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#20 State visits #13 Carolina tonight. Pack is Back (The Herald-Sun:) With a new coach leading a veteran team, the N.C. State women are off to their b
[See the full post at: Strong Start for Pack Women]I think the quote from Wes says it all:
“I don’t think that’s so much about coaching or about me,” Moore said. “It’s about them. They wanted to step up and win so I think it started there. I always tell teams: It’s your team, we’re going to do as well as y’all want to do. I can’t make you buy in, I can’t make you work hard. We’re going to do as well as you want to do — and these kids have wanted to do well.”
I wish all of our teams had this attitude.
Go Pack, beat them Heels!
a great season so far for the ladies.
as a side note. A great story from a caravan event right before Fowler announced the hiring of Harper.
me: “heard, you are about to hire a new womens B-ball coach, can you give me any info?”
Fowler: “no i cant mention any names”
me” “well, can he/she coach worth a damn?”
Fowler: “i dont know if she can coach, but shes hot as hell”
If you listened to the post game comments after the Syracuse game, Coach Moore understands what it means to play UNC. However, he did make a point that if you just channeled all the emotion into a “lets beat UNC”, that there could be a letdown afterwards.
He said that he was going to keep them focused on winning, regardless of who the opponent was, as he had in the past. BUT, he would certainly make them aware that is was UNC which is a big rival and he had no love for that school….Coach Moore really seems to “get it” and he also understands HOW TO WIN. Obviously coach Harper did recruit some talent, but not the top tier. When you take some talent and mix in good coaching (utilization) and keep them focused and they play as a team that says, “we can win”, that is the secret to a great program.
As an aside, he has “officially” arrived at NCSU. Sometime right before Christmas, we ate at Amedeo’s and the Kelly Harper Booth was there. Later on, we went back and some of the booths had been renamed or rearranged. I did not inventory all of them, so maybe the KH (UGH…what ugly initials) booth is still there, but there IS a Wes Moore Booth.
GO PACK….seeing UNC BB suffer TWO losses on consecutive nights would be priceless.
Fergus, I had a coach in HS who used to say the same thing. One of the best coaches I ever had. You have to have a mature team to approach them that way. I think the team has real good leaders. That makes all the difference in the world.
This is really exciting. Just like the men, the women are a historically high quality team. Great to see Coach Moore getting right back to it.
Very impressive coaching job.“But his veteran players, in particular, have smoothed things over very well to this point.”
^What a concept, haha. Very impressive ladies, keep going!
‘The Carolina Way’ needs some more comeuppance.
B Ball Babes! Rock on! Beat the Cheats!
BTW, on the men’s side, is a loss to UNCheat now a “bad” loss, as they say? Ha ha ha ha ha ha…. Rat bastards! They will be “0-3 in the ACC” after this weekend.
Post Morteum. Decided at the last minute to escape Raleigh and go to the bowels of liberalism and lack of academic integrity….
Game was pretty for about the first half. Then, it seemed that the ladies got a bad case of the malady that Gott said plagued the men. They just looked TIRED and Lost (lack of focus is the term). That lead to a complete meltdown….the China Syndrome happened to us. Went to the half with a zillion to one run (actually down 16 points).
Miracles of miracles….they cut that to only 8 within the first couple of minutes and looked like they were on a tear. UNC wisely called time out. We fizzled.
However, about 10 minutes to go, we chipped at it….but to no avail.
There was a LOUD contingent of students (bussed in I think) and they had a LOT of enthusiasm.
DW and I did our post game….the Ladies were either tired and not as sharp from the celebration after the Cuse game or else they used all their pent-up adrenelin on UNC during the first minutes and it took 20 minutes before they got another recharge….and the damage was done.Only OTHER comment….I hate LIGHT BLUE. My wife said the LAST BB game she saw in Chapel Hill was exactly 11 years ago. I was traveling and she got prime seats (UNC was LOUSY) from her boss and took relatives and our VERY PG daughter. My daughter allegedly said…”I can’t let my little boy grow up in an environment like this….”. I would point out that he is a mix…his dad is a loyal UNC grad and my Meredith grad daughter is about as fanatical about her Wolfpack as he is about his Tar Heels.
Time will heal the pain….Time will also allow Coach Moore to rebuild. He did get a LITTLE hostile. He was “critiquing” the Zeb’s interpretations of certain on court activities. One Zeb gave him a warning. Several minutes or perhaps in the next half, he took a stronger exception to another mis-interpretation and was T’ed up. Hit one…missed one…it helped some.
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