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Champ looks to me at least 2 inches taller than Toney.
Other than horrendous shooting, I thought Toney played pretty well otherwise.
Is Coulibaly a possible redshirt, if they think Chukwuka will be healthy by January 1?
No I wasn’t directing the comment to you. I just wanted to build him up. He’s very young with great defensive instincts and athleticism. He creates offense with his defense, which the others do not.
I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with you. He is a good defender (not elite), but a big liability on the offensive end. He couldn’t put the ball in the ocean last night. He was a poor shooter last year, and looks to have gotten worse. He hustles and rebounds, but cannot finish around the rim. His passing is nowhere near as good as Jaron Brown. I hope he becomes a Jaron Brown type player, but he has a long ways to go.
Still gotta score, DT. I like the kid's toughness, but we're pretty low on shooting from ANY distance, including the stripe...not just the arc. I'm guessing he'll lose PT to Justin and maybe Gerald. We seem to have guys who battle inside....something missing under Stallings.
And a special shoutout to #2 for that huge rebound late in the game, just ripped away from the bigger opponent. A manly act.
No doubt. But AD is certainly a better offensive player than he showed last night.
Honestly, it seemed that FSU thought they had the game won until the last half of the second half. They are so athletic, Hamilton sent them out in waves like a vintage John Thompson team to hack the bloody mess out of the Panthers, and they have a few guys who are pretty good scorers.
But, the Panthers sort of just mucked through it all until the last 10 minutes when they managed to pull ahead a bit, then get across the finish line up two points.
I have been posting pretty regularly that HCJC was going to default to his best players when the game gets tight or to close games out, and X, Trey and Murphy are his three best players - it will be them, the forward and center who are working best that night.
That is how he is going to roll through the ACC schedule most often.
It will certainly be fun being "stuck" over .500 in ACC play for a while ...
Don't all coaches default to their best down the stretch?? At least the ones who win do that.
That was the point, in the context of speculation about how good Murphy was and the thinking that they will use Coulibably and Hamilton at PF a lot ...
I think Hamilton will be OK. Brown has been erratic in the past, looked OK last night, but Eric is more active. Foul trouble might be the criteria at the 5. Karim is still an unknown, I'm hoping he gets some good PT vs. our cupcakes.
At the very least, Hamilton is a big upgrade over Kene (big heart and good kid, but ...).
As with last night roll with the one who is playing best.
Interesting that AKC did not play at all, but FSU has a lot of springy big men, so maybe not be the best team to try to roll him out on at this point.
Yes, FSU will be a tournament team IMO. They have depth, size, play defense, have a Senior leader in Forrest and a big time scorer in Vassely!
I’ll take an ugly conference win anytime
they made winning plays in the clutch
they made winning plays in the clutch
I agree with Capel. I just disagree with NTOP that it’s common to run with hot hands for 12 minutes straight to close out a game, especially game one in the season
Well, I never said that. I remarked that ALL good coaches have their best on the floor at the end of games. Hadn't noticed the 12 minute thing until someone pointed it out.
Maybe we should be asking what would Stallings have done?
Capel has said repeatedly that he does things intuitively based on how things are going in the game. IMHO, its the best away. You can over coach to your detriment by too much planning and by not being flexible enough to stay with certain things as long as they are working--regardless of prior game planning or conventional wisdom.
Dixon, however great he was, was more of an over thinker/ over coacher than Stallings was. Stallings just mailed it in.
That is not to say that Capel wouldn't have made changes if that group had lost their chemistry. He just subscribes to the "if it ain't broken--don't try to fix it mentality." But, if it is broken or does break he won't hesitate to make changes. Last night it wasn't broken--except early in the 2nd half before changes.
As much as I liked Dixon, I did think there were times he substituted and curtailed his team's momentum when he could have just left the five on the court continue on for a few more minutes.
Uh-oh, this is turning into a Dixon thread. Sorry.
Dixon believed in preparation and routine, and using the same approach during games. He wasn’t one for “winging it.”
I haven’t see enough of Capel to know more about where he stands. But leaving the same group for the last 12 minutes likely told us something.
I don’t believe any approach is necessarily better or worse.
Plus it wasn't like 12 strait minutes with the 40 or so timeouts. No way they had a chance to get tired.
Lol exactly.
The amount of timeouts. Stops, foul shots, it's almost impossible to get tired.
Common to run with them for a good stretch, not with the exact same 5 for 12 minutes. Unless you are Boeheim of course.
Agree. I’m never one to believe in the “tired” thing to a large extent. Playing 40 minutes is one thing, but 12 straight is something else. Perhaps bigs need a bit more of a blow from wrestling in the paint, but not so much with guards.
What’s noteworthy here is that Capel didn’t go back to Toney, a player he knows and trusts from last year. Almost all coaches tend to go with their perceived horses down the stretch. ADs erratic play made that an easier call, but after Justin missed a three after making his second, I fully expected the sub for Toney there.
As for Terrell, I am very surprised Capel didn’t go back to Hamilton as I don’t think the staff has full confidence in TB.
But on this day, sticking with this lineup was a great call.
He would have also kept the same guys on the court for 12 minutes. Because he would have fallen asleep, and people who are asleep have trouble making lineup changes.
I was being sarcastic, of course. To continue in that vein he would have fallen asleep because he would have had us already behind by at least 20 points with 12 minutes to go.
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