You can paint this basketball season however you want. Here are the baseline facts (no pun intended) we’re dealing with: NC State’s basketball team is terrible, and it lost again Saturday, in a terrible lack of effort, this time blowing a double-digit lead to an inferior Miami team.
NC State in the last month has made its defensive identity a zone look that it has absolutely no idea how to operate—this is the most incompetent bunch of dudes pretending to try at defense that I have ever seen. They do not care. Gottfried is lost.
If there was a way back from this year’s slow start, it needed to be this week, but instead, all these clowns just went to sleep, once again backing away from a challenge.