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Our offense is looking awful so far
Too much standing
Well, since 2008, the Pack is 1-6 at Littlejohn. The one win was the squeaker in 2013 when Scott Wood hit a trey in the corner with time expiring. Anyway, it would be a great time to start bucking that trend and pick up a road win before Syracuse comes to town.
Aided by a most excellent moving screen on the part of Richard Howell.
I won’t wear socks tonight to watch the game. I’m convinced that’s where I screwed up Saturday.
We had what looked like a tired shooting night. Lots of front rim stuff and definitely a step slow on defense most of the day. I thought we got a ton of good looks that didn’t go down. Our offense is so heavily reliant on our three perimeter guys that we are going to have offensive games like this. The problem yesterday was that the defense was poor as well.
As much as people rag on Turner, we’d have three or four more losses without him. Just like is white clone, he’s a liability on defense, but he can flat shoot you back into a game or put one away for you as well. It’s what shooters do. I’d love to have a guy like BSW or WSW that plays D like Cat, but he’s not on the roster. Caleb Martin might develop into that, but I doubt he will ever be the kind of cold blooded shooter that the Wood Brothers have been for State.
I’ve been saying for awhile that we could lose any of the last five games. I didn’t see if Klempson came back in OT after their epic collapse at home to GT, but Littlejohn is about as unfriendly to us as Conte so Tuesday will be a struggle.
Cat is starting to figure out their defense. When KW is scoring it’s not a great sign. Need the third on Hanlan
We get Klempson and GT here today so it’s ESPN3 again. I just hope the empty building doesn’t make us listless. Other than that we have a decent shot at a win.
Espn Bubble Watch updated today
Also, here is NC State’s synopsis:
NC State [17-11 (8-7), RPI: 36, SOS: 3] Now that’s how you get off the bubble. A few weeks ago, a close loss against Virginia on Feb. 11 was the Wolfpack’s fifth in six games, with little, beyond that Jan. 11 win over Duke, to recommend them. Now? They’re safely in the field. That’s what happens when you beat Louisville and North Carolina on the road in late February. Suddenly, NC State’s No. 2-ranked schedule, top-40 RPI, and top-25 noncon schedule are backed up by three real-deal wins. The Wolfpack have moved up into the No. 8/9 seed range for now. It would take a downturn inversely proportional to the past two weeks for the Wolfpack to have to worry much the rest of the way. Merely avoiding a bad loss at Boston College Saturday may do the trick.
Interesting nugget:
N.C. State…is 1-14 in the next ACC game after a win against Duke or North Carolina since the start of the 1994-95 season.
This is why the collective sphincter of WPN will make a boa constrictor look weak tomorrow.
Hoosiers is the greatest sports movie of all time. My heart rate went up without even playing the clip.
Over time, I’ve become convinced that for the true bubble teams, the RPI ranking of the teams that they’ve beaten are more important than their own RPI….and I’m OK with that.
I think you are right. This goes back to the Jay Bilas mantra, “Who did you play and who did you beat?”
A bubblicious RPI can be built with mediocre results against a good schedule or vice versa. Deciding who is really worthy or who has potential in the tournament is most easily quantified by “quality wins.”
At tOSU, according to my son, there is a monitor located outside of every football player’s classroom to note who shows up and when. I don’t know if Urban Meyer makes them run or not, but he is certainly tracking tardies.
This makes it very clear what the expectation is and those kinds of consequences should serve as motivation for those not otherwise inclined to make it to class on time.
Doing away with help defense charges is the most idiotic thing I’ve ever heard of. This means that once you beat your man everybody has to get out of the way and let you have a clear path to the basket. So much for team defense and teaching man-ball-basket principles. Beating a member of the opposite team to a spot means something in basketball, unless you take away the charge. I hate floppers, but I love well played team defense with good rotations and discipline.
This is a classic case of a blogger trying to generate hits from the mindless masses.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Texpack wrote:</div>
Three out of four in last night’s RPI helper games resulted in our RPI going from 38 to 40.Nitpick alert: The RPI RANKING went from 38 to 40.
I think that the problem with Palm’s “Reader” is that it also needs to include the teams ranked just ahead and just behind you as well. You want that group to lose.
Another way to think of it is that State’s win on Tuesday could easily have moved them past teams that haven’t had their mid-week game yet. So when you jump something like 15 spots, it’s not hard to imagine that if some of those teams win on Wed-Fri, then they could jump back ahead of State.
I try to get the RPI rankings on Fri and Mon for the RPI trending graphs to minimize that effect.
Is the one on ESPN not the same? They say RPI 35.
There are frequently small differences between the various RPI calcs. I guess you get what you pay for.
I was hoping for this kind of response. I knew I would get it because I actually pulled for Richmond last night. You can tell that even the fan base is focused.
