NIT BUBBLE WATCH

2/25/2012 4:46:30 PM

At least now I can cheer for UVa to beat UNC. No way we're making the tourney over UVa right now...I can only get joy out of this season now by watching UNC lose.

2/25/2012 4:46:53 PM

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"Are there lots of fan bases subjected to this much pain and suffering?"

The Cubs are the only other fan base that comes to mind.

2/25/2012 4:47:01 PM

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"Leslie had a nice game, but Gottfried should bench him for the first 10 minutes of next game for trying to be the hero instead of a team player. Kid still needs to learn his place."

What the fuck are you talking about??

2/25/2012 4:47:24 PM

^what the fuck indeed


there was no time left to find an open guy. the play had broken down. add prawn start to the list of dumbshit posters.




[Edited on February 25, 2012 at 4:48 PM. Reason : .]

2/25/2012 4:48:20 PM

Brown looked absolutely gassed when he was taking the last two fts. He barely hit the front of the rim on the second one. Also, I think we should really think about starting/playing Johnson more often. Wood has been shit and looks totally out of it.

2/25/2012 4:49:25 PM

nc state athletics, what a joke

remember that time we needed to beat a shit opponent in an awful conference for a chance to stay on the bubble and we came out and played lazy/stupid basketball


[Edited on February 25, 2012 at 4:51 PM. Reason : ..]

2/25/2012 4:50:10 PM

snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

2/25/2012 4:50:46 PM

Being gassed is not an excuse for a guard to miss FTs, fyi. Stop trying to rationalize it. Our experienced back court players choked. That's the long and short of it

Ball don't lie. They don't have the mentalities of game winners. They got scared and lost.

We don't have that guy like Hodge who wants to win the game no matter what, and who wants the responsibility of taking the last shot.

Brown is like Courtney Fells. He has the physical skills, but not the aggression required to be a dominant player.

2/25/2012 4:52:29 PM

we have no one with a killer instinct

2/25/2012 4:54:15 PM

I blame the black uniforms

2/25/2012 4:54:35 PM

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"Brown is like Courtney Fells. "

This is a terrible comparison

Fells slept through four years, Zo plays hard every minute, dude just missed a couple free throws

2/25/2012 4:54:53 PM

absolute disgrace, lol. wood, btw is worthless right now. sit his ass

2/25/2012 4:55:27 PM

what an abortion of a game

2/25/2012 4:55:27 PM

we might get another shot at these guys in the NIT, or maybe the CBI

2/25/2012 4:56:02 PM

All you really need to know about this team is when we choked against Duke Wood's response was "This is proof we can play with any team in the NCAA"

2/25/2012 4:59:50 PM

the most discouraging part about this team is that the fans want to win more than the players do. It's like the players don't give a shit, as evidence by their lack of effort

2/25/2012 5:01:01 PM

Did Lo play hard when he gave up 2 3s on defense at the end of the game? The guy is slow through screens even though he has the speed to be a good defense.

And he missed the game winning Fts, not just a couple FTs. I guess you are fine with losing.

Where was he in the first half? He is wasting talent, just like Fells, and he plays like a loser.

2/25/2012 5:01:09 PM

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"the most discouraging part about this team is that the fans want to win more than the players do. It's like the players don't give a shit, as evidence by their lack of effort "

http://www.packpride.com

[Edited on February 25, 2012 at 5:02 PM. Reason : Hey skok, didn't realize that was you. Keep wallowing in self pity.]

2/25/2012 5:01:30 PM

Brown doesn't play defense the entire game

But he doesn't suck and completely shit the bed on offense until it's go time

2/25/2012 5:02:49 PM

did pdrankin just post that same stupid post in two threads?

2/25/2012 5:03:04 PM

This one hurts even more than the Duke loss to me. Gott is getting consistently out-coached and cannot get a winning mentality into this team.

Yea we got recruits but what is the point when they just come here and do not play up to their potential and do not care to win. Bunch of fucking vaginas.

2/25/2012 5:06:26 PM

Wait til football season!!1

(this was meant to be a joking shit-talk to Clemson fans, not that we should give up on this basketball season)

[Edited on February 25, 2012 at 5:19 PM. Reason : edit]

2/25/2012 5:06:46 PM

2/25/2012 5:14:42 PM

the silver lining is we no longer have to stress about whether or not we'll make the tourney

2/25/2012 5:17:48 PM

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" What the fuck are you talking about??"

I don't know; I didn't actually watch the game. I was following in gamecast and saw that Leslie took end-of regulation and end-of-game 3s, so I kinda assumed that he was jacking them up and trying to be the hero. Incorrect assumption, I guess. My mistake.

2/25/2012 5:30:12 PM

so, does this game count as "winning the games we are supposed to win" or not?

^^ inorite? just sit back and enjoy the rest of the train wreck

2/25/2012 5:33:03 PM

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"They don't have the mentalities of game winners. They got scared and lost. "

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"we have no one with a killer instinct"

DING DING DING. The closest player to a killer instinct is Brown, he did after all close out regulation by putting the game on his shoulders with that drive and mid-range jumper when we were out of options.

The smart play would have been to attack the basket and dare them to foul us when we were up three points with like a minute and a half left in OT.

I have a hard time faulting Williams for taking that three, because he was wide the fuck open, but it was totally unnecessary from an strategy and clock management point of view.

[Edited on February 25, 2012 at 5:35 PM. Reason : ]

2/25/2012 5:34:22 PM

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"just sit back and enjoy the rest of the train wreck"

i've come to realize that you have a mental disability, but do you really consider 7-7 a "train wreck"? You realize we already have more acc wins than we've had in years? Yeah, that's no much of a consolation, and we should have won this game, and it sucks that we're probably not dancing, but did you really expect us to make the tournie this season?

2/25/2012 5:43:31 PM

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" snatching defeat from the jaws of victory"

the story of nc state athletics for the past couple of decades.

and i agree about no one on the team having that killer instinct. also agree with ^

[Edited on February 25, 2012 at 5:46 PM. Reason : 65]

2/25/2012 5:44:56 PM

He's probably referring to a late season collapse, which State seems poised to do the way this game was played.

2/25/2012 5:45:03 PM

I mean if you really want to be an optimist you can say "I'm glad we're going to the NIT because we have a better chance of playing more games there or even winning it all"

BANNERS

2/25/2012 5:46:59 PM

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"Did Lo play hard when he gave up 2 3s on defense at the end of the game? The guy is slow through screens even though he has the speed to be a good defense."

This. Very lackadaisical defense from Brown on the two three pointers and fighting through screens in general...he has enough speed to stay with Young. Brown is content with going behind the pick then trying to stay in the face of the ball handler (which obviously takes more effort). Maybe he was tired...he did play an excellent game offensively.

[Edited on February 25, 2012 at 6:03 PM. Reason : a]

2/25/2012 6:02:41 PM

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"but do you really consider 7-7 a "train wreck"?"

do you consider losing 4 straight as anything other than a train wreck? we're probably gonna lose to Miami to make it 5 straight. Is that not a train-wreck? is being 7-3 and then 7-7 not a train wreck?

2/25/2012 6:06:54 PM

Cannot wait for this fatfaced motherfucker to finally off himself

What a miserable cunt you are, burro

2/25/2012 6:08:04 PM

The loss today sucked, but get serious here. If the schedule were different, and we played Duke, Wake, FSU, BC, UNC, GT and went L-W-L-W-L-W you wouldn't be calling it a trainwreck.

[Edited on February 25, 2012 at 6:10 PM. Reason : ]

2/25/2012 6:09:51 PM

i know. I should really be excited about blowing a 20 point lead, not even showing up against a team that only scores 60 points a game, and not showing up against a team we have no business losing to. yep, I really should look at that as positive. but, yall keep polishing that turd

[Edited on February 25, 2012 at 6:11 PM. Reason : ]

2/25/2012 6:11:25 PM

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"What a miserable cunt you are, burro"

this needs repeating

2/25/2012 6:12:00 PM

don't get mad at me for speaking the truth about the miserable play of our team as of late. get mad at the team for their miserable play as of late.

2/25/2012 6:13:04 PM

Somewhere between being excited about losing four straight and throwing flags at football coaches is rationality. Find it.

2/25/2012 6:13:10 PM

how do my nuts taste, Ernie? just curious

2/25/2012 6:13:42 PM

none of these guys have any heart, especially Howell when he's busting his ass to rebound our missed free throws and diving on the floor after loose balls...he doesn't even want to be out there, do you see how quick he is to leave the court after he fouls out? these guys arent as animated as Julius Hodge, they must not even want to win

2/25/2012 6:27:24 PM

Where letdown happens

2/25/2012 6:34:41 PM

serious question: did we really play "miserably"? or did we play a decent game and choke on a few chances to win in regular time and in ot? did we really play "miserably" against unc, or did we play a decent game and get outmatched? did we really play "miserably" in the duke game, or did we play miserably for the last ~11 mins? i do know that we kinda played "miserably" against fsu, so i'm not asking about that game.

2/25/2012 6:36:57 PM

Its a good thing we got our defensive stopper Alex Johnson into the game. Wood has no chance guarding shots.

2/25/2012 6:37:34 PM

Howell is legit that's for sure. He has very underrated hands.

2/25/2012 6:59:13 PM

NCAA bid is over, need to start giving Tyler Harris and TDT some burn.

7-man rotation is killing us. You can't play your starters 35+ minutes every game.

2/25/2012 7:31:06 PM

WTF are you talking about? NIT?? you're right.... wont have to worry about not going to that one

2/25/2012 8:52:43 PM

Hopefully they wont phone in the rest of the season and lose the next three games. need to finish on an up swing.

and we can always win the tourney

two things we need mental toughness and defensive toughness. or D tuuuuurrible today.

I see signs that they are getting better mental, but i knew it'd take a year or 2 to coach the Lowe out of them.

2/25/2012 9:04:24 PM

2/25/2012 9:31:31 PM