Watched NC State play 4 or 5 games this year (2 against UVA). Turner and Lacey can heat up and allow them to beat anyone, but their most dynamic and important player is Barber by a long shot. He's as quick as any guard in the country and can catch fire from outside as well. If you limit his penetration, they are quite beatable. If he drives and dishes all game, including kick outs to Turner and Lacey, they can be a nightmare.

Both games against UVA were close and low scoring and Barber was largely ineffective in each. Because he couldn't consistently drive the lane, they had almost zero offensive production from their bigs in either game.

Limiting Barber is priority #1. Makes their other guards create their own shots and eliminates offensive threats from the front court.

Also, Turner still hates to play defense and he can still be frustrated easily by a solid defender. UVA put Nolte on him for most of the second game at least and Nolte limited him pretty effectively. Nolte, while a solid defender, is not the most athletic guy in the world, and yet made Turner a non-factor.

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Posted by newclasspack

Member since Mar 2015

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Posted on 3/16/15 at 11:42 am to MetArl15

So we Rotate 4 bigs.

We start with Abu listed 6'8 but grew midway this is and is probably closer to 6'9.5 now. 250 and still grow. Freshman with amazing potential on both sides of the ball. He's a Freak athletically and when focus can hit midranged and post shots, boards at a good rate, and defends well but not great. Fouls at a pretty terrible clip though

Then we have lennard freeman sophomore. 6'8" 260 youngest on the team at 19 (skipped his last year of HS to join the team last year at 17). He Boards. and at a Very good rate. Defends wells. Screens well. Hustles.. and that's it.

Oddly enough our two most impactful Bigs come off the bench.

Kyle Washington listed 6'9" Closer to 6'10, 245. Our most offensively talented big and a decent weak side blocker. Great mid-range and can even hit the three if he's in rhythm and open. Not great on the boards or offensively.

Anya. 6'9 with a 7'9" wingspan. 290 pounds. GREAT blocker. Decent rebounder, if we get the pick and roll running he's hard to stop bout offensively he's limited.

Also to the guy asking about our back ups : hahahahahahaha what are those?

We have two brothers, twins,Caleb, and Cody martin. 6'7" wings that can handle but are definitely not guards.

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