Dean Smith is one of the greatest college basketball coaches ever. He’s famously known as the one man who held Michael Jordan to under 20 points per game, mostly because the offense he ran at the University of North Carolina wasn’t built around one guy scoring.

It was about the team. The teams Smith recruited and coached while at UNC were always full of fundamentally sound players who understood basketball beyond searching for their shot. As much disrespect that is given to Rasheed Wallace, some of which is deserved since he is the most penalized player in NBA history, he did play two years at UNC under Dean Smith.

That means Smith must have seen some sort of basketball smarts in Sheed to have him believe he could play within his system. Yes, the easy argument was Sheed and fellow recruit Jerry Stackhouse were Dean Smith’s foray into the AAU/One-And-Done athletes, but I feel it’s safe to assume that he would have picked the best version of that to break the mold.

The mold of the Carolina Blue uniforms has “become the epitome of an old-school, timeless look in college basketball.” Similar to that old school look was the Four Corners offense, one that was “invented by John McClendon in the mid-1950’s” and made popular by Dean Smith.

It became so iconic and associated with Smith that when he died in 2015, the current version of the Tar Heels honored him by running the play.

The essence of the Four Corners offense was to kill time off the clock. Back before they instituted a shot clock, this play could kill precious moments away from opponents. Even when they instituted a 35-second shot clock, it was still a great way to kill the clock and end up with an easy basket like in the video above.

The football equivalent occurs towards the end of any game when quarterbacks will take the play clock all the way down to a few seconds before snapping the ball. Then, depending on the situation, the ensuing play is either a run up the middle or the quarterback taking a step back and going to a knee.

The operative sentiment behind all this is to kill the clock, getting closer to the end. This is something I deal with without fail every Friday.

I love my job. I love what I do, what I’m asked to do and what I come up with to do. I’m allowed luxuries and freedoms unlike most other positions I’ve had, especially since the audience and higher-level managers have much stronger consequences for negative actions.

But that doesn’t change the lack of motivation to do much of anything on a Friday. Maybe it’s an American thing since we don’t have a sanctioned short nap during the middle of the day. Although the famous Spanish Siesta is apparently no more, it’s not counting the countless number of Americans that find ways to nod off during the work day.

Anyone with an office and the ability to close their door surely has used that power to power nap for a few minutes. Depending on the location of and height of your cubicle walls, putting your head down and dozing is possible for many. While I’ve never truly slept while at work, I count zoning out in front of the same screen ‘thinking’ about what I will write next.

At my previous position, one filled with youngsters fresh from college or still close enough to remember what it was truly like, it was a free-for-all for those that grasped how exactly to handle their business. No, that doesn’t mean taking a two-hour lunch break with margaritas (not saying that didn’t happen), but early on we successfully petitioned for two monitors.

In my case, one monitor was dedicated to entertainment. Whether it was Netflix, Hulu or the phantom URLs that provided access to anything you wanted to watch, that’s what was up on one screen. The other was dedicated to work, but when you’re trying to catch up on ‘Breaking Bad’ or re-watch ‘The Wire’ for the second time, what’s truly more important?

Making that determination – what’s more important, my entertainment or my livelihood – would seem to be an easy thing. However, it clearly isn’t. Hence the number of talented people searching for work at home on their computers with a television running in the background and wondering why things aren’t happening.

What’s happening today is another classic example of a well-run 4 Corners. I’ve handled some lingering assignments, dealt with a urgent request and got caught up discussing Atlanta’s history and how Five Points MARTA station stands where a famous slave auction house previously stood.

I also took four different trips to the water station, picked up a quick lunch and spoke with a superior to set up a future project. All in all, it was a quite rewarding and productive day, even if I was running an office Four Corners the entire time and that’s the truth.