NC State 79, South Carolina Upstate 60
by Akula Wolf on Dec 11, 2010 6:37 PM EST
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Print| Four Factors | NC State | SC Upstate |
| eFG% | 57.3 | 45.0 |
| Turnover Rate | 11.2 | 19.2 |
| Off Reb Rate | 36.7 | 35.9 |
| FT Rate | 17.7 | 13.3 |
| Pts | Poss | OFF_EFF | DEF_EFF | |
| USCU | 60 | 62.5 | 96.0 | 126.4 |
| NCSU | 79 | 62.5 | 126.4 | 96.0 |
State got off to a sluggish start--Upstate actually led for over four of the first ten minutes--and didn't hit double-digits until seven and a half minutes into the game, but from there they had little issue scoring against a small and slow Upstate team. The Spartans turned the ball over on a quarter of their first-half possessions, and their transition defense, which was pretty bad, allowed State to turn defensive boards into some quick and easy buckets.
Both Ryan Harrow and Lorenzo Brown were outstanding throughout. Harrow was pretty much unguardable and found a lot of easy opportunities with the blow-by!, as Bill Raftery might say. It was fun to watch but eventually I started to feel bad for the dude who had drawn matador duty on this day. Just not in the same hemisphere when it came to quickness. Harrow finished 10-13 from the field, all of them twos, most of them in close. Brown was 7-10 from the field, scored 17 points, and added six assists.
-- Jordan Vandenberg injured an ankle in the second half and wasn't able to put much pressure on it as he hopped over to the bench. Not sure of the severity of the injury.
-- Including his 3-4 effort today, Scott Wood is 26-59 (44.1%) from beyond the arc this year.
-- As good as NC State's defense was in the first half (0.7 pts/poss allowed), it was that bad in the second (1.2 pts/poss allowed). To a certain extent it was just misfortune in that Upstate's threes started falling, and they weren't all easy looks. Chandler Hash came out of nowhere to hit four by himself. I didn't even bother to mention that guy in the preview. It was largely poor effort on the Wolfpack's part, though. The Spartans cut their turnover rate in half, grabbed 41% of their misses, and shot better than 51% from the floor. Not okay.
"We gave up 38 points in the second half," Lowe said. "I thought we relaxed a couple of times defensively on some guys. I just told our guys we have to play the same way every night, every minute we are on the floor. We can’t relax – it has to become a habit, it has to become a mindset. Then when we play against the Wake Forest and Duke and Clemson and those teams then our habits will take over. But if we have bad habits against teams we feel we should beat then those bad habits are going to come out when you play your conference games."
Yeah, I don't feel good about this being solved by January.
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At least Lowe has identified the problem and is saying the right things
In other news, BYU crushed Arizona. I still think we beat Arizona (especially with the Macrowave back) and go on to make the NCAAs comfortably. Too much talent on this team to miss the tournament. Call me a crazy optimist.
Why would you not feel good about this being solved by January?
We have Sid at the helm, and he’s proven himself to be a master developer of talent and team cohesion.
i am surprised at the low turnout for this game.
it cost 10 bucks for a ticket and one gets to sit where a seat is available, so if one gets there early, one can get a great seat. i expect this concept to change in the future.
unfortunately i and at least one other family of four got shafted by the Will Call as Will Call did not have our tickets. i figured the game would be heavily attended and decided to go Will Call. despite the fact that i had my receipt in hand, i had to buy a ticket at the gate or wait forever for someone to rectify the issue. time was in essence to get a good seat. the family of four had to do likewise. don’t use Will Call if you can help it.
as to the game, Harrow’s play reminded me of what i saw on his recruiting videos which one could watch when he was a junior and senior in high school. Unbelieveable.
i think Painter has passed Howell by, and while i don’t want Vandenberg to be hurt, i do want Painter to get all of his minutes when Smith returns.
love Javi. he can be super Javi at times, but the team bogs down with him at the point-hence the slow start.
From what Alpha provided..
…during the game yesterday. Defense and rebounding have been a concern for 4 years now…when is addressing it actually going to happen. Teaching the kids to box out and put your arms up on defense can’t be that difficult. Every game I watch our players have their arms down at their sides…Watch Dook, Mich St and Wisconsin play and that’s what I would like to see, and I can actually say our talent is comparable to two teams on that list (eventhough we got destroyed by one of them).
At least
we shouldn’t have to worry to much about “the Wake Forest”. Why are they not getting crucified for firing Gaudio just to become one of the worst teams in the country with Wellman’s BFF at the helm?
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