Friday, January 20, 2012

Was loss to Georgia Tech good for Wolfpack?

When you looked at N.C. State's schedule, specifically the Maryland-Georgia Tech-Wake Forest-Boston College stretch, you figured the Wolfpack probably should get off to a 4-0 start. But with N.C. State being N.C. State, you also figured it would find a way to drop one of the games.

True to form, N.C. State is 3-1 as it enters the "it could lose the next four" portion of its conference schedule (at Miami, at UNC, Virginia and at BC). Except, the loss — 82-71 to Georgia Tech, which lost at home to Virginia by 32 points Thursday night — might have actually been a good thing for this N.C. State team.

"The last time we were in this building, we kind of let the fans down and played really bad," Scott Wood said after Thursday's 76-62 win over Boston College. "I think that's the best way to say it."

Since the inexplicable loss to the Jackets, who have scored 50 and 38 points in their ACC games since, N.C. State has used it as motivation. The Pack throttled Wake 76-40 last Saturday and really beat BC worse than the final score indicated.

Of course, motivational lessons only go so far, and tend to look a lot more effective against teams the caliber of Wake and BC. But N.C. State took care of the business it was supposed to take care of in the past two games, and that's a good sign.

-- J.P. Giglio

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Miami 67 NCSU 63.....LOL...

Anonymous said...

Pack is getting ready to beat Miami and the upset UNC at home. Mark it down - The WolkPack is back! Son!

Anonymous said...

Same team as last year for the most part that lost by 20 to UNC....same result this year....They're thinking about UNC...and that is why they lose this weekend to Miami....the only team NCSU is beating in NC is WFU and WCU...Lol.....they stink!

Anonymous said...

UNC 88 NCSU 65

Anonymous said...

Typical Tarholes coming into our threads.

Anonymous said...

We should be Miami by 10 or so, and maybe more. We just have to defend the "3." As for UNC, they will probably run us out of the gym as they ALWAYS do...We win in football...they win in basketball...just the facts...

Anonymous said...

I just wish we had the talent that UNC has.

Anonymous said...

states starters are strong, bench is the weakness...hopefully CJ Williams will be OK

Sid Lowe said...

Absolutely, 4-0 is overated. Going 3-1 and losing to a lower tier team is more meaningful and special.

Anonymous said...

Gottfried is doing some really good things...and he's not done yet.

Also, I guarantee he won't ever run away with 14 seconds left.