Pack needs buzzer beater to best High Point

[Whiteshoes67]

This is GOTT ball. Your head will explode if you expect significant changes. For those who think he hasn’t peaked, I applaud your optimism. I wish I hadn’t followed SEC basketball years ago. As DSD points out above, roster management and bench utilization are weaknesses. Always have been, always will be. Recruiting isn’t just about getting the best players. It’s also about having enough depth to weather injuries and transfers. Defense, not going to be a strength of this staff. Lutz’s teams weren’t defensive juggernauts, and Gott’s have never been either. The teaching is missing.

To criticize Gott isn’t to demand his head or even say he’s a bad coach. To say that’s he’s a bubble coach, in some places, would even be a compliment. He’s a good coach. His teams are capable of winning any given night. But they’re also capable of losing to inferior opponents. They why’s are obvious. I’ll repeat it time and time again, his first team was his best. He will never have a better team at NC State. Bank on it.

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redisgood: I think Rowan was our best remaining player available that had a chance at providing the scoring left open by Lacey. We had Henderson slotted to replace Turner. We were slating Dorn to sit and be ready when Lacey left in that combo slot, so the plan clearly was to have Lacey for one more year then hand over to Dorn, Henderson and hopefully DSJ.

I don’t sense we were on Rowan at all until very late. He didn’t reclassify until late. Once Lacey left there were major minutes and shot opportunities open, so we had more to offer than Louisville and got him. That was kind of my take. So, I would say Rowan is trying to fill Lacey’s shoes.

I’ll give the staff credit for the late Rowan get. They matched a need with a good available player.

I can’t understand the front court situation. Even going after the Greek was clearly at most a one year fill in, which meant that two would have be replaced after this year (the Greek and Abu). Even landing Bam would have at most been a 3 man rotation. We clearly needed another big man, and Kirk wasn’t that big man.

Whiteshoes: I’m afraid that you may be right about year 1. Gott was handed a complete roster, but that roster was previously held back by a staff that seemingly didn’t do anything between each game or during the offseason. The team had drastically under performed in comparison to the talent level, so it was an easy and quick fix. That roster was thin, but it had skill at every position and players with clearly defined roles (not really tweeners). I’m afraid we won’t see a roster that good during the remainder of Gott’s tenure here.

[redisgood]

Year 2 was the team I was most excited about going in:

Lorenzo – one of the best PGs in the ACC
Purvis: a top 10 recruit at SG
Wood – one of the best pure shooters in the country at the 3
CJL – potential All ACC at the 4 (based on his previous year’s performance)
Rich – one of the best pure rebounders in the country
TJ and Tyler – Macdonald AAs as back-ups

On paper it looked like a killer lineup, but I feel it was CJL who turned out to be the weak link and brought the whole thing down. Purvis was a disappointment was well, but Gott didn’t do a very good job of managing him. I can’t help but think how that season would have turned out if CJ had gone pro and TJ got all of his minutes.

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