Post-game Ramblings: I Hate Wake-I Hope They All Declare For The Draft

Frankly Wake can be as good as they want to be, we had Rivers and Stitt on fire in the first half and were only up by four at halftime. The second half was sloppy, we were still up because we had the hot hand but played some pathetic defense--just giving up layups left and right. Wake was playing uninspired bball as well especially with Teague (by the way Teague is a baby) getting 4 fouls and on the bench but Clemson cant figure out what to do in the half court set now. Against a quality defensive team we cant get it into Booker or force it, giving up lame turnovers that look like high school ball. We had an over and back violation by Young, walking calls, the whole range of pathetic turnovers...and we still hung in there.

Wake can turn it on in a second, (I loved them barely even listening to Dino during the timeouts) they have the NBA level talent to do that and Johnson had some amazing dunks while Aminu seemed to grab every rebound over Rivers or whoever...speaking of rebounds, we couldnt get any in critical moments where we could have made a run. Not enough effort on the boards, effort needed against the taller Wake players. Clemson had a chance to make a run at the end but couldnt put it together...I think the press with three to five minutes to go hurt us...they got to many easy scores when we needed to play smarter and tighter defense. I know you want to speed the game up but Young's botched layup was all the defense was able to produce and that would have only cut it to eight. I think the Tigers have forgotten how to come from behind in the past couple of weeks. My guess is thats its a question of confidence and Clemson is lacking in that department now.

So now we play a talented GT squad and then go on to face FSU!! At least we get a chance to stare down the demons of this season and make a run at that elusive ACC championship game. I thought we were tired going into the NCAA tourney last year so maybe an early exit isnt the worst possible scenario but who wants to loose? And for the record no team without a bye in the ACC tourney has ever won the ACC tourney...

Well Tigers...time to make a little magic...