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Message: [QUOTE="FanInNC, post: 4901250, member: 13050"] Well now Kevin drops to 3-2 all time in Raleigh vs Duke. It’s getting numbing on the men’s side honestly. I like Coach Keatts but he has not been able to bring in the talent to play the style he wants to play. His recruiting has been on a lower level than anyone at State since Les. He gets banged on too much for in game coaching and X’s and O’s. I personally don’t buy that, it’s more of a talent issue. It’s disheartening to see how far enthusiasm for our men’s team has fallen and I don’t put that solely on KK either. It’s been happening ever since 1990. There was a spike during the Hodge years and then quickly fell apart after, Sid recruited but couldn’t make it translate to results on the court, Gott recruited well at first and then totally flamed out in a major way and KK just has bobbed around the bubble his whole tenor without advancing the program further. As for the actual game, it was a great microcosm of Wolfpack basketball. An imperfect team. Burns is next to unstoppable on offense but a complete liability on defense. When he was out we had nothing to offer on offense, but when he was in we couldn’t rebound or defend on that end. And he’s just the easiest example. Taylor is a fantastic ball defender but has been brutally bad on offense. O’Connell distributes and rebounds. but can’t shoot or defend well. Horne can score at an elite level but is undersized as a 2 and can’t create and handle well enough as a 1. The whole team is flawed. College Men’s basketball used to be my favorite sport but it’s slowly slipped away for me both due to States irrelevance and just the overall landscape of conference realignment, scheduling, unlimited transfers, no continuity whatsoever. But oh well. Hopefully we beat Pitt and can make the NIT! Woohoo! [/QUOTE]

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