I think I'm gonna go to this.

3/17/2010 5:04:42 PM

i was thinking about that during the usf game. he was the only person on either team with postseason experience. Just trying to think of some viable explanation for him having 25% of the games total points almost til the end.

3/17/2010 5:09:52 PM

b/c horner is a GD BEAST!

i wonder where he'll be playing next year?

3/17/2010 5:17:24 PM

If the Pack manages to beat UAB and unx wins, I am not looking forward to having those shit birds beat us 3 times this year and knock us out of the NIT

3/17/2010 5:19:40 PM

yeap. anything but losing to them again. please.

3/17/2010 5:38:30 PM

UNX?

Really?

3/17/2010 5:41:11 PM

meant unc, keys are right beside each other

3/17/2010 5:42:13 PM

i think mississippi state is going to wax UNC, personally

3/17/2010 5:42:23 PM

this isn't the thread for it, but let me just say that if unc manages to do something stupid like win the nit, and all offseason i have to hear about how they came together as a team down the stretch and how proud of his team roy williams is etc etc, i'm going to be fucking livid.

let me just put that out there.

3/17/2010 5:45:17 PM

[agree]

3/17/2010 5:51:17 PM

goddammit...why couldn't they have picked the earlier time slot????

now i'm going to miss the game

3/17/2010 6:00:37 PM

well, now that the worst case scenarios have been layed out there.

at least we all know whats going to happen now. ha. and its very likely too.

3/17/2010 6:03:04 PM

FWIW the game time hasn't been officially set, but this was the best guess

3/17/2010 6:37:42 PM

so i've got the tv on the "new 14 carolina" continuous news cycle in the background (i'm trying to get some work done) the "sports update" has run the highlights of the unc game three times now. no mention of the wolfpack.

3/17/2010 7:31:38 PM

Nobody knows State won.

3/17/2010 9:51:32 PM

3/17/2010 9:55:55 PM

The Red & White from NC State.

3/17/2010 9:57:34 PM

This white guy (#24) playing for Stony Brook has a tattoo that puts the flaming basketball to shame.

ESPN U vs Illinois

[Edited on March 17, 2010 at 10:16 PM. Reason : ,]

3/17/2010 10:07:04 PM

nice advertisement.

Sports & Politics shouldn't mix, imho.

But I don't care for UNC, and I like beer, and State.

[Edited on March 17, 2010 at 10:28 PM. Reason : ^^^]

3/17/2010 10:27:53 PM

^Just trying to sell Rally's shirts.

3/17/2010 10:31:43 PM

flaming basketball tattoo vs flaming basketball tattoo.


the battle of the century

3/17/2010 10:40:10 PM

it's going to be an epic battle of super saiyans. hopefully dennis has been training in the hyperbolic time chamber so he can reach that extra level of ssj. when he reaches ssj3, his sideburns reach his chin and glow yellow.

3/17/2010 11:29:07 PM

YES!

GAME OF THE CENTURY!

3/17/2010 11:30:18 PM

hyperbolic time chamber. doing one fingered pushups at 100 times gravity.

3/17/2010 11:30:31 PM

if you're going to abbreviate it "ssj", then spell it saiya-jin bro.

3/18/2010 12:16:17 AM

True dat.

3/18/2010 12:17:26 AM

kameeeeeeee yameeeeeee YAAAAAA

3/18/2010 12:21:46 AM

Drop a spirit bomb, Scott Wood.

3/18/2010 12:41:30 AM

Has any team ever knocked two consecutive teams out of a postseason tournament that were from the same congressional district?

Because Mississippi State is going to do just that.

Quote :

"Sports & Politics shouldn't mix, imho."

I wrote a 16 pager on that very subject a couple years back, best thing I've ever written (and the most fun research I ever did too). I called it the "Separation of Sports and State"

3/18/2010 2:24:32 AM

Strength of Schedule:
NC STATE: 28
UAB: 109

3/18/2010 9:00:10 AM

dennis shaved his chops for senior day

3/18/2010 9:13:54 AM

6 wins in 8 games.

I am still not sure how to take this. All against good teams too.

3/18/2010 11:37:21 AM

Take it as a great improvement. That's all. Let's make it 5/7!

3/18/2010 12:37:29 PM

or even 7/9!

3/18/2010 12:39:37 PM

^ haha oops!

3/18/2010 12:50:53 PM

Quote :

"Has any team ever knocked two consecutive teams out of a postseason tournament that were from the same congressional district?"

I will be looking for this answer.

3/18/2010 1:07:54 PM

does anyone know why johnny thomas hasnt been playing for the last...season?

i have heard that he is playing more now because sidney has been trying to keep the teams legs fresh. but aside from having a flat shot, and looking kinda rusty, i dont see any reason why he hasnt been playing. his defense is good, and he can create his own shot (kinda).

(and dont say its cause of his knee. ive been watching him dunk off the backboard and between his legs and stuff before every game this season.)

3/18/2010 1:34:52 PM

Quote :

"i dont see any reason why he hasnt been playing. his defense is good, and he can create his own shot (kinda)."

He had a respectable game against USF, but he played poorly in almost every other game in which he saw minutes this season...that's the reason he is a little used reserve. Also, are you really going to argue he should be getting more of Woods' minutes? Because that's fucking stupid.

[Edited on March 18, 2010 at 1:47 PM. Reason : .]

[Edited on March 18, 2010 at 1:52 PM. Reason : ..]

3/18/2010 1:46:49 PM

^agreed. Every time he gets the ball he's looking to pass it almost right away.

3/18/2010 1:52:36 PM

are we talking about julius mays or johnny thomas?

3/18/2010 3:30:45 PM

Mays sucks too, but Gonzo has stretches of equally bad play so he gets PT. I realize you were impressed by what you saw from Thomas against USF, but you obviously weren't paying attention the rest of the season when Thomas was turning over the ball whenever he got his hands on it and allowing the other team to completely ignore him on offense.

3/18/2010 3:54:37 PM

Quote :

"but you obviously weren't paying attention the rest of the season when Thomas was turning over the ball whenever he got his hands on it and allowing the other team to completely ignore him on offense."

he has 2 turnovers on the season

and we have lots of people that can be ignored on offense...that will change next year though

3/18/2010 3:59:11 PM

Yeah I think you could make the argument that you could ignore Mays, Williams or TBDV on offense also and they get more playing time than JT.

3/18/2010 4:00:56 PM

Quote :

"he has 2 turnovers on the season"

That's because he has only played more than 4 minutes in a game twice this year.

Quote :

"and we have lots of people that can be ignored on offense...that will change next year though"

Maybe so, but Scott Wood isn't one of them

Bottom line is, Thomas has had 1 game all season where he's been marginally productive and you think that means he should get more playing time?

[Edited on March 18, 2010 at 4:06 PM. Reason : .]

3/18/2010 4:03:57 PM

yeah i wouldnt mind seeing him play some more.

3/18/2010 4:10:01 PM

he's athletic

and maybe he's actually improved enough over the course of the season that Sid now feels comfortable playing him

its not like just because you dont contribute much early in the year you cant step your game up and make an impact down the stretch

3/18/2010 4:11:49 PM

I don't think anyone is arguing that JT should take any of Scott Wood's minutes, but it is odd that he never got any of Josh Davis's minutes until just recently. It's something I was curious about early in the season and everyone said it was obviously because he was never the same after his knee injury, but he looked fine the last few games.

3/18/2010 4:11:55 PM

Quote :

"and maybe he's actually improved enough over the course of the season that Sid now feels comfortable playing"

I'm pretty sure he got minutes in the USF game because Wood got in foul trouble early in the 1st half, but I guess you could argue that Sid felt more comfortable playing him than Davis at this point in the season.

Quote :

"but it is odd that he never got any of Josh Davis's minutes until just recently"

Not really, Davis was playing really well until we got into conference play.

I think you can find a lot of faults in Sid's coaching this season, but Johnny Thomas not getting enough minutes is NOT one of them. Next your going to tell me we should play Enrico Kufor more.

[Edited on March 18, 2010 at 4:21 PM. Reason : . ]

3/18/2010 4:20:06 PM

yeah, davis seemed to be getting better each game, but he hasn't seen the court in a while.

3/18/2010 4:20:14 PM

^^I'm not faulting Lowe at all. I've been a fan of his since he got here. I was more curious than anything.

When I asked about why it seemed like JT was getting no PT early in the season, who I had remembered at least being extremely athletic and a decent head on his shoulders, was getting beat out by not one, but two freshmen, everyone told me it was because of the injury. Now it's pretty clear that that wasn't the case and something else must be going on.

Yes, Davis has gotten less time as we have gotten deep into conference play (pretty much coinciding with CJ re-emerging), but it's not as if JT started filling in for that missed time. JT got 17 minutes out of the blue on senior night after a season of not sniffing the court and seemingly held his own. Since then, he has gotten semi-regular time, meanwhile Josh Davis is buried on the bench. I'm not saying it's a bad decision. I'm glad to see JT get some time, but it is really freakin' weird.

[Edited on March 18, 2010 at 5:04 PM. Reason : d]

3/18/2010 5:04:02 PM