Clemson 73, NC State 70
by Akula Wolf on Jan 16, 2010 5:40 PM EST
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| Four Factors | NC State |
Clemson |
| eFG% | 42.6 | 52.8 |
| Turnover Rate | 16.8 | 16.8 |
| Off Reb Rate | 42.9 | 25.0 |
| FT Rate | 55.6 | 43.4 |
| Pts | Poss | OFF_EFF | DEF_EFF | |
| Clemson | 73 | 65.6 | 111.3 | 106.7 |
| NCSU | 70 | 65.6 | 106.7 | 111.3 |
A good effort in the second half and an impressive comeback after I'd considered the Pack dead and buried, but ultimately it wasn't enough to overcome the flat effort and poor shooting in first half. Clemson built its lead with 65% shooting and a 12.6 turnover percentage in the first half, took a massive nose dive in both areas in the second, but got just enough at the end, including a huge block by Jerai Grant in the final 35 seconds.
Good:
-- NC State finished with a decisive edge on the glass, led by Richard Howell's 12 boards in 26 minutes. Howell's ten second-half boards were a major reason why State grabbed 45% of its misses and limited Clemson to 15.8% of their own in that half. Pretty good job scoring the ball, too; I just wish he'd stop with the three-point attempts.
-- NC State shot 80% (24-30) from the line. Julius Mays was perfect from the stripe for the second consecutive game.
-- There were lots of tenuous moments as State worked the ball up the court against Clemson's press, some obvious and painful lapses, but they finished with an impressively low TO%. NC State hadn't kept its turnover percentage against Clemson under 23.9%, much less 20%, since 2005.
-- Farnold Degand did not shoot the ball well, but he seemed the only guard willing to press an advantage in transition situations, the only guard willing to attack the defense in general, and the only guard who could run an effective 2-on-1.
Bad:
-- I thought Sid waited too long to make a change in the first ten minutes when it was clear that Dennis Horner and Tracy Smith were no match for Trevor Booker inside.
-- Javi did not score and committed 4 turnovers in 10 minutes. By necessity, there could be no Javi Time in crunch time. A bunch of wasted minutes between Javi, Horner, and C.J. Williams today.
-- NC State won the rebounding battle in both halves but did not start cleaning up on the defensive glass until the second half, a key factor in a narrow loss.
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I was sitting in the third level for the game
and i could not tell if the block on Howell at the end of the game was clean. should a foul have been called?
while State played with more passion the second half, would the game have been as close if Stith had been able to play the second half?
and finally, did State go into a funk when Wood missed his first two three point shots?
in the FSU game Wood was the star of the team. after that game, does the team look to Wood for scoring leadership?
as i posted yesterday morning, i wanted State to trap full court from the get go and take it to the hoop everytime they broke the press. State didn’t do this until the second half. Wish they would have done this at the start of the game. i can’t understand why they started the game shooting so poorly and playing without the same passion they played with in the second half. did the game plan of “slow the game down” have anything to do with that?
On TV, the block looked clean
Try as I might to see body contact or a hack across the arm, that block looked perfect.
That being said, one of Wood’s was equally clean – and he of course drew a whistle for his… another of his looked clean enough to let go, but again, he drew the whistle.
Not that having him on the bench for extended periods of time would possibly hurt our chances or anything…
Grant's block was clean
As were two of ours towards the end of the game (Wood’s being one of them) that were whistled.
I love Howell’s play. He is providing Tracy with the rebounding help Horner never provided. I don’t mind him hoisting up a wide open three every other game or so, but I agree that he needs to reign in his current 3 ball rate.
Why can’t Javi or Mays ever be solid at the same time? It is like some bad sports movie where there is some talisman that gives the owner the gift of not being a bad basketball player and Javi and Mays just fight for control over it.
Did anyone watch the Duke-Wake slugfest Sunday night? Those guys were just killing each other. If horner was watching it, he is probably still balled up in a corner, sucking his thumb. I think the refs did everything they could that game to keep it under control, there seemed to be a foul on every possession. The only egregiously bad call was the intentional foul they called on Ish Smith, it was an obvious play at the ball.
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