UNC Basketball: Boardwashing

Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports It’s not easy to rebound.

This is a fact of life, and a fact of basketball. There are few things that can be so readily condensed, so the things that can be ought to be identified and pointed out, like the red streak through the grey woods of a North Carolina winter that suddenly resolves to a cardinal sitting briefly on a twig.

It’s not easy to rebound.

There was a lot of hope, at least among my friends, as that famous ball dropped in a nearly-empty Times Square, that the turning of the calendar would be symbolic; a beginning of a different kind of rebound. Sometimes there are things in life that make a rebound necessary, and if the year 2020 was an errant shot…