The Conversation: Wake vs. FSU Basketball Discussion with SBN Blog "Blogger So Dear"

If we are to beat Wake Forest, we have to get to the line.

Wake has had its worst free throw allowance defense in its 2 losses (49.2 to GTech, 74.0 to VTech).

Does Wake, formerly a pressure defense, get too impatient in their new half court mindset?

They also had 2 of their worst free throw offense games in their 2 losses (18.2% fo VTech and 26.2% to GTech)

After beating Duke in a great game it looked as though Wake had a legitimate argument at being THE team to beat in the ACC. But after back to back losses, it looks as though Wake’s elite status has taken a hit is struggling to find motivation against middle of the pack teams. Any thoughts on what the issue seems to be?? Does Wake just not play well away from home?

I think Wake was shooting a ridic 50% from the floor before last night, but Miami’s zone def seemed to give them fits. Was this just a bad shooting night does Wake have problem’s breaking down a zone if there shots aren’t falling?

All year FSU has had a significant advantage against most of its opponents in terms of height, particularly blocked shots. it has become a game changing ability for us but Wake actually has a higher effective height according to Ken Pomeroy than we do. Do you think Wake will be able to neutralize this with their own height? Does the offense run through the big men to utilize this height or do they often rely on more on their guard play as they did against Miami??