N.C. State coach Sidney Lowe obviously has more to worry about than the ACC media teleconference, but there was an awkward moment Monday morning when his phone line died in the middle of an answer to The News & Observer\u2019s Joe Giglio.<\/p>\n
Giglio asked about how hard the Wolfpack plays, and whether Saturday\u2019s loss at North Carolina was an aberration.<\/p>\n
\u201cUm, I think this group will play hard. Saturday, that was just a game. I don\u2019t know, it was a weird game. Guys seemed to be ready n the locker room, ready to go to and excited, with good energy,\u201d Lowe responded.<\/p>\n
\u201cInitially, when we don\u2019t hit a few shots early, our defense seems to suffer a little bit. Our energy goes down. And we can\u2019t have that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to be better at overcoming that early drought of not hitting shots and picking up on the defensive end.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whoops! Not long after that, Lowe\u2019s line went blank (Wonder if he has AT&T as his cell service?)<\/p>\n
After a minute or so, he was back on the line. In the remaining time, Lowe touched on a variety of points involving the Wolfpack team. One was that State doesn\u2019t seem to have great balance when it comes to scoring, and the return of Tracy Smith after an injury hasn\u2019t bolstered the team as expected.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t remember the last time we had a game where everybody played well. We haven\u2019t had that in a while,\u201d he said. \u201cHaving Tracy back certainly helped but we need other people to play well for us. We\u2019ve had a couple of times now where we would take three or four players who played the majority of minutes and they went 4 for 16. And we can\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut with Tracy back we should be better defensively. I don t think we\u2019ve taken advantage of that. I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve defended as well as we need. We need to get games where we have more than two guys playing well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speakingly broadly, Lowe had an almost deflated tone in this news conference. He talked about how tough the Wolfpack\u2019s schedule has been in ACC play, and how this team still has time to make a run, but if you listened to his tone of voice, you had a hard time believing this team is about to roar through the rest of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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