Yes. There is also a difference in mindset for the player with preparation, and with the coaches ability to put him in the game if someone like Harris or Bond is ass on the court. Sometimes a coach “finds” a player later in the year when the guys who looked good in the pre-season start looking bad.
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And, yet, Morsell shot over 35% from three his first year at State, and last year he was 41.1% from behind the arc (and 46.6% overall and 56.3% from inside the arc). Maybe he’s a better fit there than he was at Virginia. Very different offensive schemes.
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He passed the eye test otherwise. The way he moved just looked different.
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If Tony suggests a redshirt he obviously doesn’t think that is going to happen. Could he be wrong? Sure, but he obviously has a pretty a good idea doing this over the years and isn’t thinking he is gong to play him much no matter what.
All that being said I think he really leaves it up to the player.
I think the big issue here is what zhoos has said. People want Tony to play guys when he doesn’t deem them ready to help the team win in order to retain them and stop them from transferring.
That ain’t halpening.
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Mental Game? He understood the offense just didn’t have the skill to make shots.
That said, he has found the skill to make them now at State, and at an elite level.
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Will be interesting to see how NC State does without Terquavion and Jarkel. Casey played the part of the guy who just needed to spot up really well, but he might need to create a little more this year? Or maybe not; not really familiar with their personal this year. They have that Carolina kid who went to Kansas and transferred back home, but then was out in the preseason. Or something
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They stick him in the corner — which is what we did when we were running 5-out, 4-out and triangle in 2021.
He just sucked.
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They don’t have a good PG option. They started their Stanford transfer O’Connell in their exhibition game, but he wasn’t a particularly good PG at Stanford.
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IIRC, at one point Morsell was the single worst 3FG% shooter, over a certain number of attempts, in the entire country. That’s a pretty astounding level of mis-match.
I mean, clearly something was wrong, which is now fixed, and that’s as good an argument as anything. But its just wild that it was that bad a disconnect.
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Did anyone flag this earlier? Just saw it now
Probably won’t hear anything we haven’t heard before but still likely worth a listen. Episode should drop tomorrow
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I immediately read Mick McCarthy… the old Blackpool and Republic of Ireland manager (among others)… too football- centric in my brain.
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Speaking of podcasts, on tonight’s CBS pod, Norlander picked us to be the last unbeaten team left (then made a joke that it would be the second straight year his prediction doesn’t get to game 3 if we lose to Florida).
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Good morning.
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Random question - what’s Sanchez’s salary? Interested to see what we’re giving him to come from a HC position
Episode is out. I’ll update this post with anything notable as I listen.
“Which transfer will make the most impact?”
Tony chooses the diplomatic answer and says “all three will make an impact”, but he said Rohde’s name first, if that means anything
He says Reece and Dante can “certainly coexist”
Speaks very highly of Blake, his feet, his mind, etc
Reece has “really improved” through the draft process and summer
Dunn - He kinda downplays Dunn’s NBA potential - “he’s still new to the game”
“How good can this team be defensively?”
“Too early to say, but the makings are here”
Paraphrase: The depth of this team will determine it’s success
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Paraphrasing here, but CTB slipped and said we only have three returning guys who got minutes: Reece, Isaac, and Dunn. He mentioned Taine a bit later, but I think it’s telling that he wasn’t mentioned with the first three.
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deleted; screw Goodman
Get hype. (Alt title: highlights from 3 players)
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