If you want to know the inspiration for Seth Trimble’s career-best performance against No. 24 Louisville Monday night, you have to go back to a snowy afternoon in Syracuse a little more than 48 hours ago. The Tar Heels were beating the Orange at halftime, but it had little to do with Trimble: the senior leader was scoreless in 10 minutes.
Since Trimble had secured his place in Chapel Hill legend with his game-winning three-pointer against Duke, his production had failed to match that moment. In the four contests between the Duke win and Monday night’s game, Trimble had reached double figures twice and scored exactly four points twice. It was not the standard that he, or head coach Hubert Davis, had set.
So in that locker room, with the weight of The Shot still clearly weighing Trimble down, Davis called him out.
“I was like, ‘It just doesn’t work without you, Seth,'” Davis remembered Monday night. “He can impact winning in so many different ways, and I just challenged him to do it.”
Davis wasn’t alone. Trimble’s teammates, most of whom are younger and have accomplished less in a Carolina jersey, joined in the chorus. They all needed more out of Trimble. His rising tide would lift all their boats.
“We all got on him,” said freshman guard Derek Dixon. “And he responded.”
Trimble scored 13 points in the second half against Syracuse, helping the Tar Heels stave off an Orange rally and pull away late for a 77-64 win. Two days later, he put together a masterpiece against the Cardinals, scoring a career-high 30 points while taking primary responsibility for guarding Louisville star Mikel Brown, Jr. Brown scored 24 points, but he had to work hard to do it. He shot 9-25 from the field.
“One of the things that we wanted to do was make every catch, make every move, make every shot difficult,” Davis said. “And I felt like throughout the game, they got worn down and tired.”
Call it the Trimble Effect, though UNC’s defense was certainly a team effort. But we’ve seen this happen before against an equally gifted talent. In November, following Carolina’s 87-74 win against Kansas, Hall of Fame head coach Bill Self specifically complimented Trimble’s defense on Jayhawk star Darryn Peterson. Both Peterson and Brown will be lottery picks in this summer’s NBA Draft. Trimble will be lucky to make an NBA roster. But that doesn’t mean the senior can’t make life hell for the diaper dandies.
“I was thinking about that matchup [against Brown] as soon as we beat Syracuse,” Trimble said.
Offensively, Trimble repeatedly found driving lanes around Louisville’s star-studded perimeter players, finishing 10-13 on two-point shots and drawing eight Cardinal fouls. Oh, and he finally made his first three since that fateful shot against the Blue Devils.
“Watching film, I saw myself having a game where if I was as aggressive as possible, good things were gonna come,” he said.
It speaks to Trimble’s character that he was able to take criticism from his younger teammates on the chin. Who among us hasn’t been miffed when brash whippersnappers try to tell us how to do our jobs? He could have easily brushed off the challenge and crawled into a shell. He could’ve chosen to devote his energy to his ice cream sales on Franklin Street.
Instead, Trimble responded with the best all-around performance of his collegiate career in a game his team desperately needed to win. The Tar Heels can, in fact, beat good teams without star Caleb Wilson suiting up. They are now 3-1 in four games without him, with the Cardinals being by far the best of those three wins.
But don’t get it twisted. Trimble may be open to critiques, but he’s not about to let his teammates go a bridge too far.
“I was talking to him, and he said, ‘You can tell me what to do on the court,'” Dixon remembered. “‘But I’m still older than you.'”
Featured image via Todd Melet
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