January 20 2021
Wake Forest (12-9, 0-4 ACC) at Florida State (10-5, 2-1 ACC)
Well Wake is struggling against ACC competition so hopefully we have an edge over them today.
TEAM: FSU|WFU
OVR: 89|86
OFF: 88|85
DEF: 89|85
SHT: 89|89
REB: 93|92
COA: 86|77
Wake lost at Miami and then to NC State, Clemson and Virginia Tech, 3 of the top 4 teams in the league early on(in addition to North Carolina). Wake lost 3 starters from a subpar team last year. Dino Guadio just isn't a power conference level coach in this game. I don't understand why he hasn't been fired yet.
Scouting
PG Kris Bosley – JR – 76 OVR – 91 speed/84 quickness. 84 defense/83 steals. 84 close/83 med/77 3/80 off the dribble. Awful awareness and not a great athlete. A poor natural PG really, 81 hands/72 passing... both C ratings. 8.1 ppg.
SG Prosper Bland – JR – 82 OVR - 92 speed/85 quickness. Great vert and hustle(92 hustle/A-). 82 defense/76 steals. 88 close/77 med/85 3/82 off the dribble. 10.2 ppg/5.2 rpg so far this year.
SF Roosevelt Radziejewski – SR – 84 OVR – 6'6” natural SF – 86 speed/82 quickness. 82 defense/69 steals. 87 close/77 med/63 3/86 in traffic. Great awareness... 81 off/83 def, he was a coach on the floor as a junior, and has obviously just improved. 18.5 ppg/5.4 rpg, by far the star of the team.
PF Tomas Prancilauskas – SR – 77 OVR – A natural SF, just 6'5”, not a good rebounder or post man at all. 65 post off/65 post def. 86 close/81 in traffic. 78 orb/78 drb. He's fast and a decent midrange shooter, but just 6.5 ppg/5.2 rpg. Hopefully a good sign for our post players again today.
C Jeffrey Eldridge – SO – 76 OVR – 81 orb/88 drb. 79 post off/68 post def. 6'11” PF. 88 close/86 in traffic. Poor awareness. Good athletic skills, 76 STR/75 hustle. Just 6 ppg, but he looks like a fairly solid offensive player. He's got size but his defense is seriously lacking.
Wake has an 81 rated SG on the bench, an outstanding shooter but poor defender, SG Hall, averaging 9.5 ppg. They've got no size off the bench. Looksl ike we need to just try to negate their guards and pound it inside. My main concern is Radziejewski, and the team unity issues with him out there... 73-42 edge with their coach on the floor.
Half
| Time
| FSU
| WFU
| Notes
|
1
| 13:25
| 15
| 12
| Well so much for inside scoring, early on at least. Sneed and McCants are a combined 0-5 from the field, McCants has two free throws. Moye has 2 3 point plays but has missed a couple open 3 pointers. They play a 2-3 zone so If we can hit 3's we will do real well. They're having a lot of success driving to the hoop. Backups are in.
|
1
| 12:20
| 15
| 17
| Terrible start for the backups, I get a timeout just because things look so bad early on., even though its just a little 5-0 stretch.
|
1
| 7:50
| 23
| 25
| Starters are back in. We're 1-9 against their zone from 3. Day and Alloway combine for 0-5, all wide open, both are very good 3 point shooters... owell. Still only down 2 despite that.
|
1
| 6:35
| 28
| 27
| Back in the lead, thanks to transition buckets from Moye and Ozier.
|
1
| 5:55
| 30
| 30
| Ozier and Sneed both have 2 fouls. I sit Sneed for Sanders, Sneed is ineffective anyway. Ozier will stay in, Barrett will be fine if Ozier picks up another. Also I didn't mention it earlier, Alloway picked up two late fouls before the backups sat, in addition to an early one, and has 3 already. Needless to say, Wake is in the bonus.
|
1
| 3:20
| 34
| 40
| Wake is officially on fire from 3. Ok, actually, they're not overall... 4-13 on the game. But 3 of their last 4. Bleh. Meanwhile, FSU is 1-13 from 3. Moye is 0-5, all catch and shoot wide open 3's agaisnt their zone. Frustrating!
|
| HALF
| 43
| 51
| Well that got ridiculous late. In the final two minutes, Radziejewski scores 7, 2 offensive boards/putbacks and a 3, and they get a 3rd offensive board/putback from Eldridge, their center. Radziejewski has 20 points... insane half for him. 7-10, 2-4 from 3, 4-4 from the line. Barrett is going to play the 2nd half. Radziejewski is a natural SF but plays more like a guard, those offensive boards notwithstanding.
They are 5-15 from 3, 17-34 from the floor and 12-14 from the line. We're 16-36 from the floor, 2-16 from 3, 9-13 from the line. Moye is 1-8 from 3, bringing up the question.. when you have a good shooter missing wide open shots over and over, when do you stop taking them? Moye has 13 anyway, getting most in transition. Sanders has a great half, first with the backups and then coming in for Sneed. He's 6-6 with 12 points.
They're getting a lot in transition after our long missed 3's. Moye would have a huge huge game if he could start hititng them, but the best option may be just to stop taking them as a team to prevent them from running out on the break.
|
2
| 14:50
| 53
| 63
| So frustrating. We have 11 offensive boards, way more than I thought. But 4 points off them, they have blocked shots like crazy when Sneed or McCants tries to go back up after a board. Wake has 7 offensive boards, 13 second chance points.
Forte has hit a couple 3's, Moye is still cold as ice. But right now its 100% rebounding that's costing us. I get Sanders in for McCants, he's getting tired. I'm down to 2 timeouts already.
|
2
| 13:45
| 60
| 63
| Coming out of the timeout Moye hits a 3. They miss one and Moye finds Sneed on the secondary break for a bucket. They miss another, and Moye gets out on the break again, draws a foul and hits 2 at the line. Despite his awful shooting he does have 18.
|
2
| 12:30
| 64
| 65
| Sneed with 2 more in the post, Moye with 2 more in transition after a steal. Timeout Wake.
|
2
| 12:15
| 66
| 65
| Another miss, we've stopped allowing the offensive boards which has totally made the difference(note all the fast break buckets after rebounds we're getting now). Barrett with a great bucket in transition and we lead.
|
2
| 10:15
| 71
| 65
| Another timeout Wake. Apparently with Moye the answer was “keep jacking them up” ... he just hit another 3, and while the majority of his points are coming in transition, he does have 3 scattered 3 pointers now as part of his 25 points.
|
2
| 9:55
| 74
| 69
| Backups are in finally, a couple 6th man boosts in there kept us going. Ozier is playing with the backups. Normal big men, Sanders and Slater.
|
2
| 6:20
| 79
| 73
| They score the first 4 and I slow it down. After a very long possession where we get two offensive boards and kick it out both times, we get a 3 from Alloway, followed by a defensive stop and Day gets out on the break and draws a foul, hitting two free throws.
McCants is back to 100%, he's back in.
|
2
| 5:30
| 79
| 75
| I get a timeout(just 1 left) and get the starters back in, Barrett playing SF.
|
2
| 3:45
| 82
| 80
| They've cut it down to 2, we got a 3 by Moye but a couple missed buckets inside. Our ball.
|
2
| 3:00
| 85
| 82
| Forte with a 3, Eldridge(C) with a 2 for them inside.
|
2
| 2:30
| 88
| 82
| Forte with another 3. He's got 5 of them now. Timeout Wake.
|
2
| 2:10
| 88
| 85
| Their SG, Bland, with a 3. I haven't highlighted him at all but he's had a hell of a second half. He has 21 total now, at least 15 in the second half I think.
|
2
| 1:30
| 88
| 87
| Forte misses an open 3, and they get out on the break, hitting a runner in the lane to cut it to 1. I call my last timeout.
|
2
| 1:00
| 88
| 87
| Sneed gets a pretty good look, a turnaround from the left baseline, towards his strong hand(he's left handed) but it rolls off the rim, their ball.
|
2
| 0:49
| 88
| 87
| They take a quick 3, miss, and Barrett snags the rebound. Our ball up 1.
|
2
| 0:23
| 90
| 87
| Sneed isn't going to miss twice in a row. Barrett feeds it in low, and Sneed gets a good looking hook shot straight in front of the goal from about 8 feet out. Wake gets it to midcourt and calls a timeout.
|
2
| 0:11
| 92
| 87
| They look for the quick 2 instead of a 3, but their feed inside is a poor one, we get the steal. They foul and Barrett is money from the line.
|
2
| 0:04
| 92
| 90
| They hit a big 3, Barrett goes to the line after the inbounds, up 2 with 4 seconds left.
|
2
| 0:04
| 94
| 90
| First free throw is good. And the second!
|
Close one there but we get another big win, 3-1 in ACC play now.
Florida State 94
Wake Forest 90
Wake shoots 50% for the game, despite 8/27 from 3. They were jacking them up almost as much as we were. They were great inside. Once I put Barrett on Radziejewski their SG seemed to take over immediately, but he wasn't quite as effective so that was ok by me.
Radziejewski ended up with 27 points/9 boards/6 assists, a monster game. Bland, their SG, with 21. Center Eldrige has 11 points/11 boards.
Forte: 15 points/3 assists
Moye: 31 points
Ozier: 6 points
Sneed: 9 points/9 boards
McCants: 4 points/9 boards
Sanders: 12 points/6 boards
Barrett: 8 points
Forte was 5-8 from 3 after starting 0-2. moye, however... 4-15. Seriously, he's a good shooter, so I really just cannot pass up those open looks over their zone, no matter how many he misses. Maybe something to work on. He was brilliant in transition though, 6-6 from 2, and 7-7 from the line. Sneed struggled a ton as well, 9 points but on 4-12 shooting. McCants was 1-4, Sanders was the only one who was effective at all, going 6-6 in the first half but giving way to Sneed in the 2
nd half. Interesting game, fast paced, and they played a zone probably 80% of their possessions, we haven't seen that much lately.