Kevin Keatts Presser After Wake Forest: BULLETED

Head Coach Kevin Keatts met with the media in his post game press conference after NC State’s 91-82 victory over Wake Forest today. You can watch it here, or check out the bulleted breakdown below.

• Our guys did a tremendous job of coming in here on the road and getting a good road win.
• We played really good basketball the last 4 halves…dating back to the second half of the Memphis game and then the entire Wisconsin game.
• Six guys in double digit figures…shows you how balanced we are.
• Manny Bates was tremendous.
  • 8 points and blocked a lot of shots.
• Happy with what we have with our rotation.
  • Everybody that’s playing in the game is contributing.
• We’re going to get our first ice cream of the year (Road Win). So, I’m excited about that.

On historically struggling to win at Wake Forest…

• We’ve had some success in here. My last 2 out of 3 years, we’ve been able to win.
• It’s a tough place to play.
• Had a chance last year, but we were without Markell Johnson.

Success from 3…

• We shot the ball well from 3.
  • 12 for 22.
• Was a little mad because I thought we passed up on some shots that we could have made.
  • Jericole had a 3 in the corner that I thought he should have taken.
  • Same thing with C.J. Bryce.
• We’ve been putting a lot of work on making shots.
• We expected when we came into this game that we could see a mixture of man-to-man and that 3-2 matchup, so we spent a lot of time the last few days on making shots from behind the arc.

Jericole Hellems…

• If you guys would do me a favor and obviously keep Jericole Hellems and his family in your prayers, it would mean a lot to us.
• I didn’t see what happened.
• I was able to talk to him, and I told him to hang in there. He was talking. He was communicating with those guys. After I leave you guys, I’m going to go by and check on him.
• It was hard for me the last 28 seconds of the game, because it was hard for me to focus on the game knowing that we had one of our kids hurt.

Where they are at now…

• I love the way we’re playing.
• With this team, it has been a little bit slow developing roles.
• They’re starting to understand their roles and how to play.