Gonzalez Ready for 1st game?

07-08 Basketball66

WRAL has a nice blog entry with some good basketball nuggets.

In order of ‘surprise from biggest to smallest is:

(1) Gonzalez will be ready for the first game.

(2) JJ Hickson starts the season as the 6th man.

(3) Farnold DeGand will start at point guard.

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07-08 Basketball

66 Responses to Gonzalez Ready for 1st game?

  1. noah 10/31/2007 at 7:47 PM #

    “Domed” is a holdover from one of the other boards. It’s like “pwned” but different.

    And as a Red Sox fan, lemme show you how it’s done.

    “Yankees suck! Yankees Suck!”

  2. PackMan97 10/31/2007 at 8:20 PM #

    Corey Magette, Marvin Williams were the 6th man…I didn’t see either of them complaining.

    Whether you start or not has very little to do with anything. JJ could get 25-30 minutes a game off the bench, or we may have a starter get only 20 minutes a game.

    Sometimes a player does better when they start. Sometimes they do well sitting the first 3-4 minutes and watching matchups/flow and then getting in the game.

    That said, if a talent like JJ is our 6th man, I’ll be very very happy 😉

  3. burnbarn 10/31/2007 at 8:22 PM #

    thank you russia

    I would not be surprised to see coach sub 2-3 players at a time.. he may have groups that do one thing and another doing something completely different. I think it will be more than just one player for another.

    We are domed!!!

  4. wolfpack n da house 10/31/2007 at 9:12 PM #

    by sitting hickson it gives Fells and Grant there chance to step up as a leader on the team. If indeed this Costner Hickson Mccauley lineup is used, then these first games can find out which of these players are willing to step into that starting spot.

  5. bTHEredterror 10/31/2007 at 9:42 PM #

    It’s simple really.

    McCauley has played a college game before, and Hickson hasn’t. After a few games he may be starting but only if Sid likes Ben, or someone else, coming off the bench better. They will both get a ton of minutes and play together a lot as well. The team is so improved from last year it is remarkable. Grant and Fells look improved, and Costner will be great. They are not only interchangeable now, but versatile.

    Believe the hype. Wolves are gonna eat.

  6. highstick 10/31/2007 at 10:13 PM #

    Screw you, Noah on that Yankee stuff. I’ve been a Yankee fan since Mickey Mantle was a rookie and now the “second generation of the Steinbrenner family” has finally ticked me off so bad, I may become a Mets fan! Only a Steinbrenner could finally reverse the curse of the Bambino.

    Boston’s players need to go take a bath with soap!

    I almost puked when I just read the article on UNCX. Why report anything, we’ve never done anything wrong??? I hope those dummies at the NCAA will finally figure this thing out about “hanging around as a part time student, playing basketball, and inflating the graduation rate”! Wonder who else in the Rams Club is paying them also!

  7. PackGirl 10/31/2007 at 10:17 PM #

    Wolves are gonna eat some blue meat.

  8. choppack1 10/31/2007 at 10:20 PM #

    I’m not sure how long we’ll see the McCauley, Costner and Hickson lineup. Only Costner has a polished enough game to play from the outside of the 3 and I think these 3 together on the floor at the same time might be too slow defensively.

    I’m glad Javy will be back early. I’m not sure yet if Farnold is an ACC quality PG. Hopefully, Fells and Grant can hit enough 3s to keep things honest.

  9. JeremyH 10/31/2007 at 11:18 PM #

    looked how spoiled you folks are! ; }

    one thing that never takes a night off is speed, and I don’t recall the last time we had a pg that could penetrate at will (or at all).

    also, we are yet to see what Sid ball even looks like, i.e. running game. (recall his speech after he accepted the position)

    remember the end of the first half of the NCAA tourney game against Texas 2 years ago? With Ced, Grant, and Fells in the lineup? exciting transition basketball (nevermind that [Coach not to be named] didn’t go back to this lineup in the second half).

    we have talent, depth, and a coach that knows what to do with it.
    it’s going to be exciting.

  10. BJD95 10/31/2007 at 11:42 PM #

    Chop – based on what I saw at the R/W game – Farnold is the best kept secret in the ACC. I’m no longer worried about him holding us back – I think he can be an affirmative asset.

    I’m still not sold on Fells. I think he may be the weak link in the chain.

  11. JeremyH 10/31/2007 at 11:45 PM #

    BJD95: two words, Ishua Benjamin
    ok two more, defensive stopper

  12. waxhaw 11/01/2007 at 7:46 AM #

    ENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC….Come on everybody. 😉

  13. noah 11/01/2007 at 9:31 AM #

    “Only a Steinbrenner could finally reverse the curse of the Bambino.”

    There was no curse. Only the stupidity and blatant racism of the Yawkey family trust.

  14. noah 11/01/2007 at 9:50 AM #

    BTW, I was sorry to see in the N&O this morning that Fred Stone had passed away. He was a terrific college linebacker back in the mid-80s under Dick Sheridan. We had an outstanding defense and he was a big part of it.

    In 1988 against Clemson, Stone hurt his knee (on a questionable block by a Tigger) and missed the second half of his senior year. He came back for the Peach Bowl against Iowa and made a key stop on a third down late in the game.

  15. RAWFS 11/01/2007 at 10:32 AM #

    I was at that Iowa game. It was in the old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium and as I recall a slate-gray day and chilly. We sat in the end zone and enjoyed a fine Pack win and Atlanta’s watering holes afterward. It was a great day to wear the red and white.

    I find it hard to blame the Yawkey family for Bill Buckner. Bucky Bleeping Dent or Aaron Bleeping Boone, sure.

  16. noah 11/01/2007 at 11:03 AM #

    I blame the Yawkey family for being incredibly cheap and incredibly stupid. When you squander talent, when you hire morons to run your ball club, when you allow a region’s inherent biases to influence your decisions (the Red Sox were the last team in the majors to integrate and for years, shied away from black players), bad things will happen.

    It’s like the old Soviet Union claiming Chernobyl was just a bad accident. Yeah, when you steal 40 year old *REJECTED* plans for a nuclear reactor from the DOE’s trash can, only partially contain the rector, hire unqualified people to run it, get them drunk and then perform a dangerous test that the plant is unfit for….yeah, bad things happen.

    Under Henry’s leadership, he’s hired some of the best minds in baseball (Epstein, Bill James), used deep pockets to retain veterans, and invested heavily in scouting and applied SABR-metrics to find a good young core of talent that ought to keep the Red Sox in contention for the foreseeable future.

    In about two years, they’re going to have a rotation of Beckett, Matsuzaka, Lester, Bucholz and either Justin Masterson or Michael Bowden. Five quality pitchers…all under 30…and with the youngsters, they ought to be affordable as well.

    Then you’re looking at Youk, Pedroia, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jed Lowrie (SS), Ryan Kalish and Brandon Moss (both OFs) as your position players. They need to find a long-term solution at 3B (preferably not named Alex Rodriguez) and C.

    Unless they do something ridiculously stupid, this is a group that ought to spend the next decade in the playoffs. That’s not because they were lucky.

  17. GAWolf 11/01/2007 at 3:09 PM #

    Rebounding numbers? What’s that? I haven’t seen any decent offensive rebound numbers since D Wilk seemingly missed easy layups just to pad his offensive rebound stats.

  18. RabidWolf 11/01/2007 at 4:11 PM #

    D Wilk …..Yet ANOTHER name that should be added to the “not to be named” list.

  19. Rick 11/01/2007 at 4:15 PM #

    In two years we go from no inside game to one of the best in the country.
    What a difference coaching makes.

  20. cabwolf 11/01/2007 at 4:22 PM #

    TERDFRED2 & NOAH-BODY
    Who made you King and Queen of this blog? This is Statefansnation! Not Pinhead Central! Yea, I am new to the blog, but I am not new to College Basketball or my beloved Wolfpack! You reek with your intellectual B-S!
    When Tommy Burleson was not voted All-Acc in 74′, do you think he said to himself,” I must run to my spots, remember the system, or intellectually decide his to maintain his EMOTION & PASSION! He absolutely scorched Len Elmore because he was fired up! Stormin Norman shot lightning out of his ass, to everyone he competed against! Ask his former players…Please excuse me, I forget that “NEVER GIVE UP” was just a cold cerebral attempt for Jimmy V to be remembered! It’s amazing that something so calculated and yet simple could inspire millions! Hawkeye Whitney would play with such passion that he had to be told to take it easy or his own players in practice! Ask former teammates…Boneheads, anyone knows that coaching and technique and execution are paramount to winning! When Chris Corchiani guarded Dale Davis and Elden Campbell and upset Clemson when they were as strong as anyone in the ACC. I submit that was a great coaching X’S and O’S to upset the continuity and execution of a much stronger team. However, it was not because Chris Corchiani studied their tendencies and knew their plays that mde him, or the Wolfpack successful….Wasn’t he the “FIRE” in the legendary “FIRE & ICE” duo? Furthermore, You must play great defense to be successful, right?
    Defense is desire!, passion, taking charges, slapping the ground and saying….I’ll be damned that you are going to beat me, or score on my court!…Just a note in closing Ladies….Down the road in Chapel Hill they run a system, and pride themselves as the intellectually elite, and Dean’s of the College Basketball world….Too bad they can’t run the four corner’s for you PUNKS…They can run a secondary break, and BREAK IT OFF IN YOU! WHO IS THIS CABWOLF? WHO ARE YOU!

    Here’s some free advice
    – Take some time learning the posters around here. You are making a name for yourself and you probably won’t like it.
    – We try to run a pretty tight ship around here. #@! holes are pretty quickly deleted.
    – When you start off a post calling long-time posters names, you begin to look like an $#@! hole.
    VaWolf82

  21. noah 11/01/2007 at 4:31 PM #

    Uhh…someone’s irony meter is broken.

  22. ShootingGuard 11/01/2007 at 4:35 PM #

    Noah,

    What are your thoughts on the Red Sox re-signing Lowell?

    How about Schilling?

    Other than Crisp, do you see any other interesting moves that might be made?

    (Sorry for non-NCSU questions…Hopefully, State will replace years of gut-wrenching heartbreak with success as the Red Sox have done. Rooting for the Red Sox and State simultaneously nearly killed me during the 90’s and early 2000’s…up to about, oh, 2004…)

  23. cabwolf 11/01/2007 at 4:45 PM #

    I really don’t care for back handed compliments or being “Ironed”. I get somewhat peeved when I am accused of being a novice in Naismith matters!

  24. pakfanistan 11/01/2007 at 5:10 PM #

    cabwolf……

    Protip: Don’t take everything someone writes absolutely literally.

    noah and redfred2 were being facetious.

    http://m-w.com/dictionary/facetious

  25. sholtzma 11/01/2007 at 5:14 PM #

    I’m hoping against hope that “cabwolf” is not a real person….

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