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hey girls…. quit fussing and watch the game… we’re winning !
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Lewis raises the intensity level for the Pack….
GOTT to have that to win !#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!hey girls… it’s a three point game with less than ten minutes to go…
Anybody’s game…
Tyler’s make a nice contribution…. too…
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!OK… that was a decent, well rounded, first half by our kids….
Looks like five days of practice did some good.Just need to keep doing what we’re doing in the second half…
and win this game.Smoke if you GOTT ’em.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Our Zone defense is working well here the last two minutes….
Interesting call from the bench… considering Tech’s outside shooting this half…Last minute of half is critical to our success.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!CUZ has been unusually quiet for the last ten minutes…
Not because of the ankle….
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Good TO by GOTT…
Need to settle our guys down and get back to basics…
They were getting a little cocky…#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!try this … alum…
http://gofirstrowus.eu/watch/235614/1/watch-georgia-tech-vs-north-carolina-state.html
————-For the first time this season… our zone offense looks like it has meaning and purpose.
WOW!Our kids have finally GOTT some idea of what they are trying to do!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Jackets switch to 2/3 zone after the TV TO… let’s see how (if) we adjust…..
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!OK… that’s the first four…
Offense looks more inclined to be multidimensional…. good.
Defense looks solid.
Bigs are rebounding and scoring.Where’s Rick??
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!I was bored yesterday with no quality games to watch…. but today is a different day!
GOTT to watch this young Pack team continue to grow.
GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!… this is all just another day on the battlefields of “The War that Never Ended…. ”
For a hundred and fifty or more years…. both sides rush to arms whenever an opportunity like this presents itself and as usual blow everything up to move some more big money over to their side….
The simple facts are….
1. It was a the LAST MINUTES OF A BIG GAME.
2. Sherman and the other SeaHawks guy who caught the tipped ball (whatever his name is.. he’s the real victim here ) made a BIG PLAY… both in terms of the athletic ability required and it’s outcome on the game.
3. It was a the LAST MINUTES OF A BIG CLOSE GAME..
4. Sherman and Crabtree were playing FOOTBALL…. which is violent and they had being going at each other both physically and verbally NONSTOP FOR THREE HOURS
5. It was a the LAST MINUTES OF A BIG CLOSE FOOTBALL GAME.
6. Sherman and Crabtree are KIDS.
7. KIDS WILL BE KIDS.
8. It was a the LAST MINUTES OF A BIG CLOSE FOOTBALL GAME PLAYED BY KIDS.
9. Some people did not like what spilled into their TV rooms… others were less affected… still other just laughed.10. No news is NO NEWS…. unless you have another reason to make NO NEWS… news.
Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching….The fix is easy…. No reporters or cameras on the field postgame. Just do what the roundball guys do. Postgame, the players and coaches do that stupidwalkdownthelineandshakeeverybodyshand thing, then go straight to locker room. Press conference starts in about 15-20 minutes… Winners first, Losers second…. duh.
But then what would the money-movers do?
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!All of North Carolina in general and NC State in particular are deeply in debt to old tulip lips himself…
We would not be the State we are today, had it not been for his imagination.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!“Mess in the Middle” ???
I thought this thread was about how our kids run their zone offense.
!Joke!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Why would you want to wear $200 100% wool trousers…. when there’s a good chance that you’re gonna Sh&t in your britches ???
Just asking.
With Coach Hardball … it’s just a matter of time.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!— thanks ’70…
And yes … the game was UGLY or as Fred Sanford used to say ‘ooo-ga-lee’ or as Mr. Dog used to say ‘coyote-ugly’… in a “beautiful kind of way”….
As most of know first hand… watching your kids grow up is always “ugly” at times…
There’s no greater joy than when they succeed and there’s no greater pain than when they fail.In some way… that’s supposed to be ugly. That’s the real reason we watch the games.
And the next game, when the star player returns…. either one or two things happen….
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Leadership on and off the court falls in the same category as dribbling, passing, shooting, rebounding…. etc.
Just another skill that must be mastered to achieve your personal and your Team goals.
Coaches first job is always to get his players to do the things that they don’t want to do and the things that they don’t yet know they can do.
One of the best things we saw last night…. was our kids trying to do this very thing…. especially in the second half.
It was almost they were taking turns seeing who could take the game over… as if they looked at each other and said ‘Who wants to be our leader’ you try, I’ll try, everybody gets a try. Ball distribution on offense was the best it has been all season in a close game.
Anthony made a couple of baskets off the ANTHONY on three, four or five play and made a jumper or two from the outside, and missed a couple of shots…. but he put together three or four successful plays in a row and started feeling something.
Turner hit a couple of threes and missed more than he made, but he was looking for his shot every time.
Bigs thought they could get every rebound. Doesn’t really matter whether they actually did that or not. Those two or three real easy followups that Mitchell got were the result of our Bigs being a little too aggressive and getting a little out of position. When was the last time, anybody accused our big men of being too aggressive as a unit ???
On loose balls and 50/50 plays we GOTT more than our share.
Coaches just sat back and let the kids work it out.
Overall…. the effort and the result was quite impressive…. all things considered.
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That said… we all have seen this bball movie many times… You find out your Star player can’t play thirty minutes before gametime. Coach looks at the rest of ’em and says ‘It’s all on you guys tonight’. Somebody unexpected or a rookie has a career game. Tyler did the same thing last year against the ‘Hoos.
And the next game, when the star player returns…. either one or two things happen.
This is how you build a TEAM.
Take a negative and turn it into a positive by finding a Team solution.Happy birthday Coach!
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@foose… I was thinking exactly that same thing about that pre-game phone call from Grandover…when I wrote that line last night but didn’t want to stir that pot during the game. Who cares… I’ll take that. Thanks, Johnny.#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!… thanks guys…
Just trying to keep a “well balanced” perspective on this year’s Team and cut down on some of the random insanity that goes on around here sometimes…
and just for Rick…. by my count we won or tied seven out of ten of those four minute periods…
We had three bad periods 2,3 in the first where we basically went scoreless and the last 45 or so seconds in the first half where we had the ball down four and went into the locker room down nine…. IMHO… that last one is all on the Coaches, but nobody’s perfect and that was the only time tonight they weren’t ahead of the curve. Nevertheless, mistakes in the first half only count half as much as the same mistakes in the second half.
The Twerps got the first basket of the second half so that’s a seven point swing in about one minute… At that point… if we hadn’t scored… the game dynamics could have shifted irreversibly.
Instead we grabbed control of the situation and really never looked back. For the first time this season, we had three guys scoring when we needed three guys scoring (as opposed to three guys scoring when it really didn’t matter )– Anthony hit a few baskets driving hard to rim, Turner hit a few threes and our Bigs were cleaning up in the paint…. And we didn’t make but a couple stupid fouls or stupid turnovers… With that, the second half was all ours.
The roundball coaching book says if you do that consistently (win or tie 7 of 10 four minute periods) you should win 20 plus games every season….
Really it just a matter of taking a big job and breaking down into a bunch of little jobs… and playing the percentages.
In baseball…. they say if you do the little, everyday, ordinary things consistently right…over the course of the season… the big, highlight reel plays don’t really matter … you still get to go to the World Series.
And Bennett’s ‘Hoos spanked the Holes…. so all is well ….
Have a good one.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!^I certainly did not think that in 1974 but… today….
I’d pay good money to go sit on his deck and listen to his stories.
I’d even buy the cold beer….#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!PF — you saw exactly what I saw…
Without Cuz….
1. ANTHONY and Tyler had ZERO turnovers…
2. Dez LEE played great defense
3. Turner hit some three pointers…AND
Our BIGS…. Vandenberg, Anya, Freeman played forty minutes of fearless ball under the basket….AND with fewer options to choose from….
Our Coaches didn’t get creative or boneheaded and try something risky with the game coming down to the wire.We finished the game at 40% shooting after 20% in the first half… but even in the first half we were doing all the right things most of time — the shots just weren’t falling. Contrast that with the last several games where we weren’t doing anything right and it didn’t matter whether the shots were failing or not.
Overall…. except for that dead spot from 15 -8 minutes in the first… we played the most consistent Team ball on both ends we have played this season.
Now… don’t go buy your Eastern Regional tickets just quite yet… the kids are young and they are going to suck again more than a few times before this season is over. But they will NEVER FORGET how it felt to walk off the court tonight AS THE WINNING TEAM (not the same thing as a bunch of guys who scored more points than the other bunch of guys) AND they will use that as they continue to improve.
There were a lot of TV shots of Cuz sitting over there on the bench in his street clothes. When the rest of the bench was jumping up and cheering, Cuz just sat there and smiled a little…. For us to be the best TEAM we can be… Cuz needs to be a leader…. I’m sorry I didn’t see more of that tonight.
If it takes two or three games for his ankle to heal 100%… he should use the time to work on his leadership skills. Some of us haven’t forgotten some of the things that went on last season and Cuz knows what I am talking about.
Now that we have done this ONE TIME…. what we have GOTT to figure out how to do this night after night and with Cuz on floor too.
Tonight against the TWERPS was nothing more and nothing less than one big step in the right direction.
God Bless you Lefty — where ever you are.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!I tried to tell ya’ll this morning….
“HERE IS NO WAY WE GET BLOWN OUT TONIGHT !
forget… everything you have seen on the court from the kids in red the last couple of weeks…
… playing at home for the last time in the foreseeable future against the Twerps… ;;;
remember… The Old Lefthander…
remember… Elmore and MacMillan…
remember… Old Sweaty Gary…
remember… how the old noise meter in Reynolds used to work and make THIS happen….Just give the Twerps ALL the “respect” they have earned since 1954.”
GODD BYE TWERPS — hope you have a whole lot of fun in Des Moines and Lincoln !!
The “ghosts on the South Smoking Porch” say thank you and invite all of ya’ll over for cigars and bourbon.
Smoke if you GOTT ’em !
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Two minutes to go… We GOTT to out coach Turgeon…
Frank Haith can out coach Turgeon…
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Bill says the game winning shot will come around 1:20 mark… the rest will be a free throw shooting contest…
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Did ya’ll catch that…
With the game on the line… ANTHONY dashes down the court… DOES NOT go ANTHONY on three, four or five… pulls out so Coach can get his Timeout…Now do not expect anything good to happen coming out of the TO… Got to get another stop first…
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!
