Player Review: Marcus Paige

Here is a look back at the 2014-15 season for the returning Tar Heels. Today we look at junior Marcus Paige.

Stats

Player Games MPG PPG APG RPG SPG FG% 3P% FT% ORtg Marcus Paige

37

33.1 14.1

4.4

2.9

1.7 41.1% 39.3% 86.5% 118.5

Season Summary

Plantar faciitis, basically.

Paige's season can be defined almost entirely by the presence or absence of the aforementioned inflammation in the foot. When he had it, he was a shell of the player we saw last season; when he (finally) didn't, he was brilliant.

Marcus' season started in somewhat eye-raising fashion with 8 points on 2 of 8 shooting against North Carolina Central. While it would have been easy to write that off as one game, as the season progressed,…