Noles on cruise control, beat Wake 75-52
by Michael Rogner on Jan 25, 2012 9:49 PM EST
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PrintFour straight games, four straight solid offensive performances. Though tonight it got off to a shaky start. The Seminoles struggled through a few early possessions and then Xavier Gibson got tee'd up for taunting after a dunk. He sat. Luke Loucks committed two silly fouls. He sat. The offensive kinks got worked out but the shots didn't fall. Still, Leonard Hamilton managed the first half like a coach who knew his team could put away Wake when they needed to. The starters sat. The defense stayed focused. FSU took a 6-point lead, 29-23, in a 31 possession half.
Then the 2nd half started and the Noles completely dominated, scoring 46 points in 32 possessions. The final was 75-52.
What was the difference? Besides having a full compliment of players it took until the 2nd half for the Seminoles to be able to exploit Wake's defensive strategy. Wake wasn't double-teaming the post, but the Noles played the 1st half as if they were. Early in the 2nd half FSU cleared out and allowed Xavier Gibson to go one on one with anyone who would guard him. That didn't last. Wake went to a zone. Michael Snaer made sure that didn't last. Back to man-to-man and FSU attacked along the baseline. They attacked over the top. It was a clinic, and hopefully you tuned in long enough to watch it. For the game the Noles scored 1.19 per possession, which means they've scored at least 1.13 in each of the past four games. The last time FSU could make that claim? 2006.
Michael Snaer scored 18 points (on 9 shots!), Okaro White added 11, Xavier Gibson scored 10 and Bernard James had 7 points and 9 rebounds. FSU - the leading 3-pt team in conference-only games (think about that) - converted 8-16 from beyond the arc, led by Snaer's perfect 4-4.
Now the Noles get a week off before the friendly confines of a home game. A week from today, Georgia Tech at the Tucker Center. Be there.
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Stayed composed
Played like a senior oriented team in the 2nd half.
Nice win Noles….get some rest!!
"It's great to beat a Florida Gator...It's great to beat a Florida Gator..."
by garnet and golden in jax on Jan 25, 2012 9:55 PM EST reply actions
I truly hope this team has turned the corner to consistency through the rest of the season
Very proud of these guys!
We were all created to be Seminoles. This is why we bleed garnet and piss gold.
by NoleThruandThru on Jan 25, 2012 10:18 PM EST reply actions
sure looks like it
That game didn’t look close.
by CelticPride on Jan 25, 2012 10:20 PM EST up reply actions
The first half didn't look so good.
But boy the second half did. Okaro White is a baller!
This is what I liked:
- only 11 turnovers.
- Peterson 25 minutes spelling Loucks, 6 assists against 3 turnovers.
- Wake’s #2 scorer Travis McKie, 1 of 13 from the floor for 3 points.
- and as an homage to The Way We Were, Wake had 11 turnovers and 6 FG’s in the first half.
Damn, now a week without a Noles hoops game. That sucks. Methinks its gonna be crazy around here next Wednesday.
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!!!
yes. that press bust in the 2nd half that ended with the James slam dunk seemed
downright…flawless.
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!!!
The turnaround has been amazing.
It feels like those losses earlier in the year were a completely different team.
crazy. just crazy.
give me 3-1 on the back side. hold serve at home.
i cannot even take myself seriously. this is simply fun.
remaining road games
bc, uva, miami, nc st
by CelticPride on Jan 25, 2012 10:25 PM EST up reply actions
i can see 2-2. i can see 4-0.
go 2-2 on the road and 5-1 at home and you “fall” to 12-4.
we could lose 4 of those games
But I doubt we do
by CelticPride on Jan 25, 2012 10:27 PM EST up reply actions
I dont see us
losing at home if the crowds are there. MAYBE the Duke game but thats it. and even that is very winnable for sure.
by AustinPowers on Jan 25, 2012 10:27 PM EST up reply actions
duck and uva are the danger home games
vatech may not be a walk
by CelticPride on Jan 25, 2012 10:29 PM EST up reply actions
how good is Miami
I think the Clemson game will be bigtime payback
by CelticPride on Jan 25, 2012 10:31 PM EST up reply actions
id put miami, clemson, maryland, vt on the same level.
should be a win, but losable on an off night for sure. GT, BC, Wake are simply terrible. i think NCSU and UVA are slightly ahead of that middle tier but its early on…
nc st and uva are the more likely road losses
But we could technically lose any acc road game
by CelticPride on Jan 25, 2012 10:36 PM EST up reply actions
according to pomeroy before tonight:
8 North Carolina
14 Duke
18 Virginia
23 Florida St.
48 Virginia Tech
54 North Carolina St.
62 Miami FL
103 Clemson
153 Georgia Tech
157 Maryland
188 Wake Forest
262 Boston College
they're that low because no Len or Howard for a while
by Michael Rogner on Jan 25, 2012 11:01 PM EST up reply actions
what happened with
GT, wasn’t it just last year that we played them they had those 2 fab freshmen?
It's amazing
Not long ago we were firmly on the bubble, if not on the wrong side of it, and now people are talking about what a tough out we’re going to be in March.
home
g tech, uva, miami, duke, va tech, clemson
by CelticPride on Jan 25, 2012 10:26 PM EST up reply actions
8-2 or 7-3
is VERY doable in the last 10 games. Verrrrry doable. a 12 win ACC schedule with victories at Duke and a pummelling of UNC should get us a tourney bid
Tournament bid? Looking for an ACC title
"It's great to beat a Florida Gator...It's great to beat a Florida Gator..."
by garnet and golden in jax on Jan 25, 2012 10:29 PM EST up reply actions
I would love
an ACC title. If we can beat Duke a second time and take care of UVA its very possible
by AustinPowers on Jan 25, 2012 10:29 PM EST up reply actions
in atlanta this year. maybe not such a pro-tobacco road crowd this time around.
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!!!
An ACC championship
would be bigger than the tourney to me. There needs to be an ACC championship banner in the Civic Center.
by AustinPowers on Jan 25, 2012 10:31 PM EST up reply actions
ACC Regular season title works
Ensures a #1 seed in Atl
"It's great to beat a Florida Gator...It's great to beat a Florida Gator..."
by garnet and golden in jax on Jan 25, 2012 10:33 PM EST up reply actions
No such thing.
Would be a fake banner. Regular season is strictly for seeding in the ACC tourney
by Michael Rogner on Jan 25, 2012 11:02 PM EST up reply actions
tell that to NC State
I was in their stadium recently for a concert and it seemed like half of their banners (the Wolfpack ones, not the NHL Hurricanes ones) said ACC Regular Season or, even better, ACC Tie Regular Season. That’s like FSU putting up a “Tie for ACC Regular Season Football Atlantic Division 2011” banner in Doak because we had the same record as Clemson.
Sure, schools hang them.
But they aren’t recognized by the ACC. There’s one champion, and that’s whoever wins the Tourney.
by Michael Rogner on Jan 25, 2012 11:21 PM EST up reply actions
Which is dumb
IMO winning a regular season title is much more “defining”
Formerly known as Randall W. Spetman.
Ivy League
Is the only conference that does it this way, I think. At least for their auto tourney bid. I’m with you on this.
"If St. George would have killed a dragonfly instead of a dragon, who would have remembered him?" - Fredric March, Inherit the Wind
by SalmonNole on Jan 26, 2012 1:02 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
that's disappointing
I feel the regular season is a much bigger accomplishment than the tourney title
by AustinPowers on Jan 25, 2012 11:19 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
This is the first time this year
That Snaer has been so insanely efficient that you have pointed it out. 18 points on 9 shots, wow.
if we regress to the mean, please let it be sometime after the season is well over.
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!!!
This is exciting
I always care about our basketball team but hopefully this arouses general interest as the team really does benefit from a good crowd (players have personally said this).
Go Noles.
"But they understand expectations don’t win games. And just because you’re picked to win, they don’t give you the trophy when the season starts. And we tell our kids that we have to form great habits and have great work ethic and form our identity as a team. We just have to reinforce that everyday because as we tell them, the pressure of expectations is only there if we aren’t prepared for them. If we prepared for them and we’re prepared mentally and physically, the pressure of the expectation won’t bother us." - Jimbo Fisher
Does anyone know...
WHERE I CAN FIND THOSE WHITE SHORTS…AUTHENTIC VERSION!!!
Great win, it’s awesome to steamroll a team you’re supposed to steamroll…especially on the road, none of those are gimmes, love it
by Matthew Juaire on Jan 25, 2012 11:35 PM EST reply actions
they don't
Sell em. Although I did see Kitchen walking around in a pair at Fresh Foods last year. I want the gold ones lol
by AustinPowers on Jan 26, 2012 12:18 AM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
Mr. Rogner Rocks!
Almost as much as our team! Go Noles!
PS: Okaro White needs to get much more love than he’s been getting. That young man is a PLAYER!!!
I only watched 50% of the game. On and off.
But it looked to me like we gave them a lot of open looks from the 3. They were moving the ball a lot, and our D was aggressive attacking the ball, seemingly leaving a lot of open looks when they pushed the ball back out. Am i wrong?
Our defense wasn't looking as good in the first half because of lack of energy
But I think we backed off their non-shooters
That's how our defense is designed to play.
Double everything inside of 15 feet and force teams to hit jump shots with big guards closing them out
by Michael Rogner on Jan 26, 2012 9:34 AM EST up reply actions
The full court press has been our Achilles heel for awhile.
Here’s to hoping we’ve solved that problem.ll
Reply fail. (I seem to be good at that.)
GO NOLES!!!
Honestly
It’s usually an early season bugaboo (See Northwestern game from ACC-Big 10 Challenge a few years ago) that we resolve by season’s end. Zone defense is usually something that bites us all the way through the season.
But this year is different. I think our guys shoot better. Dulkys’ widely publicized 32-point game against UNC means teams don’t cheat off him in the zone. Loucks can hit open shots – and even better, doesn’t take them unless he is open. Both Snaer and Miller are good shots. In previous years, one of our forte’s has been interior passing – not passing it into the post (it’s never been a strength) but passing big to big. If these guys can improve there as the season goes on, this team could be special come the dance.
Glad for you, Michael.
I know it’s a lot more fun to write about a team that’s playing like this!
Good work!
Passing the Ball
We used to stand around and pass the ball around the outside and then someone would driblle to get a shot.
Now we are passing the ball with an attitude of attacking the defense, which is paying off and we have reduced all of that dribble b/s.
We didn’t seem to recognize how open the big guys were inside, unless Coach Ham didn’t won’t to fully exploit that until the second half, so they wouldn’t have time to make an adequate adjustment during the game.
Who's the assistant that looks like a smart Al Roker?
Was he the Enfield replacement?
I thought he kind of looks like a heftier version of ex-Cleveland Cavs coach Mike Brown.
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!!!
I can hear Jeff in the distance
CHOOOOOOO CHOOOOOOOOOOO
Really enjoy watching this team this year.
From what i saw last night it appears we have a COMPLETE basketball team. Tough defense, bigs with a low-post presence, spot up shooters, and some one-on-one’s that can create their own shot. See no reason why we cannot go alllll the wayyyyy (in my best chris berman voice).
Do not want to get ahead of this year’s team, but can anyone provide a list of players (seniors and early entrys) that we will lose and who is in line to replace them next year? I saw Space on the court last night and wasnt sure what type of player he was or what i should expect from his game? is he bernard james type presence?
Tia and hopefully this hasnt already been discussed.
Lose Loucks, Dulkys, Peterson, James, Kreft, Gibson
Space plays a lot more like Al Thornton that he does Bernard James. Not saying he’s going to develop into Al, but he’s got that kind of game.
by Michael Rogner on Jan 26, 2012 10:24 AM EST up reply actions
thanks!
with James, Kreft and Gibson leaving who are our bigs that are expected to setp in?
Still 2 available scholarships, but front line for now comes from
6’11 Kiel Turpin
6’8 Terrance Shannon
6’8 Antwan Space
6’8 Robert Gilchrist
6’8 Okaro White
by Michael Rogner on Jan 26, 2012 2:32 PM EST up reply actions
Mike Gminski and Rich Waltz - Fox Sports Florida Commentators.
Looks sort of like….
….which equals.
GO NOLES!
FEAR THE SPEAR!
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