We played with a lot of intensity tonight and made some great offensive plays against what is a very good defensive team. And we rebounded really well against a team that usually covers the defensive glass.

Definitely more effort exerted tonight than I've seen us give all year. Diving for loose balls, going after rebounds aggressively, etc.


We're still not a smart defensive team and I worry about us burning out since we've basically become a 6 man rotation now.

I'd like to see us utilize zone more in the first half so we can steal minutes with Vandy and keep our bigs out of foul trouble and not wear ourselves out.

I think we're going to have trouble playing so few guys against teams like UNC who push the pace.

1/9/2013 10:03:24 PM

Nice win, they woke up in the second half. Need the intensity for the entire game against Duke

1/9/2013 10:03:50 PM

This is the type of finish good teams have. GA Tech played tight, but I think this was a full game of effort. We would have folded under the pressure in the past.

1/9/2013 10:04:15 PM

9 wins in a row, 13-2 overall, 2-0 in conference, covers the spread

face still says we are a bubble team who isnt very good

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"We would have folded under the pressure in the past."

yep, same with the BC game...but people forget how shitty we've been the last 20 years

[Edited on January 9, 2013 at 10:05 PM. Reason : .]

1/9/2013 10:04:18 PM

1/9/2013 10:04:48 PM

83-70 final

fuck you kenpom, treetwista was right

1/9/2013 10:05:36 PM

That's why you are on the bench

1/9/2013 10:05:58 PM

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"We would have folded under the pressure in the past."

This.

1/9/2013 10:06:03 PM

wow I am happy to eat crow on what I thought was a sure trap game! We got out of that nicely in the end!

1/9/2013 10:06:06 PM

whew

1/9/2013 10:06:16 PM

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"We're 131st in Offensive rebounding. And when you make a shot there is no offensive rebound to attempt so it doesn't count, bozo."

we were 234th in "offensive rebounds per game"...i simply stated a factual statistic

1/9/2013 10:06:37 PM

Loved the response by the team in the last 10 minutes or so. Way to pull away.

1/9/2013 10:06:56 PM

make the duke thread now

1/9/2013 10:07:23 PM

i really believe that this team is old enough to get focused when they have to. i'll surely give them the benefit of the doubt as long as they're winning.

1/9/2013 10:07:39 PM

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"yep, same with the BC game...but people forget how shitty we've been the last 20 years"

BC just beat VT on the road, who beat OKST, who beat us. no shame from that BC game where there were also some crap calls at the end that kept it close

1/9/2013 10:07:45 PM

never doubted for a second

1/9/2013 10:08:15 PM

They mentioned a stat that along with 50+% shooting, we rebound 38% of our misses. That's pretty damn good.

1/9/2013 10:08:16 PM

I'm just happy Gotti whipped out team into game shape. The team from two years ago would have been too tired too keep playing, methinks

1/9/2013 10:08:17 PM

Well we are still on the bubble.

We're ranked #35 now but prior to tonight our recent efforts showed we weren't playing at the level of even a top 50 team.


Being that we returned nearly all of our key players it was fair to assume we'd start the season with an advantage and that other teams would begin to catch up with us as the season went on. I don't think anyone expected them to catch up so quickly or have so many teams zoom past us.

We'll have a much better idea after these next two games if we've just been half assing it all season or if this team just doesn't have it.

I'm praying we right the ship, we all had a lot of hopes this season. Tonight was certainly a good sign, it's the hardest we've played all season. When we pick up the intensity defensively and start forcing long rebounds and turnovers it allows us to get in transition and we become an offensive juggernaut.

1/9/2013 10:08:18 PM

lol if we are about to beat maryland when they come into town we need to start and ACC chant.

1/9/2013 10:08:51 PM

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"I'd like to see us utilize zone more in the first half so we can steal minutes with Vandy and keep our bigs out of foul trouble and not wear ourselves out."

while i dont disagree with a strategy to keep CJello and HowNowBrownCow out of foul trouble, if you've watched the games instead of jacking it to kenpom, we've had CalvinDoggyDogLion and DickShamwowHowellTowel play the same stand-like-a-statue-and-dont-be-agressive defense to avoid early foul trouble to wisely keep them available in the 2nd half...so I don't really see how TBDV allowing the same shots is gonna help too much

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"We're ranked #35 now"

lol at thinking kenpom has already updated...they havent factored in this game yet face, pomeroy is only updated through tuesday games

[Edited on January 9, 2013 at 10:11 PM. Reason : .]

1/9/2013 10:10:10 PM

RPI has us at 16, jockass

NCAA doesn't give a shit about Kenpom

1/9/2013 10:10:46 PM

as per usual, face ignores my question

1/9/2013 10:11:06 PM

AHAHAHAHAHHAAH

GREAT ENDING, MARYLAND

1/9/2013 10:12:25 PM

GT is a top 10 defense in the country and we shot over 50% on them while putting up 83 points. That is absolutely sick. Fuck anyone who criticizes the effort tonight.

1/9/2013 10:13:38 PM

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1/9/2013 10:14:08 PM

we win, maryland loses..

life is sweet.

1/9/2013 10:14:22 PM

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"HowNowBrownCow"

wait, is this Howell or Brown?

1/9/2013 10:16:33 PM

the offensive rebounds per game stat is misleading because we have the best FG% in the country

It'd bedifferent if we were shooting 40% and still have the same # of offensive rebounds

1/9/2013 10:16:41 PM

So far we've found ways to win, yes. But some of that is good fortune as well. It's hard to quantify the randomness of the world.


We are ranked #63 in the country in luck right now though.



I agree the NCAA does not factor kenpom into their tournament brackets, but obviously it's a better metric for how good a team is and a significantly better predictor of year end records, future spreads, etc than you could ever get from looking at something simple and misleading like RPI and AP/Coaches polls.



We're #131 in offensive rebounding percentage and #274 in defensive rebounding percentage. Nothing misleading about that, we just suck at rebounding.

[Edited on January 9, 2013 at 10:17 PM. Reason : a]

1/9/2013 10:16:48 PM

I love being ranked and having high expectations, but holy shit it makes these tight games against unranked opponents stressful. The first 30 minutes were a mess. Big time finish from Zo, Wood, and co.

I love this team, but they're going to kill me. At least we'll be underdogs on Saturday.

1/9/2013 10:17:00 PM

my guess is the line will be Duke -1 or pk

1/9/2013 10:17:46 PM

damn, if only we had more leprechauns, maybe we'd have a better luck ranking

[Edited on January 9, 2013 at 10:19 PM. Reason : and you also still avoid answering the question]

1/9/2013 10:18:22 PM

I am going to be the first person to disagree with FACE and say this team is better than bubble. When you start the season ranked in the top 10, fans expect to see you blow out most competition. Our offense is about as good as you can ever want, its our defense that needs work. I think a zone would be best, however, I get the impression the coaches think that would slow down our transition offense. Either way, if we get good on defense, I think by season's end this team will have a solid seeding in the tournament. I think we start slow every game because we know that if our interior defense gets in foul trouble, we will have a very difficult time winning, so we tend to give up a lot of easy looks in the first half, which would explain why it is always a tale of 2 halves. We still have work to do, but I am very optimistic about this season.

1/9/2013 10:19:10 PM

aint no way Duke is favored by fewer than 5

1/9/2013 10:19:13 PM

i wonder how face figured the Maryland game was a probably loss when Maryland was ranked (going into today) 13 spots lower to us in Ken Pomeroy's holy bible

also UMD's loss wasn't that surprising, thats what happens when your last 15 games' best opponent is Northwestern

1/9/2013 10:20:02 PM

Great finish tonight for the team. Wood playing like a true senior the past 2 games in clutch time. We got hosed on 3 different charge calls tonight which was bullshit by the refs. We should get at least one of those 50-50 calls.

Lol at maryland. FSU trying save their season.

1/9/2013 10:20:16 PM

^^ that's easy. MD has a much higher luck ranking, maybe 15 or 16

1/9/2013 10:21:16 PM

kelly is out

we got this

T.ZO 20/10 again. CJeezy and Howl Towl 40 rebounds. Great Scott makes more 3s than double j dicks ever did in a game

147-96 final

1/9/2013 10:21:29 PM

Don't be an idiot. It's at home and Duke just lost Kelly

The line will be about Duke -2.

1/9/2013 10:22:50 PM

Maryland's Luck rating is 238

whatever the fuck that worthless 'stat' even means

1/9/2013 10:23:08 PM

We're playing at Maryland dude. This your first season following basketball?


I'd say Duke -6

[Edited on January 9, 2013 at 10:24 PM. Reason : a]

1/9/2013 10:23:39 PM

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"face still says we are a bubble team who isnt very good "

face: "If Duke wins the tourney, the ACC could be a one-bid league."

1/9/2013 10:24:31 PM

i'm well aware of what playing at maryland entails...that our team will have hundreds of f-bomb chants dropped on them

fact is, Maryland isn't a very good team, they're not even a bubble team according to kenpom which is all that matters

[Edited on January 9, 2013 at 10:25 PM. Reason : ^lol]

1/9/2013 10:25:16 PM

Rebounds
State 38
GT 33

Off Rebounds
State - 1 per 3.4 missed shots
GT - 1 per 3.8 missed shots

1/9/2013 10:25:28 PM

face's shit getting played out ITT. He's a great stats guy but his conclusions are always extreme.

I think he is a poster on the bubble. Credibility going down...

1/9/2013 10:25:43 PM

LOL, we play well for 10 minutes for the first time in 6 games and everyone thinks we're going 15-3 again. We'll see warlocks.

What did I have us going, 12-6? I think I'm looking better than most for sure.


Definitely nice to finally get things going tonight. Just enjoy the win guys, you're going to have to sulk in losses soon.

[Edited on January 9, 2013 at 10:27 PM. Reason : a]

1/9/2013 10:26:47 PM

maryland is 0-2 on the season

theyre due for a win

1/9/2013 10:26:48 PM

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"we play well for 10 minutes for the first time in 6 games and everyone thinks we're going 15-3 again. We'll see warlocks."

nobodys said that, and we've been finishing games strong since the michigan game

1/9/2013 10:28:29 PM

you know face is off his rocker when he's using Charlie Sheen vocabulary

^we've been winning 9 games in a row since the UM game

[Edited on January 9, 2013 at 10:29 PM. Reason : .]

1/9/2013 10:28:47 PM