South Florida game thread (12/13)

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  • #94456
    TheAliasTroll
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    Time/TV: 4pm on ESPNU
    Spread: NC State -8

    State’s first true away game of the season will be in Tampa against the 2-7 USF Bulls. Glancing over the Bulls schedule to date it looks like they’re pretty terrible team. Only wins of their season were against Savannah State and a 2 point win over Albany.

    I will be taking State to cover the 8 points and tuning into the game after this Panther’s game. (Hoping this thread only makes it to a few pages… a loss here as we know it would likely break SFN with everyone logging in to air their grievances lol)

    #94461
    Heelh8r
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    Excited for today’s game, even if it is USF. We need to secure a few W’s before the real season starts. I am trying to figure out what some of you guys see that I really don’t understand. On the Michigan game thread, where we gave up 66 points to by all accounts a high scoring, 3 point shooting team, all I see is complaining about our defense. Gott can’t coach D and never will be able to, his assistants can’t coach D, and the team doesn’t know how to play D. Never mind that Rowan shot 1-11 and we got no offensive production out of the front court at all. Then against Bucknell, Rowan was getting much better shots, squaring up to the basket, and hit everything, leading us to a nice win. We gave up more points, but that is because we scored a lot more ourselves. Admittedly against weaker competition, but we sure looked better moving the ball, getting more production out of most everyone, especially Frenchy. I want to see more of that team.

    #94462
    Texpack
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    Not bad so far. Frenchy, Abu, and Anya look more active. Abu had a beautiful outlet pass earlier.

    #94463
    TheAliasTroll
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    USF is terrible.

    Looks to be a very short game thread, which isn’t a bad thing.

    #94464
    SaccoV
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    This game is being played at a middle-school level. I think four straight possessions have resulted in turnovers by both teams. State needs to turn on the gas, and run these bums out of the gym.

    #94465
    Texpack
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    Caleb’s handle is MIA today. USF with their second pass to nobody in the last four trips. They as bad as any Whack Hyder coached team from GT in the 70’s.

    #94466
    TheAliasTroll
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    Feel like we need to win this one by 20+ to consider it a victory… as Trump would say, “They’re just so bad.”

    #94467
    TheAliasTroll
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    hell.. maybe 30+

    #94468
    pakfanistan
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    Looks like those ‘points of emphasis’ have been completely abandoned. They’re about to bust out the folding chairs and start suplexing guys on to tables in this game.

    #94469
    Wufpacker
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    Anya is a scoring machine when there’s no defender (or almost no defender at least).

    #94470
    Wufpacker
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    And FWIW…we’re still only shooting 39% as a team.

    #94471
    pakfanistan
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    Solid defense.

    Refs be like, “Solid positional defense.”

    #94472
    Wufpacker
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    Mav 1/7 (0/4 3pt)
    That ain’t gonna get it done against even a semi-capable opponent.

    #94473
    TheAliasTroll
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    I may be part of the Rowan jinx.. feel like I’ve only witnessed one 3 pointer made by him all year.

    #94474
    Wufpacker
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    I do have a great appreciation for the sFLA cheerleaders (or dance team or whatever…who cares really?) filing one by one up the stairs behind the commentators at halftime.

    Nice touch, ESPNU.

    #94475
    Wufpacker
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    #94476
    Wufpacker
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    My god, how much to we suck from 5 feet or closer?
    Jeebus.
    (a statement which is certainly NOT intended to extole our virtues from 5 feet and beyond)

    Yeah…despite the 20 pt cushion, I’m feeling totes negatory today.

    #94477
    Wufpacker
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    #15 for USF is like…a really bad defender.
    I mean…Anya is making him look two steps slow.

    Let that sink in for a moment.

    #94478
    pakfanistan
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    My god, how much to we suck from 5 feet or closer?
    Jeebus.

    I’m starting to wonder if any of our bigs have nerve endings in their hands…..

    #94479
    SaccoV
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    Pakfanistan with the post win for today. Anya is currently our leading scorer. I would really like to see some Sans-Cat time in this second half.

    #94480
    Fastback68
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    Nice jam!

    #94481
    Wufpacker
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    That was very a very pretty feed and finish.

    It helps the USF was slow to defend (shocking, I know) but still….at least we didn’t screw it up.

    #94482
    Wufpacker
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    Abu needs to stop with the 15 footers.

    #94483
    Fastback68
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    Panthers get their very own block on ESPN scrawl line. Matt Ryan was hapless. State with a 25 point lead. Good day.

    #94484
    TheAliasTroll
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    I’d like to see us use the time for the rest of this game to work Mav in as much as possible.. give the youngin the green light and see if we can’t get him some more experience… he’s going to need to improve a lot more if we want to be competitive this year

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