@jrfromphilly && others…
Since I’m one of the old men here and since I am well known as being one whose outlook is, generally speaking, both positive and objective…
We meet good guys like you from faraway places once or twice a year… and most all are welcomed, albeit with a little good natured, trashtalking… Most of the SFN guys remember that guy from Arizona a couple of seasons ago, whatwashisname… ya’ll just add a little extra spice to our “stew”…
Anybody who brings “numbers” to the table as you have… will be respected, which you know does not mean automatic approval of your points…
… and yeah… there’s a few guys here that just ain’t seen enough games to know what they are talking about… you’ll know them because they have famousplayersnumbersintheirusernames and saydumbassthings… we mostly try to ignore them and you might want to too..
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Now Sir… consider this…
1. This Wolfpack Team leads the nation in winning high profile, rivalry games that on paper it had no chance of winning… ie… Louisville, Dook, *NC, Syracuse …
Tell me again, please… who Villanova beat this season that it should not have beat…
2. In last Thursday night’s game against LSU… on the benches, where some games are won and lost, we saw “teacher” v. “pupil”… GOTT v. Jones…
LSU was the only team this season, which played a perimeter defense that prevented our ball screens from being effective… so much that they were abandoned at halftime… a move that, coupled with a stiff Defense and our bench, led to the comeback and the victory…
We were mentally ready to play from the start Thursday and anyone who says we took LSU lightly, doesn’t know what they are talking about… Around the eight minute mark in the first half… our “gameplan” was totally in shambles and it took about 15 minutes playing time to adjust and get back in the game…
The point is this… Villanova better have two good punches…
3. That Thursday night game will be a wakeup call for our young kids… four of top seven had never played a NCAA tournament game… that said, we are a deep team and GOTT will not hesitate to go ten deep… I don’t know anything about your Villanova team… but the game may well be one of those where the starters battle more or less even and the game is won by whichever bench outplays the other…
We have four BIGS… and they all do different things, especially as that relates to Team Chemistry… and the truth is… nobody really knows how that is going to work out in terms of production from game to game until after the game is over… which fact drives all of us, including our Coaches … batf’ingcrazy…
Point is … Villanova better have four good BIGS too in order to win this game…
4. We have three shooters and two drivers on the perimeter… Anyone of them can singlehandedly take over a game if they go off.. Problem is … nobody has a clue whose night it may be until the game is almost over… they like to look at each other a lot… which drives us and our coaches batf’ingcrazy…
and then our BIGS like to touch the ball on occasion, other than a rebound, which adds flavor to the confusion…
Point is Villanova’s perimeter defense will need to play one of their best games of the season… ’cause they really need to try and stop all three of our shooters and both of our drivers…
That’s right … you GOTT to stop five with three…
5. Finally unless Villanova has the ghost of Rollie Massimino sitting on the bench… this could come down to who outcoaches whom in the fourth quarter… see above…
My point here is simply this… No disrespect to your current coach or team… but with a one day turnaround…GOTT && Company aint’ gonna make a lot of adjustments just for this game… They are gonna focus our kids on doing the same things that they have done successfully in every other BIG game this season…
Frankly … our young kids ain’t smart enough yet to handle a bunch of adjustments in one day… so Coach is gonna try and keep it simple…. He coming straight at you … what you see is what you’ll get…
So what I’m really saying is this…I’d be just as concerned about Villanova taking NCState too lightly as the reverse…
Holler Back on that… if you please…
… and you are more than welcome to join us during the game tonight… just wear your steel britches…
