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And these games were practice, it will be a much different team come acc time.

11/20/2005 6:32:56 PM

Quote :

" There was a spark there at the end and the crowd woke up"

spark = an animated maniac-like Herb

11/20/2005 6:56:23 PM

I hope our best players ball hog

11/20/2005 6:57:05 PM

11/20/2005 7:08:02 PM

i was worried about ced after the two exhibition games. he was playin soft. after this past weekend tho, he's show a lot more aggressiveness when he gets it in the post. i hope he can keep that up.

i also like how whenever brackman gets the ball anywhere near the post, he looks to go to the rack hard. even the one time today he took it in from beyond the arc and drove hard. got hosed on the non foul call, but still a good strong move to the hole. needs to work on his shot a little bit tho, mainly talkin about the freebies from the line.

11/20/2005 7:15:30 PM

Why is it that extra weight always f's up your shot?

11/20/2005 7:22:00 PM

extra weight usually equals muscle

11/20/2005 7:44:49 PM

if you're shootin a lot WHILE ur puttin on that extra weight, even if it is muscle it shouldnt screw your shot up too much.

11/20/2005 7:58:07 PM

oh wow, what tough competition Herb has his boys beating right now

I wonder what will happen when they play someone that might actually win more than 10 games?

11/20/2005 9:40:40 PM

good insight!!!!!!

its november, STFU

11/20/2005 9:45:04 PM

Wake Forest played some tough teams, why can't we? I bet we would have if V was still here. Herb isnt half the coach he was.

11/20/2005 9:47:32 PM

11/20/2005 9:49:33 PM

Don't think I'm going to shut up about this, I'm voicing my opinion to everyone untill we stop accepting mediocrity.

11/20/2005 9:52:43 PM

Someone please ban this fool.

11/20/2005 9:53:01 PM

there's a difference between voicing your opinion and voicing your stupidity

11/20/2005 9:56:10 PM

Not when they are one in the same.

11/20/2005 10:04:39 PM

11/20/2005 10:06:41 PM

To whom is that directed?

[Edited on November 20, 2005 at 10:08 PM. Reason : ]

11/20/2005 10:08:20 PM

god damn Big Girl - why you got to fag up the tread like that?

11/20/2005 10:08:49 PM

some older gentleman asked me where all the students were...i had no answer

11/20/2005 10:09:50 PM

^^^ Who do you think?


What's the dumbest post you've read on this page. One guess.


It involves the claims that "Wake Forest has played good teams" and that "If V was here we'd have a tough OOC schedule"... both ridiculously wrong

[Edited on November 20, 2005 at 10:10 PM. Reason : sdfgsd]

11/20/2005 10:10:19 PM

Quote :

"Wake Forest played some tough teams, why can't we? I bet we would have if V was still here. Herb isnt half the coach he was."

yeah, i wish we got our first loss in november too!!!!!!!!!!11


people who want tougher schedules to open the season are idiots. our offense is complicated and relies heavily on timing to do well. i don't care who we are playing, it isn't going to be anywhere near its best at the beginning of the year. it's good to schedule these teams first so that we can work out most of the kinks before facing tougher competition. also, these games are huge games for the teams we play. in some cases we may be the toughest team (or one of them) that they face all season. you know they are going to be motivated to play their hardest in an attempt to make it a good game.

we started out slow against guelph and the citadel, and then we were able to shake it off and really open it up. herb knows what he is doing with the schedule. i have criticized the scheduling myself some in the past, but now i think it's easy to see why we do it.

wake didn't just schedule tough teams, either. they played winston salem state, AND ALMOST LOST. they barely beat garner-webb. they go into overtime against texas tech, which is definitely a tougher team, and they lose a game to florida who is hanging right around the top 25.

hey, maybe having a loss already is something you would enjoy, THABIGL, but i prefer a team that has a few wins to start the season and build some confidence and comfort with running our offense.

[Edited on November 20, 2005 at 10:17 PM. Reason : ]

11/20/2005 10:14:30 PM

The funniest part is that one of V's knocks was that he played cupcakes.

11/20/2005 10:15:31 PM

^^ gwu didn't play wake

11/20/2005 10:16:59 PM

whoops

george mason

my bad

[Edited on November 20, 2005 at 10:20 PM. Reason : two word teams that start with 'G' ]

11/20/2005 10:18:50 PM

Quote :

"^^^ Who do you think? What's the dumbest post you've read on this page. One guess. It involves the claims that "Wake Forest has played good teams" and that "If V was here we'd have a tough OOC schedule"... both ridiculously wrong"

k. That was my hope, but when I get a rolly eyes with no carets below one of my posts, I start to wonder.

11/20/2005 10:30:49 PM

All this coming from the same douche who praises Chuck Amato.

[Edited on November 20, 2005 at 10:48 PM. Reason : thabiggirl]

11/20/2005 10:48:10 PM

everyone post here

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=358999&page=2

11/20/2005 10:55:35 PM

Quote :

"The funniest part is that one of V's knocks was that he played cupcakes."

11/20/2005 10:56:25 PM

My favorite moment of the weekend was when the crowd really got going with about four minutes left today, and you could see Grant celebrating and having a grand time of it, and the crowd just getting louder and louder. Suddenly, everyone remembers how to scream and kick the boards and make noise and be basketball fans.

Why do I ever fret about football when basketball brings this kind of joy to my soul?

11/20/2005 11:09:34 PM

I only went to the Friday night game. The moments that stick out in my mind were:

McCauley looks and plays a lot like Brackman.
Cedric Simmons airballed a free throw.
Our freshmen were pretty good.
Gavin Grant was a decent point guard.
Speaking of point guard, where was Cam Bennerman?
Stetson has a guy whose name is Chief Kickingstallionsimms.

11/20/2005 11:37:46 PM

Cam is not a point guard

Neither is grant


Bethel is the closest and only thing we have, and he's not a pure point either. He fills the role nicely

11/20/2005 11:43:12 PM

Eh, Grant's doing pretty well when he rotates through the guard spots. We'll need him desperately for that next year.

11/20/2005 11:46:41 PM

McCauley is better than Brackman on offense from what I've seen so far...brack is still the man though.

11/20/2005 11:48:44 PM

grant is our best PG. bethel and bennerman work much better off the ball

11/20/2005 11:48:57 PM

^no

Atsur and Bethel are the two best point guards, and Grant should not be allowed to bring the ball up the floor. thx

11/20/2005 11:51:51 PM

I didn't realize Bethel could dunk... I mean damn

11/20/2005 11:55:33 PM

If Bethel can stay healthy this year, I think you'll see a lot of things that people didn't realize he could do.

11/20/2005 11:56:21 PM

PG rankings:
1. bethel
2. grant
3. atsur

this is based on bringing the ball up against pressure, who i'd most want to have the ball. really, it doesnt matter after the ball is over half court who the "PG" is b/c everyone is movin around and no one really runs the point for us anyway.

11/20/2005 11:57:13 PM

Bethel dunked a lot last year before he got sick/hurt. In the few early games I went to he was nasty.

^^nothing would surprise me though...he's very agressive and probably more athletic than Cam.



[Edited on November 20, 2005 at 11:58 PM. Reason : ]

11/20/2005 11:58:23 PM

Note:

Just because a player dribbles the ball down court occasionally, that does not suddenly morph him into a point guard.

11/21/2005 12:00:11 AM

^I was about to post the same damn thing. Grant is NOT A POINT GUARD SO STOP SAYING IT PEOPLE....HE IS NOT JULIUS HODGE.

11/21/2005 12:01:00 AM

...Jules wasn't a point guard here either...

11/21/2005 12:04:05 AM

my thought's on the posssible directions of the team since hodge is gone:

1. Grant is taking the Hodge role

2. The whole team is playing as if there is no one person (hodge) that they rely on

the team seems to play well together

but Grant is just a ball hog

11/21/2005 12:08:20 AM

^^At least Hodge could handle the ball....and actually played the PG role often. Nobody here should say that Grant has the same ball handling ability Hodge had.

Grant's role should be to penetrate, get fouled or make a layup, or get some offensive rebounds for easy putback points. He makes too many mistakes and is clumsy with the ball if he has it too long for me to think of him as a point guard.

11/21/2005 12:12:08 AM

Grant has had Julius Hodge like performances so far when ive watched him. I wouldnt call that a ball hog......the kids putting the ball in the basket. And he had 9 assists the other night........anyone that gets 9 assists is not a ballhog

11/21/2005 12:13:36 AM

jules hogged the ball too

or "hodged" the ball rather

11/21/2005 12:14:35 AM

It's way too early in the season to start calling someone a ball hog.

Quote :

"Grant was named the MVP of the tournament following an inspired effort. He averaged 13.7 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.6 assists while helping the Wolfpack control the pace in each game. "He keeps getting better and better," Sendek said of Grant. "He's just a sophomore, but it's amazing what that year under your belt can do. I think he's really playing big right now. He's rebounding the basketball, he's making big plays on the break for us and he got a lot of tough baskets in the post." "

^and I don't agree with that about Jules. He wasn't hogging the ball, the team gave it to him when he was obviously our last resort on a possession.

[Edited on November 21, 2005 at 12:18 AM. Reason : ]

11/21/2005 12:17:04 AM

jules would take it upon himself to try to take over the offense all by himself

he had 4 other guys on the court, but wouldn't use them because he wanted to win so much

11/21/2005 12:26:46 AM

this thread jsut went for the worst with all this PG talk

11/21/2005 12:33:26 AM