Wake Forest Uses Strong Second Half to Defeat Radford 80-59

Wake Forest opened the 2016-2017 season with a 80-59 over Radford inside of the Joel Coliseum. John Collins was a monster inside and finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds, both of which are career highs. What else stood out?

The game began with a defensive struggle. While the defensive numbers looked good early on, I thought that was mostly a product of Radford’s poor shooting and ability to finish. Wake struggled to get back in transition and also had some poor communication on defense that led to poor rotations.

One thing that stood out to me in this game was Dinos Mitoglou being a much bigger threat in the low post. Part of it may have been the opponent, but there’s no doubt that he has…