yeah I thought I remembered costner getting like 4 rebounds in a row

12/17/2008 9:00:40 PM

Final score?

12/17/2008 9:00:55 PM

87-76 Final. 6-1 start best in the Sidney Lowe era. Good to at least see that we can finish out games when a team makes a big, late run.

[Edited on December 17, 2008 at 9:16 PM. Reason : ]

12/17/2008 9:00:58 PM

Woo thanks state for covering the Over and -9.5

Not to mention more importantly beating ECU by a decent amount.

12/17/2008 9:01:37 PM

won by 11

Name POS FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OFF DEF TOT PF TP A TO BLK STL MIN
33 COSTNER BRANDON 8-14 3-7 5-6 2 15 17 2 24 3 7 0 0 28
34 MCCAULEY BEN 6-7 0-0 8-11 2 4 6 1 20 0 2 0 2 28

12/17/2008 9:01:59 PM

It should've been a blowout if Sid woulda kept the damn starters in.

[Edited on December 17, 2008 at 9:02 PM. Reason : oops]

12/17/2008 9:02:10 PM

damn, 17 rebounds?!

12/17/2008 9:02:12 PM

haha, i love how a page ago we wanted to fire lowe, now everybody is happy and content

oh tww, how I love thee

12/17/2008 9:02:29 PM

yeah from the looks of it, Costner played his first basketball game in almost 2 years.

12/17/2008 9:02:30 PM

yea from around the 13 min mark to around 8 min

Our starters sat on the bench and watched a 16 point lead slip away to a 5 point lead


STOP DOING THAT SID

FUCK

BLOW THESE FUCKERS OUT

12/17/2008 9:03:29 PM

We're going to win a lot of games with Costner and Mccauley getting 20+ points

12/17/2008 9:03:50 PM

and whenever fells decides he feels like playing basketball

12/17/2008 9:04:26 PM

We lead by 2 with a minute left. ECU ball.

ECU comes down and hits a 3. ECU by 1. State ball.

State comes down and goes inside to McCauley. He misses. ECU rebound.

We immediately foul. ECU hits both free throws. ECU by 3.

We bring the ball down, looking for Ferguson to hit the 3. He's guarded.

We look to Costner. He's guarded.

Halfway between the top of the key and the corner, Javi finds an open Dennis Horner.

8 seconds left.

Horner pump-fakes several times, with no one near him, until the clock expires.

12/17/2008 9:05:04 PM

^It seriously could have happened.

12/17/2008 9:06:47 PM

but it didn't. sounded like we are improving, so props to lowe for that. still not nearly as good as we can be or need to be.

lowe with some dubious subbing.

[Edited on December 17, 2008 at 9:08 PM. Reason : s]

12/17/2008 9:08:17 PM

87 points, not bad. Sounds like everyone had a decent game (even horner!). Against a (somewhat) decent team.

I'll take it.

12/17/2008 9:13:04 PM

Gary Hahn:

"...well take your car to Jiffy Lube...well not now. I think they are closed, but take your car there in the morning."

12/17/2008 9:15:10 PM

I shop at Harris Teeter cuz TOB is ALWAYS standing just inside the door.

12/17/2008 9:24:24 PM

Quote :

"Costner played his first basketball game in almost 2 years."

qft.

12/17/2008 9:35:29 PM

Some ECU fan on PP is complaining about Brock Young getting his front teeth knocked out and not having a foul called. Did this really happen?

12/17/2008 9:44:10 PM

yeah, I should have known better than to actually be cordial

had nothing to do with poor 3 point shooting like I was saying....

1st half: 6/11 from 3
2nd half: 2/15



[Edited on December 17, 2008 at 9:46 PM. Reason : .]

12/17/2008 9:45:39 PM

That must have been who Javy decked with his elbow. But I didn't hear anything about teeth being knocked out.

12/17/2008 9:46:21 PM

degand went to the locker room for stitches in his elbow and there was and ecu player with a bloody mouth.

12/17/2008 9:47:30 PM

Quote :

"Some ECU fan on PP is complaining about Brock Young getting his front teeth knocked out and not having a foul called. Did this really happen?"

Pretty much. He was on top of Javi near the end and Javi just popped him in the face. It was a reaction to the physicality and also the cause of the cut on his arm which he had to leave the game for.

12/17/2008 9:47:59 PM

Usually if you get your teeth knocked there is a noticeable amount of blood and you'd come out of the game. Young stayed in the game. I heard Javi had some blood on his arm from a cut and that Young had some blood on his lip. I didn't hear anything about him losing teeth though.

12/17/2008 9:49:20 PM

i saw something come out of young's mouth. whether it was spit or a tooth, i don't know... but it was big enough to be a tooth and white.

12/17/2008 9:53:28 PM

Pack looked good tonight, some good intensity at times, can work on being more consistent at that. Our offense actually looked the most focused and directed that it has all season to me. We can still use some work on defense of course.

Costner & McCauley getting over 1/2 our points FTW. the big men were beasts tonight. No reason we shouldn't be directing our offense through them.

Degand driving to the basket with the quickness is definitely a good sign. Once he works on his finishing shot a bit more we might have a viable threat there.... and can maybe give us a player who can create his own shot...

def a good win for the Pack...lets pound Lipscomb and get ready for Marquette.

[Edited on December 17, 2008 at 9:57 PM. Reason : ^ yea, the ECU guy took something from the floor over to the bench, would make sense if was a tooth]

12/17/2008 9:56:11 PM

Pretty sure he lost a tooth, or part of one, Javi swung his body with elbows out holding the ball and caught the dude's face, and something big and white flew out. I thought it was just a bunch of spit like when some boxer gets knocked out, but the dude kept grabbing at his tooth and the refs did point and pick something up off the floor where it happened.

Honestly the dude's head didn't even fly back, I think Javi caught just the guys tooth, and it did cut his elbow up.

I'm surprised the dude didn't come out immediately.

[Edited on December 17, 2008 at 9:58 PM. Reason : ]

12/17/2008 9:58:00 PM

Well I hope he can either get it put back in or get a nice fake one put in, and that ECU covers it. Don't student athletes get free medical/dental coverage by the school? That's what happens when you play a game that doesn't have headgear and you've got elbows flying. When I played hockey although I had a full shield on my helmet I still had a mouth guard in case I got jarred and chipped a tooth. I know Curry and some other players wear mouth guards. Costner also got smacked in the face and there was no foul fwiw.

[Edited on December 17, 2008 at 10:03 PM. Reason : ]

12/17/2008 10:00:54 PM

Our announcers didn't say shit about him getting his teeth knocked out. More likely some blood from his lip. But the video feed didn't show him getting medical attention either and he was back in the game not 2 minutes later.

On the officiating, I thought there were a couple bad calls...one where costner got hit with no call, one where Thomas got smacked and no call, and on the next posession for ECU they call a touch foul on Ferg at the top of the key. Also the other way, they let McCauley mug a guy like he was Hansbrough on the perimeter that led to a turnover. I loled...it was a foul...no call. Other than that, it really wasn't bad, they let them play, we pounded the ball inside a LOT in the second half, and the refs certianly didnt' give the game to State.


BTW, even with the starters out, we should have kept a decent lead but we couldn't hit free throws. Off the top of my head I can think of Smith missing at least 2, maybe 3, Degand missing one, ferg missing one, and mccauley missing one. It doesn't sound too bad but it all happened within a 4 minute span, and we didn't hit 2 in a row at the line during that stretch...all while ECU was pushing tempo and IMO taking advantage of Degand's inability to stick on the ball. We also had a stretch of 2 posessions with quick shots and a few others with turnovers that were forced passes with time on the shot clock.


overall though, it was a pretty good game. We executed well, we played decent defense, we just didn't rebound particularly well and we turned it over. The rebounding was somewhat due to wierd bounces cause ECU was shooting long shots the entire second half.

[Edited on December 17, 2008 at 10:03 PM. Reason : ]

12/17/2008 10:01:42 PM

Quote :

"haha, i love how a page ago we wanted to fire lowe, now everybody is happy and content"

I'm not

12/17/2008 10:03:13 PM

you should be


we're not good this year and we won a game.

12/17/2008 10:03:43 PM

confirmed

he lost one tooth

lol javi is the man

12/17/2008 10:05:09 PM

should have worn a mouth guard. i don't know why more players don't. you can get the custom fitted ones to fit pretty tight.

12/17/2008 10:07:57 PM

tons of ecu fans there

when they started chanting, thankfully our band was there

because our crowd responded with zero except for a couple of yelps

12/17/2008 10:13:32 PM

^ yea, sitting in the upper deck was pretty dumb, there were a ton of ECU fans up there. BUT thankfully if i remember correctly, the upper deck isn't as loud down on the floor. I doubt we'll have that many opposing fans in our bldg for any other game, except maybe carowhina? Props to the ECU fans (even if a few were incredibly annoying and ignorant about bball) for turning out

12/17/2008 10:15:00 PM

^ they did the same shit 2 years ago

12/17/2008 10:40:26 PM

no it was pretty audible down on the floor, if not more. it just echos off the ceiling.

attn lee fowler, stop scheduling these games. they do nothing but embarrass us if we lose and not much of anything if we win, not to mention make our home court look like a neutral court

12/17/2008 10:42:20 PM

at least at home we can somewhat drown them out with the PA system, band, or some scattered cheering. playing ECU away is simply unacceptable though.

12/17/2008 10:51:03 PM

re:

Quote :

"attn lee fowler, stop scheduling these games. they do nothing but embarrass us if we lose and not much of anything if we win, not to mention make our home court look like a neutral court"

Hmmm, don't know about that. I think we need these games this season (and I'm hoping we don't get embarrassed). We're not great, but looks like we might be improving. We need some time for guys to get right, get some wins, get some confidence-builders. And we needed revenge. Would you rather be 3-4 right now?

Why didn't Mays play?

[Edited on December 17, 2008 at 11:00 PM. Reason : ]

12/17/2008 10:51:55 PM

We should have gotten Kevin Garnett to yell at our bench players.

12/17/2008 10:59:14 PM

Quote :

"Another team's player gets a career high against us? What are the odds!"

Umm...Hinnant got a career-high against us LAST YEAR too. 30 pts. I believe!

Quote :

"degand could always penetrate but could never finish"

I'm soooo glad someone else thinks like me. Thank youuuuuu!!!

Quote :

"yeah from the looks of it, Costner played his first basketball game in almost 2 years."

If you wanna call missing crucial shots and not getting rebounds ANDDD turning the ball over on numerous occasions playing ball, then cool. I'd have to disagree though.



[Edited on December 17, 2008 at 11:43 PM. Reason : .]

12/17/2008 11:36:30 PM

i wasn't there so i can't really comment, but... i believe costner had 17 rebounds

12/17/2008 11:58:28 PM

^^are you fucking kidding me? Costner had like 28 points and 17 rebounds, expecting more is completely ridiculous. Degand doesn't normally have trouble finishing but he's still recovering from his knee surgery so give him some time.

12/18/2008 12:00:13 AM

i really think costner is just screwed in the eyes of our fan base now. he goes out tonight and scores 24 pts to go along with 17 boards. 17!! it's not enough though because he also made some errors. heaven forbid if he doesnt have a perfect game. geez people, wake up! costner is playing better this season and people still wanna cry over every mistake he makes. it's basketball! you will make a mistake if u step on the floor enough times. but how can you try to diminish game like costner had tonight into a bad performance? (this is only directed toward the few that continue to ride his nuts no matter what he does.)

12/18/2008 12:03:25 AM

^ must say I'm inclined to agree. i thought he looked good tonight.

12/18/2008 12:04:57 AM

Quote :

"[Costner] If you wanna call missing crucial shots and not getting rebounds ANDDD turning the ball over on numerous occasions playing ball, then cool. I'd have to disagree though."

Seriously?

24 points, 17 rebounds, 8-14 (5-6 from the line).

Seriously?

[Edited on December 18, 2008 at 12:06 AM. Reason : yeah, 7 TOs. Boo. But seriously?]

12/18/2008 12:05:23 AM

Is there any video of Javi hitting the shot before the half?

12/18/2008 12:20:11 AM

7 turnovers...ridiculous. I didn't say he didn't do good overall, but seriously. EVERYTIME I looked it's like he was missing a jumper or a 3 and turning it over. He didn't really start rebounding til the 2nd half it seemed. Dah well. I'll take the 17 rebounds...FINALLY.


Oh and what's really shitty is how the ECU fans were chanting "Let's Go Pirates!" like EVERY couple of minutes and were REALLY loud. Our fans DID NOTHING...NOTHING to stop it or drown it out.


Must I mention too....Javi's *more than* half-court shot at the buzzer was IMPRESSIVE. I knew once it left his hands it was gonna go in I was behind the goal that he shot it at....on point.




[Edited on December 18, 2008 at 12:26 AM. Reason : .]

12/18/2008 12:22:04 AM

i love State

12/18/2008 12:25:18 AM