Wrangor
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Wrangor, you are likely a better judge. How often do you run into uncoachable players?
Often.
Wrangor, you are likely a better judge. How often do you run into uncoachable players?
Difference between 7th and 11th is a single win. Again, heap the praises if you want. They're a couple wins better than expected. You're talking about them as if they're an NCAA lock and top 5 in the ACC.
Not lofty goals, realistic projections.
Dinos coming back would have made a big difference. I'm not sure 18-9, but 15/16 wins is logical.
here comes DCDeac again with his silly takes
The win probabilities against Georgia Southern, Liberty, and Drake don't change very much whether we had Dinos or not. Saying "hey, I think we've spotted teams about 10 points in a bunch of games and we'd probably win all of those if we had Dinos" is just a lazy, sloppy way to try to rationalize this season's massive suckitude. As if Dinos wasn't prone to having stinker games, too.
Right now, State is as good or better than we were last year despite the fact we had an NBA player last year and they lost one.
If anything, this shows a team can improve quickly with the right coaching.
Kenpom says otherwise, but hey - why give Wake any credit for last year when you can prop up one of our rivals?
We'll find out next year who is right and who's wrong. Adding Hoard fixes the talent gap left by Dinos. Like most everyone who's in the "don't fire Manning yet" group I think next year is a deciding year and we have to make the tournament for Manning to stay.
If the haters are right and Manning is "dumb" or an "idiot" and can't coach at all, we'll be terrible again and hopefully he'll get fired. Most of those same posters said we'd be worse after losing Devin and Codi, so all the know-it-all posts about how little it matters that we start Thompson instead of Dinos is pretty comical coming from them.
Kenpom says otherwise, but hey - why give Wake any credit for last year when you can prop up one of our rivals?
We'll find out next year who is right and who's wrong. Adding Hoard fixes the talent gap left by Dinos. Like most everyone who's in the "don't fire Manning yet" group I think next year is a deciding year and we have to make the tournament for Manning to stay.
If the haters are right and Manning is "dumb" or an "idiot" and can't coach at all, we'll be terrible again and hopefully he'll get fired. Most of those same posters said we'd be worse after losing Devin and Codi, so all the know-it-all posts about how little it matters that we start Thompson instead of Dinos is pretty comical coming from them.
That's not true.
I don't know what Kenpom says. I do know State is sitting as an #11 seed in Bracketology which is about where we were last year.
It's one of my favorite DCDeac talking points. We improved so much from 2-17, guys!!!It was almost going to be impossible to be worse than 2 and seventeen
That's not true.
I don't know what Kenpom says. I do know State is sitting as an #11 seed in Bracketology which is about where we were last year.
And State is about 15 spots worse than our Kenpom ranking last year. "I don't know what Kenpom says" is pretty lazy. Especially when you claim they're "as good or better" than us. Last year right about now we were winning 4 straight and beating a top 10 team. But please, continue lavishing NC State with praise and writing off any success we had last year.
The bold part is absolutely true, I got into a huge back-and-forth about it. There was plenty of "why do you think we'll improve after we lose two of our leading scorers" just like this year people are saying "why do you think we'll improve because some freshmen are going to save us."