Tracy Smith Nears 1000 Career Points, Plus Other Items
by Akula Wolf on Jan 5, 2011 2:27 PM EST
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Print-- Sid says that Richard Howell will mostly play the four now that Tracy is back. Leading up to the season, Sid said Tracy would spend a lot of time at the four, but it looks like circumstances have changed that plan. For one thing, CJ Leslie is locked into the four when he's on the court because Scott Wood has been so important--looking through my lineup data, I don't see a single case where Leslie spent time at the three. So that limits Sid's flexibility when it comes to the frontcourt. Further, Howell has played the four far more often than the five (about 440 possessions at the four, 88 at the five through the first 9 games), and Sid might just want to keep him where he's gotten comfortable.
-- Heading into tonight's game, Tracy Smith is 25 points shy of 1,000 for his career.
-- Mr. and Mrs. Wuf are renewing their vows at halftime of Sunday's game, about two months shy of their 30th anniversary. There is something disturbing about the old photo accompanying that item.
--From Brett Friedlander's article on the sad state of ACC hoops:
Williams went on to say that he doesn’t lie awake at night "thinking one dadgum thing about the RPI of everybody in the league."
I don't know why this amuses me. I guess I just like it when people say dadgum.
-- NC State's latest football commitment is place kicker Niklas Sade, a local kid who had been committed to Nebraska. State now has commitments from a kicker, a punter, and a long snapper. So the special teams of the future is set. About those other positions...
-- Darrion Caldwell, the 2009 NCAA champ in the 149-pound weight division, is finally back wrestling with NC State. He won his match (bout? groin grab?), but the team lost. Caldwell was sidelined by a shoulder injury sustained from a rollerblading accident. Bummer.
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I would like to see Tracy, Howell and CJL get all the minutes at the 4 and 5. They’re all better than Painter / Vandy.
I think that's what you'll see for the rest of the season
Vandenberg is clearly out of the rotation now that Tracy’s back. Painter saw just eight minutes against Elon.
I told Darrion
that he wasn’t ready for the Devil’s Backbone
/Airborned
how would you split the minutes?
There are 80 minutes at 4/5. If you give all the minutes to Macrowave, CJ, and Howell, that would be 30, 25, and 25, or some similar split. That is, our best player is on the bench 10 minutes per game, two of our next five are on the bench 15 minutes per game, and our 8th best player (Painter) is never on the court at all.
Meanwhile, at the other three spots you have Harrow, Brown, Wood, Gonzalez, and ?? (cj??) getting 120 minutes between them. If Harrow and Gonzalez are going to add up to more than 40 of that, they have to be on the floor at the same time at some point. Assuming that doesn’t happen, even if Wood and Brown combine for 65 minutes a game, that leaves cj playing 15 minutes.
This is just bad. With Tracy back, we have to start using CJ at 3 when Wood goes out. And maybe even a couple minutes with Brown out a Wood at 2. I don’t know if that works, but it sure doesn’t work to have cj on the floor 35% of the time while Painter never plays, or to have Howell getting less than 60% of the minutes.
But I have no faith at all in Sid’s ability to manage the rotation.
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