Tag Archive | "point guard"
Cousins to Memphis; Is John Wall Next?
SI.com has the news and SLAM has the quotes and the N&O has it on Monday. “Me and my family came to a decision after talking about it. We just thought it was the best place for me to be,” said Cousins this morning. “Everything about the school, the city, whole visit was impressive. I already [...]
Continue reading...Basketball: Offense & Defense
Friday, February 27, 2009
Joe Giglio and ACCNow are at it again!!! Here they go again putting together some great work and elevating the News & Observer’s credibility!! (potentially with some guidance from our own choppack…see our comments section) This morning Giglio offers some fantastic insight into both the 2008-2009 version of the Wolfpack basketball team and into [...]
Continue reading...Game Film Breakdown of Each of the 21 Turnovers Against GT
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Credit and props to SFN reader TXPack for this breakdown of yesterday’s game at Georgia Tech. — Alpha Turnovers remain a big concern for the Wolfpack, especially headed into the critical final stretch of the season. Here is a breakdown of the 21 turnovers from yesterday in Atlanta: First 5 minutes of the 1st (6 TOs) 1* [...]
Continue reading...Degand Emerging
Saturday, February 14, 2009
The key to this season for NC State was getting effective play from the PG position. Overall, Farnold Degand, Javier Gonzalez, and Julius Mays have not performed at the level NC State needed to make the NCAA tournament. However, an NIT bid would be a solid step for Sidney Lowe’s third team considering the change [...]
Continue reading...The Point Guard Drought, Contextualized
Friday, January 30, 2009
NC State’s last all-ACC point guard, as you all know, was Chris Corchiani (1990-91). Here is what we believe to be a comprehensive list of other programs’ PG representatives on 1st, 2nd, or 3rd team all-conference, in the post-Fire era: Boston College (1) – Tyrese Rice* Clemson (2) – Terrell McIntyre, Chris Whitney Virginia Tech (1) – [...]
Continue reading...Curry 32-Footer Sinks Pack
Saturday, December 6, 2008
WRAL Sports: Curry Drops 44 Points, Davidson 72 – NC State 67 Overall, I was really pleased with State’s performance and Sid’s gameplan. Without Curry’s prayer, State would have had the ball at the end shooting for the win (with OT as worst-case scenario). The effort was there, and the defense was much better. [...]
Continue reading...NC State vs. Davidson: Wildcats Are On a Mission (Updated 3:15pm)
Friday, December 5, 2008
Tomorrow at 12pm in Charlotte, the Wolfpack tips off against Davidson in the Pack’s first game against an opponent that will be close to the caliber that they can expect to see night after night in conference play. To kick off SFN’s coverage, here’s an article I found about the Wildcat team’s commitment to not [...]
Continue reading...And so it begins…NC State’s starting point guard sidelined with knee injury
Friday, November 21, 2008
Another season, another injury to a key component of the Wolfpack’s program. I wish that I didn’t have to bump all of the great football-related entries that precede this…but, we can’t just leave this out there now that we have a little ‘official’ clarity. After one game of the season, Farnold Degand already has tendinitis in his [...]
Continue reading...Basketball tips tonight! 3 Questions for the Wolfpack
Thursday, November 6, 2008
WOW! I can’t believe the time is already here for exhibition basketball. Section Six actually has a preview of what appears to be a pretty bad Fort Valley State team with whom we will do battle tonight in Reynolds Coliseum. NC State opens its 2009 season with an exhibition game against Div-II Fort Valley State on [...]
Continue reading...Former recruit with various connections to NC State will transfer from UF
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
NC State is scheduled to face off on the hardwood with the University of Florida both this season and next season. One name that the Wolfpack will not be seeing in the series is that of Jai Lucas. It was announced today that Lucas is transferring from Florida. Florida guard Jai Lucas, the son [...]
Continue reading...Bob Gibbons Has a “Gut Feel” That John Wall Picks NC State
Monday, November 3, 2008
Speaking of carousels, there’s always the basketball recruiting one, and it never stops spinning. N&O/CO NC State beat writer Ken Tysiac posted a pair interesting quotes from hoops recuiting super-guru Bob Gibbons: Gibbons said he has a “gut feeling” that Wall will choose N.C. State rather than Memphis or Baylor. But he said even if Lowe doesn’t [...]
Continue reading...Degand working his way back
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
NC State fans have learned the hard way since our amazing run of fantastic point guards ended 17 years ago with the graduation of Chris Corchiani that there is no substitute for a talented point guard providing key leadership for a college basketball program. We recently discussed the current composition of the Wolfpack’s roster at point [...]
Continue reading...Harrow’s commitment a result of “great recruiting” by Wolfpack
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
It is no secret that poor point guard play has plagued NC State’s Basketball Program for years. (Link to BJD’s recent positional analysis) Even if Farnold Degand doesn’t bounce back from his knee injury this year, a fix for this problem may be on the near-term horizon after Ryan Harrow, a rising high school junior [...]
Continue reading...Offseason Positional Analysis (PG)
Friday, July 11, 2008
As we wait for football to heat up, it’s as good a time as any to analyze the coming basketball season. Over the next few weeks, we will analyze the logical rotation and depth chart, based on position. First up is what should be the Pack’s second-weakest position – point guard. State had lots of problems [...]
Continue reading...Lowe Lands Another ‘10 Prospect (Projected Roster Update)
Monday, June 30, 2008
ACCBasketballRecruiting.com – along with everybody else – is that point guard Ryan Harrow has committed to NC State joining consensus Top 20 high school star, CJ Leslie in the class of 2010. (Link here). Harrow – a rising junior from Marietta, Georgia – is a little shorter than his listing of 6′0 and weighs only 150 [...]
Continue reading...Tudor: Gonzalez makes a good showing
Sunday, March 2, 2008
But there was a winner on the opposite team, too. It was beleaguered Wolfpack point guard Javier Gonzalez, a freshman with such a maligned background that he spent part of Thursday afternoon begging for a reprieve in State coach Sidney Lowe’s office.So bad was Gonzalez’s performance in the Wolfpack’s 72-62 home loss to Florida State [...]
Continue reading...Wake Enters NCAA Tournament Discussion; State Mired in Point Guard Mess of Our Making
Monday, February 18, 2008
We set the stage in this entry last week that unless someone started claiming some scalps that the ACC would only have four participants in this year’s NCAA Tournament. Wake Forest’s big win yesterday over the Duke Blue Devils is exactly the kind of statement and scalp that the Demon Deacons needed to propel themselves into [...]
Continue reading...Miami = Must Win…Period
Saturday, January 19, 2008
It doesn’t get any more simple than tonight — NC State hosts Miami in an absolute MUST WIN early season Atlantic Coast Conference match-up. Period. The Wolfpack needs to win an ACC game. Now, tonight. The Pack, picked in the preseason to finish third in the ACC, was embarrassed at North Carolina last week and thumped [...]
Continue reading...Pack vs PC: State Ugly Again, Advances to 10-3
Saturday, January 5, 2008
“It is like going to the dentist without any novocaine.” – Gary Hahn describing NC State Basketball State shot 1 of 11 from the three point line in the first half and 5 of 7 in the second half NC State takes the court today against a Presbyterian College team with a horrible record but who have [...]
Continue reading...PackPride Posts An Update on PG John Wall
Thursday, January 3, 2008
PackPride has posted an update on John Wall. Wall is one of the top 25 players in the nation and is from Raleigh. We got permission to run this quote: While he didn’t name leaders, Wall did mention three schools that are recruiting him hard. “I think [NC] State is really coming after me hard… them, Virginia, [...]
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Monday, March 9, 2009
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