensity
and strained facial expressions. The
other player will navigate the court at
Forte pace, with relaxed and fluid forms
of motion reserved for UNC’s No. 40.
Forte never mshes on the hardwood,
but he manages to get wherever he wants
to go, whenever he wants to get there.
“He reminds me of (Wayne) Gretzky
on ice,” Virginia coach Pete Gillen said.
“He just kind of glides. He flows, and
he’s graceful. He has a tremendous
poise about him. He doesn’t play too
fast. He’s certainly one of the best play
ers in the country.”
And Forte has been playing like it in
recent games. He has reached the
20-point plateau in nine of his last 13
16 points and
pulled down nine
rebounds against
Duke, and the
Fighting Illini fin
ished with a
42-27 edge in
rebounds.
Capel said he
thinks the Tar
Heels can capital
ize on Lang and
Haywood’s height
advantage in the
post against
Duke’s Carlos
Boozer, a 6-9 cen-
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“I think if we really pound the ball
inside, they’re not big,” Capel said.
“They don’t have a big frondine like we
do, and that’s to our advantage.”
Boozer and Battier both fouled out in
the Blue Devils’ loss to the Cardinal.
Boozer was limited to 29 minutes of
playing time, and Battier was disquali
fied with 35 seconds left.
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski got
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contests, leading
UNC in scoring
11 times during
that span.
But he’s been
even better than
that in UNC’s last
three games. He
has averaged 27.3
points (on 54.4-
percent shooting)
and 7.0 rebounds
to help the Tar
Heels extend their
win streak to 14.
Forte has done
a large portion of
his damage late in games. He scored 20
of his game-high 26 points in the second
half to lead the Tar Heels to a win at
Maryland and ran off 14 straight points
during a span late in the game to help
them hold off Florida State.
He was similarly tough against
Virginia, scoring 10 of UNC’s final 13
points to thwart a Cavalier comeback.
When UNC’s sometimes-deliberate
inside-out offense stalls, he’s the get-out
of-jail-free card.
“I think the thing that is probably
unique is that when the game is at
crunch time, that’s when he really focus
es and seems most relaxed,” UNC
coach Matt Doherty said. “That’s unusu
al for a lot of players.”
Not for Forte. He loves to shoot the
basketball and will do it whenever he
gets the chance. Early. Late. Whenever.
upset on Tuesday when he thought a
reporter was insinuating that the the offi
cials had a role in allowing both players
to stay in the game in a physical contest
against Maryland on Friday.
“Our kids play a lot of minutes, and
you try to teach foul discipline,”
Krzyzewski said. “There’s certain things
that you do to deter foul trouble, play off
somebody. I’m not going to go through
a coaching clinic.”
The Blue Devils run a 4-around-l
offense that will force Lang to chase
Battier around the perimeter. Boozer
sets up in the lane, but he might leak out
to force Haywood away from the basket.
Lang said that shouldn’t pose a prob
lem for the Tar Heels.
“I feel very comfortable with Brendan
back there,” Lang said. “There’s also
help side from other wings.”
Boozer averaged 11.5 points and 6.5
rebounds in two wins against the Tar Heels
last season. The Blue Devils have won six
of the last seven games against UNC.
Lang hopes the old-school Tar Heels
can assert their dominance over the
Blue Devils like they did from 1993-98,
Junior forward
Jason Capel
said UNC should be
able to exploit its
size advantage in the
post against Duke.
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“Why not? I feel as though I can
make it,” Forte said. “I want to take any
shot during the game.”
That goes for the entire season,
whether he’s shooting well or poorly.
One of the early-season stories sur
rounding UNC was Forte’s inability to
hit from long range. His pillow-soft
intermediate jump shot was falling, but
he was just 8-for-32 (25 percent) on 3-
pointers during one seven-game stretch.
Forte never blinked. He insisted he
would keep shooting as he always had.
And with those shots came the results he
was used to seeing. Forte enters
Thursday night’s game having made 17
of his last 42 3-point attempts (40.5 per
cent).
And just as he was low-key about his
shooting slump, he’s unconcerned with
how the Blue Devils might defend him.
Nate James, a wiry 6-foot-6 guard who is
Duke’s designated stopper, will check
Forte much of the time.
Forte dealt with Chris Carrawell, last
season’s ACC Player of the Year, when
he played Duke as a freshman. He
responded by averaging 22 points, 4.5
assists and shooting 51.3 percent against
the Blue Devils.
Forte said he means no disrespect to
James, but he sees no reason for things
to be different this season.
“I guess he holds guys down,” Forte
said. “I’m not familiar with his defensive
game. But I don’t worry about that. I
worry about what I’m doing.”
So is Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski.
when UNC had a streak of nine wins in
10 games against Duke.
He was a mere youngster when the
streak began.
“Back then it seemed like Carolina
was more traditional,” Lang said. “It
was such a habit for them to win. All
they did was win, win, win.”
The Sports Editor can be reached at
sports@unc.edu.
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“He plays the game, and all the sud
den, he’ll hit you in flurries,”
Krzyzewski said. “He comes up with a
lot of points in such an efficient manner.
I really love the way he plays."
With that last statement comes a
scary thought: Forte in a Duke uniform.
What type of numbers could he put up
in Krzyzewski’s anything-goes perime
ter offense?
It boggles the mind, but it’s a ques
tion even Forte himself has considered.
“I think about it, you know?” Forte
said with a laugh. “It’d be a lot of free
dom, but I’m at a great place. I’m at the
right place for me.”
That’s sweet music to the ears of
UNC fans, who hope Forte doesn’t take
his game to the NBA next season.
But Forte isn’t thinking much about
professional basketball right now. He’s
got other business to attend to - main
ly helping his team knock off Duke.
“I try to remain focused and just
understand where my team needs me
the most,” Forte said. “Sometimes I
don’t have to score that much, or I may
score seven points in a row.”
Whatever he does, he does it at his
own pace.
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