NC State Kills Morehead State Dead, 91-61
by Akula Wolf on Nov 14, 2011 7:01 AM EST
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Print| Four Factors | NCSU | MSU |
| eFG% | 68.5 | 48.9 |
| Turnover Rate | 19.1 |
25.4 |
| Off Reb Rate | 54.2 | 36.4 |
| FT Rate | 40.7 | 51.0 |
| Pts | Poss | OFF_EFF | DEF_EFF | |
| MSU | 61 | 62.9 | 96.9 | 144.6 |
| NCSU | 91 | 62.9 | 144.6 | 96.9 |
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Yeah, it's a rebuilding year for Morehead State, that's for sure. By the looks of things Sunday night, they've got a hell a lot of work ahead of themselves at the defensive end, among other places. They played zone for most of the night, which is not surprising given their limitations and NC State's three-point struggles last season. But they were totally incapable of keeping NC State honest or forcing ill-advised shots from outside. And we grabbed one out of every two shots we missed anyway.
That's largely a credit to Lorenzo Brown and the rest of NC State's offense; the guys saw the floor well, moved without the ball, and kept the ball moving as necessary. Richard Howell and DeShawn Painter were virtually unstoppable inside and combined to make 17 of 19 field goal attempts. At one point during the telecast they were showing highlights of Howell's game, and he must have had 6-7 shots that were dunks or layups. No idea how many he ended up with, but it was that kind of night. Everything's a lot easier when you're getting looks like that. For the game, NC State hit 25 of 31 two-point attempts.
The Eagles were slow, their positioning was bad, and they were killed in every conceivable way. We beat them with interior passes. With precise passes from the perimeter to the basket. With Scott Wood threes. It was all working for NC State's offense, and to say they busted that zone would be putting it mildly.
The Pack put together their most efficient offensive performance since November 2005 2004. (It was during the '05 season. Reading comprehension fail on my part.)
A big key was right there on Gott's whiteboard: "Move the Ball -- Hot Potato!" They followed through on that one.
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Wait, when did we get a new coach?
I feel like I should have heard something.
by PackMentality on Nov 14, 2011 7:17 AM EST via mobile reply actions
And I LOVE...
…. how many times that whiteboard says “Attack!”
Awesome in so many ways…
I’m thinking Sid’s would’ve said “take a break” somewhere, which Costner would’ve interpreted as “eat a Big Mac & some Biggie Fries”…
i am going to wait a year or two to decide whether Gott
can coach. after Lowe’s first year i thought he was the “cat’s meow”, the “new sheriff in town”; alas, he wasn’t. however, so far so good. i liked the way the team has played in their first two games.
at this point i would have to say that Lowe’s last recruiting class was pretty bad. luckily, Gott added Johnson and Mega-Horse although i should wait on my decision as to whether Mega is actually going to be Mega-Horse as he hasn’t played yet.
I think it's safe to say based on two games that he's better than Lowe.
I don’t really think it’s close.
by Panthers FTW on Nov 14, 2011 8:39 AM EST up reply actions
difference is that Gott has shown he can coach before
also, he’s in a much better spot than Lowe in terms of both talent on hand and who he is bringing in.
Sid had no whiteboard... he did PowerPoint...
and that’s why everyone was asleep during the games.
This team plays with some consistency. Something you could never say about the previous few years with the exception of the run thru the ACC tourney. The ball movement is far superior and the production from the bigs has been a revelation. Man, I wish Tracy Smith had a single season left.
I know we really haven’t played an uber-competitive team to date, but did you actually see our players moving last night, instead of just standing around… I’ve never seen that from an NCSU team. I mean they actually moved.
For those who have watched the games:
I’d love some thoughts on how Brown is performing at PG and whether Alex Johnson will be able to contribute against ACC competition.
He's struggled finding his shot.
But yeah, he’ll contribute. 5 assists and no turnovers in a sub role is pretty key. If (God forbid and strike me down for thinking it) Zo goes out for any length of games this year, we’ll be hurting, but Johnson certainly looks a capable sub so far.
awesome
That’s basically the best case scenario for Johnson, along with being a good mentor type, so I can live with that.
by ginger avenger on Nov 14, 2011 10:20 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Of the 14 ACC games so far, that was the best offensive performance yet.
1.44 points per possession is crazy. NCST’s high all of last year was 1.36
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by Michael Rogner on Nov 14, 2011 11:20 AM EST reply actions
New Stuff: Energy & a game plan!!
There’s only so many take-aways from such a mis-match, but the energy was something we haven’t seen in ages. Despite the horrible quality of the video feed, I couldn’t stop watching. It was great.
Plus, there was a game plan! It was clearly, hustle up the floor and get the ball inside. And they did it all game.
As for someone’s question about AJ, I think he’s what we need if we can keep Zo on the floor. Not sure he’s going to be able to deal with an entire game. I’d like to see him get his shot going, but he played with poise due to his experience.
Not only that
but there was a game plan once the defense was established. For how we got the ball inside. You could really tell how we were taking advantage of the low corners, passing to cutters, dribble penetration, etc.
Gott Props
BTW, two cool things about Gott during the game:
1. The clips of him at the white board were awesome. Just the concept of seeing Wolfpack coaching gives me the warm squirllies.
2. In the pre-game, their coach (Chaz Bono’s twin) referred to Gott as a mentor, or something like that. He’d been a JC coach and met Gott when he recruited a player and they kept in touch over the years.
OFF_EFF
Steven, what is the standard for OFF_EFF you want to hold a team under? It seems 100.0 is the frame of reference, but I have no clue. Any idea what was the average of our competition against us last year?
100 is a good baseline. The NCAA average last year was 101.3.
110-119 is very good, 120+ is elite-level, and anything over 130 is an unsustainable fluke of brilliance. Nobody averages 1.3 pts/poss for a whole year. The best offense in the country each year usually falls between 120-125.
State’s opponents averaged around 101 last year overall, but over 110 in conference games. (That latter figure is really, really bad.)
Yeah
97 DEF_EFF was pretty OK for this game. Not great. We beat the heck out of them because we were OMGWTFBBQPBR on the offensive end.
I would love to see a few games where we hold a marginal offensive team to less than 90, and a good offensive team to less than 100.
agreed
Want to see low- or sub-90s against teams like this. Granted, don’t know exactly how good this MSU team is yet, but they look like a mess.
thought they were solid on Offense - ran it well, made open shots
the zone defense was another story.
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