kernersvillan
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Didnt we barely beat UNCG last year WITH JC and Dinos? With the way this year has gone so far, that game will be a facepalm
Melo is a wild card at this point. Don’t think he will help much right now. We have too many mid-major guys on the bench I am sorry to say.
At least we won over Queens!
Good point, the Royals were tough. Bring on the Spartans. The revenge of Wes Miller has arrived upon us.
I don't wanna hear all this nancy-pants, excuse-making weak shit trying to explain away DM's performance as a head coach this year.
Danny struck gold with a special offensive talent in John Collins (who he criminally underutilized his first year) and barely snuck into the tourney last year. Let's not forget his first two years here he went 13-19 and 11-19. We'd be hard-pressed to reach those lofty heights this year.
I held back on any criticisms of DM, but I always felt last year's success was unsustainable. I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he is a decent recruiter. He recruited JC and Chaundee and what appears to be on paper a good 2018 recruiting class. He also represents Wake well off the court.
BUT the warning signs were there to see his first two years: terrible team defense, non-sensical substitution patterns (no, there is no larger plan at work), lack of emotion on the bench, lack of sufficient knowledge of X's and O's. His pressers are a bunch of platitudes about playing harder and executing better because he doesn't have the necessary coaching chops to make either adjustments throughout the course of a game or macro changes to schemes throughout the course of a season to fit to the personnel.
Look no further than down the road in the Triad to see what a proper coach can do. First year coach Kevin Keatts just led the Wuffies to a win over #2 Arizona with a freshman midget PG from West Virginia. They played hard, ran an effective p-n-r that suits their personnel, ran press at opportune times, withstood several rallies by Zona's myriad of future NBA players and came out with a victory.
Add NC State to the list of teams we'll be looking up to in the standings for the foreseeable future. In terms of coaching talent in the ACC, our peers are now Boston College, Pittsburgh, and Georgia Tech.
That is a bit too much truth for one post. You should spread that out some.
Are we sure that NC State is that good? Arizona is always overrated and usually take a few WTF losses.
I'm afraid that Keatts is the real deal
Hmmmm...let's see when we hired Danny, Keatts was a 2nd/3rd year assistant in a scumbag program and had been a HS coach. Yep, that would have made sense.
Chaminade beat Ralph Sampson's UVA team. B zzz beat #2 and undefeated Miami.
Hmmmm...let's see when we hired Danny, Keatts was a 2nd/3rd year assistant in a scumbag program and had been a HS coach. Yep, that would have made sense.
Chaminade beat Ralph Sampson's UVA team. B zzz beat #2 and undefeated Miami.