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Message: [QUOTE="LETTERL, post: 4893695, member: 4687"] That is a great post and you pick out many of the main problems with how NC State has played recently. I still have the UCONN game saved on my DVR, and when I watch it, I see a team that is fresh, excited and playing really well together. Our most significant and impressive wins of the season were in the first month. We've been sort of treading water of late until the last week, when the bottom fell out. As you say, there's more hero ball than team ball the last three games. The early games in the season were beautiful displays of team basketball...but the Pack has just played darn ugly for most of February. Signs of a team in decline, both physically and mentally. But we also have to give credit to the opposition: Georgia Tech hit some truly miracle shots and we survived in OT; in the UNC game, we chose to leave the perimeter shooters wide open and got burned repeatedly...and against Duke, we were just ice cold from the tip off and were never really in the game. Shooting improved in the second half but the damage was done early in that one, and we could never get enough stops to make a serious run, though we got as close as 6 in the 4th quarter. I would love to see State pull out of this funk they are in now but I've seen this kind of drama play out before with NC State and it rarely ends the way all Pack fans would like it to. That game with Syracuse Thursday night looms large. Based on the conference standings, a loss to Syracuse Thursday would be damaging to any hopes of retaining a top 4 seed in the upcoming ACCT. Defeating the Orange would guarantee a top 4 finish...but a loss could drop us as low as 6th, depending on who wins the other remaining conference games. I hope the coaching staff makes the players aware of all that is at stake in that one, if the players don't truly understand that we are in the last days of the regular season and that playing together is the way to achieve the team goals. [/QUOTE]

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