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What Kevin Keatts had to Say After NC State’s Win over FIU: BULLETED

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NC State Head Men’s Basketball Coach Kevin Keatts met with the media for his postgame press conference after the Wolfpack’s win over FIU on Tuesday night. You can watch it here, or check out a BULLETED breakdown below.

  • As far as the game goes I thought we did a tremendous job and played hard.
  • Everything didn’t go well, we didn’t make every shot even though sometimes it felt like we had stretches where we didn’t miss.
  • We talk about sometimes the hardest playing team positions themselves to win.
  • Jarkel Joiner was fabulous.
    • He did a great job of scoring the ball and when we needed him, he got really hot.
  • And I was so proud of Casey Morsell.
    • You know he really shot the ball well…he ran the floor…he did some good stuff…he drove the ball.
    • He had a mixed bag in this game.
  • Ernest Ross played well.
  • LJ Thomas did a great job.
  • Breon [Pass] came on and played well.
  • So it was a good team win. We found a way to win on both ends of the floor tonight.
    • This was very similar, in my opinion, to the way we played the Austin Peay game.
  • When you’re a good player and you don’t have a good shooting night you somehow have to figure out how to effect the game.
    • You know he [Terquavion Smith] still had 6 assists and 6 steals (may be most by a player since Keatts has been here), but it was good just to see some other guys step up when he didn’t have to go for 25 to 30 points a game.
    • I thought that everybody chipped in.
    • I don’t worry about him. He’s going to be fine. But he still did a great job in effecting the game.
    • You know you’re good when you don’t have a big night and people ask if you’re ok.
    • He’s fine. He just didn’t shoot well. I wish he could have 30 every game, but he just didn’t tonight, he had 15 though.
  • He [Casey Morsell] didn’t settle.
    • I thought this game was effective because earlier in the game he drove the ball.
    • When you look back at his first couple of games, they were all 3 pointers. He never really drove the ball.
    • He had a couple backdoor cuts.
  • I think tonight we got 79 shots or 76 shots up.
    • You know when you mix your game up and you can put the ball on the deck a little bit more it helps you.
  • He’s [Jarkel Joiner] huge.
    • It’s great to have a veteran Point Guard and you know he’s a tremendous personality.
    • He’s great in the locker room. He’s a good basketball player and he’s good for our team because you know he’s a team 1st guy.
    • He’s kinda trying to figure out ‘Alright do I get everybody involved, or when is it time to score’ and I think he’s doing a good job with it.”
  • He’s [LJ Thomas] getting better. You know he’s going to be in the mix of coming in and being able to play.
    • I like him and Breon [Pass] both coming in as Guards off the bench and both giving us a lift on both ends of the floor.
    • I’m proud of LJ. He didn’t play last game, but you wouldn’t have known that.
      • He didn’t hang his head. He went back to work the last couple days.
      • He earned the minutes he played.
  • Thought he [Greg Gantt] was fine.
    • He’s rusty, but he’s playing.
    • He’s a tremendous kid, and I think sometimes he gets blamed or it’s a lot of jokes about Greg Gantt.
    • If Greg Gantt could be out there every game, he would be.
    • He’s been beat up, so it hasn’t been fair with some of the things said about him.
    • That being said, I’m excited he came in and did what he did and he’ll get better.
    • He’ll get more healthy. He’s still not 100 percent, but he’s gonna give you what he’s got.
  • I told our radio guys, I thought the score was going to be 120-110 and the way it started off, it was really slow. It was a lot of fouls and I was like, ‘Man, I lied to everybody.’
    • Then we got going. We started making 3’s and kind of blew things open.
    • We like to play things fast, and I thought we did a good job getting out in transition.
    • We forced a lot of turnovers, we got a lot of steals and that’s the way we want play. 

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Afterglow
Afterglow
1 year ago

Who’s talking stuff about Gregg Gantt???

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