cheeseheads12
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Does Whitt have a mental block or something? I refuse to believe he is this bad at basketball.
Does Whitt have a mental block or something? I refuse to believe he is this bad at basketball.
I thought Keats was a great hire... really fell on his face though.
He looked especially bad last night - some really careless turnovers. I don't know if he feels more pressure playing in his home town?? His passing, court vision, and feel for the game are his strengths - and those all failed him completely last night.
4 TOs in 6 minutes is crazy bad. Whitt was a TO machine last year, and somehow is TO rate is worse this year. He has played 43 games of college basketball; so, it's time show that he's ready to play at this level.
Keatts had a really bad game last night. They would play zone, keep it close, then inexplicably switch to man, we'd pour on points until they went back to zone, repeat.
Their press did slow us down though. I'm assuming that wasn't part of our game plan (slow it down and just beat them in the half court), but it definitely made the game more boring.
Keatts had a really bad game last night. They would play zone, keep it close, then inexplicably switch to man, we'd pour on points until they went back to zone, repeat.
If Keatts is that far out on the court and our guy runs into him, they would call a T on Keatts, right?
It wasn't inexplicable: they'd play man after made buckets and zone after missing them.
We've played several teams in conference this year who've done that. I can't recall having noticed it before
I was surprised how effective their 3/4 press was in slowing us down, it seemed as though Alondes and Daivien had been coached to pass out of the pressure rather than trying to drive the ball through it.
Thanks for the reminder. Summer camps.Yeah, my wife was mid-sentence trying to talk to me about summer camp plans for the kids (a bad idea in general during a Wake game), and I yelled “DUDE, GET OFF THE FLOOR!” and that was the end of the summer camp convo
And it probably took it's physical toll on State after about 34 minutes.I was also surprised how passive and deliberate we were. I hated it as the game went on but I guess it worked in the end. The press caused very few turnovers and we still managed to mostly score at an efficient level once we reached the half court.
I was also surprised how passive and deliberate we were. I hated it as the game went on but I guess it worked in the end. The press caused very few turnovers and we still managed to mostly score at an efficient level once we reached the half court.
Carter Whitt is not an ACC caliber player. He has capable ball handling and displays good court vision occasionally, but otherwise he is overmatched. His offer sheet is crazy considering, I wonder how he performed against elite competition in high school?
last night was not good. a couple of nice passes but the turnovers looked bad. Still have faith he will come around but also would like to see what Mcray can do. Think giving him 5-6 minutes would be a good thing.
I think he can develop into an acc caliber back up PG that can provide useful minutes where needed. He needs to improve to get there tho.
Deliberate was the word I was looking for! Definitely a change of pace for Man-Man, that dude is a bull.