NC State Takes Care Of Wake Forest, 76-40
by Akula Wolf on Jan 14, 2012 3:28 PM EST
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PrintI'll get to the stats whenever the official box score is released, but the numbers really are beside the point on days like today. Wake Forest looked disinterested and lost throughout Saturday afternoon's game and probably would have lost to last year's Wake team with this performance. I'm not sure the 36-point margin adequately describes just how bad they were today.
At one point in the first half, with State up 19-10, the Pack squandered a number of opportunities to extend the lead, and it seemed at the time like that could be a segment that could come back to haunt, but it turned out Wake was going to be that terrible all day, and the Pack's offense would eventually find some rhythm.
Travis McKie never got himself going, or really looked like he wanted to, and C.J. Harris played poorly, and it's obviously tough sledding for the Deacs if they aren't getting anything from those two guys.
Lorenzo Brown was outstanding after a passive start to the game and scored 20 points. Richard Howell picked up another double double, and Scott Wood hit a couple of free throws to extend his streak. DeShawn Painter took too many jump shots, C.J. Williams took way too many threes, and Calvin Leslie didn't score. So there were frustrations amid the successes, as usual, but nothing worth dwelling on.
It's just good to see the team respond well to a loss and pick up a crucial win on the road.
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Pretty complete win
Hard to find much to complain about. The offense flowed nicely, D was much improved, overall a great effort. Second largest road ACC win in our history.
Hopefully we carry this over to the BC game this week.
On another note, glad Dual-keys is getting this awesome three-point shooting game out of his system v. the Holes. That way he won’t go off on us, right?
Ha, I had the opposite concern.
I’m afraid dual keys used up any “opponent goes nuts from three” magic that Scott Wood could have had against the holes.
by Undertoe on Jan 14, 2012 5:23 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
Yes!!
And more of whatever magic you had in THIS game preview and much less of whatever you put in that GT one :). Sweet win today!
also relevant to my interests
was the news that fsu took care of unc as well.
Someone should tell Roy the final score, as he had a prior engagement apparently.
Thats about a perfect college basketball day.
by ginger avenger on Jan 14, 2012 6:09 PM EST via mobile reply actions
no doubt there is some type of bug going around.
it is the “play uninspired, ugly, lazy, bad basketball bug” and State had it Wednesday night, Wake early today, and UNC a tad later today. hope State is over it and that UNC has a relapse in a week or so.
glad i have so much confidence in the team. ha!
I still found plenty to complain about - but maybe I'm just grumpy
If we’d played any team with D-1 talent and half an interest in playing, we’d have been down at halftime. We simply got out-sucked today… but that’s life in the ACC this year. And it’s what makes the home loss to Tech so damn hard to swallow. We really should win 8 by default… only need a few to push us over the top… the Tech game added one more we have to go get.
And wtf happened with Calvin today? Never heard the story.
c'mon man
‘Out-sucked’ doesn’t give the Pack nearly the credit they deserve. Sloppy at times, sure, but…second largest margin of victory by State on the road in the ACC ever.
I acknowledged the "grumpy" possibility :-)
There was plenty we did right here, particularly over the last 25 minutes. In the first 15 minutes, though, I was continually and vocally expressing that my eyes were bleeding because BOTH teams were difficult to watch.
In particular, (1) Lo had an awful first half… we REALLY need Lewis to get here, STAT!, (2) Howell had an awful first half (again)… dude needs to learn to take it to the hoop hard and draw the foul… that’s one no-vert-having big man, (3) Not just Howell, but in general we were weak with the ball near the rim, (4) Poor job of taking care of the ball… sloppy passes, sloppy handling, (5) Painter… just… needed… to… stop… shooting…. and he never did.
So my point was that, when we were up something like 20-12 (don’t quote me on the score) with about 6 to go in the half, we’d have been down 10 to any respectable team. I stand by that, although I acknowledge that it’s all about playing better than your opponent… which we absolutely did consistently… albeit more because of Wake’s ineptitude than what we did. I mean, I can’t say that our defense was ANY better than against Tech… but Wake shot 29% instead of the bullshit Tech laid on us. We weren’t 50 points better than the other night… Wake was probably 40 points worse, and we were 10 better.
I’ll take 2-1 to start out… don’t get me wrong… but the more I see, the more I think it’ll take 11 league wins…
by wolfonthehill on Jan 15, 2012 7:49 AM EST up reply actions
That's kind of what I thought
I missed all the good parts. I turned the game on when it was about 11-4, and watched until I was tired of seeing it 19-10 for like 5 minutes. After we scored to make it 21-10, then they scored, then the refs called what I thought was a bogus goaltending call, I went out to do some work around the house. When I came back in, it was 54-23 with about 10 minutes left. But, based on what I saw early on, it seemed like it was more WF’s ineptitude than our great play that cause it.
Still a 36 point road conference win. We must have done something right.
by WolfpackSteelersFan on Jan 15, 2012 7:45 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, after Tech, I didn’t expect the improvement that occurred.
Also, as much as I want State to be good in BB, I’m not much of a college basketball fan, so I couldn’t take any more. Ah, well, next time I’ll know better. Either that, or maybe I should just check into every game, knowing that as soon as I turn it off, we’ll go on a 32-13 run.
Seriously, though, one thing about it that does give me hope is that I have been reading that Wake had the 2nd and 3rd scorer in the ACC, so maybe the team defense was more of an impact than I thought.
by WolfpackSteelersFan on Jan 15, 2012 7:57 PM EST up reply actions
second largest, EVER?
wow I wouldn’t have expected that.
Am I the only person dying to read This Week In Schadenfreude? The weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth from The Flagship is going to be EPIC!
by StateFans2Glory on Jan 15, 2012 12:22 AM EST reply actions
I knew wake was bad
but they had been playing better this year than last. But man, were they a steaming pile of garbage yesterday. I started to feel kind of bad for them. I can picture Bzdelick looking longingly at the Colorado box scores, pulling a picture of Boulder, backed by the Flatirons, out of his desk, and opening up a bottle of Fat Tire.
I don't feel bad for them
One of the things that really bothered me about the HS era was how we fell behind Wake as a program – and how their small but obnoxious fan base constantly crowed about it. Payback!
Then he tears up while
listening to “Rocky Mountain High” on infinite loop. Wellman tries to console him, to no avail, with a KK donut covered in Texas Pete.
Great now I can't wait til Wednesday
Very interested to see how we “respond” against BC. I would love to see some consistency, and if BC is one thing, they are worse than Wake. Like I said before, Wake had a terrible game but this is what we should do to BC at home. Somehow though, I feel it will be closer than it should be (or maybe that’s just the lingering effect of the Lowe era on me).
Watched BC-VT yesterday.
Both are awful. No excuse for losing to either one of those squads. Greenberg basically did one extended face palm the entire second half. Looked as if he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
by non_sequitur on Jan 15, 2012 12:45 PM EST up reply actions
i havent had the pleasure of watching bc yet
But I’ve seen vt twice and BAD ain’t the word for it. The entire season should be a facepalm, esp considering I think greenberg is not a bad coach
by ginger avenger on Jan 15, 2012 2:57 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
More like his entire VT career. The Frank Grimes of college basketball.
by non_sequitur on Jan 15, 2012 3:52 PM EST up reply actions
Ha
If he ever gets an invitation to the NCAA’s, a bird will attempt to steal it from him.
by non_sequitur on Jan 15, 2012 5:01 PM EST up reply actions
At the end of practice:
“Time to go home to my mansion, and eat my lobster!”
by non_sequitur on Jan 15, 2012 6:57 PM EST up reply actions
I have already forgot his name
by ginger avenger on Jan 16, 2012 8:03 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
We played really good team defense
They’re general crappiness helped, but you could tell we had a plan and executed it. It helps when you can completely ignore certain players when they are out of their range. We won’t have that luxury against most teams.
by PackMentality on Jan 15, 2012 2:05 PM EST via mobile reply actions
with regard to BC, let's take the approach many
of us did with regard to Wake: Ooohhh! sometimes i get a bad feeling!
my apologies of Flo Rida’s “Good Feeling” a remake of Eta James 1962 “Sometimes I get a Good Feeling”
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