Pack adds key transfer to basketball program

We may be in the middle of the dogdays of summer, but NC State’s 2014 basketball recruiting work hasn’t taken a summer vacation. According to an ESPN report, NC State landed a commitment from former West Virginia shooting guard, Terry Henderson on Tuesday.

Henderson played his high school basketball at Raleigh’s Neuse Christian Academy. At 6’4″ and 200 pounds, he averaged almost twelve points a game last year as a sophomore while continuing to exemplify the back of some impressive three point shooting – 37.6% from the arc last season after posting a mark north of 40% in conference games as a freshman. He was a listed as a three-star recruit and considered the likes of Maryland, Cincinnati, Richmond, Rutgers, UCLA and Wake Forest during this transfer.

The two things that Henderson does NOT do for the Wolfpack program is (1) bring needed immediate depth at the point guard position for next season, and (2) help Coach Gottfried with extreme ‘lumpiness’ in our scholarship spacing. Henderson must sit out next season and will have to years of eligibility remaining. After sitting out next season, one could see Henderson becoming Mark Gottfried’s next “Scott Wood / Ralston Turner” position. This means that the Wolfpack still will only have ten scholarship players eligible next season and looks very thin at the point guard position.

Current 2014-2015 NC State Basketball Program Configuration

Senior Class
(1) Ralston Turner (Wing)
(2) Desmond Lee (2G)

Junior Class
(3) Trevor Lacy (2G/PG)

Sophomore Class
(4) Anthony Barber (PG)
(5) Kyle Washington (4F/5C)
(6) BeeJay Anya (4F/5C)
(7) Lennard Freeman (4F)
(8) Terry Henderson (wing) – transfer from West Va ineligible in 2014-2015

2014 Commits
(9) Caleb Martin (wing)
(10) Cody Martin (wing)
(11) Abdul Malik Abu (PF)

2015 Commits
(12) Open
(13) Open
(1) Ralston Turner scholarship
(2) Desmond Lee scholarship

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  • #53039
    packalum44
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    How’s that 2015 class coming along?

    This program is a house of cards it takes one dud recruiting class to go from Bubble team *bravo* to dumpster fire. Relying on transfers is like funding long term assets with overnight liabilities. It works fine until it doesn’t.

    So take a sigh of relief thank goodness we kicked the can.

    #53052
    ancsu87
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    Does anyone know if he can play defense?
    If he can I’m sure MG will fix that before he sees the court.

    Must have missed this one line comment that certainly wasted my time.

    #53053
    redcanine
    Participant

    This gives us back a local kid from the ’12 class. He was probably third best area SG prospect behind Purvis and T Graham. Now he’s about to do what neither of them could. Kinda cool.

    Can he play defense? Probably a lot better than our cornerbacks did last year.

    #53054
    choppack1
    Participant

    Wolf in atl – I actually had thought that may be possible. However I am still not sure got doesn’t take that extra time and spend it on offense.

    What really tees me off more than anything is the poor defensive rebounding. As someone else mentioned our half court d isn’t terrible…but when you get stops you need to rebound. We don’t force to’s and we don’t rebound well defensively. A top 25 team does at least one of those.

    #53055
    choppack1
    Participant

    I do think gott is recruiting well. I really like our depth everywhere but the pg position. I am concerned about that position more so next year. Like I said, I see tourney bids in our future but don’t see us in top 4 of acc or a top 6 seed in the tourney…aka another year where we will be paying a lot of attention to dance card.

    #53056
    BJD95
    Keymaster

    I have ZERO problem with bringing in transfers. In fact, I affirmatively like it. Bring in players with some experience, who get a year to practice and integrate with the team before PT is even an issue. Very good way to strategically add to roster depth and fill holes.

    #53075
    WolfWiz11
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    What do you guys think about ESPN’s Top 50 Coaches list? Gott isn’t up there (not saying he should be, though they have the likes of Mike Brey on it). I think 3 straight NCAA appearances, including 1 Sweet 16 (after years of futility), good recruiting, and a player taken in the lottery deserves at least an honorable mention. Though, I agree with what everyone else has said; we MUST get better defensively, particularly defensive rebounding and cutting down on the TOs (especially on inbounds).

    #53077
    Wulfpack
    Participant

    What do you guys think about ESPN’s Top 50 Coaches list?

    There is a whole thread on this. My take is he should certainly be in the top 75, maybe even in the 45-50 range.

    As for the defense reasons, or lack thereof, I really don’t know why he isn’t good. But the stats show he isn’t good. Not just here but at Bama as well. It does not seem as if he puts an emphasis on D in game. I have no idea what happens in practice.

    #53085
    WolfWiz11
    Participant

    There is a whole thread on this.

    Ahhh, my bad, have not been on SFN or the forums in a long while (studying for the bar exam).

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