Basketball in Blacksburg

OK, perhaps that title is a logical absurdity.  But the fact remains that the Pack travels to VT today to kick off its ACC schedule.

It never really feels like winter to me until the conference portion of the schedule gets underway.  This year, there was also that little issue of it being warmer at Christmas time than Satan’s underpants.  But today we get the conference basketball, and seasonable temps.  Hello winter.

I would also be remiss if I didn’t point out that the statistical awesomeness of VaWolf82 has also been dusted off and rebooted for your 2016 pleasure.  If you haven’t read it already, you should.  It will explain why many of us are sweating March already, and why in any case, the Wolfpack has some work to do in the next two and a half months.

Speaking of which, it’s difficult to call a Jan 2 game at VT a must win….but with home dates vs ‘Ville and FSU, and road trips to Winston Salem and Chapel Hill in the next couple weeks, this one is about as important as any game against a VT Basketball team ever is.  State needs W’s, and there’s one there for the taking today.

Tip time is 2pm.

TV is the RSNs/ESPN3. (FoxSportsSouth locally)

Time for the Bad Kitteh to go to work

PsychoKitty

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go Pack!!!!

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  • #95791
    ILPackfan
    Participant

    Free throws killed us this game. Can’t keep missing ’em like that. Grrr.

    #95792
    Heelh8r
    Participant

    Yes, their best D was to foul us.

    #95793
    MrPlywood
    Participant

    Not dismissing State’s issues (FTs etc) but down the stretch I saw Cat get fouled on the last shot, ball off VT in OT, charge called a block. I’m not sure that the 3 that led to the bad OB call even hit the rim, so even had VT got the ball the shot clock would be 1 or 2 seconds…

    my 2¢

    #95794
    choppack1
    Participant

    Hellh8tr – every big man on our rose stinks from the line. While it may not be the coaches fault they don’t hit them, he did recruit them. At the end of the day, its a recurrt pattern and if you have no one you can put in who can hit foul shots, as a coach that is today on you.

    I would buy this argument if we had good foul shooters who missed here and there but when no one on your front line shoots over 60% from the stripe – you can’t expect them to HIT the foul shots.

    It sucks being a state fan.

    #95795
    TheAliasTroll
    Participant

    Needed and need a new coach. Maybe AD

    Oh here we go. Yes, because our last basketball coaching search went swimmingly! Amazing some of our fans aren’t willing to give the coach a mulligan season after getting us to two sweet 16’s in 4 years.. What a great msg to send to prospective coaches.. make extravagant strides in our basketball program over the course of 4 years, have an unfortunate and unforeseen situation where you lack bodies for the year, and you’re shown door.

    #95796
    choppack1
    Participant

    Here’s a question for you plywood – of the 4 guys under the basket – who had the best position? It was the Vatech guy.

    Regarding the call, it looked like Abu may have touched it, but we will never know – kudos to foxsports for managing to make a play that could have been indisputable a mystery.

    #95798
    Rick
    Keymaster

    Needed and need a new coach. Maybe AD

    Oh here we go. Yes, because our last basketball coaching search went swimmingly! Amazing some of our fans aren’t willing to give the coach a mulligan season after getting us to two sweet 16’s in 4 years.. What a great msg to send to prospective coaches.. make extravagant strides in our basketball program over the course of 4 years, have an unfortunate and unforeseen situation where you lack bodies for the year, and you’re shown door.

    Program had made strides but he has not actually won anything.
    As to no players, I said at the beginning of last year we would lose at least one player. We lost two every year. It’s not hard to predict it when it happens every year.

    #95799
    Rick
    Keymaster

    BTW I want no coaching search as long as Yow is leading it.

    #95800
    Wufpacker
    Participant

    I’ll be surprised if Shaun Kirk doesn’t hit the door for a smaller program.
    But I won’t necessarily hold it against either him or Gott when/if it happens.

    #95801
    mowog67
    Participant

    Likely the first of several league games to be lost at the line.

    BJ could be a big time star if he could only knock down the FT. As it is, he is a liability in crunch time.

    Not a good looking team in the 2nd half.

    #95802
    budfox88
    Participant

    Sorry, Gott is not a good coach and needs to go. Wd like to have seen him gone sooner.

    #95803
    TheAliasTroll
    Participant

    umm, okay. *rolls eyes*

    #95804
    MrPlywood
    Participant

    Here’s a question for you plywood – of the 4 guys under the basket – who had the best position? It was the Vatech guy.

    I’m not sure what you’re going for there… that State was out of position (another coaching/team fail) or that VT had position and was therefore a prime suspect for the OB call?

    #95805
    Fastback68
    Participant

    Caleb 4/17, Mav 1/8

    Read somewhere that VT defense was atrocious, guess not

    #95806
    ncsslim
    Participant

    1. Can’t make foul shots in the clutch…. well, that’s a new one. What’s next, can’t get a defensive rebound when it matters? Well, well… where did that come from?

    2. Shaun Kirk must be the worst practice player in the history of the game. When you can’t get on the floor on this team, with absolutely no offensive options and you’re consistently not shutting down pretty mediocre competition (i.e, “bad defense”, see initial premise), I have no other explanation.

    #95807
    TheCOWDOG
    Moderator

    Make shots…Win games.

    #95808
    john of sparta
    Participant

    +1 Rick: “Program had made strides but he has not actually won anything.”

    that’s like saying i only have one booger left in my nose.

    #95809
    TheCOWDOG
    Moderator

    Making a few million…and hasn’t won anything?

    Bwahhaha. Dumb.

    #95810
    Rick
    Keymaster

    Making a few million…and hasn’t won anything?

    Bwahhaha. Dumb.

    The day I understand a post of yours will be the first.

    #95811
    budfox88
    Participant

    Recruiting will continue its nosedive and sports at NCState athletics will continue to decline under the current bball coaching and AD. Same will happen in fball if something not done about the DC, and OC not much better. Just calling it, can’t stand the mediocrity anymore and if we want greatness like we havr had before, better wake up. Need to get serious about it.

    #95812
    TheAliasTroll
    Participant

    Making a few million…and hasn’t won anything?

    Bwahhaha. Dumb.

    The day I understand a post of yours will be the first.

    This one’s actually not too hard, I’m pretty sure he’s saying Gott has won millions of dollars! ZING!

    #95813
    choppack1
    Participant

    Plywood I am saying that he had better position than the rest of our guys. If he didn’t have butter fingers he catches it. OTOH, if our guys had better position, we have the rebound and ball down 2 (I think)

    Our guys actually did pretty good on the boards tonight but in the last 2 minutes, rebounding is just as critical as it was earlier. Oh well, onto wherever.

    #95814
    TheAliasTroll
    Participant

    Recruiting will continue its nosedive and sports at NCState athletics will continue to decline under the current bball coaching and AD. Same will happen in fball if something not done about the DC, and OC not much better. Just calling it, can’t stand the mediocrity anymore and if we want greatness like we havr had before, better wake up. Need to get serious about it.

    Sounds great! When can we expect you to be donating millions upon millions of dollars to our athletic department? Thanks in advance.

    #95815
    Rick
    Keymaster

    Making a few million…and hasn’t won anything?

    Bwahhaha. Dumb.

    The day I understand a post of yours will be the first.

    This one’s actually not too hard, I’m pretty sure he’s saying Gott has won millions of dollars! ZING!

    I had hoped that’s not what he meant since if he “won” the money he didn’t earn it. That is an awful thing to say about Gott. Meaner in fact than anything I have ever said about him.

    #95817
    Wulfpack
    Participant

    Gott’s done a fine job overall. He’s due for a down year. Just how down it is remains to be seen, but it’s looking pretty bleak right about now. What absolutely can’t happen is that 1 bad year turns into 2.

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