Potential Panic Button Thread (NC Central Leads at the Half)

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Yeah, yeah, the announcers keep saying this is a “veteran Central team” – losing this game would be completely unacceptable, even in an unpredictable year.

Let’s hope we come out on fire and quell my nerves.

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1995 NC State graduate, sufferer of Les and MOC during my entire student tenure. An equal-opportunity objective critic and analyst of Wolfpack sports.

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222 Responses to Potential Panic Button Thread (NC Central Leads at the Half)

  1. VaWolf82 11/21/2013 at 8:57 AM #

    youtube is blocked at work (which for the first time is a good thing). I’ll watch it this evening.

  2. Pack Mentality 11/21/2013 at 9:03 AM #

    From the limited amount of the game I watched it looks as though we have Cat and Lewis who are extremely fast off the dribble and can create open shots for themselves almost anytime they want to. However, they cannot actually make that open 8 footer off the dribble. That is the type of thing that improves in 4 years in college like we wi have with Lewis. However we don’t have the upperclassmen to rely on to score until that point. I was wondering in OT since all they did was heave a bunch of bricked 3 pointers why they didn’t just leave that white dude in who had to make a last second prayer to tie it in regulation since that looked like the game plan in OT.

  3. BJD95 11/21/2013 at 9:06 AM #

    My magical embedding powers seem to have evaporated. I haz the sads.

  4. redcanine 11/21/2013 at 9:11 AM #

    You gotta play better than that when you’re wearing a NCSU jersey. This aint no Chavis summer league.

    There’s so much blame to go around that it’s not even funny: Coaches, players, refs, sophomores, announcers, flat cokes, stale popcorn, asthma.

    This was definitely one of Gott’s worst coached games, and I’m an apologist, so it was really awful.

    F^%king embarrassing!

  5. bsly 11/21/2013 at 9:11 AM #

    Am I disappointed that we lost last night? Yes. Is it the end of the world? No. These guys are young. We have no front court experience at all. This is going to hurt us this year. We are going to lose a lot of games because of this. Again, is it the end of the world? No! State fans have a reputation and we come by it honestly when we go crazy over a losing football season and our young basketball team losing to a Central squad that couldn’t miss a shot more less a free throw. It will get better guys. Our football team will get better once Doeren starts bringing some talent in.

  6. BJD95 11/21/2013 at 9:14 AM #

    Trying the “embed” code:

  7. JohnGalt78 11/21/2013 at 9:19 AM #

    Money talks. Empty seat = lower revenue. Make the product worth paying for or suffer the consequences. Personally, this PSL owning, club contributing, ticket buying, logo merchandise buying 1978 graduate is growing tired of devoting all the time and money it takes to attend and support the PACK. I’m seriously rethinking it. Been in this mood for several years. Not taking action yet….but never dreamed I’d ever feel this way as I have always been a diehard.

  8. BJD95 11/21/2013 at 9:20 AM #

    Two extra clicks of da mouse and I iz a wizard once again, yo.

  9. TheAliasTroll 11/21/2013 at 9:46 AM #

    At least we’re not as bad as Obamacare.

  10. WV Wolf 11/21/2013 at 10:07 AM #

    We didn’t lose a basketball game last night, we lost an organized fouling contest.

  11. djcmlc3 11/21/2013 at 10:44 AM #

    Empty seats in the Lower bowl does not necessarily mean lost revenue. It most likely means people stayed home and watched on TV. Lost concessions money maybe, but no lost ticket revenue. Truth is, we got out coached and outplayed. Disturbing to say the least.

  12. JasonP 11/21/2013 at 10:45 AM #

    Didn’t watch or listen to the game, but I’m shocked that the team I saw play at Cincy went to OT at home vs a MEAC team and then lost big. Hard to explain that away when we haven’t been under any sanctions for years. Everyone involved has to do better and hope this game becomes an inspiration to turn it around.

  13. T. 11/21/2013 at 10:51 AM #

    Am I the only one who hasn’t been impressed by Cat Barber?

    I was at the game last night and he seemed slow — too focused on being flashy, no sense of urgency, and not a lick of defense (the first foul called on him came in overtime, unheard of for our players).

    Warren was playing well except for the fouls; Lewis tried but couldn’t hit anything; and beyond that no one else seemed to hustle.

    I know it’s still early in the season, but I somehow expected to see improvement by Game 4 against a MEAC opponent…

  14. Rick 11/21/2013 at 11:08 AM #

    I never thought I would see the day people would be justifying a loss to Central.

    Someone tell me how many McD AAs they have. Heck how many top 100 players. They might not even have any top 150 players.

  15. ryebread 11/21/2013 at 12:04 PM #

    This is Gott’s New Orleans loss. It’s year three. These are his kids and program. We can’t blame the ghosts of coaches past for any of this.

    I think we know what we’ve “Gott.” We’d better hope we can keep hauling in top recruiting classes. If so, we can make an occasional deep run in the tournament.

    Otherwise I suspect this will be an up and down tenure. One year we’ll be solidly in the tournament and another year we’ll be in the NIT. We’ll spend very little time consistently in the top 25.

    If one looks at the final candidate list, you can’t help but wonder “what if?” I’m not talking about Sean Miller either because that ship sailed the second they beat Duke. I’m talking about:
    – Smart: I think he was the target all along, but he turned us down after the Final Four run. Bummer. He’s a much better coach than I thought at the time.
    – Buzz Williams: Has Marquette at a steady top 25 program.
    – Cronin: I dislike the guy, but he beat us yet again.
    – Marshall: Would last year’s Final Four run been worth his asking salary? I think so.
    – Archie Miller: Doubtful that he was ever interviewed, but hard to ignore the fact that his Dayton team beat GT last night.

  16. Tuffy2 11/21/2013 at 12:21 PM #

    It’s funny that some of you are talking about our free throw shooting. About 30 min before the game Gott was asked during the pregame show if during the teams practice there was more emphasis put on their free throw shooting. He answered he didn’t want to make this a big thing or put too much on a young team. Something along those lines.
    Anyhow, if anyone on here also heard his answer maybe someone could expand on this or correct me if I’m wrong on what answer he gave.

    We all know the team needs to and I have to say while I heard him make the comment I was like what are you talking about. You work hard, on the things you are great at as a team. I would think that is what keeps a team fundamentally sound.

  17. Ransompack 11/21/2013 at 12:44 PM #

    When the buzzer sounded, the chancellor should have walked out on the court and fired Gott and Yow – then head to the football field. What an embarrassment

    Do not accept mediocrity or we will live with this forever

    A bad game against NCCU is State winning by 10 – a good game is by State winning by 40

  18. Wulfpack 11/21/2013 at 12:45 PM #

    Shaka has shown he can getbit done year in and year out. A big miss it was.

  19. Tuffy2 11/21/2013 at 1:24 PM #

    Rick- I agree with you 100%.

    This program whether football or basketball should never lose to certain schools under any circumstances.

  20. pack44fan 11/21/2013 at 2:03 PM #

    This team is not a half court team. If they aren’t able to get points out of tranistion, they will have a terrible time scoring. The problem that I see so far is the defense isn’t good enough to create turnovers that will lead to fast break points. If I coached against the pack, it would be zone, zone, and more zone.

  21. Tuffy2 11/21/2013 at 4:13 PM #

    pack44fan- This team is not a half court team. If they aren’t able to get points out of transition, they will have a terrible time scoring. The problem that I see so far is the defense isn’t good enough to create turnovers that will lead to fast break points. If I coached against the pack, it would be zone, zone, and more zone.

    Does this sound like the last 3 years. We are not a half court team. We must run and get those points out of transition. Then you mentioned the defense.

    I have heard Gott for 3 years state how we need to play better defense. The experienced team of the last 2 years never got it and it is too early to tell yet with this team I think.

  22. NCStatefan 11/24/2013 at 2:45 PM #

    “It’s funny that some of you are talking about our free throw shooting. About 30 min before the game Gott was asked during the pregame show if during the teams practice there was more emphasis put on their free throw shooting. He answered he didn’t want to make this a big thing or put too much on a young team. Something along those lines.”

    If this is true, that in my opinion WOULD be something that could get Gottfried fired. If that is his attitude towards free throw shooting and continues to be, in this current game as it is and will be officiated, there is simply no way that can be tolerated. The team needs to practice making free throw shooting as a priority. Not putting pressure on thier free shooting has clearly not worked. If they can’t handle the coach pressuring them to make free throw shots in practice, how are they going to handle the pressure when the game is on the line and they need to make a free throw shot? Absurd!

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