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Wake Forest 67, NC State 59

Four Factors NC State
Wake Forest
eFG% 38.7 45.1
Turnover Rate 22.9 22.9
Off Reb Rate 36.2 43.9
FT Rate 30.6 37.7

 

Pts Poss OFF_EFF DEF_EFF
WFU 67 70 95.7 84.3
NCSU 59 70 84.3 95.7

 

Box Score

Opportunity was there--Wake clicked in fits and starts but didn't play well at the offensive end overall and averaged less than a point per possession.  But State couldn't shoot for shit, hitting 28.6% of its threes and 36.6% of its twos.  After Dennis Horner cut the Deacs' lead to four, the Pack missed several chip shots on ensuing possessions, let the Deacs score an easy put back after a missed free throw, and they never seriously threatened again.

NC State's bench scored seven points on 2-15 shooting.

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Dennis Horner

just lost all confidence after he got blocked by Ish Smith. He has to keep his head in the game. He and Javi are the leaders of the team, and Javi is the only one that acted with a sense of urgency. Very disappointed in Dennis.

I love the macrowave, but his defense is just freaking awful.

I thought the refs were fine for the most part, but a play that I think was huge was with about 3 minutes left when Aminu was on the way towards his 8th turnover. The refs bailed out an obvious walk by calling a shooting foul.

Wouldn’t this have been a perfect game to go with the fouling strategy at the end? Ish Smith is a terrible FT shooter, he had the ball in his hands most of the time, just give it a shot. If he misses a few, and we make some buckets, the game goes down to the wire. Maybe Dino takes Smith out, which would have also been great for State. I do not understand why we did not foul.

by PACKHOOLIGAN on Dec 21, 2009 8:30 AM EST reply actions  

Strange Game

The final score is about what I expected as well as the ugliness of the game. What I didn’t expect was Dennis Horner to curl into a fetal position and give up nor Scott Wood showing up and giving me a glimpse of hope for the future.

Wake is a very physically talented team, but they play below their talent level thanks to Aminu and Williams being very selfish players. I think State could take them at home.

Javi is obviously the guy on the team that wants to win the most and has turned into a much better player than I ever expected.

by mplode on Dec 21, 2009 9:53 AM EST reply actions  

game

i thought the game was lost when Scott Wood picked up his fourth foul and Havi went to the bench in favor of Mays. from there Wake went on that run that put the game away.

last year i didn’t even want to see Havi in the game, but he has turned into a pretty good point guard. now i don’t want him to come out of the game.

am i wrong in thinking that Smith went wild and Wake went on big runs when Havi was out and Mays was in? Havi slowed Smith down and made him work on defense. Mays just doesn’t have the speed to slow Smith down.

I was dissappointed in the play of Horner. He just didn’t play his game which includes the pump fake and drive to the basket, or pump fake, step to the side and shoot a short jumper. could be that the men guarding him just did not allow this.

am i wrong in thinking that if any player on State’s roster has a shot at the NBA, its Scott Wood? He certainly elevates well on his jumper, has a quick release and hopefully from now on shoots “lights out”. His shooting ability could carry him there.

by sbas2 on Dec 21, 2009 9:55 AM EST reply actions  

They're still shitty

Nothing more really needs to be said.

No flow offensively. No interior defense. No rebounding.

Awesome.

by wolfonthehill on Dec 21, 2009 10:44 AM EST reply actions  

This would be a decent team with Zo Brown

The black hole at 2 is killing us.

Oh, and Tracy is suspended for the Arizona game. Awesome.

by TVP on Dec 21, 2009 1:06 PM EST reply actions  

what?????

Is this for his postgame comments about officiating? Link?

by PACKHOOLIGAN on Dec 21, 2009 1:11 PM EST up reply actions  

Nevermind

I just saw the announcement. I hate being an NC State fan.

by PACKHOOLIGAN on Dec 21, 2009 1:24 PM EST up reply actions  

I'd REALLY like to know who suspended him

The ACC, or NC State.

Thing is – he’s absolutely, 100% correct – that game was bullshit in terms of officiating on the two ends of the court. I’m glad he said it, suspension or not.

I just hope we didn’t self-inflict the punishment.

by wolfonthehill on Dec 21, 2009 3:08 PM EST reply actions  

So much for that hope...

“The ACC confirmed Monday that it was N.C. State’s decision to suspend Smith, not a league-imposed penalty. Wolfpack coach Sidney Lowe declined to comment on Monday. "

Why do we hate ourselves? It’s the only explanation for that…

by wolfonthehill on Dec 21, 2009 3:10 PM EST up reply actions  

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